31/05/06
Justin:
Someone on CG Talk has posted some pictures of a sandstorm in Iraq - bloody huge.
Justin: And no, it's not CG.
justin: Videos
Dave: I'm amazed at how slow it moves. Hollywood has taught me that sandstorms move real fast.
Dave:
A homeless woman living in a car writing a blog has been given a book deal and after 9 months has found a place to live.
Chris:
The news every science fiction movie nerd has been waiting for: Warner Brothers are finally releasing a new DVD of the director's cut of Blade Runner in September. It'll be followed by an all-singing, all dancing release with multiple versions of the film, including a new edit by Scott called the "Definitive" version, which will get a theatrical release. Hopefully the later DVD set will have all the extras that Ridley Scott has been talking about for the last five years...
Dave:
Remember last week when I posted about some dick selling his busted laptop? Looks like this is set to run and run.
Marcus:
Rolling tobacco: "it's not less harmful, it's not more natural and you're just as likely to develop smoking related illnesses".
Marcus:
A new "definitive" cut of Blade Runner is being released early next year after the re-issue of a "special" edition that has the w*nky theatrical cut and the 1992 director's cut.
Marcus: I first reported on this back in 2004 - apparently the legal issues have finally been overcome.
chris: More details above...
Marcus:
The Banned Cartoon Collection: all the 1940s racially offensive cartoons you can eat, hosted on YouTube. (via)
Marcus:
Jesus Pan: cook things with the image of Jesus imprinted into them, then sell them on eBay by the dozen. Let the good times roll! (via)
30/05/06
Marcus:
Photos of various well-known Hollywood character actors doing different facial poses to amusing descriptions. (via)
Marcus: "You are the coach of an underdog basketball team watching your center make a game-saving shot block at the last second against last year's division champs."
Marcus: 
Marcus: I've been known to show similar exhuberance after a particularly successful trip to the toilet.
justin: Prolonged constipation with it's sweet monthly release will do that to you.
justin: I bet you have a "fecal cycle".
Marcus: We are English - hear our toilet humour roar!
Marcus:
World Cup Blog. (via)
Marcus: "34 blogs reporting daily on every detail of the world's greatest sporting event".
Marcus: As previously mentioned, I hate watching football (as I hate all spectator sports - I prefer to participate). But this link's going out to all the people with twenty England flags sticking out of their cars.
justin: Prefer to participate....?
Marcus: Yup - like, the other day, I was having a kick-around with a group of year 11s. Much more fun than sitting in a pub shouting at other people to kick a ball - cuts out the middle man.
Dave: I was going to post this last week, but I didn't want to welcome all forms of unwarranted abuse onto myself.
Marcus:
Video: Charlie Murphy versus Rick James.
Marcus: Dave showed me this earlier. I realise this will be old news to Americans, but it's new to me.
Dave: I'M RICK JAMES b*tch!
Dave:
Book Crossing leave a book somewhere and then let other people have it then follow it round the world. This may have been posted before, but I don't care.
Dave:
The guy who accidentally ended up in a live News 24 interview is selling his shirt on an online auction site. Here's the news story to go with it.
justin: The BBC didn't even give him the bloody job!
Marcus:
Video: Rob Newman's History of Oil. 45 minutes long, but supposedly very good (and, assuming he keeps up to his Mary Whitehouse Experience form, funny too). (via)
tim: well judging by his standup performance to a bunch of braying lefties that I saw at the hen and chicken in bristol he's certainly gone off the boil since then. cue plenty of bush-bashing (one of his jokes was to say 'the bush administration' over and over in an increasingly patronising tone while self-important guardian readers chortled into their tofu-crisps).
tim: if anything it made me want to go out, buy a gun, kill sonmething with it and eat its fear-tainted red meat cooked on the radiator of a '68 gas guzzling all american road-hog, as if more convincing were needed
Dave: I agree with Tim. I saw him in Norwich and although it was borderline funny, the jokes were all a bit highbrow for me. More Dick joke please Newman.
