You will, I hope, have seen Darren’s Get a First Life site, a call for people everywhere to sign up and try some of this real life stuff; you have to scroll down to comment 16 to get the real social impact of this, with Linden Labs posting their take on it and giving a […]
Search update
I love looking at the search terms that get people to my site. Today we have a specific target in mind, with the person who got to me with “can you put porn on myspace” where I make the top 10 in google. In answer to this, I have no idea. I know it seems […]
Sneezing Panda
Thanks for Tom for pointing to this. It’s just so cute.
Charitable Activity
This has been sitting in my tabs for a while, from Freakonomics. A group of Dallas call girls have got together and are running a charity raffle; for $50 a ticket the winner gets two hours with all 12 girls at the same time. In a form of micro-charity, the money is going direct to […]
Flickr Presents
Flickr have a wonderful easter egg this Christmas – adding notes to the photo gives you Xmas hats and Santa beards. See here for an example. Furthermore they have extended the upload limits for everyone. And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the […]
Headline writing
Sometimes, you find a piece of writing that can only come from one country. Here’s a story about the shortage of sperm donors in England and how the National Gamete Donation trust are proposing using mobile collection trucks outside major sporting events. The headline: “English Football Fans can now Prove who is the Biggest Wanker”
Pug Bowling
I like dogs normally, but toy dogs are generally of little brain. Here’s a video that demonstrates just that!
System Admin Day
It’s SysAdmin Appreciation day today. Over at UKUUG, they;v eproduced a nice little song for your amusement
666
Love the date..the once in a century opportunity to make poor jokes about the sign of the devil. Although I guess at the last one they did not have such marketing ‘opportunities’ as the release of the remake of The Omen.
April Fool Stuff
I’m going to keep this post updated for my own info…. Here’s something from Google. It may not be completely an April fool, but there’s an element of fun about it. Google Circles is a free service which lets you explore the interests of groups of people around the world, in your hometown, at your […]
Putting the cat before the horse
For a few moments distracting browsing, try this database of eggcorns. Eggcorns are spontaneous reshapings of known expressions, such as ‘for all intensive purposes’.
The Mac Hotel, Vegas
After 4 days in Vegas, we think there are opportunities for a Scottish themed casino…so welcome The Mac! As all of these hotels have particular themes and gimmicks, here’some of the things that could be present. Blame Ewan for most of these 😉 a lone piper on the top of the hotel playing everyone in, […]
Do you have rhythm?
From the Metro, the Song Tapper alllows you to tap in the rhythm of a song and then tries to match it to its database to tell you the title. This is targeted at everyone who has a song going round and round in their head and they’re trying to find the title. Unfortunately, on […]
Taking this far too seriously
Semanticist “presents a dozen signs that this whole “nanoculture” thing might be a little too much for you to handle.” with the nanoculture being such things as SEO, Web 2.0, New Media and Social Computing . Favourites being 11. You no longer speak to co-workers, but instead refer them to your comments feed. 2. You […]
Does my bum look big in this?: an academic study
Dr Lisa Macintyre, of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, has started an academic study to establish what combination of cut and material do make bums look big…and therefore advise clothes designers how to minimise the effect. Volunteers will be photographed in lots of different clothes before the photos get assessed by an expert panel .“This […]
Jelly Bean Cascade
One of the agencies sent over a Christmas present to a couple of us at work today – Jelly Belly Jelly Beans. Between the 2 boxes there’s over 1000 beans of multiple colours. All we need now is a decent slope or set of stairs, a good camera and to work out if they can […]
Germ and Squirrel Free
A couple of articles caugh tmy eye in today’s Evening Standard. The first is about c2c who have just announced a new service (although not, apparently, in the news section of their website). They are going to provide cough-free carriages for the next few months, to allow their commuters to stay germ free. If a […]
Flickring Expectations
Last night was another of the Christmas functions at work, this time with the IT function. After dressing up and loading onto a coach, we arrived at our venue for the night – the Hard Rock Cafe – to take part in plenty of food, drink and karaoke. Scattered around the venue were dressing up […]
Panexa by MERD
Via Adrants, new drug has appeared on the market. Suitable for “patients experiencing one of the following disorders: metabolism, binocular vision, digestion (solid and liquid), circulation, menstruation, cognition, osculation, extremes of emotion.” Panexa has the following contraindications: * PANEXA should not be used as a physical aid to set a broken bone, as in the […]
Tipping Cows
Boing Boing highlight a academic study that looked at the physics of tipping cows, ie making a cow fall over. The study shows that the average cow would need 5 people to tip it over, although 2 people may be able to manage it if they surprised it! Which brings me on to Richard Langford, […]