30/09/06
Zanna:
A charity run solely by goths. Serving humanity from the underground up," "Turning darkness into light," and "Opening closed minds
Gareth:
Neuros OSD: (one of?) the first open source media appliances. I want one.
chris: And at the other end of the spectrum: why the entertainment industry wants to be able to decide whether or not you deserve access to their product. As Cory Doctorow says, can you imagine a publisher trying to stop you reading a book you bought in America once you got it home to the UK? Well if you thought region coding on DVDs was bad, wait til you get a load of what's planned for us complacent little consumers next...
gareth: These guys must be real control freaks in their relationships.
29/09/06
Zanna:
Now you too can dance like a white guy! I hope this isn't another double post... the search still isn't working!
Marcus:
"SpeedIt is a OS X Kernel extension and Preference Panel. SpeedIt offers real-time CPU frequency control, throttling, monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of CPU performance levels on Intel Core Duo models."
Marcus:
10 Most Haunting Movie Moments. I had nightmares featuring the ending of the original Japanese "Ringu" (aka The Ring).
Marcus:
Duck Vader: a rubber duck crossed with Darth Vader.
Marcus: This wins the award for "most awesomingly amusing/disturbing bathtime toy of the year".
Marcus: 
Duck Vader: "When I left you I was but a duckling, now I am the mallard."
Marcus:
NewsBiscuit: "MyQaeda, the popular Islamic Fundamentalist social network, has in the space of just a few years grown from being home to a few cranks and disaffected preachers, to becoming the largest website of its kind in the world."
Zanna:
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? Can you tell a coder from a cannibal?
zanna: I scored 6/10
gareth: You also scored a... dundunDUN. Although the search function seems a bit broken - often tells me to wait until I'm done searching. Perhaps this has something to do with the overly large database that linkbunnies is producing?
gareth: Christ I screwed that comment up. Note to self, learn how to format hrefs.
zanna: Oh dear.... Justin is going to say things to me now isn't he?
Marcus: The search engine seems to be on the fritz. Possibly this is because MT can only handle one query at a time, and other people are using the search engine - or possibly yes, it's something to do with the treacle-slow database.
28/09/06
Marcus:
MSN Messenger for Mac 6.0 has been released, finally bringing it up to speed with the Windows version with all those lovely custom emoticons, personal status messages, and, er, stuff.
Marcus: I'd love to comment more, but all MSN 6.0 currently does when I run it is sit there spinning the "signing in" message for a long time before bursting into tears and crashing.
Marcus: [Much fiddling about ensues]
Marcus: Actually it's not too bad. A lot like MSN Messenger for Windows ought to be - all the good features (display my currently displaying song!), minus the horrendous adverts (none whatsoever on MSN for Mac, probably because only about five Mac owners use MSN) and those bloody awful Flash-screen-superimpose things that crash your computer.
Marcus: Inescapably large amounts of Windows Live branding all over the shop, though.
Marcus: 
Marcus: Oh yeah, and you can apparently chat to Yahoo! Messenger users.
justin: "those bloody awful Flash-screen-superimpose things that crash your computer" - what, your new Mac or your old PC? either way if your computer cant play a Flash file without crashing, then it's fair to say it's screwed,
gareth: Maybe it's just me, but I hate that extra crap such as emoticons - plain text is much more readable and far less annoying.
Marcus: Justin - I'm talking about PCs. Remember when we used to amuse ourselves by repeat-sending those Flash animation things to each other to see whose MSN would crash first? The Mac MSN doesn't have those. Woohoo.
justin: I think that period lasted about 10 minutes - but my PC never crashed. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with an obviously faulty PC system; perhaps that is why you have taken to Macs? My PC is basically Paul Burrell to my Princess Diana.
Marcus: My PC didn't crash - as said above, MSN crashed. It was notoriously unstable in the early releases that included the Flash rubbish.
Marcus: As to reliability - OS X keeps on trucking with zero faults to date, unlike XP, which I had to regularly reinstall to remove glitches and a tendency to slow down over time. That's a problem with all PCs, due to the way XP is written.
Marcus:
Is your child socially and emotionally retarded? Send them to internet school.
Marcus: "There are four teachers who teach up to eight hours a week and can work from home or anywhere with access to a computer."
Marcus: Speaking as somebody who teaches a minimum of 21 hours per week, that sounds like a piece of piss. More time to write semi-literate burblings on linkbunnies! Dossing around on Fridays!
Marcus: I'd just have to make sure I didn't accidentally send the class links to George Bush buttplugs, or post essay questions on linkbunnies.