Marcus: See that Bush? That's you, that is.
29/05/06
Justin:
This one goes up to 11 - Media Player 11 is out, if anyone cares. I suggest you forget about it and use Winamp - which is still the best.
27/05/06
Justin:
Send your dog to Dog Island
justin: I'm looking for an email address to ask if it would be possible to send my pet cat to Dog Island, but can't find one.
Marcus:
Vote which pictures should be placed on cigarette packets to warn UK smokers of the dangers of fags.
Justin:
The threat by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez selling 21 of Venezuela's F-16 fighters to Iran, has gained press attention. However, this is a threat that is largely empty in terms of potential harm to the United States.
justin: It might be a bit of a threat to other nations though!
Justin:
Barclays Online are giving all their customers a free copy of F-Secure and a two year update licence.
justin: Anyone know if F-Secure is any good?
26/05/06
Dave:
I had to watch this 3 times before I worked out what happened. I was looking at the people crossing the road.
Marcus:
"Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real."
Marcus: "Medics also practice on a $70,000 mannequin that bleeds, blinks, breathes, and makes five different kinds of bowel sounds."
Marcus: Five different kinds of bowel sounds?! That beats the sh*t out of that Tiny Tears doll that could also do a wee.
Justin:
Do we still need the 'where's Dave?' link on the side? we know where he is now.
justin: Sadly back on Linkbunnies, peddling his racist, homophobic, potential rapist football hooliganism.
Marcus: I was kind of hoping he'd continue to update his travel blog with slightly more mundane but still useful location information.
Marcus: eg "sitting on the toilet", "caught in a traffic jam on the M3", and so on.
Marcus: As that hasn't materialised, I'll probably get around to removing the sidebar link in a year or two, much like those people who would keep Comic Relief car noses on the front of their car a mere five years after the event.
Dave: I find that pretty offensive Justin. f*ck you.
Marcus: That's our Dave!
justin: See what football does to him?
Marcus:
Desmond Dekker, the first reggae star and most famous for "The Israelites", has died.
Marcus: Thanks to advertising, the song has been replaced in my mind by the "Vitalite" margarine version.
Marcus:
"Drinking alcohol every day protects against heart disease in men but not in women, Danish research shows."
Marcus: Although a weekly drink still reduces the risk by 36%.
Justin:
Shaat it you slaaaag! - Ave a Word is the new Mini advert that allows you to send a personalised menacing video message from a marfy Landoner to a male friend.
Gareth:
How to create a keygen. But you shouldn't, because that's bad. (and open source is so much better ideologically, anyways)
Marcus: Assembly language tutorials make baby Jesus cry.
jesus: I hate you Gareth!
Marcus: Next week's guest contributor: the Hindu elephant-headed deity Ganesh.
Marcus: He'll be telling Justin that he's a c*nt.
Ganesh: Justin is a c*nt.
Marcus: Not now Ganesh! Wait for your cue!
25/05/06
Marcus:
"A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class." (via)
Marcus: Bad luck kids - I'm a teacher and I can hear it just fine.
Marcus: "Mosquito" ring tone.
Marcus: Justin points to the Boing Boing commentary that it's probably all a load of bollocks.
Gareth:
Ever wonder why Windows XP has so many SVChost.exe instances running? Read the microsoft kbase article! (it's actually really good)
justin: Wow Gareth, you've really surpassed yourself for posting boring links. Jeez.
Marcus: Worst Justin Post Ever.
justin: Come on, my post was about big business and the film and games industries (amongst other things).
gareth: It's really useful! On a standard Windows XP box, there are 5-8 instances of svchost, the largest of which uses ~40 mb of ram (the one that handles networking dlls)
justin: Erm, so what do they do? is there anything we can do to make them go away? or are they an integral part of Windows that we have no control over?
