Clearly, someone thinks that us Scots aren’t killing ourselves through bad health quickly enough, and is pitching in to speed up the process.
BBC News - 30/05/2007
An award-winning butcher has come up with two special Scottish sausages which are being tipped as the perfect hangover cure - Iron Brew bangers.
The soft drink, Irn Bru, is often [...]
A group of American dictionary editors have released a list of 100 words that they think every high school graduate (and their parents) should know. I admit this sounds boring, but only until you actually look through the list. Among other things, the editors fear that the average American doesn’t know the following words and [...]
The first Lionhead video diary has been released, where you can see a bunch of people I work with talking about Fable2. It’s on XBox Live Marketplace, or you can download it directly here.
I leave the decision about whether this is “an exciting new approach to viral marketing” or “a bunch of nerds, typing” entirely [...]
I saw the following picture - with no context - a few days ago, chuckled and then clicked onwards. It turns out, though, that it was actually illustrating the continued march of bureaucracy and the coddling of society:
Yahoo! News - 18/05/2007
DESTIN, Fla. - Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire’s Irish Pub have played [...]
Yahoo! Finance - 20/04/2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to a nationwide online survey released today, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. The survey was conducted by national online market research firm InsightExpress for Telles(TM), a joint venture of Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX - News), [...]
Here’s to humanity’s non-stop efforts to get smashed on whatever is available at the time: Intentionally being bitten on the tongue by cobras and injecting spider venom.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine - 1990
Case No. 1: 35-year-old, male married, front lower socio-economic class, working in a gambling den for last 10 years was admitted for treatment of [...]
Let me be the 800th person to point this out to you this week: The AP has an article about Korean tightrope walkers with the best headline ever created - Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo.
It’s been a slow few months of reading for me, but here’s what I’ve managed to get through.
Learning the World - Ken MacLeod
I’ve enjoyed all of Ken Macleod’s books, and this is one of his most immediately accessible. It’s a slightly odd setup, in that it’s a first contact novel in which almost no contact [...]
Today’s reasons for hiding my credit card:
Cthulhu-fish bumper decals!
Steampunk guitars!
Blood-puddle pillows!
Transport for London weighs in on the modern art debate:
London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by “guerrilla artist” Banksy estimated to be worth more than £300,000.
The image depicted a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns.
It had become one of the [...]
Further to that note about dealing with a few thousand queued emails: The more time I spend watching these fancy modern programs like Thunderbird, Outlook and Mail.app slowly sputter their way through a small set of messages, the more I realise how incredibly good Netscape 3.0: Mail was, way back when.
If anyone needs me, I’ll [...]
Hooray for 2 weeks without a home Internet connection. NTL is rapidly climbing my chart of “entities to be fired into the Sun.”
Luckily, I’ve been so busy at work that I haven’t really had time to use it anyway. So that’s good, right? Right?
If anyone needs me, I’ll be swearing copiously and extravagantly while clearing [...]