Marcus: Sadly, the comprehensively appalling design of First College's website and their use of the awful tautology "FAQ Info" prevents me from applying.
Marcus:
A big congratulations to Justin, who just successfully obtained his full motorbike licence!
Marcus: (If he hadn't passed his test, this message would of course be instructing society to ostracise him.)
justin: Thank you Marcus. Here is a photo of me arriving back at the test centre, after turbo-boosting over all the other bikers.
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27/09/06
Marcus:
George Bush buttplug, the "Bush Plug". Needless to say, probably NSFW. (via)
Marcus: "This President will really f*ck you up the butt. You're already familiar with the sensation, so why not REALLY FEEL IT with our exclusive Presidential Pooper Plug. Invade an Iraqi, an Afghani, or at even an Iranian when you want."
Marcus:
Sharp has developed an LCD screen that can display three different screens at once, depending on the angle of view.
Marcus:
iTunes Store is carrying a free 44-minute "catchup" on Battlestar Galactica to prepare the uninitiated (or the Alzheimers-ridden) for season three, due to air 6th October in the US. Oh boy! (via)
Marcus: Quite possibly US-only though, natch.
gareth: Pah, with the internet nothing is US-only!
Gareth: Have you been watching the webisodes? They're crap, so don't worry if you've missed them.
Marcus:
BBC News: "European judges are being asked to rule in a case that could limit the use of speed cameras in the UK."
Marcus: I became anti-speed camera pretty much the moment I passed my motorbike test. Not necessarily because I like to speed, more because they really do cause people to brake in a rapid and worrying way if they see, or sometimes just think they see, a speed camera ahead.
Justin:
A to Z list of video interviews from BBC Newsnight - mostly with baddass Jeremy Paxman.
justin: I found this because I was looking at his interview with Ann Coulter and I'm sorry to say he doesn't trounce her like I expected - mainly because she is a hysterical psycho who cannot see how mental she is. I'd still shag her though.
Marcus:
Greenpeace's Apple-spoofing "green" site. (via)
Marcus: "in a recent Greenpeace scorecard, Apple ranked lower than HP, Dell, Nokia, and Sony. For an industry innovator, Apple is falling off the cart while the leaders of the industry are speeding ahead."
26/09/06
Justin:
f*ck Cum Poet's Journal - severely sexual poetry... very much in the vein of the title.
Marcus: If you haven't guessed, this is utterly NSFW.
justin: Yeah sorry - mind you, my criteria for NSFW is images or sound; but I understand some places tolerate people reading over your shoulder. Of course, if that happened to me I'd grab that person and smash their face into the monitor - even going as far as dragging them to the storage room and smashing their face into a CRT monitor just to be sure.
Marcus:
YouTube: Fox News reporter tormented by guy who keeps trying to push money down her blouse. (via)
Marcus:
BBC News: "Up to a million cluster bomblets discharged by Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah remain unexploded in southern Lebanon, the UN has said."
Marcus: "Information Israel had provided to help with the bomblets' clearance had been 'useless'".
Marcus: "Those which do not explode on impact become like anti-personnel mines."
Marcus:
Guardian: "The last words of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982 are faithfully recorded on the state justice department's website." (via)
Marcus: Not easy reading.
gareth: Wow, that was really depressing.
Dave:
I'm the Juggernaut b*tch!
dave: It was late. I have no excuse.
gareth: It's funny, I'd say it's worth a double post.
25/09/06
Marcus:
Charlie Brooker gives "the fat-ars*d, berk-pleasing rubbishness of Banksy" a damn good kicking.
Marcus: Tell it like it is, preacherman Brooker! The idiots, yeah!
Marcus: Oh sh*t, the creator of Nathan Barley (original TV Go Home snippets [NSFW] and TV series) has just labelled me and pretty much everybody I know as Nathan Barley.
Marcus:
Jedi Concentrate: Windows app which mimics the "concentrate" effect of Exposé on the Mac. (via)
Dave:
My friend Ned demanded you all see this.
justin: "the same group also ate an aborted reindeer foetus"
Marcus:
Reprogram an ATM to make it think $20 bills are $5 bills for $$$profit$$$. The default ATM config password's in the manual, apparently.
Marcus:
People who sign up to help internet human-assisted search engine ChaCha can now get paid instantly into a special debit card. Providing you're American, by the looks of things.
Marcus: Yahoo! is also paying people who submit videos to its video news network.
