30/04/08
Laura:
The top 10 most complained about Ads of 2007. Surely there are better things to do than compain about Quorn adverts...
29/04/08
Gareth:
Hans Reiser is guilty of murder. It's a shame, ReiserFS is a great filesystem that will likely be abandoned now.
dave: Maybe it's a shame that he murdered his wife?
Chris:
The price of petrol in some parts of California has just gone over $4 a gallon, which is half what it costs in the UK. Nevertheless, some Americans are resorting to prayer in an attempt to bring the prices back down. The organizer explains: "He told us that all we need to do is ask and believe. He can do it, and he will do it, but we have to ask him to do it."
Justin:
Some local Bedminster graffiti makes it to Digg! - I gotta say though, of the Flickr comments I got to agree with Mance - the rhetoric is childish.
Marcus: Bedminster, Bristol being the home of linkbunnies HQ. I didn't write this though. And I don't think Justin did either - there isn't a prominent robot motif.
Marcus:
YouTube: Prince covers Radiohead's Creep live. (via)
Marcus: Murderously over the top IMO, but I'm sure that many out there will enjoy it. Well, Justin, anyway.
gareth: It's gone already due to violation :(
Marcus: Whoops. Forgot that Prince is a pint-sized legal nut.
27/04/08
Marcus:
Handcoding HTML is still in vogue. Damn straight it should be: visual-based design is so lame and cumbersome. (via)
Marcus:
Far from new, but until just now I'd never seen director David O. Russell going batsh*t crazy angry at Lily Tomlin on the I Heart Huckabees set. Shouty language heavily NSFW. (via)
26/04/08
Laura:
Humphrey Lyttleton has died, aged 86. In case you don't know who Humph was, he was an amazing jazz musician (who interestingly enough played trumpet on Radiohead's Amnesiac album), and the Host of possibly one of the funniest radio shows ever, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, famous for the ridiculous game Mornington Crescent. Read his obituary here. Very sad news indeed.
Marcus:
YouTube: Real-life, actually transformable Transformers costumes. These guys appear to be having a "transform-off". (via)
Marcus:
The Uno is a (more or less) unicycle version of a motorcycle. Damn weird idea. Wouldn't mind trying to ride it all the same.
25/04/08
24/04/08
Justin:
Artist Gregor Schneider wants volunteer to die as artwork - so this geezer wants a volunteer to die in an art gallery so people can 'study the way the light falls over someone gasping their last breath'. I can imagine myself there glass of white wine in handy, tilting my head to one side secretly thinking "a child could do that!"
Justin:
The Big Question: Why are honey bees disappearing, and what can be done to save them?
tim: yeah we all thought that colony collapse disorder was confined to the US but they've just found a case in scotland - bad times for us beekeepersnullmary celeste
tim: oops, links c*cked up, anyway you get the idea
Zanna:
A priest who took off with hundreds of helium-filled party balloons has gone missing off Brazil.
Marcus:
Marilyn Manson is now selling his own brand of absinthe called Mansinthe. It's (chortle) 66.6% proof.
zanna: I need to buy that. Now.
Laura:
Seeing as Justin has already posted some disturbing paedophilia on YouTube, I figured I should too. Words cannot express how freaked out I am by this video. All of a sudden this clip from American Dad makes perfect sense. Now I must go and scrub my eyeballs with bleach.
Marcus: There are no words.
Gareth:
Barbie massacre: this is some pretty twisted stuff.
Marcus: Link fixed - definitely NSFW if you work in a doll's house.
Marcus:
Awesomely Cute YouTube: Synchronised Kittens. They appear to be watching the Rathergood ad for Crusha. (via)
Dave:
An interview with Jason Beghe an actor who has recently left the Church of Scientology.
Dave: I think these clips are the whole interview.
Justin:
This is well disturbing video from YouTube - some eastern European geezer sings a duet with a kid, but then sits him on his knee and starts noncing him up has to be seen to be believed.
Marcus: Reading through the YouTube comments (always a joy) I gather that this is a ten year old clip of a famous Dutch comedian deliberately being disturbing for comedy value. Apparently.
Marcus: Aha. Not quite. In fact, he's pretending to be a little girl. So that's alright then.
23/04/08
Dave:
This site gives out free rice through the UN World Food Program in return for you correctly defining words.
22/04/08
Gareth:
A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church.
gareth: If only they had caught it on film, it would have been a definite internet meme.
gareth: if you were curious about that Jedi Church, here you go. They're pretty weird.
Laura:
BBC News Through the Ages: A look at the on screen presentation used over the years for BBC New bulletins. Especially loving the bad 80's graphics.
tim: my god- the memories...
Justin:
Georgia's defence ministry has released video showing what appears to be a Russian MiG-29 shooting down an unarmed Georgian UAV drone.
21/04/08
Laura:
I'm a sucker for a cute dog story. So, check out the most amazing dog EVER.
tim: Is it me or does he look like some sort of alien extra in star wars?
tim: Sorry 'she'. No excuses for making that mistake after seeing the video are there?
Laura: Yes, being a boy dog AND being bipedal would have been incredibly unfortunate. Here's her official website.
dave: Surely that kind of extra support would be invaluable!?
Laura: I'm trying to avoid making a kick stand joke, but it's unbelievably tempting.
Marcus:
YouTube: Darth Vader In Love parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Awesome high-production-values funny from the The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
20/04/08
Justin:
She had sex for the sake of science - Some interesting new research into sex has been carried out (that's what she said!) - including some 4D scanner image of a penis inside a vagina.
