31/08/06
Laura:
Looks like More4 are about to invoke the wrath of the US government by showing a fictional assasination of Bush. Due to be aired in the UK around October.
Laura:
50 of the worst band names ever.
chris: For the worst band *photos* ever, look no further than Your Band Sucks. When somebody gets me that Theremin for christmas, can I join a band? I've got the compulsory goatee and everything...
chris: Actually, looking down the list there are several bands I have CDs of. And if he's getting in such a tizzy about weird punctuation and the use of apostrophes, I'm surprised he didn't have a go at godspeed you! black emperor at the same time. They rock, by the way.
Laura:
"Goatonapole is the philosophy of being that holds that there is a Goat and a Pole and that the Goat is on the Pole.". Got it? Good.
Laura:
Bush and Blair want to take YOU to the Gay Bar.
zanna: I saw this at Christmas time, I laughed so hard I cried! I was just a tad drunk at the time...
Chris:
As a complete and utter Theremin nerd (if anyone wants to know what to get me for Christmas, I'd like a Moog Etherwave, please) I couldn't let this rockin' rendition of Star Trek vs. The Simpsons pass unnoticed. Hoorah!
Marcus:
Note to all the people searching for "anthea turner t-shirt folding": I have no idea what the f*ck this entails, but please leave us alone.
Marcus: We have no "anthea turner t-shirt folding" here.
Marcus: Although that doesn't stop us being fifth on Google for anybody who wants to check out Anthea Turner folding a T-shirt.
Marcus: Is it some kind of weird fetish thing?
gareth: So would that be a fetish for folding Anthea Turner's t-shirts? Or folding any t-shirt like Anthea Turner? Can I make a reference to vore in this paragraph? These questions need answers.
justin: I called Anthea Turner a "a fatuous chocolate-bar sucking parasite" - I rock. I have a feeling these search terms you are talking about are in fact two terms truncated into one. There is a popular t-shirt folding site (the jap woman who does it in one microsecond) and Anthea Turner has nothing to do with that.
Marcus: Not quite - she was in some kind of "how to be a housewife" TV programme, and apparently gave tips on how to fold T-shirts. See post #4 on this page.
zanna: Here are Anthea's Top Tips One of my favourites is Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness
Marcus:
YouTube: George Washington had all kinds of awesome powers. (thx Aaron)
gareth: I'll bet his source of power was his hat.
Justin:
Images from the 2005 Paris airshow - lots of military aircraft, especially some new UAVs like this stealthy thing, this chopper, the UK's new baby and take a look at this morphing 'MAS' UAV.
justin: More on the MAS
Justin:
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to remake classic British war film The Dam Busters - Link to BBC article - Link to real 617 Dambusters squadron.
justin: 
justin: Any readers who want to answer the question "doesn't he look thin?" feel free to contact me at our linkbunnies address.
Marcus: I've just had to give up trying to field the deluge of mail that comment caused.
zanna: He looks a little like Charles Manson now don't you think?
Marcus:
YouTube: a short (7 second) covertly-filmed clip of Ironhide, Ratchet Bumblebee and Jazz in vehicle mode driving round a corner in LA for the new Tranformers movie.
Marcus: One for extreme Transformer fanboys only - like me (and Justin).
Chris:
Why would anyone want to take a forty year old TV series and take all the original special effects out of it to replace them with shiny new computer graphics? Because it's Star Trek, that's why. Now everyone who bought the original series on DVD will have to buy it again on HD-DVD, bwahahahaaaa! Er, or they might just not bother...
justin: I dunno - I wouldn't mind seeing TOS again, some new effects would be great. As long as they don't try so sanitise the scene where Kirk shoots 'first' and destroys an entire alien race because they were "freaks".
justin: Funnily enough, in the same vein a guy is already remaking an episode of the Doomsday project as hobby piece. Give it a go.
Marcus:
Websiiite: a webpage that, much like this glorious venture capitalist's wet-dream, is fully marinated in Web 2.0. Look forward to the stock market flotation. (Thx Frank.)
Marcus:
YouTube: the entire first series of Look Around You, a spoof on British 1970s schools' science programmes. Each episode is about ten minutes long, and guaranteed Big Funny. (via)
Marcus: If you haven't seen Look Around You yet, now really is the time. I'm particularly pleased because although I own it on DVD, the "friend" who borrowed it over a year ago still has it. Git.
Marcus: See the Look Around You website for more goodies.
Marcus:
"The United States received hundreds of millions in foreign aid last year, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. But what happened to the money? One year later, the fate of international disaster assistance has turned into a tale of inept bureaucracy, diplomatic bungling, and unspent cash." (via)
Dave:
Happy Diana's dead day
Marcus: Shh - you have to wait ten years before you can call it "Diana's Dead Day".
Marcus: That's when the "She Was Our Princess Of Hearts" contract runs out.
Marcus: Until then, Nation Mourns Tragic Loss, etc.
Marcus:
Times: "Thousands of wheelie bins have been secretly fitted with bugs as the Government comes under increasing pressure to charge households for collecting non-recyclable waste."
Marcus: "The penny-sized electronic chips could be used to fine homeowners who exceed any weight restrictions imposed on rubbish."
Marcus: There's also a graphic of where the bugs are located, just in case you should accidentally pull it off by mistake.
chris: The bin men where I live have another way of disrupting this scheme called "giving you someone else's bin." Which kind of makes any valid measuring technique completely pointless, really.
zanna: We don't have bins where I live.
Marcus:
Charlie Brooker: "Romance, ultimately, is bullsh*t.
Marcus: Looks like Mr Brooker has just had a really unhappy love affair.
Gareth:
A Chumby is an interesting device - it seems to be a device that is designed to be modular as all sorts of different electronic 'widgets', such as an alarm clock, mp3 player, RSS feed reader (with a fancy LCD screen) etc.
30/08/06
Marcus:
One man's struggle to bring an old BBC sitcom he liked to DVD. Quite inspiring if there's an old show that you can't get hold of for love nor money.
Marcus: You can buy the result - the first series of Joking Apart - at his online shop.
Marcus:
Site news: In a feature that I'm firmly describing as being at the "experimental alpha" stage, you can now click a "tags" button on each post to reveal its category tags. You can then click the tags to find other associated posts.
Marcus: I say "experimental alpha" because at the moment clicking the tags takes you to the default Movable Type tag list screen. Also, the Javascript almost certainly needs some work. Search should now be pretty robust. Although I dare say the Javascript is still crap.
Marcus: For now there will only be tags for newer (from the past fortnight or so) posts, and even then not always. Because, er, sometimes we forget.
Marcus: If the tags come up as a list, try hitting reload a few times. Safari took four presses to get it right.
Dave:
Tom Cruise is nuts.
Marcus: Still.
gareth: That comment about the testicles still makes me laugh.
Justin:
Thinking of turning into a vegetarian? I am - check this site.
zanna: I've actually just started eating meat again after years of being a veggie. That site hasn't convinced me to change my mind!
Marcus: Previously on the "lesser meat-eating omnivore" side of the vegan/carnivore sliding scale, those guys have actually made me want to eat more meat than ever before.
Dave: I hate vegetarians. They piss me off with all their high and mighty hoighty toighty crap. Great, you don't eat meat, well done, here's your meat-matyr medal.
"I think I'll cook a meal tonight, let's ask over Beryl and Roger."
"You do know that Beryl is vegetarian?"
"Great, I'll just go ahead and change all my plans and make extra special compensasion for her, even though she probably scoffs down a kebab on the way home from The Crown on a Friday night."
"I think I'll cook a meal tonight, let's ask over Beryl and Roger."
"You do know that Beryl is vegetarian?"
"Great, I'll just go ahead and change all my plans and make extra special compensasion for her, even though she probably scoffs down a kebab on the way home from The Crown on a Friday night."
