Oh Internet

I’m conflicted. This should be the nerdiest thing ever, but the idea of a Yoda backpack is still pretty funny.

Real life imitates ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets‘
Eighteen pages of neatly hand-written notes found in Kemi Adeyoola’s prison cell describe in graphic detail her murderous plan to get rich quick.
Entitled “Prison and After. Making Life Count”, the manual talks of finding a wealthy and elderly victim who she would rob and kill.
“She must be wealthy, quite [...]

Oh yes, it shall be mine.

Quiz time!
Adolf Hitler or Ann Coulter.
(I got 10 out of 14, based purely on the writing style rather than the sentiment expressed.)

BBC News finds the perfect photo for a story about Thames Water missing its leak reduction target for a third consecutive year.

I don’t read The Onion regularly any more, but every so often it reminds me why it used to be the best thing on the Internet.

I conclude that ITV’s live coverage of the World Cup has 3 seconds extra time delay compared to SkyTV’s:

Watching the England/Sweden game out of the corner of my eye while messing about on the computer.
HUGE roar from the pub down the street.
Look up to see a cross going in and England scoring.
Go back to what [...]

The Elder Gods of the Interweb will strike me down for filling this in, but what the hell. Received via email, but responded to here rather than forwarding it to a bunch of people, since everyone knows blogs are the new chain emails…
Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this [...]

The Metro today had this here story about schoolkids using the ‘mosquito’ alarm sound as their mobile phone ringtones in class. The idea is that it’s a high-pitched sound which they can hear, but most people over 20 can’t.
So that’s all well and good, except, well, it’s absolute bollocks. Here’s a copy of the sound, [...]

Creepy Gift
Originally uploaded by FeralChicken.

Last week we had a 5-hour “Welcome to Microsoft” meeting for the whole company. At the start we were all given goodie bags with the usual type of thing: Information pack, pens, sweets, various gadgety doodads. Plus a tiny little bottle of hand sanitizer. [...]

The UK’s current knife amnesty is proceeding with predicatble results:
“Bread knife, steak knife, breadknife, machete, katana, carving knife, Bat’leth, steak knife, penknife, M72 LAW Rocket Launcher, yadda yadda…

Forget waiting for the World Cup to start to get your fill of juicy tales of off-pitch drama and skullduggery - This story from the Turin Chess Olympiad has all you’ll ever need:

Drunken debauchery
A leading England player bar-brawling for the hand of a glamorous femme fatale
A reprisal attack from the opposing team the next day
High-level [...]

DC Studios, the company which bought the remnants of the place I used to work and proceeded to: irritate the remaining staff to the extent that hardly any agreed to stay on, sign our final in-progress game to an tiny, inept publisher and then take a year to finish said game - which was a [...]

The cartoon-watching children of the 80’s are now all grown up and, apparently, designing military hardware.

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

Before you click this link and find out the answer, take a minute to guess what this is a picture of: