Month: May 2005

Alvin appears in large image for a study we all took part in (warning large download).

Niven writes: WARNING: Spoilers (…though most people who would care about spoilers have probably already seen it.) Wow. Um… hrm… i don’t think i’ve ever come away from a movie so perplexed. Was it absoluckingfootely awesome… or was it just ok. I’m not sure…. i think i’ll have to see it a few more times…

Just had a hee-larious conversation with Dell. Rang them up and told them that the CPU fan was making a lot of noise and was not making contact with anything else. He told me that it is normal for the CPU fan to make a lot of noise when the CPU is in use. I…

Now if you dont have a clue who Danny Wallace is, let me tell you… He is the man who started the “Are you Dave Gorman” Adventure by drunkand challange. This bet was for Dave Gorman to find 52 (I think) other Dave Gormans in a set time frame. They went all over Europe and…

Creative Commons is a new licensing scheme (created in 2002) which enables artists to license their work for use by other artists, and the general public, in a way chosen by them. It represents what copyright was always supposed to be about, artists holding control over how their material is used while retaining the natural…

Some software I have found useful. Synergy2 (free). Install this product on two computers and you can move your mouse from one screen to the other, regardless of operating system. A tad non-intuitive to set up, once you have it going it works like a charm. Ideal for a laptop next to a PC situation…

Some guy adds 5 gallons of gas to a bonfire and lights it standing about a foot away, with hilarity to follow. Check out this girl who dropped before going to her high school formal, made into a hilarious flash.

Sin City is based on the comic novel by the same name by Frank Miller. It is directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodrigeuz and Quentin Tarantino. If that alone is not enough to make you take notice, it stars Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Elijah Wood and Michael Madsen. It is set somewhere in the 1940’s,…

A manual encouraging boys with the slogan “boys can do anything” has been printed but not distributed because “it was felt that it no longer fitted the policy of promoting the interests of boys and girls equally”. When have we ever pretended that we are promoting girls interests equally? In the 70’s the programs were…