Dave: Sometimes I feel like a geek, other times you all make me feel lots better :)
Justin:
Girls from broken homes may grow up to be less attractive, research published by the Royal Society shows.
Gareth:
My Science Project: How to make your very own ballistic gellatin and an indepth analysis of the Cheney shotgun 'incident', complete with shooting various objects with a 28-gauge shotgun.
gareth: How many condoms can you wear at once? is especially good.
gareth: Lighting a jello shot on fire looks really cool
Gareth:
According to the BBC, the game version of the Da Vinci Code is garbage. Funny, the game based on a movied based on a novel which is crap in the first place turns out badly! Never would have seen that coming.
24/05/06
Chris:
Jeepers! You can now watch Todd Browning's rather disturbing and entirely cult film Freaks in its entirety over at Google Video. Google really are taking over the planet.
Marcus: Awesome! I was at an Industrial Light & Magic seminar once (me! At an ILM seminar! The very thought!), and Rob Coleman (head animator at ILM) demonstrated how they used characters from Freaks to model the weirder aliens in The Phantom Menace.
Marcus: Here's the (transcribed) script to Freaks.
Justin:
Letter to Ahmadinejad - fake Bush response to the letter from the Iranian Prime Minister
Marcus: You can tell it's from a right-wing nutter publication - they're making out that George Bush can string more than two syllables together. Unless that's some kind of deliberate meta-irony.
justin: I guess it's the letter Bush would approve of his speech writer writing.
Marcus:
Apple have married the iPod nano with Nike trainers in some kind of weird way that involves being able to play a "Power Song" at the press of a button to get you motivated. Also, it speaks to you. About, er, stuff. (via)
Marcus: Listing your run stats along with other people's on the Nike website (and being able to challenge other people to "virtual runs") seems quite interesting.
gareth: The "hackers" of the site will be people who put their shoes in paint can mixers to trick the sensor in the shoes
Dave:
Are you a compulsive gambler? Bet you are. Actually this test is pretty sh*t. I just wanted to post something.
Justin:
Former Iraqi Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has been testifying for the defence at the trial of ousted leader Saddam Hussein.
justin: Surely not the most credible witness?
Gareth:
I was bored, so I googled linkbunnies. And guess what I found? People are actually reading the stuff we put up here!
mads: I just visited linkbunnies.org three times in a row. Why? Because my stupid unconscious mind has taking over - and it loves linkbunnies so much that if it were up to it alone, I'd use my entire life reloading their page looking for mildly interesting links to follow - which is pretty much what I do anyway.
gareth: His comment at the top there regarding the extreme lack of women in compsci is definitely not far off the mark, either
Dave: Wow, people other than me DO actually read this site. I wonder who the favourite is...
Dave: The 6th link on Google make me LOL.
justin: I think people read it because of my wit and insightful political commentary.
Marcus: I think we have a potential arch-nemesis in the guise of sh*tty linkfarm site linkbunnies.com.
gareth: Well, it's good that we're big enough to have an arch-nemesis
chris: Hmmm, are we talking fluffy cat arch-nemesis here? Charles Grey, or Donald Pleasance, perhaps? Or mildly camp with an eye patch like Mike Myers? Or perhaps the Norwegian heavy metal band? According to IGN, we'd have to be battling Magneto if we want to consider ourselves at the top of our game, 'cos he's the ultimate super-villain. These things are important, you know...
gareth: we could take Magneto
23/05/06
Justin:
Casono Royale trailer - Bond kicks the f*ck out of everybody.
justin: And the new Superman trailer - watch for the end!
justin: People who think Daniel Craig will suck as the new Bond, in fact, suck themselves.
gareth: Holy crap am I ever excited
Dave: I have to be honest, I'm a lot more excited by Bond than I am by Superman.
Dave:
Getting excited by the World Cup? You should be! No one should be without a World Cup Wall Chart.
Marcus: As always, I'm looking forward to England crashing out embarrassingly and laughing at depressed tw*triots.