Marcus: Sorry Dave, still not clear there. Vegetarians: love/hate?
justin: You hate people who choose not to engage in the industrialised wholesale slaughter of living beings because they (justifiably) are right not to do so, and also because it slightly inconveniences you. If you also chose to become a vegetarian both of those issues wouldn't be a problem and you could also feel good in knowing that a thing capable of experiencing emotion hasn't been herded into a small room and murdered for your pleasure.
gareth: I like vegetarians, I just can't seem to eat a whole one though.
justin: Man, I'm not even a vegetarian and I've become a sanctimonious c*nt about it. Dave is right!
Marcus: We're all just phallocratic animal murderers aren't we?
Justin:
An Islamic revival in Syria is being spearheaded by women. - It seems as if the Syrian govt. is trying to keep Islamic power in check but is less able to persecute women who seemed to have formed a Bene Gesserit-esque power group partially devoted to Koranic study and partially devoted to manipulating the families of powerful men. Via
Marcus:
flickr launched a GeoTagging feature the other day - it allows you to fix any photo to a position on a global map, effectively meaning you can say "I took this photo here".
Marcus: Unfortunately, as 2lmc point out, unless you live in the US it sucks to the point of being useless.
Marcus: 
Marcus: This is what Bristol (population: half a million, the UK's ninth biggest city) looks like in maximum zoom if you're trying to attach your photos to the place they were taken.
Marcus: Handy!
justin: See the 'L' in Bristol? the train tracks that cross that main road - "the arches" on Gloucester Road where I live - a trendy little, erm, road. You may recall the Giant Gundam Robot I made last year - that was on Gloucester Road. Isn't that lovely?
gareth: I remember seeing that on CGtalk (the gundam thing, that is)
Marcus:
I've made the NY Times article that was blocked to UK readers available to anybody who wants to read it. Uncensored: Details Emerge In British Terror Case.
Marcus: Of course, you still shouldn't read it if you're from the UK, because that would be naughty.
Marcus:
NY Times: Details Emerge in British Terror Case.
Marcus: Readers in the UK will note that they can't actually read this article - because the New York Times has specifically and deliberately used IP-blocking technology because it's concerned with UK laws on prejudicing a trial.
Marcus: Guardian: UK readers blocked from NY Times terror article.
Zanna:
A small Canadian university has sparked controversy with its recruitment drive by using posters and a website mocking US President George W Bush.
Dubbed "Yale Shmale," the $100,000 crusade features a goofy image of Bush 'Yale University, Class of 1968' on posters that will be plastered across Toronto in a bid to attract potential new students
Justin:
LOST: If you've been following Linkbunnies or Lost you'll be aware of a few sites/viral pages related to the Hanso foundation. These contain videos that are normally burried deep within a page and require lots of work to access. Luckily someone has collated them all for your viewing pleasure.
Laura: Okay, I think my internet at work is going crazy, as when I clicked the link an email popped up. I shall blame Marcus and his supposedly fancy new linkbunnies design for all my internet woes.
Marcus: Justin pressed the wrong button. Fixed.
justin: No, it was Marcus' fault.
Gareth:
Three seamless monitors in one to make a combined resolution of 4800 x 1200 pixels spanning across a total horizontal distance of 50 inches. I've got to have it.
justin: Way to have a decent rollover graphic of your monitors Radius, ass-clowns.
Marcus:
How to get "free sh*t from Focus on the Family". (via)
Marcus: "Focus on the Family - the powerful evangelical Christian para-church based in Colorado Springs - will give you, absolutely free of charge, books, CDs, and DVDs. Usually people pay for these products."
Marcus: This Christmas my friends and relatives will be surprised and delighted by their gifts of the 19-CD "The Chronicles of Narnia Radio Theatre Complete Set" and "stop pretending to be homosexual" book "You Don't Have To Be Gay".
justin: I just sent off for it - and for some books to help me convince Marcus that his constant advances towards me are wrong.
justin: I couldn't find one called "Stop Trying to Nonce Me Up"
Marcus:
Just a note of mourning, really: I can't believe how utterly rubbish Screenhead has become since Gawker Media fired the awesome Dong Resin and sold the domain off for, apparently, 5p.
