Month: August 2008

It shocks me how different countries can get sucked in by their local media. Browsing around the other day I saw an advert targetting American audiences which touted “fantastic efficiency” and “the best gas mileage around”. It showed a vehicle (I forget which one) giving 35mpg on the highway. That, I’m afraid, is crap. 35mpg extra-urban? Are you having a… Read more →

Woha ! How cool is this ? This just shows how far web applications have come – a full photo-editing application in your browser. Open JPG images, edit them, save them back – all without any software on your machine. Brill. Link – pixlr.com Read more →

I’m still loving TheDailyMash. With Britain suffering days and days of constant rain everyone is starting to feel a little miserable as the summer garden furniture is sold off cheap and people begin to realise that they might not see the sunshine again for a good few weeks.. just as Autumn hits.. Anyhoo, here’s a good mickey-take at our Olympic… Read more →

This is Emily. She might look pretty nice but she’s actually not real. This is a new type of technolofy which will be finding its’ way into computer games before you know it. Tiny details of a facial expression can be captured and recreated on the character. Now, whilst us “geeks” may be able to tell the tiny give-aways this… Read more →

Whoa! How can I have only just found this? I’ve just been looking to travel information on the net and found this local BBC site showing all the traffic cameras on the motorway. Useful or what!? :) Link – BBC.co.uk Read more →

My nephew will be having his pirate-themed birthday party soon, so we went out and got all the pirate stuff we could, including these pirate hats. However, if you take a look on the inside you’ll notice one of those health and safety warnings that keep appearing on things due to insane idiots trying to sue the relevant companies. Why… Read more →

A mixed bag of links today from my inbox. First up is this Westwood video. For those who don’t know, Tim is a DJ on Radio 1 here in the UK. I’m not sure where he gets his distinctive voice from… Your challenge is to see how long you can watch this before stopping the video. I’ve never seen people… Read more →

I’m not heavily into the Olympics, but I checked in with the coverage here in the UK. You can choose which event of sport you’d like to watch, and here’s the options available this morning. Can you guess which one I chose? Yes.. I’m a bloke, so I checked out the beach volleyball. I don’t know if Switzerland won… in… Read more →

Seriously. What. The. Flying. F***. We went to the local “Pets at Home” shop and saw these…. You put your dog (or cat, gerbil, rabbit whatever) in there.. And walk around… Pink for a girl and blue for boy… No, I’m not kidding. Here’s the link to the online shop, where you can buy them for a mere 30. I… Read more →

Ok, as usual I’ve robbed some rather excellent links from the b3ta.com. First is this offer – ideal for your summer barbeque. It’s meat.. in a box. Yep. Meat…. in a box. In fact, it’s meat in a toolbox. Weird huh ? Next is perhaps the funniest video in the world. Put everything down. Just turn up the volume and… Read more →