Marcus:
What Would McNulty Do? A little site I made a while back containing a couple of my favourite pissed-up McNulty clips from The Wire.
Marcus:
ZombieURL: send people innocuous TinyURL-style shortened website links which suddenly have a zombie pop up with a scream. (via)
Marcus: Here's a ZombieURL version of linkbunnies. If you're at work, make sure the sound is muted!
justin: Sweet.
Tim:
Every so often we all need a link to the once in a lifetime video
chris: I still think it's brilliant. Here's what David Byrne is doing these days.
chris: And just to show that us old-timers can still come up with innovative new approaches to music, it's worth reiterating that David Byrne and Brian Eno recently released My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts under a creative commons licence.
19/04/08
Marcus:
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes. Really interesting if, like me, you're vaguely aware of consistently using the wrong type of "quotation marks". Like just then. (via)
Laura:
Single? Wondering which internet dating website you should use? Well beware this list - The 5 most ill-advised dating sites on the web. Justin, this is not a resource for where to find more parts for your woman suit.
Justin:
Anyone who doesn't fantasise about hacking people up with swords has got severe emotional problems. Soul Calibre 4 trailer.
: And yes, it has Darth Vader and Yoda.
justin: That reminds me - what did Kermit the Frog say the night Jim Henson died?
justin: Nothing.
18/04/08
Dave:
How to make Chicken burritos. My favourite food.
dave: This isn't quite good enough. I want rice in there too :)
17/04/08
Marcus:
BayWords is The Pirate Bay's new free-speech-oriented blog hosting service.
Marcus: "Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don’t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it."
Marcus: The Pirate Bay's long history of mocking legal threats gives some substance to the claim.
justin: Man, they rock! "As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe." and "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." and finally... "Go f*ck yourself." - yay!
justin: News update: Police officer Jim Keyzer, the leader and key witness in the Pirate Bay investigation was recently employed by Warner Bros, one of the plaintiffs in the ongoing case against the Pirate Bay four. Undoubtedly, this will seriously hurt the credibility of the ongoing court case. Here.
Laura:
The French have invented a cup that can stir liquid without the use of a spoon. Something about this seems very wrong....
Marcus:
This is a bit old and I meant to link to it last week, but anyway: it turns out that Lost scripts are full of swears.
16/04/08
Justin:
Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
Marcus: You are the lowest cancer risk in Bristol and no mistake.
Laura:
As the school transport co-ordinator at a secondary school, I regularly deal with idiotic children leaving valuables on public transport and have to help them get them back. But this guy must feel like the biggest idiot on the planet.
Marcus:
The iPhone is getting a £100 price cut in the UK, bringing it down to £169 for the 8 GB model.
Marcus: No doubt something to do with the imminent 3G model. I'm still in mourning for the idiotic loss of my own iPhone.
15/04/08
Justin:
Ollie Johnstone has passed away. He was the last of Disney's Nine Old Men - a bunch of guys who were the original animators at Disney who write the book (literally in Ollie's case) on animation. More.
justin: Take a look at the IMDB filmography!
justin: There is a documentary about him chunked up on youtube - here is a link to part one.
13/04/08
Justin:
Leaked trailer for Star Wars "The Clone Wars" a 3D animated series that looks like it may kick some ass.
gareth: Why is it that they always have to have storylines involving well-known characters, like that Jabba the Hutt's son crap?
justin: Saying that - the Jabba the Hutt comics were pretty cool. They always had crazy bargaining related storylines - if you think of Jabba trying to sell the antidote - TO THE POISON YOU JUST DRANK - you get the idea.
12/04/08
11/04/08
Laura:
Ooooops... diet company misled clients, apparently. Well, for those not in the know I have been doing this diet for over four months now, and it's not done me any harm (other than belching worse than Homer Simpson, but hey, what's a bit of wind between friends?). Guess I will have to watch Inside Out tonight....
10/04/08
Laura:
Some examples of building blocks used to help chinese children learn English. Some of them are more that a bit mental.
Laura:
16 examples of freaky modern beds that all look a bit mad if you ask me. Though I kinda like the idea of the first one, the rocking bed. However I'd probably find it impossible to get out of.
Tim:
Apparently cleaning is good for you
laura: Unless you have OCD. I could see that being a bad thing.
Laura:
According to a new survey, the face gives away sexual intentions to others. Apparently we're pretty good at guessing sexual strategies based on facial appearance alone.
08/04/08
Justin:
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV) - you know, those vector line drawings when they are planning their attack on the Death Star. This documentary can only be of interest to those into CG.
07/04/08
06/04/08
Gareth:
A contraption that monitors a counter strike server and bleeds every time a player dies. Kinda creepy.
Gareth:
Hello Kitty psychology. I guess I don't have to mention that it's not the most scientific process.
04/04/08
Marcus:
Motorbike carbon emissions calculator. It turns out I'm dumping about three quarters of tonne of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. Lawks.
03/04/08
Justin:
Marry Our Daughter - well, the internet has finally done it. A site where parents of the Biblical persuasion can sell off their daughters to rich older men....
Dave: Why didn't we think of that?
Mrs. James P.: “Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"
dave: Holy sh*t. I just actually looked at that site. It's horrific!! People basically selling their children! Shocking.
Marcus:
Caffeine can help protect the brain against Alzheimer's. I'm enjoying my healthy cup of Joe right now.