Marcus:
Every episode from every season of The Simpsons, in marvellous streaming Illegal-O-Vision. (via)
Dave:
This weekend I saw Children of Men and felt like I had to tell you all just how good it is. Here is a review (that Beck found) of it. Personally I actually think 4/5 is harsh. It quite simply is one of the best films I have ever seen. Here's a link to the trailers, but again, I don't think they do the film justice. Go to the cinema to see it. It's worth it. If you don't like it email me and I'll refund your money (or tell you to f*ck off for being so wrong).
Laura: I want to go and see it, but the other half read a crap review of it and has been put off. Grrr and arg. May have to do the geeky thing of going to the cinema alone. How very tragic.
Marcus: Drew Davies of Londonist wrote in to agree with Dave: "An amazing film... The plot reminded me of an old penny dreadful I picked up from a charity shop once called 'The Death of Grass' - a similar apocalyptic vision of London but one in which there is no food."
Gareth:
"A fee of 25,500 euros ($32,000) is way too much for a woman to charge a man for fondling her bosom, a Finnish district court ruled."
Gareth:
This gallery of photos from Burning Man was really interesting for me. I especially liked the faces one.
24/09/06
Gareth:
This photographer, in an attempt to deter losing baggage (containing expensive camera bits) packs a starter pistol in order to declare it as a firearm.
Marcus:
Porn actress demonstrates her weed brownie recipe in the nude. (via)
Marcus: Consumately NSFW (and NSF home too if naked women and animated sex GIFs make your face melt).
gareth: Having it in all caps and using far too many exclamation marks confirms that either she, or a twelve year old boy, wrote it.
23/09/06
Gareth:
Starting October 11th, the prices you pay for weapons in Counter-Strike: Source will be updated every Monday based on the volume of purchases over the previous week.
Marcus:
How to Speed Up Publishing in Movable Type.
Marcus: Also: How to speed up Movable Type rebuilds.
Marcus: Posted mainly as a reminder to myself because linkbunnies posting is becoming reaaaallly slooooow for reasons I don't quite understand.
Marcus:
Apple is trying to pretend it owns the term "podcast". Only, er, it doesn't. (via)
justin: Isn't apple a lovable friendly huggable company?
Marcus:
This Life is returning to TV as a one-off special. I never watched the original series, but this will probably make quite a few people happy. (via)
22/09/06
Dave:
Ok I haven't decided on my opinion on this yet, but this is Jonathan King filming a video blog (in a toilet and in a horrific shirt).
Dave: Ok I've decided. It's f*cking awful.
Laura: I can't watch it without being freaked out by the way his lips curl. Bleugh.
justn: Comments have to be approved - hence my "when are we going to see Gary Glitter's blog?" comment will never be seen.
Justin:
You Tube: dirty sanchez spunk challenge
justin: Pancho wakes up with dildos strapped to his hands.
justin: Pancho's finger stapled to a a shelf
justin: They drag a sleeping Pancho out of his tent with a car
justin: etc. the long and short of it is that Dirty Sanchez crew wipe the floor with Jackass for sheer insanity. Just keep searching You Tube and see what comes up.
justin: Tortured by Russians
Dave: That first one nearly made me sick. These guys are proper idiots. Still makes me laugh though.
Justin:
Mr Citymen - great 3d art project detaling the lives of modern Mr Men - this is my favorite thing ever since your mum and me started getting closer.
21/09/06
Marcus:
At a fantastic NFT event this evening marking the start of their new British public information film season, I got to meet the one and only Darth Green Cross Code himself, David Prowse!
Marcus: 
Marcus: You can tell by the maniacal crazy expression I was quite pleased about this.
Marcus: (Also, I'm a fantastic advertisment for the wonders of British orthodentistry. Four teeth pulled and years of agonising braces for... that?)
gareth: Wow, lucky guy. Does he sound as scary in real life?
Dave: Nicely done big man. You met the creator of Linkbunnies.
Justin:
Stephen Wiltshire: Prodigious Drawing Ability and Visual Memory - Steven Wiltshire has autism though he is one of the most accomplished artists in the UK - known as a savant. From a single helicopter ride when he was 12 he drew a completely accurate panorama of London. Wisconsin Medical Journal. You Tube video of him in action.
Marcus:
Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis. (via)
20/09/06
Zanna:
Awesome. A drunken Chinese tourist says he bit a panda who attacked him after he jumped into a zoo enclosure to "hug" the bear.
