This is the final communiqué from London Branch. When next you tune in, the broadcast will be coming from a new top-secret underground bunker in deepest, darkest Surrey. Normal service shall be resumed shortly.
Toodle-pip!
This here is a script that will upload a user-specified set of Wikipedia pages onto recent-model iPods in the form of hyperlinked notes.
It’ll potentially be able to copy the entire Wikipedia archive minus images if you’re patient enough. In text format, the entire archive only takes up about 1.1Gb, which will even fit on the [...]
Beware: Serious videogame nerdery ahead. Feel free to defocus your eyes for a couple of minutes before going back to your regularly scheduled web-browsing.
IBM seem to be setting up some crazy Illuminati-style secret society on their own private island in Second Life.
The unexpurgated, slightly scary history of the Gizmondo: High-speed Ferrari wipeouts, the Swedish mafia, [...]
For various reasons, this stuck me as a thing Monsieur Edwards would approve of: There is a restaurant in New York which serves nothing but Rice Pudding.
Field trip, anyone?
(See also: Monster Mash in Edinburgh.)
The Executive Colo(u)ring Book:
No time to read but want to sound knowledgeable and self-important at dinner parties? You need John Crace’s bluffer’s guide to this year’s Booker Prize nominees.
Having access to the Internet means never having to enjoy anything yourself when there are other people around to enjoy it for you.
News.com.au - 09/10/2006:
A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.
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She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through [...]
Francis Fesmire has become my new personal hero for managing to get the terms “intractable hiccups” and “digital rectal massage” into a single article in New Scientist.
Bravo, sir, bravo.
It finally happened. After a year-and-a-bit of living in London and commuting to work every day, I’m throwing in the towel and moving to Guildford.
When I first moved down from Edinburgh to start work at Lionhead, I decided to try a bit of an experiment by getting a room in the big, scary city. It [...]
It’s a kind of I.Q. test. Paying for a ticket means you fail:
(blatantly stolen from Factum)
Washington Post via Reuters - 28/09/2006
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland’s capital and several towns plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned off for people to get a better view of the night sky.
Even though rain and clouds dimmed the view for the thousands of people who went out star gazing, the man [...]
… things which I have said in a slightly louder voice than I originally intended.
Today’s example, whilst at a comedy show in deepest, darkest Hackney:
“Is it the guy in front of us who smells like rancid milk? Every time he lifts his arms up to clap I can feel myself start to black out.”
(The guy [...]