31/07/06
Chris:
Sony's next TV commercial looks like it's going to be a bit over the top...
gareth: A movie of the mess
Dave:
Best invention for food. Ever.
zanna: No, this is the best invention for food!
zanna: But incase you're a complete fool 'Do not put the mould itself in the toaster, it will melt.'
gareth: I'd thought it was common knowledge that anything that wasn't bread should not go in the toaster?
justin: Poptarts?
Justin:
Ten Types of Women you Need to Avoid - Zanna, which one are you?
zanna: Obviously I think I'm No. 1 but in reality it's probably going to be No. 5!!
zanna: It's only fair 12 types of men to avoid. Which one do you think you are Justin?
justin: All of the above baby.
Zanna:
A lesbian couple who married legally in Canada have failed in their High Court bid to have their union given full legal status in the UK.
justin: They were saying it was a breach of their human rights, except the civil partnership law grants them every right as a marriage - so as the defence team said it was a misguided case. Pity though.
Justin:
As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis - VIA
justin: Hizbullah prides itself on its secretiveness and discipline. "We don't take anyone who knocks at our door and says 'I want to join'. We raise our fighters. We take them when they are young kids and raise them to become Hizbullah fighters. Every fighter we have believes that the ultimate form of being is martyrdom."
justin: This is scary reading - I don't think the Israelis can stop Hezbollah by sending in ground troops - but they have to do something while missles rain down, what can they do?
Dave:
Jaffa cakes, are they really cakes or are they biscuits?
justin: They do playfully challenge the boundary between cake and biscuit. Although they are quite expensive - the average man on the street certainly does not feel the benefits of 0% VAT.
Zanna:
More than a third of young people admit they have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol in the classroom.
Dave:
This is a bit cringeworthy and a bit drama, but it's pretty brave and good as well. It's some guy performing a musical in a lecture.
30/07/06
Justin:
Dune Info - Behind the scenes of the movie Dune.
justin: Has some great preproduction art from Moebius, Chris Foss and HR Giger. Also featuring Ron Miller who I interviewed for an A-Level art project I did on artistic interpretations of Dune.
Chris:
The James Bond stage at Pinewood Studios is burning down. It was being used to film Casino Royale, which was due out in November. No word on whether the film will be delayed.
gareth: Holy crap no!
Justin:
African elephants hate climbing hills because it is too costly in terms of energy, a study suggests. - thanks Tim.
justin: I think it's because they hate freedom.
Gareth:
Penis Pokey is an illustrated board book with a large die-cut hole in its center. Every spread features a dazzling full-color illustration with one thing missing—a banana, perhaps, or a fire hose, or a sea serpent. Male readers can complete the illustrations using the talents God has given them.
29/07/06
Justin:
Keira Knightley has one chest for the UK and another for US - this is a classic.
justin: Perhaps they are air sacs she can expand to ward of predators?
Gareth:
Shower breasts.
Marcus: There's something a little bit disturbing about a pair of breasts that lactate shower gel.
justin: Well, they aren't 'lactating' shower gel are they?
Gareth:
Photoshop hits you with a warning message and does not allow you to print when it detects that you are attempting to open/edit an image of American currency
justin: Unless it's rotated 90 degrees. d'oh!
28/07/06
Zanna:
The Hoff was not drunk at an airport .
zanna: 'Press reports claimed the actor, 54, was intoxicated and could not board the flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles'
But apparently he was taking antibiotics for 'a recent arm injury' which then became 'an infection to his injured hand' and then 'a shaving accident'.
I love the Hoff....
Zanna:
Denmark is the happiest place on earth. Denmark came top, followed closely by Switzerland and Austria. The UK ranked 41st. Zimbabwe and Burundi came bottom.
Dave:
It reads like the plot of a movie. 2 Killers are on the loose in Phoenix Arizona, competing to see who can kill more pepole. Seems truth is stranger than fiction.
Dave:
It reads like the plot of a movie. 2 Killers are on the loose in Phoenix Arizona, competing to see who can kill more pepole. Seems truth is stranger than fiction.
Dave:
How not to react to a bad date. Wow. Just Wow.
zanna: Really he should used a slightly different website from jdate. Perhaps this one where he can learn to make his own and never have to inflict himself on the general public again!sex toys
'Too embarrassed (or too cheap) to buy sex toys? This site shows you how, step-by-step, to build them yourself.'
zanna: I really mucked up that post... blame the half bottle of red wine I've had so far! I need Marcus to come back and fix all the mistakes I make!
