Ok, self, listen up. Time for a new ‘life rule’.
You are no longer allowed to go into Sister Ray or Mr CD on the weekend following payday. If fact, it would be best if you just kept clear of Berwick Street altogether. If you are able to avoid repeating today’s little incident in the [...]
Recaptioning photos from the BBC News site.
A bit hit-or-miss, but the hits are worth the trawl.
Buddy Rich Vs Animal
Deeply, deeply awesome.
I love websites like this.
Admittedly, it involves shamelessly laughing at someone who obviously has some serious mental problems, but on the other hand it does make you feel strangely better about yourself. No matter how messy your house is, how much of a packrat you are, there’s always someone far, far worse.
Scotland 18 - 12 England
Watched the match in a room filled with English people. May have done a little dance on the couch. All a bit of a blur.
Also, Hearts and Hibs both won their Scottish Cup matches today. I predict that Edinburgh will be a bit of a mess tonight.
Fun comics. Go read.
Herman, the world’s largest rabbit. Adorable galoot or dystopian “Watership Down”-influenced nightmare material? Your choice.
I almost can’t believe that this story is true, but it seems to be legit and I have to post it either way.
A Trading Standards officer in the UK contacted Gervase Markham of the Mozilla Foundation to advise him that they had found businesses which were selling copies of Firefox and asked whether they should [...]
A neat stainless steel cup, balanced so that it sits at a tilt when empty, but gradually rolls upright as it’s filled.
A Sudanese man caught having sex with a goat has been forced to pay a dowry to its owners and take the animal as his wife.
The contract for designing and planning the redevelopment of the Iraqi holy city of Najaf has been awarded to Llewelyn Davies Yang - the firm responsible for designing Milton Keynes.
(The firm is also responsible for much of the waterfront redevelopment of Edinburgh, which is steadily shaping itself into another revolting travesty of urban planning.)
Is the [...]
When consumer electronics and web services come together to overwhelm the world.
I was really late to notice it, but this week Flickr passed the 100 million uploaded photos mark.
Man, that’s an awful lot of cats, babies and porn.
NCSoft have released some concept art and screenshots from their latest project: Dragon Runners
It, uh, it looks a lot, and I mean a lot like World of Warcraft; to the extent that I’m trying to find out if they’ve licensed some of WoW’s technology. I’ll be interested to read more about it when there’s more [...]
A page of amazing photographs from the first few seconds of an atomic bomb blast.
12 bullet-shaped chocolates, 11 filled with praline, 1 filled with a a red-hot chilli.
(I may be the only person I know who’d actually like to get the chilli, but then again my last tastebud died a couple of years ago so I’m probably not the best person to comment about this.)