Month: November 2009

A couple of weird and wonderful stories to brighten up your Monday morning now. First, this man sitting in an American Airlines seat. Well.. I shouldn’t really say “sitting”. He’s kinda plonker on the arm-rest, and lord knows how the crew or other passengers are going to get through. Next up is this link from the same newspaper. It involves… Read more →

The Daily Fail has reported recently that Fifth Gear – Five’s motoring show – has been cancelled. Being the Daily Mail we instantly ignored it, but it appears that the rumours are true with confirmation being received from Channel Five execs. Fifth Gear popped up after the original BBC Top Gear series was cancelled back in 2001. Fifth Gear has… Read more →

It’s been a long while since I posted some good Friday links. Here’s a few to keep you going… Clients from hell.. Google is great. It autocompletes what you Read more →

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Torrents. If you say it there’s an instant raised eye-brow from most people. It’s not ALWAYS an illegal activity, however most people know the BitTorrent protocol purely because of illegal file sharing and many ISP’s throttle it. Now, just a few months after the Pirate Bay got sued, it’s the turn of mininova.org. They’ve closed down all illegal torrents, so… Read more →

Woaha, this is a bit cool. A conversation between a web designer and a know-nothing client… Link – 27bslash6.com Read more →

OK, this is pretty cool. In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene used a special colour film process to film every day life across Britain. Here, in his last stop, he travels around London. The film is fascinating (at least, I think so) – there’s no comedy “sped-up walking” and the pictures are remarkably clear. This is 82 years ago – amazing stuff.… Read more →

Ohhh.. Bugatti Veyron.. in a lake.. the humanity!!! The humanity!!!! :( :( :( Never fear though, the Bugatti is apparently still working well despite it’s splash into this lake. The 1000 BHP Bugatti got pulled out eventually and you can see the whole thing in the video below. The driver was apparently in Texas, chatting on his mobile (without a… Read more →

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So you drive a fire engine and see grandma approaching from the left. Do you? A) Stop and wait B) Sound the Siren C) PLOUGH THROUGH GRANDMA. Click here and then press forward to find out! Read more →

Nice one Network Rail. Perhaps now you’ll see why I don’t use rail travel more often. Sure, it’s cheap if you book in advance and go at certain times, but when I walked up to the counter at Birmingham International it cost me nearly 140 for a return to London! That’s just mental, especially when the train was pretty empty… Read more →

Woha, this lady had a very lucky escape after falling in front of a train in Boston. It looks like she’d had quite a bit to drink and fell head-long in front of a “T”. Luckily some very quick-thinking passengers waved down the train and it stopped just short, saving her life. She then wobbled back onto the platform. Link… Read more →

Eekk! The greatest TV show on earth returns on November 15th ! It’s shifted back and hour to 9PM but the original British version of the programme will be on this Sunday for it’s 14th series. Unfortunately there’s only 7 episodes in this series, so soak it up! Link – BBC Top Gear Read more →

Gordon Murray is an ex-McLaren Formula One designer. He’s worked on the fastest, sleekest, most awe-inspiring cars in the world. Today he’s shown off his first ever electric car… errr…. Via – BBC News Read more →

Look what I saw on the way to work this morning… He was driving like a maniac too. It could’ve had something to do with me waving like a fool at the cameras :) I can’t wait for Google Maps to update!!! :) More (bigger) shots here, here and here. Read more →