Dave:
Some guy dies in real life. His buddies throw him a funeral in WOW. Some dickheads come and ruin everything for them.
Zanna:
To brighten up your friday have a laugh at some flaying chavs!
zanna: As much as I would love to flay some chavs I actually meant to say flying. Does anyone have a link of them being flayed?!
Justin:
Contrary to common perception, people with dark skin are more likely to die from skin cancer than those with fairer skin, warn US researchers.
27/07/06
Gareth:
Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell is to write and record the theme tune to the new James Bond film, Casino Royale. WTF?! Why would they allow such evil?
Dave: Why is this evil. I'll wager it'll be better than that shrivelled hag Maddonna's effort.
Dave: In fact, how can you even care you're American!!??
gareth: No I'm not! Born in England, living in Canada. I just happen to hate Chris Cornell (mostly because he claims that Audioslave is much much better than RATM ever was - completely untrue)
Dave: Sorry, I couldn't resist the chance of baiting you with the American thing. I guess I just feel a bit mischevious today. But let's be fair, if you were in a new band you certainly wouldn't say "nah they were better before I was the frontman." :)
gareth: Yeah, I guess you have a point there - but if I was suddenly the frontman of a band I wouldn't even attempt to compare them, it's really apples and oranges (pardon the cliche)
Dave: Also a fair point.
Gareth:
This guy put a LCD screen from a phone in his logteich mouse, and it turned out looking pretty good (although not very useful)
Justin:
BBC Newsnight's Ethical Man series details one reporter's attempt at living an eco-friendly ethical life. Informative and interesting - watch the videos.
justin: If you don't watch these, then you basically admit you hate yourselves.
26/07/06
Justin:
Pushing this jet to its limits. This jet uses wing-tip vortex to divert thrust. This jet can almost stop in mid air without stalling.
Marcus:
Back Up My Blog. Does what it says on the tin. Free during beta testing. (via)
Marcus: I'd sign us up, but what would be the point? We've had hardly any catastrophic database corruptions in the past couple of years.
gareth: There is something awfully ironic about backing up a website designed to help people waste time
Marcus:
The Internet in 1996. (via)
Marcus: Amusing Something Awful-style commentary.
justin: "Unless your settings are exactly the same as the web designer's, you might as well go f*ck yourself."
Marcus:
Israeli/Lebanese Coffin Counter. (via)
Marcus: A visualisation of how many deaths have been caused so far. The proportion of Israeli to Lebanese coffins says it all, really.
gareth: Now that is disturbing
justin: Now all we need is a countdown timer before the next terrorist action by Hezbollah or Hamas that technicaly constitutes an act of war even though both nations aren't at war because of they were things would be a lot worse... ohhh - lets not get into this on linkbunnies.
tim: I think people should live together in peace without anyone telling them what to do. No-one has that right.
justin: I think if Hezbollah have something to say they should say it to Israel's face.
Marcus:
YouTube: online viral Lost game actor confronts Lost actors at convention. It's mental how Lost is blurring the lines between fiction and reality. (via)
Marcus: Wikipedia on "Rachel Blake".
Zanna:
UK's most convicted driver jailed Outside court his lawyer Rob Ross said: "Jamie is a likeable idiot"
Marcus: In addition to being a smackhead. And being a career car thief. Yup, that definitely fits my definition of "likeable idiot".
gareth: Likeable by drug dealers, yes
Marcus:
Democracy Player: "Stop squinting at tiny web video. Instead, download and watch all the best internet TV shows in one powerful application: any video RSS feed, video podcast, video blog, or BitTorrent file. Fullscreen, high resolution, 100% free and open source. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide."
Marcus: Link updated to reflect all available versions, not just the Mac download (thanks Gareth).
Gareth:
Ha, Corsair has a pirate language option on their RAM choosing guide
corsair: Ye have a barnacle-covered PC that be getting sluggish? Ye have a new PC and be looking for memory that makes it faster than a clipper with a full mast? Want to enhance yer gaming experience by boosting th' performance o' yer gaming rig?
gareth: For anyone not quite on the ball, corsair is a synonym of pirate.