'No one ever said they would bite people. I just wanted to touch it' said Zhang Xinyan
Chris:
Jet powered car plus top gear presenter = very bad idea. Hope he's soon on the way to recovery...
chris: Apparently he was driving this, which is twenty years old.
Dave: We all wish him a speedy recovery.
Marcus: Are you just trying to get in on the first "jetcar accident" gags with that pun?
justin: That car does pretty much look like a giant jet engine strapped to a very flimsy car. I dread to think what could have happened to 'The Hamster'.
justin: A spokesman for the hospital said Mr Hammond was "stable".
Dave: Oh sh*t. I really didn't mean it like that. I'm glad he's getting better today though.
Dave: Oh sh*t. I really didn't mean it like that. I'm glad he's getting better today though.
Marcus:
YouTube: 10 f*cking Years Of The Daily Show: Even Stevphen. (via)
Marcus: Featuring two of the funniest Steves on TV: Colbert and Carell.
Marcus: And strangely reminiscent of an average conversation between myself and Justin.
Dave:
Live from the Altanta Grape Festival OMG that's funny.
justin: "uh uh uh uh" - she sounds someone being defeated in the original Streetfighter 2 game.
Zanna:
A recent study claims that going to work can actually make us happy. Strange. I always find taking days off work makes me happier!
Dave:
Shields Up! Is a brilliant website that checks the security of your pc and can tell you whether or not specific ports are open and vunerable. It's really handy for sorting Torrent / Firewall problems. Should you ever need to do that.
19/09/06
Dave:
I am currently watching "Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive" it's only about half way through and it is fascinating. I urge everyone to to download (via Torrent / BBC whatever) or to catch a repeat. It's really interesting.
zanna: Being a miserable goth I feel I have nothing left to learn about depression... I'm kidding. I actually like bbc documentaries and feel they are underated. Especially when people are b*tching about paying for their televison license.
dave: It's really fascinating. I like Stephen Fry a lot (not just because he supports Norwich City) and his approach to this whole subject makes for a really good documentary. I am also pleased to say that there is more next week, it comes thoroughly recommended.
Gareth:
Here are some ports of common GNU tools to Windows. This is part of why open source is so awesome - now you can use grep just about anywhere.
gareth: All you have to do is unzip the archive to a directory of your choice, then add the dir to the Windows PATH variable. Alternatively, you could just unzip it to C:\Windows\System32 if you're not worried about organization.
Marcus:
Howstuffworks: How Digg Works. (via)
Marcus: Interesting article that covers pretty much everything you could want to know about the Slashdot-slaying collaberative tech news site.
Marcus:
Nearly forgot to mention: Happy f*cking Talk Like A f*cking Pirate Day. Let's all go and have a flashmob about it.
Dave: Arrrrrrr
justin: Avast! me hearties. I don't be knowin' about any pirates saying "f*cking" all the time - it seems Marcus be confusing pirates and the workin' classes - arrrrr
zanna: An easy mistake to make.
tim: easy in bristol- EVErYONE talks like a pirate here. arrrr
Dave:
I swear, a mate and I had this idea a few years back when we were doing a pub quiz. Damn my lazy hide.
Marcus:
Moo: create 100 different business cards using your flickr photos and have them delivered to your door for $20. Pro users get ten free. I like free stuff, hence the link. (via)
Dave:
You can now print your own stamps. We truly are in the future.
zanna: You can also order stamps with your own designs on them. Which is pretty cool.
zanna: You can also order stamps with your own designs on them. Which is pretty cool.
Dave:
Microsoft's YouTube rival...
Marcus: I assume the guy prancing around in the butterfly suit is attempting to communicate the true horror of Soapbox via the medium of expressive dance.
justin: Wow, I know people have been complaining about this for a while - but I just hit the wall myself; I'm sick and tired of Microsoft copying every other idea out here and using their market dominance as leverage.
Dave: Yawn at the Microsoft bashing.
Marcus: I call it like I see it: for instance, unlike the rest of the internet, I expressed optimism about the Zune.
Marcus: CNet: Microsoft Soapbox is no threat to YouTube, yet.
justin: "Yawn at the Microsoft bashing" - don't mack me off. I've never really done it before - this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Dave:
Why is the Sunday morning repeat of Match of the Day on so early?
Marcus: Real anwer: because the BBC knows what's good for it and will do whatever I tell it to do.
Gareth:
A 'keyboard' of sorts where aall the keys are freely moved would be awesome, no?
Marcus: So each individual key communicates wirelessly with the keyboard? Crazy future-y stuff.
zanna: You can't roll it up and put it in your pocket though can you?!