Marcusq: NB tw*triots: people who paint the Cross of St George on their faces and rant "come on England!" despite not really knowing about football. Also found at Wimbledon during Tim Henman matches.
Dave: I don't understand your blatant traitorism. I'm sure you'd love it if we had no international borders and we all just shared everything. Commie.
gareth: Yeah Marcus, where is your blind nationalist spirit?
justin: Perhaps you'd prefer it if we all spoke German? things would be more orderly for you you, easier to cope with and to retain anally.
Marcus: Surely nationalist-based blind devotion and the inevitable mob violence when your team f*ck up again is more of a Nazi Germany trait? Ego, if you like the World Cup you are a Nazi. And if you think it's a bit sh*t you are, in fact, a shining beacon of heroic democracy.
justin: The way you associate brotherly comraderie through the support of a sports team with mob violence speaks volumes. Why don't you just admit that in your mind 'football = male rape gangs'
Dave: I actually get really pissed off when people equate football fans with hooligans, especially English fans. Yes there is a small minority of people who are complete tw*ts and are unable to contain themselves at games. Mostly these people couldn't care if England are playing or not, they just want to get into a fight. I am going to an England match tonight. Does that make me a hooligan? Don't use an outdated stereotype from the 80's to start getting on people's back because you don't like football. You better watch out or you'll be going home in a f*cking ambulance!
Marcus:
Voice-encrypting mobile phone.
Marcus: Apparently the encryption is unbreakable. Very secret squirrel.
gareth: The comments, although there are few, are really interesting. Especially the one from 'Guylain Lavoie, M5T Inc.' - if that is his real name
justin: OK - so the terrorists will use this phone from now on - so does that mean the US government will stop it's phone tapping programme now?
gareth: Well, they would no doubt be very pricy phones. There would also no doubt be a method of atleast tracking who had bought phones (atleast, you'd assume so)
Marcus:
"Is white or black the cooler colour for my new gadget?"
Marcus: Oh, the existential angst is killing me.
22/05/06
21/05/06
Marcus:
How to run pirate games homebrew code on a Nintendo DS. (via)
Marcus: Posted so when I inevitably succumb to buying a DS Lite I'll be able to play pirated games run homebrew code.
20/05/06
Marcus:
"Headdress turns your Mac into a nice little server, capable of virtually hosting several websites in your local network." (via)
Marcus: "Your laptop (or desktop) will act just like an offsite server running Apache & PHP. This means you can develop on the go."
Marcus: Costs $15, but it would increase the chances of my lazy ass working on the linkbunnies code.
Marcus:
Become a movie producer for $1 and have your name listed on the credits of The One Second Film. (via)
Marcus: "...Our end-credits are estimated to last 90-minutes."
Marcus: The One Second Film is also listed on the IMDB - wonder if you'll get your name credited there too?
gareth: It reads as a list of dumb people
Gareth:
No doubt everyone has seen the requirements for Vista. No mention of that 'rumour' that a hardware change may constitute a need for a new license.
19/05/06
Marcus:
How to communicate the general badness of radioactive burial sites to intelligent beings 10,000 years in the future.
Marcus: I've heard about this before, so it may or may not be a sort of double post. But Damn Interesting either way.
Marcus:
How a 226lb piano came to be on top of Ben Nevis.
Marcus: Ben Nevis being the mountain in Scotland, not a chap.
Justin:
Random corporate gibberish generator
justin: More web economy bullsh*t
justin: You need to remove the asterix in the swear of the url to make it work.
Dave:
I'm sure you've all seen the Sony ad with all the bouncing balls. But here is Tango's homage to it filmed in Swansea. Apparently local residents weren't impressed with the crew leaving tons of rotting fruit at the bottom of their street. Understandable I guess.
chris: Hmmm, now why would a Welsh residents' association's domain be registered by CHI Advertising, I wonder? They have a posh London W1 address, too - nowhere near Swansea...
chris: And what a truly dreadful waste of food.