Marcus: It used to be full of cool stuff and funny stuff I could rip off and post here; now it's full of cack.
gareth: I have to agree with you. Stupidest layout I've ever seen - they kept the crazy eye thing but don't really have any proper content in the least
29/08/06
Justin:
Oxfam are now doing music downloads where 10p out of every pound goes to charity - also sign up to win £99 worth of credit at the Oxfam shop. Do it before I give you £99 worth of credit at Fist-fam.
Justin:
You Tube: Princess Leia sings in the Star Wars Holiday Special - this stinks.
gareth: This actually makes me feel a little bit nauseous
Justin:
Guys - ever get emails from girls saying they like you and want to shag you, but they possibly want to sell you herbal Viagra? well - if you're like me and you have real female friends (which you don't), the reality is not much better - they just send you links like this Agent Provocateur sale and their measurements. Cheeky cows. Anyway - if you want to get the smart Christmas present in, do it now.
justin: Erm, the upshot of that is that there is a sale on lingerie and that link is probably NSFW.
Justin:
Episode IV: What Has Changed? - On September 12, the original theatrical version of Star Wars will be available on DVD, bundled as a bonus disc to the 2004 Special Edition of the movie, which will be available for the first time ever as an individual movie DVD.
To better prepare yourself as the ultimate authority of the changes, starwars.com presents this shot-by-shot guide to the visual differences between the 1977 film and the 2004 DVD. This guide does not address any changes to audio mixes, but it does a pretty thorough sweep of the visual updates. Sure, you know about rontos and Han shooting first, but did you notice the compositing improvements on the pyrotechnic shots and the desert sky replacements over the Dune Sea? Test your knowledge and sharp eyes by starting the tour here.
You can also look here to compare the 1997 remake with the 2004 remake.
To better prepare yourself as the ultimate authority of the changes, starwars.com presents this shot-by-shot guide to the visual differences between the 1977 film and the 2004 DVD. This guide does not address any changes to audio mixes, but it does a pretty thorough sweep of the visual updates. Sure, you know about rontos and Han shooting first, but did you notice the compositing improvements on the pyrotechnic shots and the desert sky replacements over the Dune Sea? Test your knowledge and sharp eyes by starting the tour here.
You can also look here to compare the 1997 remake with the 2004 remake.
justin: Wiki link to list of changes in the Star Wars movies.
Gareth:
Bigfoot's Killer NIC is interesting - according to this review by hardocp, it completely bypasses the Windows tcp/ip stack and does all the processing on an embedded version of Linux with a 400 MHz processor and 64 MB of memory.
justin: Without reading this link I have no bloody idea what the hell a Killer NIC is. See to it that I am informed with the minimum effort on my part.
tim: I'm dribbling in a corner.... someone get me a nappy....
gareth: It's a NIC (network interface controller) that is designed for gaming (as well as any other high-throughput application, such as torrents) in that it has really impressive packet prioritizing and basically a dedicated computer so that no processor time is taken up by network activity.
Marcus:
linkbunnies now has an exciting new look. We're Web 2.0, baby.
Marcus: You might need to hit reload on your browser a couple of times to see the slightly messed around glorious new design.
Marcus: Also, we're now carrying a couple of sponsored links. You might call that "selling out" - but then again you're not the one carting around a gigantic wheelbarrow of cash.
Marcus: It's all a question of perspective.
justin: Wow, our logo now takes up more vertical space by having a reflection. Amazing. Excellent - I can't wait to see what web 3.0 has in store - drop shadows? automatic bevels? every rollover button being nothing than an animated goatse image?
Marcus: I did think about the Goatse idea - perhaps incorporating it into the zero of "Web 2.0".
tim: have those rabbits eyes got 2.0 times more freaky?
Zanna:
Remember the JonBenet Ramsey murder case? I said I thought the guy who confessed was just another crazy person. Seems I was right....
justin: Are you going to keep saying that about every person they arrest until they arrest you?
zanna: Yes.
Laura: We could just save everyone a whole load of hassle and hand Zanna over to the authorities now...
