31/05/07
Justin:
You saw it here first folks! FAINTING GOATS! hilarious!
gareth: Reader Christopher points out that he did see it here, last November.
justin: Reader Christopher better keep his mouth shut.
Marcus: Justin - go to the corner and think about what you've done.
justin: You're DEAD Christopher.
Chris:
Continuing the Star Wars theme, Boing Boing are raving about pdfs that let you build an AT-AT out of paper. Very, very fiddly, but rather cool...
30/05/07
Marcus:
A collection of amusing vehicle accident photos and stories. No sign of any fatalities so laugh. (Thanks to reader Tara!)
justin: Ho ho!
Dave: I love things like this. this is my all time favourite (the 2nd one)
Justin:
Microsoft have bought up a novel technology has been been bouncing around Surface - aside from the slow access speeds I suggest you take a look because it's how you will be using computers soon.
Marcus: Seems an awful lot like the BumpTop desktop. Wonder if this is a case of accidental parallel research or whatever it's called when two groups come up with the same idea within a short space of time?
Marcus: polyGeek.com has some other interesting examples of "prior art" too.
Marcus: Remember that cool touchscreen multitouch demo from a while back?
Zanna:
I may have to start watching 'deal or no deal' especially if there are more moments like this.
Marcus: Oooh. Uncomfortable.
justin: It seems to be an all female house - and they have all pretty much annonced that they cannot cook or clean (yay gurlpower!) - so lets see how long they take to degrade into scavenging, slovenly power groups.
Zanna:
Oh good. Big Brother 8. The nation breathes a sigh of relief as the wait for hours of footage of sleeping people, arguements between uneducated chavs when they run out of cigarettes and several pointless spin off shows is finally over.
dave: I love Big Brother.
Marcus: I was once addicted to it in much the same way that people get addicted to intravenously injecting household cleaning chemicals that they know will inevitably destroy their internal organs and higher brain functions.
Marcus: I detoxed starting from a couple of years ago and have hated it for the squalid money-making moron-fest it is ever since.
zanna: I'm pretty sure I'm addicted to household cleaning chemicals.
Marcus:
BengalBoy is some kind of alternative Engadget that has the singular charm of using lots of slightly out-of-focus shots of pornstar-type women with guns holding gadgets. No actual reviews to speak of, just women. And guns. And gadgets. Possibly NSFW. (via)
Dave:
tw*t.
Marcus: I dunno, I think eating corgi might have a certain charm. Especially if it pisses off Prince Philip. If he's the sort to listen to obscure London radio stations.
Dave:
I'm sure we've all seen most of these before, but it never ceases to make me laugh!
Marcus: The original lolcats website is dead, so thank God for this alternative home. Thank God.
29/05/07
Marcus:
Cheap (legal) CD online retailer CD-Wow will have to pay £41 million to the British f*ckwits Phonographic Society (the UK's RIAA). Because they sold cheap CDs. The bastards!
Justin:
A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.
Justin:
Trailer for new Star Wars: Clone Wars TV show - it's CG
chris: Doesn't look bad at all - mind you, I loved Genndy Tartakovsky's original series. And it's a whole lot better looking than the fan art Tales of the New Republic trailer that's been kicking around for a while...
25/05/07
Marcus:
40-something BBC journo experiments with Bebo and Twitter in an effort to be hip.
Marcus: Contains the classic line "I now have a tiny Bebo network consisting of me and the founders."
24/05/07
Gareth:
Today is Talk Like Bob Dylan Day.
Marcus: How does it feel?
Marcus: In these enlightened "talk like X" days, I propose a mash-up between Talk Like Bob Dylan Day and Talk Like A Pirate Day. ie, Talk Like Pirate Bob Dylan Day.
Marcus: Yarrr, like a rolling stone me hearties.
Zanna:
Objectophilia is pretty weird.
justin: I think those weirdos should have an affair with my foot in their ars*.
Dave-ody: Gotta respect Bill Rifka. Not only is his significant other an iBook, it's a gay iBook. That says so much...
Zanna:
Top 8 Craziest Cults.
Dave-ody: It's a shame that Scientology didn't make the top 8. I don't want to say too much in case they track me down and park outside my house.
Marcus: And make you do a Free Personality Test.
23/05/07
Chris:
The hot air balloon season has obviously started here in Bristol. These guys just scared the crap out of me by drifting past the window. Those things look *big* when they're hanging over your neighbour's house!
zanna: You know, somethings are big. Somethings are close up.
chris: Ahh, I'm hugely confused, Ted.
Marcus:
Not sure how long this has been around, but I just noticed the BBC is running an "Also in the News" section underneath Entertainment, featuring all the wacky stories that tend to be linked to by timewasting web floozies like the linkbunnies.
Marcus: Oh good, they only added it today and I'm not going mental.
Marcus: BBC Editor's blog post on the new section.
Marcus: "Does it mean we're dumbing down?" - er, yes, it kind of does.
Marcus: Still, it'll make linking to whole swathes of offbeat BBC news articles easier, and that's something we can all appreciate. Am I right? Right guys? Yeah!
tim: and make it easier to post links to! yay!
Marcus: Oh Tim. Dear, dear Tim.
Marcus:
Guardian article on the ease of sourcing exotic cooking ingredients off the internet. Patagonian purple garlic, anyone? Lots of links to food websites within.
22/05/07
Chris:
By the way, today marks the centenary of Georges Remi - better known as Tintin's creator Hergé.
Marcus:
Apple are selling laptops (both Macbooks and Macbook Pros) that have dodgy 6-bit displays instead of the advertised 8-bit displays. The result is thousands, rather than millions, of simultaneous colours on screen. And people are pissed. Especially as, true to form, Apple are denying the problem.
dave: Apple are evil.
21/05/07
Justin:
Anyone looking for a decent commuter/first bike? Then you could do worse than this.
justin: I'm selling it because I now possess one of these.
Marcus: Why sir, is that the fabled Suzuki GS500K2? And the asking price starts at a mere £1,000? Have you taken leave of your senses sir? Surely you must feel unwell?
Marcus: (My dear assembled canny shoppers - my advice is to take advantage of this gentleman's mental incapacitation and bid on this bargainous motorised vehicle with great haste lest he regain his senses.)
Marcus: I'm wasted in this century. I should've been a 1920s snake oil market shill.
justin: Except this GS isn't snake oil - it's a very capable first bike/commuter that is lots of fun and will never break.
Zanna:
Britain's first remote control police aircraft, dubbed the "spy drone", took to the skies today.
Marcus:
Webolodeon is a Firefox Greasemonkey script with the aim of limiting your web browsing to five minutes or so. It then pops up a window demanding to know why you're still surfing and won't go away until you give it a reason. (via)
Dave:
I think I have posted this before, but it's so funny and the music is ace! Pug Bowling!
Dave: I know what it is Marcus. I was purely commenting on it's excellence. Thanks though.
Zanna:
Happy Birthday to Mr T, he's 55 today.
Marcus:
Drinking tea doesn't actually dehydrate you and actually has greater health benefits than water. (Er, according to a study funded by the Tea Council).
Justin:
A massive fire has ripped through the Clipper Ship, the Cutty Sark, one of South London's most memorable and beautiful landmarks in Greenwich. BBC
Marcus:
Ewan McGregor and Charly Boorman have embarked on The Long Way Down, a motorcycle tour of lots of dangerous African countries. Er, well done lads.
Marcus: Love that second photo down - I'm surprised the lovably* racist Daily Mail didn't caption it "Savages with bazookas love to take potshots at passing motorcyclists - just look at this happy fellow".
Marcus: *not really.
justin: That's a bong he's just pulled.
Marcus:
Paintball tanks. Paintball tanks. PAINTBALL TANKS! In England of all places. It's not like we are even all that warlike. Ahem.
20/05/07
19/05/07
Gareth:
Software Wars: "A map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of Microsoft." No doubt most people have seen it in a couple different iterations, although I had no idea it was a ongoing project.
18/05/07
Zanna:
Doctor offers vaginal shot to enlarge G-spot. I'm off to Calafornia...
justin: How can you enlarge something that doesn't exist?
