WANT!
“The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third. We created a ’secret’ staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to [...]
Dear Santa,
I have been a good little boy this year, and would very much like one of these for Christmas. Oh, and a copy of the Terminator 2 soundtrack to play in the background, please.
Yours Sincerely,
Paul (age 28 & 1/3rd)
(YouTube link)
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 [...]
Good Thing: Finding my favourite guitar effect pedal - presumed lost years ago - while rummaging through a well-buried box.
Bad Thing: Discovering that the battery hadn’t been removed, and that the insides are now a blackened, foamy, corroded mess.
Noooooooooooooooo!
My ancient-but-beloved Sony headphones have died (I think they got sat on in the pub) which means I’m suffering the ambient sounds of Guildford as I walk around. For reference, the ambient sounds of Guildford largely consist of groups of kids comparing how many cars they’ve keyed or how many times Sharon from year 10 [...]
Today’s reasons for hiding my credit card:
Cthulhu-fish bumper decals!
Steampunk guitars!
Blood-puddle pillows!
Charlie Brooker has written a fantastic mobile phone review for the Guardian which neatly sums up the entire phone industry at the same time, entitled “My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots”
(But, beware! As good as the article is, reading more than a few of the readers [...]
*droooool*
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be woken up by Stephen Fry in an English butler’s uniform? (We will not judge, you’re amongst friends here.)
If so, then the Voco Alarm clock is for you. Programmed to bring you out of slumber with a variety of refined yet motivational messages (Sound [...]
I’ll freely admit that I do not have an oil rig, gas refinery, disabled warship or anything else weighing close to 60,000 tonnes that I want moved from one place to another, but I’d still quite like a go on one of these semi-submersible heavy-lift ships. (Lots more fantastic pictures at that link.)
Radar magazine presents the ten most dangerous children’s toys of all time.
The downsides are that it’s a North American-centric list, and its conclusion is clearly wrong. Any child who ever had access to a Swingball set knows that, used correctly, it was by far the most vicious game on the planet.
Anyway, the list isn’t all [...]
Still stuck with a boring black/grey laptop sleeve? Give airport baggage handlers something to chuckle about:
Sam Brown of Explodingdog writes an extended love-letter to his ancient, and astonishingly beaten up Powerbook G4. (I know that sounds boring, but go and read it, it’s pretty funny.)
Bizarrely, I’m writing this on an almost identical model and vintage powerbook, which has held up remarkably well, but I guess it’s had a consideraby easier [...]
LogicCamera.com published a list of the 10 most frequently used cameras on Flickr, which I find sort of fascinating. It’s a fantastic little side-effect of the age of smart gadgets and the so-called information age.
Now that all of the electronic doodads we carry about with us are smart enough to know things about themselves and [...]
Dora The Explorer merchandise - popular with girls of all ages.