Tim:
not that I'm calling our esteemed web master marcus a brand hog but this article sounded like his kind of thing, and is it me or have you got that model of phone in the picture mate?
Marcus: "I am going to burn every branded thing in my possession."
Marcus: Great idea - as opposed to, say, giving them to charity, or anything else less self-righteously "symbolic". What a tit.
Marcus: The phone is a Treo 650. I have one. They rock.
justin: Wow, so this c*nt has spent his entire life thinking about branded junk, spent all his money and now he's had an epiphany - one w*nk later and bosh - he's writing about it on the internet. tw*t.
zanna: I have this mobile. There's a review of it on the website which calls it a black star. That makes me happy.
Justin:
Philips have developed fabrics that contain flexible LEDs which can be used to display information.
zanna: Here are some T shirts with flashing LEDs on.
28/08/06
Gareth:
Green Peace on electronics manufacturers: "This Green Electronics Guide ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers."
Gareth:
Holy crap, St. Petersburg cathedral was on fire. Did I miss the BBC report on this?
gareth: Google has plenty of results, so I'd say chances are it's not a hoax. However, I still can't seen to find a BBC report of it.
gareth: Durz, I'm dumb. I blame it on the fact that it's nearly 1 AM. Anyways, BBC does have a really good photo journal thing of it.
Gareth:
"How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)? I decided the Home Depot on 23rd Street in Manhattan was the perfect place to try this"
27/08/06
Marcus:
YouTube: Women - Know Your Limits.
Marcus: YouTube: L is for Labour, L is for Lice.
Marcus: Classic Harry Enfield 1930s-style public information film lampoonery.
gareth: "Over education leads to ugliness, premature aging and beard growth." Yes, yes it does.
Justin:
Another glimpse at what the new Transformers movie is going to look like. The image sof Megatron et al look nothing like the carttoons, comics and toys - the only thing we can hope for is that these strange designs are the pre-Earth Cybertron incarnations of the Transformers.
Gareth:
I love karma: Idiot showing off and "ghost riding" gets his car stolen
gareth: I want to shoot these sorts of idiots in the face.
justin: I'll second that. I think it's dim anyway - would they dance around luck f*cking idiots if the car was stationairy? No. So why do it if the car is moving along at 3 mph?
gareth: That's idiot yobs for you, really
25/08/06
Justin:
Shock! the Firefox team have been invited to visit Microsoft at Redmond!
gareth: Well, they're not exactly on unfriendly terms. Microsoft even adopted the Firefox RSS feed icon as a standard by using it in IE7.
Marcus:
Don't go to the airport wearing a T-shirt that has Arabic script on it. (via)
Marcus: "'You can't wear a T-shirt with Arabic script and come to an airport. It is like wearing a T-shirt that reads 'I am a robber' and going to a bank.'"
justin: Tip of the day - terrorists probably wont be wearing t-shirts that say "I am a terrorist".
justin: Although to be fair, I think the security people were maybe a little bit thick - if they had said "the slogan 'we will not be silent' in Arabic on an aircraft is slightly provocative."
tim: anyone remember my t shirt in arabic? it says 'whose your bagdaddy'. although my mate got it in bagdad so that makes it alright. and the translation is on the back. I suppose it could say 'kill this infidel and his family' but no. probably not. never...
justin: I just wonder to what extent "baghdad" and "daddy" are similar in arabic, and how likely the phrase "bagdaddy" would make any sense in arabic at all. Now if you could get a t-shirt that said "fellow hijacker" - that would be cool.
Dave:
Oh dear, people aren't too happy about Pluto's demotion.
Marcus: Much as they weren't yesterday.
Dave: You're typing, but all I can see is "gurh as gubb esdfg't owdvgdpsy."
justin: Maybe that's why you have no idea whether you're double-posting or not?
chris: Well, at least it gives me an opportunity to link to this little tirade. Dude has a point.
Dave:
Not sure if this has been posted before and I can't be ars*d to check the search. If you haven't already subscribed to the Adam and Joe podcast, you really should it's funny.