Marcus: You're confusing the G-spot with the clitoris, dummy.
17/05/07
Justin:
Someone made a school play out of The Secret on Monkey Island. Here is part III where we see the famous swordfight between Threepwood and he Swordmaster. Basically, it's not as terrible as it could have been.
Dave:
Remember Rednex? Cotton Eye Joe? Well you can now OWN them.
Marcus: For the love of God no. Who's next on eBay? 2 Unlimited? The Crazy Frog?
16/05/07
Gareth:
Weird Converter is like a currency converter, but for completely unrelated items.
gareth: Just in case you were wondering how many flaccid penises would be equivalent to the length of a T-rex (125.9842400000)
Gareth:
Tania Derveaux: "I am the leading NEE party senate candidate in Belgium. And due to popular demand, I will give 40,000 blowjobs to anyone who requests one on this page."
gareth: It's a fairly original platform, atleast.
gareth: The logistics of it are a bit baffling.
Dave: I'd vote for that.
justin: Or would you?
15/05/07
Zanna:
BBC: "Lloyds TSB has become the first bank to win a court case after being sued by a customer for imposing supposedly unfair overdraft penalty charges." Oh dear.
justin: Woah - lucky my bank just offered me £500. I'm not sure this is the first ruling by a judge though.
Marcus: It is - before the banks have simply failed to enter a defence, meaning the bank customer wins by default but no precedent is set on the legality.
Marcus: The bank actually bothering to enter a defence to fight the case means a precedent has been set. And not in favour of the little guy either. Surprise!
Marcus: (NB I'm not a lawyer - except when I parade around as Ally McBeal on alternate Thursdays - but I'm pretty sure my legal logic is sound here.)
justin: I guess you are correct that this is the first time a bank has entered a defence - but that does not mean it sets a precedent. County court cant do that - it has to be the high court I believe.
Additionally, I do remember that some young lawyer was ready to go to war over this - basically the crux of it is he needs to get the banks to disclose the actual cost of writing or "handling" the overdraft. However, until a ruling is made on that I think this case is very fishy.
Additionally, I do remember that some young lawyer was ready to go to war over this - basically the crux of it is he needs to get the banks to disclose the actual cost of writing or "handling" the overdraft. However, until a ruling is made on that I think this case is very fishy.
14/05/07
Zanna:
A new breed of messaging is hitting BlackBerry handsets, via a smarty-pants service that converts voicemails you receive into easy-to-browse emails.
Zanna:
Lexus have made a car that parks itself.
Marcus: In August 2006, mind you. In mitigation, I don't think we linked to this originally.
Marcus: The New York Times had a grumpy old man review the self-parking back in January. Good reading.
Marcus:
America wants to cut out sections of the draft G8 climate change targets, specifically the irritating bits about trying to keep the global temperature rise below 2C this century and halving green house emissions by 2050.
Marcus: Anybody would think that the United States was in thrall to a hugely unsustainable fossil fuel-based economy which they feel would be threatened by, you know, stopping the world from going to hell.
Dave:
We all love Scientology here at Linkbunnies. So it's important that we all watch a heretical Panorama tonight on BBC1 at 8.30, LONG LIVE L. RON!
Marcus: I am convinced that the BBC are nothing less than a front for that intergalactic lizard warlord guy who imprisoned us all in volcanoes and lobbed atomic bombs down the chimney.
Gareth:
"Bruce Willis Knows How to Use the Internet". And he's a Mac user, somehow that makes a lot of sense.
Marcus: Yup, us Mac users are a bunch of no-nonsense baldy action heroes alright.
Dave:
In the greatest struggle of good vs evil since the dawn of time, there are 2 petitions 1 to spare socialite uber c*nt Paris HIlton from jail, another to make sure she serves her full sentance. I hate her. (thanks Fred).
13/05/07
Justin:
Tim's gonna like this: The Drinky Crow show
tim: how did you know I'm a fan of tony millionaire!
11/05/07
Marcus:
Good interview with Tom Findlay of Groove Armada touching on their unofficial split and the Prince reference in Soundboy Rock's Song 4 Mutya (YouTube link, just for the audio really).