25/07/06
Dave:
Street Wars is currently causing a hoohaa in London because people are getting wet.
justin: This really does look like the coolest thing ever - I wish I was living in London right now.
gareth: Around here, we have Dartwars (with nerf guns)
Marcus:
How Kevin Smith helped Jason Mewes kick his drug habit: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. (via > via)
Marcus: One for the View Askew fans.
Dave: This is excellent. I especially like...
"He's British. And Brits invented acting. So he won't put up with any of your 'Snootchie Bootchies' bullsh*t. He'll tear you up if you're not excellent, because he's Alan f*cking Rickman. "
Dave: Wow, that was a really interesting read.
Marcus:
As of tomorrow I'm going to be without access to the nurturing brain-pipe that is The Internet. So until I get broadband in my new flat (whenever the hell that will be), I'd like everybody to imagine that I'm still here, but kind of silently floating over the top of everything, smiling benevolently except for when somebody perpetrates a double post.
justin: Goodbye suck-ass - hopefully no more pussy posts about Mac RSS readers for a while.
Marcus: NetNewsWire is an excellent Mac RSS reader. It even syncs with NewsGator, so you can read feeds at work, return home, and not have to re-read the same posts Justin's made about obscure 3D rendering packages.
Zanna:
Miserable Gothic Poetry Generator
tim: that is one of the mose beautiful things I have ever seen. Well done zanna, good linkbunnying!
Gareth:
A kite in the shape of a cursor would make for some interesting photo opportunities
Dave: I like kites.
zanna: This is for you then Dave! The Virtual Kite Zoo
24/07/06
Justin:
Check dis - the Joby, a bendable replacement cmaera tripd that you can wrap around anything.
justin: Just as well they didn't call it The Jobby
gareth: You can stick jobby anywhere too
Dave:
Anyone want to buy my car?
gareth: The MOT got you huh? I'm not sure whether to be glad or worried that we don't have MOTs in Canada
Dave: Be worried. Although your license system is much better.
gareth: You're probably right, considering the rustbuckets about in Canada
Justin:
Charming video of 3 people modelling, texturing and using a Haptic device to model a dinosaur for a video game.
gareth: Nice link! I've box-modelled a couple cars in 3DS that way, but nothing fancy and organic
justin: Good my young apprentice. In actual fact, modelling organic shapes is easier these days due to subdivision modelling (I assume you were applying a mesh smooth to your box?)
gareth: Yeah, I'd used a mesh smooth. First car that I did (a 2005 BMW M3) ended up with some ridiculous number of vertices/polygons as I'd done a mesh smooth on individual parts (headlights, windows etc) before welding them together and again mesh smoothing that. I've now refined my technique though. Mesh smoothing does seem a bit cheating though - I really have respect for people who can get a detailed model with a low polygon count.
justin: Well, ideally a low poly model would be the perfect base for a smooth model - but it's subdivision modelling as a technique - not really cheating.
Zanna:
Noooo...... Myspace has died! What will I do with my spare time now?!
zanna: I have found a new hobby whilst myspace is broken... Squirrel Fishing
gareth: Agh, we can't look at a bunch of badly designed sites! Oh damn.
zanna: I'd disagree but I have made a complete mess of my myspace page now! People are welcome to point and laugh at it by request as Marcus frequently does.
Justin:
The sheer amount of video on You Tube recorded from both sides in the Iraq conflict is amazing - the content is amazing and harrowing such as this footage of American soldiers taking cover while under attack. This evening, just through surfingI have seen some terrible stuff - the aftermath of attacks, corpses, people actually being shot and blown up and fearing for their lives.
Justin:
This has been making me laugh Dave Chapelle stand up comedy Killing Them Softly parts one and two
Gareth:
Movieoke is like kareoke, but you reenact movie scenes. Much better than kareoke in my opinion.
justin: I could probably do the whole of Robocop on my own.
Robocop: Come quietly or there will be... trouble.
23/07/06
Gareth:
Ben Stiller directed this 30 minute pilot, about the smartest man on earth (Jack Black) who solves crimes along with a talking motorcycle (voiced by Owen Wilson). FOX never aired the 1999 show.
Laura: Ha ha I love Heat Vision and Jack - "I know EVERYTHING!" Okay, will stop being a geek right about.... now.