Marcus: Mmm, w*nky viral advertising.
Dave: Get over it. It's fruit. It grows on f*cking trees!!
Marcus: Yeah, but the "residents' association" website has been dreamt up by yet another bunch of new media advertising w*nkers thinking they're oh-so-clever with their subtle viral marketing tw*ttery. Tee hee! What larks!
18/05/06
Justin:
When monkeys shout at each other it can mean something.
Marcus: Pyow pyow pyow! Hack hack hack hack!
Justin:
Teen behaviour 'better than 1985'
Marcus: So they asked a bunch of kids how well behaved they were, and they said "we're good - honest!".
Marcus: Now, what could the slight flaw in this survey be?
Marcus:
How to Copy Files Off YouTube and Convert them for your Video iPod. (via)
Marcus: Also handy if you just want to download a YouTube clip for later offline-viewing pleasure.
Chris:
Bristol just had a visit from the A380 Superjumbo. It really is rather large, especially when it flies over your office at a thousand feet or so.
chris: Very quiet, though.
justin: I was there. Good stuff - it's huge, and got a fast jet escort as well.
Dave:
Donald Rumsfeld stands to make a fortune from bird-flu.
justin: Wow, they areally are the pits aren't they? I guess people like Rumsfeld and Bush are incapable of making the moral switch from company CEO chasing profits, to leaders of a democratic nation.
Dave: I don't know how reliable those sources are, but it's not too hard to believe is it.
17/05/06
Marcus:
Mac OS X Intel is now closed-source because of all those naughty PC users hacking and installing it.
gareth: Uh-oh, wouldn't want your OS to get popular or anything like that!
Dave:
Uber-lame sitcom Joey finally gets axed.
gareth: what a surprise
Dave: It's actually quite a relief. No one wants to see that amount of suffering.
Gareth:
Is it time to drop support for 800x600 resolution?
gareth: Hell yes it is. And once PCs stop using BIOS and move to EFI, nobody will have to see garbage low resolutions on a monitor that wasn't made for it.
justin: The amount of people who (allegedly) use 800x600 is quite large - but the web is not for them, it's for non-simpletons.
chris: Hmmm - well, nearly 20% of the visitors to my site still use 800 by 600, so it may be a bit premature to knock it on the head just yet.
Dave: We still spec to design sites to work at 800 by 600. Personally I would like to see it dropped, but I think it will take a few more years yet.
justin: I know you guys get told loads of people still use 800x600 - but you really need to ask yourself - how many of those people are not tw*ts?
Dave: Most of them. But that's not the point. People use Macs but we have to support them. Clients don't care if their users are idiots, they care that as many people as possible can use their site. That's just the way it is.
16/05/06
Gareth:
Hybrid Grizzly Bear and Polar bear in one. "Pizzly" or "Grolar Bear" for short. Of course they've shot it, so much for preservation of rare animals.
tim: shooting would have been the right and proper thing to do- but only if it looked at them funny
Justin:
Here's a twist - Creative, makers of the iPod competitor the Zen are suing to have Apple stop production of the iPod for copying it's patented control method.
Marcus:
The Himalaya Honey Hunters. (via)
Marcus: "A honey hunter descends the cliff harnessed to a ladder by ropes. As his mates secure the rope and ladder from the top and ferry tools up down as required, the honey hunter fights territorial bees as he cuts out chunks of honey from the comb."
Gareth:
Google Notebook: Clip and collect information as you browse the web.
gareth: It's a pretty nifty extension for both FF and IE6. It seems like it'd be really good for grabbing notes for papers, etc.
Gareth:
Skype is offering free calls to any landline or mobile phone in US or Canada for the rest of the year. Not bad at all.
15/05/06
Dave:
Some Guy (nice pun huh?) gets interviewed by mistake on BBC News 24. Watch the video.
justin: He better get the job after all the piss-taking the BBC has done.
