Archive for October, 2007

You know, for kids…

Posted at 12:33pm on Monday, October 29th, 2007 by

When life imitates Simpsons (i.e. skittlebrau), it’s generally funny. With the Onion, not so much.

(Quoted from this MeFi post).  I saw this on the news last night and couldn’t believe it.  The guys taking the video were genuinely shocked to find Gap on the labels.  After all the interest in this sort of issue you would have thought the original main offenders would have got their houses in order.  Was our collective wading through No Logo for nothing?

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I ride the lines

Posted at 9:03pm on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 by

This is awesome (well, awesome if you’ve ever seen linerider).  Some people clearly have far too much time on their hands, but hey, props nonetheless:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTnT66LGrdY]

Linky for those without embedding

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A rich vein

Posted at 12:09pm on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by

Paul. I have found your son’s Christmas present.

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And your brother’s.

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Slightly rippled with a flat underside

Posted at 10:26pm on Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by

VinylDiscNo, not my current facebook status message, but the latest invention from our German friends (and the saviour of Charlie Simpson…  You know, him out of Busted).  One side is a 3 minute vinyl single, the other a full CD album. Or, as RetroThing puts it, “Two obsolete audio formats in one

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Slow cooking

Posted at 4:33pm on Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by

Forkd - feta It’s finally here. Dave, Antony and Tom have been toiling away over a hot stove for the past few weeks and Forkd is finally ready for the tasting. It’s the feta release right now (d’ya see what we did there?) – if you’d like a feta tester account mail me. They’re very limited, but so is the readership of this blog… You’ll need a genuine love of food, a desire to show the world your cooking and the patience to log good bug reports and feature requests. If you’re interested please drop me a line (andy at isotoma.com will do it).

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Designing Google for Google

Posted at 11:05am on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 by

How Google would look if it wasn’t Google. (You may have already seen this at MeFi).

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Winning ways

Posted at 11:19pm on Monday, October 15th, 2007 by

In the last 5 meetings (over the last 3 years) we’ve only beaten South Africa once. It was at Twickenham and it was only just (by 2 points, 23-21). Our total points difference is 116 against in those 5 matches.

We started the tournament 279-1 outsiders. We’re still 3-1 against as compared to the Springboks 2-1 on. But:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ5tHgET4N4]

We’ve got Johnny

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Daring to dream

Posted at 2:31pm on Sunday, October 14th, 2007 by

I’m not commenting on the Rugby until after tonight so, while we’re waiting, here’s Stacy:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8]

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Odd shaped balls

Posted at 6:45pm on Saturday, October 13th, 2007 by

Well well.  Let’s hope England do as well, eh?

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Cyborg?

Posted at 10:27pm on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 by

Is John Terry a robot? It appears that his skin is malfunctioning.John Terry