Marcus: "Superstylin' was used in a tampon ad in Brazil, which was nice and surreal."
Dave:
Where have you been? I have been to 7% of the countries in the world I thought I was well travelled (thanks Beck x).
Dave: 
gareth: I'd never even heard of places like Vanuatu or Tuvalu before seeing that.
Zanna:
Prison thug's reward for brawling with a warder? A pair of Calvin Klein glasses.
Marcus: Coming from the Daily Mail, it's safe to say that this is political correctness gone mad, and house prices are probably in jeopardy. And it's all Labour's fault.
Zanna:
Hammer Horror films are set to return. At least $50m (£25m) will be spent on new horror films after British company Hammer Film Productions was sold to Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments
Marcus:
Andrew Marr, self-confessed bibliophile, reviews Sony's latest eBook reader, the, um, Sony Reader.
Marcus: "My advice to the makers is to refine the page-turning just a little more, offer a battered blue cloth-bound wallet and, above all, make it smell - just a little musty, please."
10/05/07
Dave:
Blow jobs cause cancer :(
justin: Are you going to stop performing them just because of this one article?
09/05/07
Zanna:
Port-O-Jet, it was created by attaching a portable toilet to a go-kart chassis. 'with a good tailwind it can reach up to 70mph, which isn't bad for a toilet.'
Marcus:
The paedos make it into Sadville Second Life.
Marcus: Some Second Life users "are reportedly buying sex with other players posing as children, as well as offering child pornography for sale". Delightful.
dave: Congratulations - you are now living in the future.
Marcus:
Telegraph: New genetically modified yeast containing dogs noses, or something, will turn green if exposed to bomb smells.
Zanna:
Hurray! The Queen takes the piss out of Bush!
Marcus: "The Queen, thrusting her tongue beneath her lower lip, joked 'Nmmh nmmh nmmh - my name's President Bush and I'm a spazmoid'".
zanna: That actually sounds more like a quote from Prince Philip.
08/05/07
Marcus:
Patrick Moore says that TV standards are deteriorating because the BBC is "run by women", and female newsreaders are "jokey". And, er, he wants seperate channels (or "wavelengths") for men and women.
Marcus: Isn't that what Living and Granada Men & Motors are supposed to do? Anyway, talking about TV standards is all a bit rich when it's coming from the Gamesmaster.
07/05/07
Marcus:
Guess who forgot to renew the linkbunnies domain?
Marcus: Luckily I paid the bill before we suddenly became all about v1agra and Earn $$$$ FAST.
Marcus: Or wanting to be what you need, when you need it.
Marcus: Fact: linkbunnies will never be what you want. And don't count on us to be around when you need it, either.
06/05/07
05/05/07
Marcus:
YouTube 80s music video weirdness: Klaus Nomi's Lightning Strikes. (via)
chris: He was a protege of David Bowie, and he occasionally used to crop up on the Old Grey Whistle Test. I bought the single when it came out, sadly enough; I still have it kicking around somewhere.
chris: Nomi home page and wikipedia page. I didn't know about the Morrissey or Fred Durst stuff, that's interesting.
04/05/07
Marcus:
White Glove Tracking. Help a guy track Michael Jackson's white glove movements in a live performance of Billy Jean for, er, some reason. The idea is if 10,000 or so people each do one frame, it won't take any time at all. (via)
Justin:
May the fourth be with you!
Marcus: Aha. Aha-ha.
chris: Ahem...
chris: And here's the proper link as otherwise you'll get this year's blog. I must sort out dynamic indexing at some point.
Zanna:
A videotape made by David Hasselhoff's daughters shows the recovering alcoholic falling off the wagon.
justin: This You Tube link is the short version.
zanna: I can't help thinking if we'd managed to get 'jump in my car' to number one last summer this would never have happened.
03/05/07
Gareth:
RegexBuddy is incredibly useful for people such as myself who don't really know how to use regex properly.
Gareth:
"Scientists in Dundee have announced plans to create a "robot village" in an effort to learn how different cultures emerge in society." This is the beginning of the end.
Gareth:
Reader Isla sends this in: the hilarious blog of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. Thanks, Isla.