22/07/06
Gareth:
A bit dated, but Uwe Boll has given his critics a chance to box him. If only Rocky Marciano was a critic.
gareth: For anyone not familiar with the bastard's work, wikipedia has plenty of incriminating evidence. Christ, the guy should be charged with rape (of many a decent looking movie prospect)
gareth: Done and done.
Gareth:
Surreal picture of the day (courtesy of the Lebanon v Israel conflict)
justin: Never let a punk get away with murder gunshots gunshots all you heard-a
justin: Not to dissimilar to this
21/07/06
Gareth:
Horribly skewed article on whether tech toys make you happy. The problem is that they don't actually look at tech toys specifically - they compare the GDP of a country to it's happiness. GDP != tech toys.
gareth: All I know is that my iPod + Shure E3c headphones certainly do help me relax (thus happy)
Dave:
Nippaz With Attitude. Badass clothes for you little angels
zanna: Goth Clothes for kids!
zanna: Or perhaps even this link...
Zanna:
Worrying for those of us who spend far too much time on myspace.....
zanna: More than one million MySpace users could have been caught out by a banner advert that installs spyware via a Windows bug.
justin: Fools!
gareth: I'd say that's Darwinism for you
Dave:
I'm not really much of a fan on Studio Ghibli stuff, however I found this papercraft model from Howl's Moving Castle pretty impressive. If you are a naughty downloader, you can grab a torrent here.
Dave: Video here.
Dave: English instructions here.
Justin:
Doggie hotel opens -- 23 dollars a night, television optional
justin: Meanwhile, children are starving and wanting clean water.
Justin:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie trailer - hold onto your faces, this is gonna be excellent.
Dave: Yep I'm impressed by that. It's better than the last effort.
20/07/06
Justin:
Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric, Ali al-Sistani, has called for an end to sectarian "hatred and violence".
justin: At. f*cking. Last.
Justin:
Video of Lebanese rooftop with bombs exploding into the distance - from here you can surf and see some other crazy videos. I caution you not to bother reading some of the YouTube user's comments, because they are almost all idiotic.
justin: For balance, here is a video of some of the damage done in Israel - here
Zanna:
Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest. "Sharing the bed space with someone who is making noises and who you have to fight with for the duvet is not sensible" - Professor Neil Stanley, a sleep expert at the University of Surrey.
justin: I was just about to post this. I think it's more fuel for the fire that monogamous relationships favour women.
zanna: Hmmm....
Sexes' Reactions to Infidelity More Similar than Thought
justin: It seems as if you're confusing fidelity and monogamy.
gareth: I bet you say that to all the girls
Marcus:
The new European-specific Treo smartphone will only be available on Vodafone's 3G network in the UK. Suck.
Marcus: Windows Mobile rather than Palm OS too. Double suck.
gareth: Mobilinux FTW!
Marcus:
A Chinese military installation that appears to be a huge scale model of a mountain landscape.
Marcus: "The only sensible explanation we can come up with is that it's a training aid for pilots - possibly helicopter jockeys - designed to familiarise them with the landscape should military action ever be required."
Marcus:
The Tesla Roadster: an electric car that does 0-60 in three seconds.
Marcus: Apparently, it's more or less silent, although "it would be easy enough to pump MP3s of prerecorded engine roar into the car's Blaupunkt stereo".
Marcus:
The 12 Differences Between Super Mario Bros. 2 and Doki Doki Panic. (via)
Marcus: "When Mario 2 for the NES was released in the US, it looked and played differently than anyone had expected. It turned out that Mario 2 was not really a Mario title at all, but a game released in Japan as Doki Doki Panic."
Marcus: Also, a more detailed comparison.
justin: How old is this news?
Marcus:
FlexTime is an OS X "generic timed routine scheduling application". You can program multiple alarms, and have it run scripts at intervals. (via)
Marcus:
Kerblog is the weblog of a guy living in Beirut. (Via an e-mail from my friend Sam.)
Marcus: Sam: "He lives in the Eastern Suburbs of Beirut and is posting blogs and uploading his music onto a website. His music, is mostly recorded with him standing on his balcony, playing his trumpet as bombs are falling around his home."
Marcus: "He, his ex wife and his child are Lebanese but they have French passports and can be evacuated with the French nationals who are leaving. He has put his ex wife and his son down to be evacuated but he not only refuses to leave, but doesn't want to. He was born in 1975 and has lived his youth during war. He said you can stay in your country when it is 'good and flowery' and then flee when it gets hard, or you can stay and resist. He is resisting, 'the only way' he knows how. He writes, he illustrates, he plays music and he waits. He is not trying to lay blame and say whose fault it is, he 'doesn't give a care' whose fault it is, he 'just wants the crap to stop'."