Dave:
Been on the other side of the world for a few months? Come back with approximately 3000 photos? Want to make a photo album? Someone pointed me to Viovio and showed me their book. It was very impressive and quite reasonably priced. Great for weddings, holidays and homemade porno.
Dave:
Where's Warren?
Dave: He's back! That's where he is! And he's ready to kick up a stir with all sorts of vaguely interesting non-work related crap!
Dave: Jesus! This place has been falling apart without me! Marcus, what the hell are you doing buying a Mac!? You've let me down buddy.
Marcus: I can't hear you due to the lofty heights of my Apple-built iVory Tower.
Marcus: Anyway, you really ought to blame yourself - letting me fiddle around with your iPod is what started this whole sorry situation.
justin: Welcome back dude. Been readin your blog - looks like you had an excellent adventure.
Dave: Yeah, I had a great time, unsurprisingly. But it's nice to be back.
14/05/06
Justin:
Soccer hooligans could be silenced by a new sound system that neutralises chanting with a carefully timed echo.
Dave: Why would you want to do that? Surely there are better ways to combat racist chanting at football grounds that don't include deafening fans or destroying the atmosphere. On the rare occasions that there is racist chanting at football matches, the corresponding team is so harshly punished, any reasonable fan would never think of doing it again.
Dave: Unless of course it happens in Italy (specifically Lazio) or in Spain where it is not taken seriously at all as a problem, so why would they ever spend money on some kind of audio system. I say harsher penalties on clubs and Football Associations and better education is a better course of action.
Dave: And for the love of God, call it FOOTBALL!!
justin: Sorry - I just cut and pasted. I think it's a good idea - it's a temporary measure that can be activated during a racist chant - you may not want to wait around for a football club to be disciplined if you're a member of a minority and there are people chanting racist slogans. You'd want them to be stopped immediately. Also, this technology would work at slightly less the volume of the crowd anyway, so it wouldnt be extreme.
13/05/06
12/05/06
Gareth:
I'm curious Marcus - what led you to buying a mac mini? I'm looking at them myself.
gareth: I have to admit, the 80gb hard drive that comes standard seems pretty piddly
Justin-Pretending-To-Be-Marcus: Well, it went with my busy lifestyle - with so many men on the go - and so many dresses to choose, and the wedding season coming up - I didn't want to get dragged into - ugh - more computer borningess. Geek is so out this season.
gareth: I guess it's understandable, considering you are a femme d'haute couture
Marcus: Family Guy said it best about Sex & The City: "A show about three hookers and their mum".
Marcus: Mac Minis are completely aweswome if, like me, you don't really play computer games any more and instead spend your time listening to music, surfing the web, watching videos and generally faffing about doing new media-y things.
justin: Anyway guys - this is a link blog... do you guys fancy emailing eachother or something?
gareth: Fine, have a link. Should I buy a mac mini?
gareth: I think I'd get a mac mini if it weren't for that I'd want a PVR card, and as such would need a computer with a nice big ATX motherboard and plenty of PCI slots.
gareth: Although I guess I download all of the TV I watch (which is basically BSG and Lost)
Marcus:
The Japanese don't like first-person shooting games.
Marcus: I've heard about this before - some interesting speculation in the comments of this Kotaku post.
Marcus:
Remember Sam & Max? Possibly the coolest graphic adventure game outside of Monkey Island? A sequel, previously abandoned, is now back in the pipeline. (via)
Marcus: Interestingly, this will be "an ongoing series of episodic Sam & Max games" - so small, but lots of them.
Marcus: More here.
11/05/06
Justin:
OMG W00t! - The Nintendo Wii video is excellent... well, the video is ok, but the Nintendo Wii looks amazing!
justin: I haven't been this excited about a console in years.
Marcus:
YouTube: the original 13-minute short film of Bottle Rocket, directed by Wes Anderson (imdb), which eventually became his first full-length movie. (via)
Tim:
more proof that the NME is selling more 'cool rock lifestyle' than actual talent....
