I appear to be in the wrong city for this year’s Beltane festival, but for any attending Edinburghers who happen to be reading this, then I hope you have fun.
Try not to let anyone catch on fire or fall down the hill or anything. (Or, if they do, then at least get some good [...]
The 2006 Gumball 3000 rally got under way on Pall Mall this afternoon. Your intrepid reporter braved the noise, the burning-tire-smell and the zombie hordes pawing at a Ferrari Enzo to bring you the following pictures:
Photo of the week: Big old hairy Angora Rabbit. No, I don’t know why either, but have a page full of them.
The spirit of Heath Robinson is apparently alive and well in Japan. I’ve got no idea what the TV show it’s from is about, but the jingle that plays throughout will drive you nuts after you realise that it won’t leave your head. People at work are using it as their mobile phone ringtones. Play [...]
Hooray for last minute tickets to the sold out Flaming Lips show! Even in the nose-bleed-inducing top gallery in the Royal Albert Hall it was still like getting a bucket full of pure joy right in the face. Yay!
Copying Jason Kottke in copying Michael Hanscom by annotating The Guardian’s list of the best book->movie adaptaions according to which versions I’ve consumed. (The paper calls it a ‘top 50′ list, but there are 51 entries…)
1. [B]1984
2. [BM]Alice in Wonderland
3. [BM]American Psycho
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5. Brighton Rock
6. [BM]Catch 22
7. [BM]Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
8. [BM]A [...]
Unphotographable: A collection of textual descriptions of missed or impossible photographs.
In 1995, researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center dosed common house spiders with a variety of drugs and then examined the webs that the spiders produced. The most destructive substance in terms of web-construction turned out to be caffeine.
We let computer programmers drink this stuff?
So you thought Livejournal was just an outlet for comment-disabled suicide notes from 14-year-old goth girls? Nick Bowes, formerly the head of the Labour party’s fundraising campaign, waded into the ‘Loans for peerages’ row with a post on his Livejournal(!!) He had apparently intended to friend-lock the post, but instead sent it sailing out into [...]
I guess it’s a measure of how well the new Doctor Who series’ are doing that the BBC are starting to ramp up the search for the episodes that were lost from their archives.
They’re offering a full-sized Dalek model in for an original film. Off to the car boot sales you go!
Some neat doormats constructed from recycled truck tyres and made to look like manhole covers from various cities. (Although, I think I’d still rather have one of these.
Tom Baker reading out user-submitted SMS messages. No, I don’t know why either.
A Flash game to promote some Peugeot car. Mildly entertaining for a couple of minutes, but I don’t know why every screen is marked ‘Demo Only’. Maybe you get the full thing if you buy a car?
A high-resolution remake of Another World has [...]
This probably wasn’t the ideal first article to find online after finishing Song of Kali (a novel about various gruesome acts committed in Calcutta in the name of the Hindu destruction goddess, and about the depravation that extreme poverty will drive people to.)
In one corner is the evidence we had come to find: blood-splattered walls [...]
A while ago, I posted about this site which (I thought) showed some of the worst cycle lanes in the world. Oh how little I knew. Dutch road planners put their British counterparts to shame:
(S+C) x (B+F)/T = V
The above formula can, according to lecturer David Holmes of Manchester Metropolitan University, be used to calculate the size and shape of the perfect set of female buttocks.
You may laugh at this man and his pronouncements, but I bet he had a more enjoyable week at work than you did.