Marcus: "I would urge anyone who has a few spare minutes to check out his site and maybe listen to his music."
Laura: And on a similar note, I was made aware of a young woman posting on LiveJournal from Beirut. Her LJ can be found here. It's well worth a read.
Laura: And I just noticed the link I posted got squished by the swear filter, as alas cedars*ed contains the worse 'ars*'. How very rude indeed.
Marcus:
"A Church of England school dropped John Lennon's song Imagine from a concert because it was not felt to be 'an appropriate song to perform publicly'".
Marcus: Because of the line, "imagine there's no heaven".
Marcus: Couldn't they just've changed it to "imagine there's no Devon"?
Justin:
I was trying to find some "it's so hot" jokes today, but all Icould come up with was this - the sh*ttest or most lazily put together collection of "jokes" ever.
justin: It's so hot that: "you no longer associate bridges (or rivers) with water" - WTF?
gareth: It makes sense that they're so terrible, considering who it's written by
Gareth:
CNN article on Dennis Hwang, the guy who does the Google holiday logos
justin: That first link is wrong, and Dennis Hwang looks like a girl.
gareth: Bah, fixed - had two http clauses?
Dave: That's been happening a lot lately
19/07/06
Justin:
Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1)
justin: Clint is a fool!
justin: Man, I am really into the word "fool" at the moment.
gareth: 
zanna: Mr T rocks my world, check this out!
justin: Yeah, Mr T has scorn for fools - but I'm talking scientists who aren't allowed to do experiments because of some short-sighted fools at the FDA, or an evil villan whois surrounded by fools.
Gareth:
Word Jump Day aims to put the Earth into a new orbit using the force of six hundred thousand people jumping all at once
gareth: Apparantly this would help the environment immensely (or so the crazy hippies say on their website)
Zanna:
A real life flea circus!
Picture a show where a man leaps 300ft into the air, drags the QE2 behind him, and is fired from a cannon. These bloodsuckers do all that and more
Marcus:
Seven Inventive Ways To Get To Sleep (thanks Michelle).
Marcus: In currently tropical England, I could really do with a Chillow.
Marcus: And there's even a coffin bed for Zanna.
zanna: You can get all kinds of coffin shaped stuff, sadly I don't have the bed yet but there is a Bag,
wallet, mirror, cigarette case... shall I go on?
Marcus:
Think Secret reckons Apple will announce an iTunes Movie Rentals store in a few weeks.
Marcus: Hopefully whatever craphouse DRM they put in to make the movies self-destruct will be quickly cracked.
Marcus: Also, some iPod rumours.
Marcus: And some more. Ooh, 3D graphics in iPods. Cool visualisations at last?
Justin:
4-Letter Bush in German Chancellor Rape Shock - here
justin: I think the blogger here comes from that school of thought that says "all men are potential rapists".
Marcus: It's a bit of a weird thing to do, though. Even meant in jest. Generally, not the sort of thing one global superpower leader would do to another who probably, all things considered, doesn't like him very much.
Marcus: Apparently, there's a video here (blocked at my workplace for some reason).
Marcus:
"An apartheid society existed in early Anglo-Saxon Britain, research suggests."
Marcus: PDF report that even has graphs somehow plotting the advantage you had if you were Anglo-Saxon - cor.
Marcus: If I'm reading this right, the indigenous population of Britain (or at least Wessex) were known as the "Welsh".
Marcus:
A solar-powered ferry is now in operation at a lake in Hyde Park, and the company responsible hopes to make a bigger one to run on the Thames.
Marcus: "When the ferry is idle, surplus electricity generated by the solar panels will be fed back into the [National Grid]."
zanna: Ahhh.... but is it a Solar Powered Robot?
Harness the energy from the Sun to power up seven models of real-world vehicles and devices.
Marcus:
You know what the world really needs? "A fake 'About This Mac' box imitating Leopard" app. No, really.
justin: I think the author is pussy whipped, or Mac whipped: "P.S: Oh and Apple, if i'm infringing on any of your rights, trademarks, or copyright (which i probably am), i'm very sorry. please just email me, and i'll take this down. though having Apple contact me would be pretty awesome..."
justin: How about this "Steve, if you and your faggoty ass b*tch Wozniak don't like this, come look me up and I will sh*t in you.
justin: 
Marcus:
Playing Pac-Man Against Real Crickets.
