And lo! The drooling of a million fanboys was heard clear across the Internet (and one more time, though it has to be said that teaser sites are made infinitely worse by allowing user comments…)
(Update: And more)
or “A Timeline of a Non-Optimal Sunday”
6:15am: Arrive home on the first train back from London, somewhat the worse for wear.
9:35am: Awoken by the sound of the apocalypse. Quickly asses that poor sleep-deprived and dehydrated brain cannot cope and curl up into foetal position, wrapping head in surplus duvet and pillows. Await death.
9:45am: Accept that [...]
Since I don’t have a blog category for “OCD”, I’ll mark this under “Books” and hope for the best.
Since there are so many library cataloguing sites around these days, and I can’t actually figure out which one is better than any other, I’ve sort of arbitrarily started using LibraryThing (because I clearly need to be [...]
The original site that this came from is down, so here’s a link to BoingBoingGadget’s post about it. An amusing dick-waving contest among pilots; won by the person in the cockpit of the SR-71 Blackbird
One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna [...]
Mmm… Inside-out Martini…
A very fine set of instructions for creating your very own corn starch-encrusted vodka-filled sweeties. Perfect for those calm, restrained family gathering in the upcoming festive period.
BBC News - 15/11/2007
A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat.
Nicholas Gaubert has described how the incident happened in July 2005, just a week before the fatal shooting of Brazilian man [...]
Associated Press - 19/10/2007
The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody — anybody — to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.
The donor’s anonymity, said curator Kees Moeliker, is guaranteed.
”We have over 300,000 species represented in our collection,” he said. ”Even though most of [...]
I would feel bad about spotting this Halloween costume too late, but after looking through the full instructions for creating it, I think it’s probably for the best that I wasn’t tempted to lose many weeks trying to recreate it.