Justin:
A controversial new BBC film about the black community in Britain has been described both as "a landmark piece" and "the most racist programme in the BBC's history." - Shoot the Messenger - is being protested by a UK based group Ligali who believe it to be racist. - Here is a link to the Guardian who think it's very racist.
Dave:
Ben Thatcher's horror tackle on Pedro Mendes. Look at him run! There is no way he was ever going to touch the ball! He got booked by the ref so the rules say the FA can't take any further action, but they are thinking about "tearing up the rulebook for this one".
Justin:
Impeach the President - Michael Moore's cut and paste template for applying to impeach Bush.
Dave: I hate Micheal Moore. He's like Captain Planet, he's on the right side, but he's just a bit of a dick.
Dave:
Human Tantrum Nicolas Anelka has joined Bolton Wanderers on a 4 year deal. If he's there for 4 years I'll eat one of my balls
Gareth:
The Logitech MX Revolution doesn't really look like a revolution to me. I mean, it's just adding a second scroll wheel - big deal. Although maybe you could say it's a revolution in terms of going around in circles? Then again, I haven't had the chance to use one yet so I can't really be a real judge.
justin: There is only one revolution as far as I'm concerned - Prince and the Revolution
Dave: That's definately worth $100. Definately. No really. Definately.
24/08/06
Dave:
Mix album dot com. Just saw this on Dragons Den. It's a download service that mixes your dance tracks for you.
Marcus: I was about to link this myself. I think the Antipodean investor guy had the right idea in licensing the technology though - going head to head with iTunes as a startup is retarded.
Marcus: I also see the launch is timed to coincide with the broadcast of the programme too - although they dropped the ball making it 10pm instead of the programme's finish, 9pm.
Marcus: More on Dragons' Den.
Dave: The site looks pretty professional. Not being much of a dance music fan myself, I can't really comment on whether or not it's any good. But f*ckit, that's what this site is about! We link to stuff, we don't tell you what to f*cking think!
justin: Sorry readers - yes we do - ignore Dave for now. Just to reiterate: We do tell you what to think.
Justin:
Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. - wow, and the wikipedia page on Pluto has already been updated!
Dave: God dammit. I get gazumped on these BBC news stories EVERY TIME!
Dave: It's only a matter of time until Google or Ebay buy it.
gareth: Pluto is just a dog to me now.
justin: It looks like some people aren't happy about Pluto being classified as a b*tch planet
Marcus:
Blogging for big bucks. (via)
Marcus: "Boing Boing, a four-person operation that bills itself as a directory of wonderful things, is on track to gross an estimated $1 million in ad revenue this year.
Marcus: Pssst! Advertisers! Over here!
Marcus: 
Marcus: Ooooh... Look at the shiny logo... That's right... Your wallets... I need your wallets... Good... Good...
gareth: Speak of the devil!
Laura: You wh*re. but in a good way, of course.
Marcus:
Spreeder: copy and paste text in to have it played back one word at a time for "speed reading" purposes. (via)
Marcus:
"Apple has settled its legal dispute with Creative to the tune of $100 million. What's more, Creative will begin making iPod accessories later this year".
Marcus: And what about these in-no-way-crass SafariPod iPod stands? Carved from hardwood by genuine dirt-poor Kenyan craftsman, no less!
Marcus:
YouTube: Heil Honey I'm Home parts one and two.
Marcus: Mentioned a few links ago and regarded as the Most Tasteless Sitcom Ever.
Marcus: Mainly because of the whole central concept of Hitler and Eva Braun living next to a Jewish couple, filmed in a 1950s American sitcom fashion.
Marcus: Here's the Wikipedia article on Heil Honey I'm Home again, just to give some background.
Marcus:
Costco's Scallywag Sloop Pirate-Themed Club House. (via)
Marcus: A snip at $18,500.
zanna: I want it. It's probably about the same size as my flat and it looks much cooler.
Marcus:
"Users of Microsoft Messenger will be able to report suspected sexual predators directly to the police at the click of a mouse." (via)
Marcus: Some good discussion in the Slashdot comments about how much this concept is open to abuse.