Marcus: "To make the game more intelligent, they had the animals react to vibrations... When the crickets should chase Pac-Man, the motors were switched furthest away from his location in the maze, so the crickets will flee in his direction."
Marcus: More here.
Marcus:
Top 10 "Inventalicious" Products. (via)
Marcus: Come on - ice cream locks?!
justin: And trendy plates - wow, that really took humanity forward by a few huge leaps.
Marcus:
25 Cinematic Cliches I Never Wanna See Again. (via)
Marcus: "21. That it's only after the detective has been suspended (and obligatorily forced to place his badge and gun on the lieutenant's desk) that he can properly crack the case."
Marcus: I'd have to say some of these cliches are cliches of cliches.
Marcus:
So today in Britain is set to be the hottest day in July since 1911. Look at this weather forecast. Look at it! Even at 8:30am the temperature must already be at least 22°C.
Marcus: "British temperatures this week have topped such holiday destinations as Athens, Bermuda, Rio de Janeiro and Rome."
justin: This is how hot it is:
zanna: How to tell if you have heatstroke.
Gareth:
Highways are crazy. I was also trying to find a good picture or two of Spaghetti junction but came up empty-handed
Laura: This is the spaghetti junction in Birmingham UK. Also, here's a list of other spaghetti junctions on Wikipedia
gareth: I didn't know such a thing as wikimapia existed - thanks!
18/07/06
Zanna:
Ok, Marcus posted my first link so this is partly to see if I can actually manage it by myself! Also, it's the church of lego!!!
Marcus: Zanna be new to these parts. She can sniff out good links like a bloodhound can sniff out, well, blood I guess.
gareth: Welcome!
zanna: See Justin? 'Welcome' is the appropriate response. 'Chick fight' is not!!
Zanna:
Why I never go outside: "lovers of the outdoors have been warned of a sharp rise in hospitalisations and deaths from wasp, bee and hornet stings."
Laura: See, that freaks me out, because I got stung by a massive wasp a couple of months ago, and my arm was tingly for days, and I had this enormous red itch lumpy patch for about 2 weeks. And I never react to insect stings or bites normally. Think I might just stay indoors the rest of the summer...
justin: CHICK FIGHT!
Dave:
HRH Princess Candice is the youngest and most gullible Royal, and the ward of Sir Marmite Luny-Binns. Her behavior is a constant trial to the staff of the Foreign Office, who are hard put to it to keep up with her.
Marcus:
Channel Four is going to film a mass masturbate-a-thon on 5th August?! WTF?!
Marcus: "Prizes will be on offer for those who clock up the most orgasms and those who can masturbate the longest."
Marcus: The server is down at the moment - maybe the admins are off practicing.
Justin: My record is six times in a day. Can any linkbunnies readers beat that? please write in and let us know. Maybe we can have a league for men and a league for women?
Marcus: I recall Viz doing something similar years ago. I believe they called it a "Milk Race".
gareth: I think it'd be better if we had a co-ed league
justin: Non Brits may like the top tips section.
Marcus:
The full transcript of the "accidentally transmitted" conversation between Bush and Blair at the G8.
Marcus:
Communication tips for the drunk. (via)
Marcus: Conversationally, "being very drunk is like having a case of anti-tank rockets in a target-rich environment and a crappy slingshot to launch them with."
Marcus:
Syndication news: I've created a new page to house the various forms of RSS feeds and the like that you can use to read linkbunnies. You can access it by clicking on the RSS feed button on the menu.
Marcus: At the moment it only contains the standard full-content RSS feed and Justin's new Google widget thing, but these will inevitably be joined by the standard over-abundance of button cack you see on all the groovy hip websites whose parties we never get invited to.
17/07/06
Dave:
Anyone who's ever been to Glastonbury will tell you one thing about booze. Drink PEAR CIDER. We were at The Lattitude Festival over the weekend and found that they have finally started selling Brother's Pear Cider in places other than the Jazz stage. It is a sad day to be an alcoholic.