Marcus: Actually, the NME was pedalling Pete Doherty as cool a couple of years ago but now says that he's "just a worn-out drug addict who needs help"
Marcus: It's the NME readers who voted him number two Greatest Rock Star of All Time.
Marcus: Probably because NME readers aren't hip enough to know what the NME thinks is hip right now, not two years ago, the stupids.
justin: They chided their own readers for voting him in because it basically reflects the fact that NME readers are retards. Written by 80s throwback journalists - predeccesors to Nathan Barley - for 14 year old indie rock chicks. Of course they are going to vote for him, they know nothing else.
tim: knowing NME readers they will probably think its really 'rokkin' for a magazine to chide its own readers
Marcus:
"Indulged children from middle class homes form a new breed of bullies."
Marcus: "...Bullies who come from homes where they are so indulged that they go to school and they are little gods."
tim: oh man I can see the future tv reality show 'little gods cope with unemployment' heheheheh I'll be watching
Justin:
Ooh, and Nintendo are releasing lots of info about the Wii - to be honest, I really want one of these. I've totally bought into the philosophy of what they are saying.
10/05/06
Justin:
Etherbeat (formerly Boombastic radio) is my favorite radio station on the internet. - There's a nice series of podcasts as well, that you can take with you. Take a look for yourself the kind of thing they do.
Gareth:
A woman has been charged in the United States after allegedly helping her daughter make biscuits for a teacher that were spiked with laxatives.
gareth: "We made these cookies just for you, hope you enjoy them."
Marcus:
B3ta's Rob Manuel on switching to a Mac. I agree with pretty much everything he says, especially about Mac users being better looking.
justin: Yeah, that reminds me of when I swapped my complicated grownups computer for this.
Marcus:
Recordings of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) - supposedly the voices of the dead, as featured in crap horror film White Noise.
09/05/06
Marcus:
Jack Churchill is my new hero.
Marcus: "In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random reports of soldiers having been killed with broad-head arrows or hacked with a English Claymore."
gareth: I like the bit with him forcing sentries to surrender and eventually gathering up 42 prisoners.
Marcus: You can buy Jack Churchill: Unlimited Boldness for a fiver from Amazon UK.
Marcus: (There's no seedy "affiliate" link in that Amazon URL - but that's a rant for another day.)
tim: Seems that he managed to hold off the germans with playing the bagpipes, they had to knock him out with a grenade. As if more proof were needed that it IS an offensive weapon.
justin: What? the grenade? :)
tim: maybe his bagpipes fired grenades, wouldn't be surprised
Marcus:
One man's account of infecting himself with parasitic hookworm to cure himself of asthma. (via)
Marcus: Interesting, but simultaneously likely to make you writhe in your seat and feel a bit ill.
justin: I saw that documentary he was banging on about. I have to say that I do admire his courage and what he's done.
tim: if he was a real man it would have been brain worm
Tim:
I rather like this chaps work, bit gothy I know but interesting and he did that red hot chilli peppers cover
08/05/06
Chris:
It's a bike! It's a boat! It's a human powered hydrofoil! And it's fast!
justin: This does rock the house down. How long to cross the channel do you reckon?
Justin:
Proposed idea to limit the use of your remote control during adverts
justin: The constant meddling of media companies is pushing people away from TV and towards piracy - if only because when you download a programme you can see it without adverts and at a time of your choosing.
justin: They keep pushing too hard - look what they've done to cinema, no one in the US wants to go any more.
gareth: It drives me f*cking bonkers when I don't have control over what I'm watching. F*ck them if they want me to pay them to watch their f*cking ads. F*cking f*ckers!
07/05/06
Marcus:
Google has launched a free and easy to use online webpage creator.
Marcus: That includes 100mb of free hosting, too.
Marcus: Tripod, Freewebs et al: let's be honest, you're f*cked.