Justin:
I was using our marevellous Random Link button and I stumbled upon a post by Tim about his dad's delightfully magnificent obsession, painting all the bridges over the Thames - but then I hit upon this picture - of the Thames Barrier.
My dad (with his charmingly bellowing North american voice) told me "it's all a bunch of liberal commie crap, the goddamned thing isn't large enough to withstand the goddamned flood that inspired the damn thing in the first f*cking place" (or something like that). I invite you to notice how Tim's dad has also included that message, in a somewhat more subtle way. Can you see the evil skull face the left of the image? spooky.
My dad (with his charmingly bellowing North american voice) told me "it's all a bunch of liberal commie crap, the goddamned thing isn't large enough to withstand the goddamned flood that inspired the damn thing in the first f*cking place" (or something like that). I invite you to notice how Tim's dad has also included that message, in a somewhat more subtle way. Can you see the evil skull face the left of the image? spooky.
Marcus: Have you tried syncing it up to Dark Side of the Moon and playing it backwards? It's, like, mind-blowing.
tim: yeah he said that technically you caould put all the barriers up and clamber across without getting your feet wet so it could count as a bridge. We don't talk about the skull...
Justin:
Video news story on the Nintendo Wii - Santa: I want one.
gareth: I have to admit, the price is amazing. I don't even have to say "I'll wait until it's been out a couple years for the price to come down" but it's not even necessary. Christ, I sound like one of those "real" commercials.
18/09/06
Justin:
Wow - some Chinese geezer had a penis transplant from another man - it worked, but then he had emotional trauma and had it cut off again. There are to many jokes to make here, so if anyone has any good ones please send them in.
Marcus:
A Nintendo-sponsored video games exhibition is coming to London's Science Museum in October. £8.50 to get in, but features the chance to play all kinds of cool retro arcade games and check out original artwork. (BBC News article).
Marcus:
"A new reality TV show plans to trick Muslim extremists into thinking they are taking part in a suicide bombing, and then secretly filming them as they explore what they imagine is the afterlife."
Marcus: NewsBiscuit isn't quite the British Onion yet, but it's making strides in the right direction.
Justin:
The Chinese govt. make me laugh - this BBC new story about a German art student who disguised himself as a Terracotta warrior
As Mr Wendel's "performance art" did not harm any of the ancient relics, he was not arrested or charged but given "serious criticism", the reports said.So heavily criticsed like "look at all the great work Bansky is doing? you aren't really saying anything new - your use of colour is stilted" etc.
Dave:
Japanese Spiderman.
Dave: Stan Lee's comments.
justin: Interestingly, his comments aren't "they completely destroyed Spider-Man for no reason, and I let it happen."
Justin:
Five comedians who've lost it.
Dave: Hmm, I think that article could be named "We w*nk over SNL and hate the fact that some people went on to be successful without it."
dAVE: Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with it entirely, but a mere passing mention of Shrek when they have a go at Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers is not good enough. The Shrek films are funny. Anyone who doesn't think so is dead inside. I also happen to think that Robin Williams was rather good in Insomnia and One Hour Photo.
Dave: Although the prospect of Mrs. Doubtfire 2 terrifies me.
Marcus: I fully agree with everything the article says, with the exception of Jim Carey, who I think generally still "has it". I expected to see Ben Stiller on the list too.
Marcus: And let's face it - Eddie Murphy's aggregate output is horrendous dross these days. A couple of voice roles in a CG cartoon doesn't rectify that.
justin: I think that article neglected to mention the real cause of the problem is that all of those comedians have matured and the fire has gone out of their belly. Nothing wrong with that - people get older and their perspective changes.
Marcus:
Anousheh Ansari is set to be has become the first female space tourist. As well as contrbuting the $10 million that became the Ansari X-Prize won last year by SpaceShipOne, she is also planning to be the first person to blog in space.
Marcus: flickr photos too! Although they all seem to be screengrabs from NASA's video stream of the launch.
Marcus: Interview with Ansari at Space.com.
Marcus: Interestingly, the BBC seems to have automated the "sucessful launch" context of the story - at least, it's not been updated since Friday yet contains the current news of a successful launch today. The lazy sods.