Laura: I discovered pear cider in Estonia a few years ago, and it is the most gorgeous cider in the world. I would highly recommend it. I think you can also get pear and strawberry cider, though have never tried it.
justin: Funnily enough, I worked for a guy who owned a couple of food stalls by the Jazz stage - the Jamaican food stall and the Indian one - but the thing is all employees were allowed to ponce free food off each other - and as I was right next to the pear cider tent I was allowed infinite free pear cider - but the unfortunate thing was I hated it and it tasted like sh*t.
Marcus: Pear cider is actually known as perry, which I find amusing for some reason.
Marcus: And Lambrini is an example of "light perry".
Justin: We've got some Perry at my house - my old flatmate had tons of bottles he got free every time he ordered a Chinese. And then we used to have this mad old lady upstairs who demanded booze and pot and thought she was Jesus - so we tried to palm the Perry off on her but she refused it and handed us a list of alcohol she did like. Nutter. But the moral of this story is that minging and cider in Canada is non-alcaholic and we went to a cider factory when I was a kid in Ontario and it was apple country and it was really cool.
Aimie: They sell a pretty decent pear cider/perry in Ikea - I think the brand is Kopparbergs. I've also seen it sold in Wetherspoon's too.
Dave:
Go to Holland and vote for the Paedophile Political Party.
gareth: Hehehe, the PPP.
justin: Maybe they should have 'paedophilia cafes' where you can go and engage in small amounts of personal paedophilia?
jules: okay now, tell me about the kiddie bars?
vincent: What so you want to know?
jules: Well, paedophilia is legal there, right?
vincent: Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a hundred percent legal. I mean you can't walk into a restaurant, find a kid, and start puffin' away. You're only supposed to grope in your home or certain designated places.
jules: Those are paedophilia cafes?
vincent: Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy them, it's legal to own them and, if you're the proprietor of a paedophilia cafe, it's legal to sell them. It's legal to abduct them, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to take the kid from you. Prevention of paedophilia is a right that the cops in Amsterdam do not have.
gareth: That did it, man -- I'm f*ckin' goin', that's all there is to it.
gareth: Er, that last one was meant to be by jules (damn, now I look like a paedophile - this happens far too often)
Marcus: We're going to be on the front page of some Sun-led "SICK NONCE WEBSITE PAEDO SCUM" campaign, aren't we?
Dave: I actually find it abhorrent.
Tim: I haven't heard that word in ages, nice one
Justin:
Some nice tutorials from Swinbourne - for Photoshop, Flash, Maya etc. - I think they have some podcasts as well or "mp3s" as they used to be known.
Justin:
Bush expletive recorded on CCTV or Foul mouthed Bush in 4 letter word tirade! as The Sun might say.
Bush: "The irony is, what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t, and it's over."
Justin: Aww man, the linkbunnies swear filter has had to censor Bush. You know, we need to include the f-bomb to the list of bombs Bush doesn't mind dropping.
Justin: Down with Thatcher!
Justin: Man, not even the BBC censor this sh*t!
justin: Also, lets have a look at the body language of the G8 summit
Marcus:
CNN in America didn't bother reporting that 53 Lebanese civilians had been killed by the Israelis, but found time to mention the single Israeli civilian casualty. (via)
Marcus:
"Do you remember petrol? The 2012 Olympic hoax? Look back at the good old years 2005-2025 in Time Trumpet." (via)
Marcus: Clips from Armando Iannucci's new BBC comedy. RealPlayer required.
Marcus:
Kitten born with two faces that meow in unison. (via)
justin: Does this mean the Rapture is coming?
Justin:
A new feature that we may be adding soon (pending Marcus' blessing) means that you can add a linkbunnies feed gadget to your google personalised home page - clicking the following button will do just that for you - give it a try!
Justin: Hmm, it looks like there may be a syndication page as Marcus rightly wants to keep the main page of linkbunnies as light as possible, and not festooned with buttons.
Marcus: I'm sitting out in the sun on a laptop at the moment (it's a hard life) so fiddling with web design is a tad difficult. But I'll get it done at some point soon.
Justin: See everyone, Marcus doesn't love you!
Marcus:
"340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 new web addresses created by internet chiefs... so we won't run out of space soon, then." (via)
Marcus: They're talking about IPv6, the new IP address protocol, not web domains.
Marcus:
World Firefox Day: "Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you'll both be immortalised in Firefox 2". (via)
Marcus: Your name will be