Marcus: Like, "This will be heavily abused by kids just messing with each other. Yeah, no one would ever click this button as a joke on their friend."
Marcus: And my favourite, "Can't wait for the first messenger worm to start reporting everyone on your buddies list as sexual predators."
Marcus: Oh, and heads up to the Guardian journo who wrote the piece - MSN Messenger is an instant messenging service, not an "e-mail service". Like, duh.
justin: And the fact that the Messenger screenshot they have is from a Mac! and we all know Mac users are the biggest bunch of nonces there are.
23/08/06
Marcus:
The Top 10 Worst British TV Shows Of All Time. (via)
Marcus: "The fact that Heil Honey I'm Home, an ill-judged sitcom that pitched Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun moving in next door to a Jewish couple, failed to make the top 10 should serve warning of the horrors that lurk within..."
Marcus: But was Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends really that bad? There must be at least 2,148 worse kids' TV shows.
zanna: I like Thomas the Tank Engine. It came 26th in The top 100 Greatest Kids TV shows so I don't think I'm the only one.
Marcus:
Long Awkward Pose: "People look foolish when posing for a picture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo... then secretly videotape them the whole time." (via)
Marcus: It's what cameraphones were made for.
Marcus:
flickr photoset of 50s and 60s pinup girls with Vespas. (via)
Marcus: And some black and white British photos of old scooters in action.
Marcus:
Charley "Long Way Round" Boorman's Race To Dakar is a documentary chronicling his participation in the Lisbon-Dakar race on a customised BMW off-road bike.
Marcus: Showing as part of the Adventure Film Festival at Vue cinemas around the UK in September. And also set to be a Sky One TV series in October.
Marcus: Also showing will be a cinematic version of Long Way Round. I'm assuming they're cutting down the runtime of the original TV series, otherwise that's going to be up to seven and a half hours of numb-ass motorbike awesomeness.
Marcus: Venues and dates.
Chris:
Hurley action figure, anyone?
chris: Mind you, the one of John Locke is pretty damn amazing...
gareth: Wow, those are pretty damn amazing.
Marcus:
Something Awful recently did a Weekend Web feature on the AOL search logs fiasco of a few weeks ago, when AOL unwittingly released 2 gigs of anonymous (but often funny/disturbing) search data. Part 1 and Part 2.
Marcus: And create your own fun with the AOL Log Search.
Zanna:
The Onion is pretty funny isn't it? I haven't really been on there much before. This story has made me giggle.
Marcus:
Video for Weird Al's Don't Download This Song. (via)
Marcus: "We regret that Yahoo! Music videos are not currently supported for Macintosh."
Marcus:
The seven warning signs of bogus science. (via)
Marcus: "#1 The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media."
Marcus: Aw - does this mean that Irish perpetual motion generator is nothing more than a big lie?
Marcus:
In a rare piece of environmental good news, "the hole in the ozone layer appears to have stopped widening."
Marcus: "It is hoped the hole may 'heal' fully over the next 60 years."
Zanna:
Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have confirmed.
zanna: Farmer Lloyd Green, from Glastonbury, said: "I spend a lot of time with my ones and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl.
22/08/06
Marcus:
PDF of Charlie Kaufman's script for A Scanner Darkly, which he wrote back in 1997.
Marcus: Although Kaufman's script never got past the draft stage and Richard Linklater took over the project, it's interesting how many similarities there are between this script and Linklater's film.
Marcus:
Music: Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song". (via)
Marcus: "You don't wanna mess with the RIAA/They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R/It doesn't matter if you're a grandma/Or a seven year old girl/They'll treat you like the evil hard-bitten scum that you are."
Marcus: Direct MP3 download (chuckle).
Marcus:
YouTube: The Vader Sessions.
Marcus: This has been doing the rounds for a while, but I only just saw it.
Marcus: It's Star Wars, redubbed with James Earl Jones dialogue from other movies and so turning Darth Vader into a jive-talking nonsensical nutter.
Marcus: And it's funny as hell.
justin: Double post ass-clown. I even mentioned the Billy Joel music - and I could prove it if the search function worked. Maybe if you stopped experimenting with pink colours on your Mac and did some real work we wouldn't be in this predicament.
