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 [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Fifth Gear Cancelled…
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 [...]
Friday stuff for your inbox
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
Mininova falls from a great height..
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 [...]
It’s like Twitter, but you pay to use it
Woaha, this is a bit cool. A conversation between a web designer and a know-nothing client… Link – 27bslash6.com
An amazing look at our past
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 [...]
Bugatti Veyron takes a swim
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 [...]
Stripper in a van. Making your journey .. special
Woha! I wish we had these in the UK. Sure, I
I drive a fire engine…
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!