Marcus: 
Zanna:
Two mothers who delivered fast food to school children in defiance of a healthy eating crackdown are to have showdown talks with the headteacher
They began doing so after pupils were given a new healthy menu and banned from visiting local takeaways.
justin: Bloody hell: But Mrs Critchlow, who has two children at the school, said the real issue was about giving youngsters a choice. - I think Jamie Oliver said it best on his show he he pointed out that schoolkids will also jam pencils up eachother's noses if you let them. I very much believe that children are in the process of beign educated to become intelligent adults - but they are not there yet and should not therefore be given much choice in the matter - especially if the choices they make will affect them as adults later.
Gareth:
Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes.
gareth: And the countermeasure
Marcus:
Sweet! Henry "The Fonz" Winkle has replaced David Hasselhoff as Captain Hook in the Peter Pan pantomime playing at Wimbledon Theatre this Christmas.
Marcus: And a quick check of the pantomime's homepage reveals that Bobby Davro is also cast. I would be willing to pay pretty much anything to experience the surreal thrill of Bobby Davro and The Fonz in the same place at the same time.
Marcus: Although tickets are currently "not on sale".
zanna: When tickets are on sale can we have some kind of linkbunnies outing? I feel I should mention that Bobby Davro got a tattoo by my tattooist the day before I got my last one done.
Gareth:
The Last Measure Operating System "is a minimalist operating system targetting multimedia presentations", which is their way of saying it's only reason to exist is to show stuff like the infamous goatse (link to the wikipedia article, not the actual image), and play "HEY EVERYBODY, I’M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO" as loud as possible.
Gareth:
Reader Richard sent in some funny TV show flash parodies: Prison Break, Star Trek: TNG, and Lost. Best viewed at about 3 AM, as they are a bit silly.
17/09/06
Marcus:
An extensive collection of copyright-lapsed movies, documentaries, educational films, TV shows, cartoons, music, comedy, and probably other stuff. All free to view with no chance of the copyright cops having a tantrum. (via)
tim: shee-it those superman cartoons are actually pretty good
Marcus:
Subliminal spam.
Marcus: "The messages contain an animated graphic that shows a message recommending a certain stock for 17 seconds. Then it suddenly runs through three frames in 90 milliseconds that each show the words 'buy! buy! buy!'."
Marcus: Watching it in action is amusing. Spammers no got brain smarts.
Marcus:
Scientists have come up with a possible method for creating artificial gills for humans by looking at aquatic insects.
Marcus: Although you'd need a gill surface area of around 970 feet to make it sustainable for a human, and folding it up presents certain problems.
Marcus:
Engadget: "Embedded RFID to smack-down DVD piracy".
Marcus: "The chipped DVDs will then be examined by your home DVD player to make sure you're not trying to do anything fun like playing the movie in an incorrect geographical region, or running a copied disc."
Marcus: f*ckers.
gareth: Eh, just another thing to be hacked and bypassed.
Marcus:
Breathing Earth: real-time Flash visualisation of all the countries on Earth highlighting carbon emissions, births and deaths. (via)
Marcus: I've only been on it about five minutes and already 1800 people have been born, 750 have died and 312,000 tonnes of carbonne dioxide has been released into the atmosphere.
Marcus:
The future of drinks bottles: "flavour buttons" you press to mix flavours into your drink. (via)
Marcus:
A levitating Buddha powered by solar energy.
Marcus: The live video webcam is pretty cool. When I checked it (1:30am GMT) there were what appeared to be fireflies zipping about in front of the camera leaving light trails.
16/09/06
Marcus:
How to download MP3s from MySpace. (via)
gareth: Because there are vast archives of remotely good music on MySpace.
Marcus:
A bunch of really cool paper sculptures standing on the same sheets of paper they were cut from.
Gareth:
A complete directory of Web 2.0 sites/companies.
Marcus: Looks really cool - but, er, there doesn't seem to be a way of scrolling down through the window to see more than whatever is on the current screen?!
Marcus: Aha. You have to click on the last row of icons to advance a row up. That's an awesomely poor design decision.
Marcus: Also, they missed out linkbunnies. Didn't they see the logo?!
Marcus:
Zune sounds a lot like a euphemism used by French-Canadians when referring to the penis or vagina. Whoops!
Marcus: "All of Quebec has been giggling for the last couple of days at the thought of Mr. Gates swearing that there was an 80 per cent chance that he'd whip out his little zoune before the holiday season..."
15/09/06
Marcus:
blufr: decide if trivia statements are true or false, and discover in the process interesting facts like Nicole Richie in fact being adopted by Lionel Richie. (via)
Marcus: Tends to get a lot of SQL connection errors at the moment though.
Marcus:
The Nintendo Wii is set to hit Europe on 8th December, priced in the UK at a very reasonable £180.