This post, as well as highlighting the dangers of buying third-party knock off Guitar Hero controllers, also contains the best line ever used when returning a product to a shop:
Cashier: Reason for return?
Customer: Insufficient ability to rock out appropriately.
The Director of Public Health in Dumfries and Galloway is attempting to test the hypothesis that happier people live longer… By hiring local volunteers to tell people to cheer up:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been called a common sense approach to therapy.
Instead of a therapist lying you down on a couch and asking you what [...]
Ah, the blog trifecta:
YouTube video
Of a Japanese gameshow
Featuring people suffering pain for the amusement of others.
Hooray!
Another example of designers getting ideas above their station. See the fun looking hand-basin/mirror combo in the picture below? Looks fairly nice huh? And eminently DIY-able. Oh-ho but wait! This was made by a “designer”; and is therefore a serious and important piece of work; and therefore costs $3040!
The fantastically named Jim Bumgardner made this neat page that takes animation ideas from some of John Whiney’s films on harmonic relationships and uses them to create music. More details about the techniques can be found here.
What you see below is the result of one Ogden, Utah resident drinking 24 cans of Coors Light beer a day for 8 years and never throwing a single empty away, leaving a 70,000 can beeramid in hid living room.
Kind of puts Excitement Flat to shame, doesn’t it?
The vagaries of web traffic still serve to confuse me.
A while back I started getting some comment spam around here (where spammers insert comments into blog entries more than a few months old. How this is supposed to make them money I am not entirely sure.) It wasn’t really a big deal, rarely more than [...]
Dear Edinburgh-ish people reading this, I have some questions about this Cow Parade dingus:
What the hell?
How many have been destroyed/stolen/”decorated” so far?
Last night I went off to see the Dresden Dolls again (for the 3rd - or technically 4th - time.) The quick summary is that they were fantastic. Again. They always put on such a incredibly extravagant show; for two people who spend most of their show behind entirely immobile instruments - drums and piano [...]
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen for ages. Another flash animation (sorry) that both embraces and explains the entire motivation of poodle rock.
I’ve been playing World of Warcraft very, very slowly since it came out. Most of the reason for the slowness is that I can’t face the thought of joining a guild, which would speed up the levelling process considerably. Why not? Well, largely because of people like this guy. (Funny flash animation applied over the [...]
From the “Verbing weirds language” file:
I can’t understand why he doesn’t get bored with his food, since he doesn’t go in for saucing.
Overheard on the bus home this evening, said in an entirely normal tone of voice by a woman with a posh English accent, describing a third person to her friend in the next [...]
Royal de Luxe’s weekend-long production of ‘The Sultan’s Elephant’ wrapped up central London today. The idea is that it’s a performance art piece commemorating the 100th anniversary of Jules Verne’s death, and loosely follows the plot of one of his stories, involving a Sultan seeing visions of a time-travelling girl who’d been transformed into a [...]
Remember how ‘chip-and-pin’ was going to make credit card fraud a thing of the past? Apparenly all involved forgot that software/electronic solutions are still designed by human.
Petrol giant Shell has suspended chip-and-pin payments in 600 UK petrol stations after more than £1m was siphoned out of customers’ accounts.
Eight people, including one from Guildford, Surrey, and [...]
Stardusy Holiday is a blog written by a woman from Cleveland who’s spending three months in bed as part of a NASA study into the effects of long-term weightlessness.