Marcus: I linked it better.
Marcus:
"'Activists' have decided to boycott hashish originating from Lebanon, in order to avoid indirect sponsorship of Hizbullah, who are believed to be involved in smuggling the drug over the Israeli border." (via)
Marcus: "Israelis are infamous for being rubbish at alcohol consumption, but what we forgo in booze we more than compensate for with the spliffy side of things. It is almost unthinkable for Israelis to come home after a hard day's work and pour themselves a glass of wine, but among secular Israelis from the ages of 20 to 45, rolling a joint under such circumstances is not generally frowned on."
Marcus:
Marcus: You know how sometimes you start mucking about with Photoshop, and then you create something that makes you stare at your hands like you just murdered somebody?
gareth: OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
zanna: What is that?!
Marcus: It's linkbunnies, Web 2.0. I'm going to e-mail the logo to a bunch of venture capital firms and get a few million to float this baby.
Dave: You're a bad, bad man.
Zanna:
The Hoff is on myspace...
Marcus: And what's best is that his friends include the late Compo from Last of the Summer Wine. This is the real deal folks - no fake Hoff page. No sirree.
Zanna:
Swedish state broadcaster SVT has admitted a "huge blunder" after a porn film was accidentally shown in the background of a news bulletin.
Chris:
Crikey. It looks like dark matter really exists. This is quite a discovery because the only way it's been detected is because of the gravity it exerts - it doesn't interact with light or normal matter, you can't poke it with a stick, and nobody knows what it's made of. If you're a physicist, you're living very in interesting times...
Laura: My cousin is a particle physicist at Durham Uni, I bet he's very VERY excited.
zanna: Some people call it 'missing mass' 'cause it looks like something's missing, but we call it 'dark matter' because we think there's just lots of dark stuff Story from NASA, it made me giggle.
Marcus: I call it "invisible goblin juice".
Zanna:
Ferocious ants bite like a bullet. Just because I know how much Justin loves creepy crawlies!
justin: 
justin: If they are anything liek the real Trapjaw, they can be easily defeated. But Zanna is correct - I hate ants - for example, if you've been out sittin on the grass atlunch time, and you come back in, and like an hour later you find an ant crawling off your arm - WTF?
Marcus:
"Send a free personalised talking Snakes On A Plane message in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson to someone you know."
Marcus: Although SoaP didn't have a very good opening weekend.
Marcus: And by posting this link I am in fact perpetuating the exact same "gosh! Snakes on a Plane! What larks! I must participate in the whirlwind of trendy viral promotional behaviour surrounding this film and tell all my internet friends about it in order to make New Line Cinema lots of lovely money to buy coke and wh*res with!" that causes me to hate myself and kick small defenceless furry creatures down the stairs in an attempt to somehow channel my self-hatred into the only thing smaller and weaker than I am.
Marcus: I've sunk so low I'll be enthuasiastically participating in a f*cking zombie flash mob in the f*cking Apple Store any day now.
gareth: Zombies are awesome.
zanna: Zombies are indeed awesome. Most things that start with Z are awesome...
21/08/06
Marcus:
YouTube: The War Between Tesco and Denmark.
Marcus: Amusing Time Trumpet pisstake with rather good CG. I love the flat-pack self-unfolding Tesco store "bombs".
Marcus: And staying with YouTube and the general Charlie Brooker theme for today: lots of Charlie Brooker videos, including whole episodes of his biting media show Screenwipe.
zanna: Funny as the Tesco Denmark thing is I don't think you needed to make me watch it twice last night!!
Marcus: Yes. Yes I did. And it was only a bit of it. To see the detail of the Tesco signs on the tripod things.
Marcus:
Charlie Brooker on Sandi Thom: "Sandi Thom is the musical antichrist".
Marcus: After Dave handily found the online version of the columns, I've subscribed to the RSS feed and now have dozens of Brooker spleen-venting articles to bask in.
Marcus: On "Angels" by Robbie Williams: "It almost makes you feel somet