Saturday, June 15, 2002
Impossible Fight
It seems that two
Californian consumers are being represented by the
law firm Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach in an action against the
big record companies. They challenge that the new
CD-like discs carrying the new "copy-protection" methods are
defective and should either be
barred from sale or carry
warning labels. I
agree entirely, but I expect them to lose.
Story found on
Yahoo.
posted by Andy Buchanan at 6:31 PM
Flash!
I've been sticking my
Flash experiments on a page. Not much there at the moment but I will be adding to it as I go along...
posted by Andy Buchanan at 4:47 PM
Friday, June 14, 2002
Save the planet -
share a lift to work
Here's what the
BEEB have to say about it.
Might save you a few quid and save on pollution too.
posted by Chris Wood at 5:10 PM
Official Ninja Webpage
Reposted Classic #4123-9843. It's time to revisit that old classic
The Official Ninja Webpage. Go there NOW and FLIP OUT!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 3:28 PM
bungee-jumping, so 80's....base-jumping... so 90's. Make way for
EXTREME IRONING!
posted by John Dalziel at 3:17 PM
Bad Astronomy
Following on from the other day's post about
Bad Movie Physics, here's a site of all the
Bad Astronomy out there.
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:51 PM
Whatever happened to
Phil Cool?
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:47 PM
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:45 PM
Diminutive plastic pop-prince Michael Jackson, uber-spoon-bending-conman Uri Gellar, and weird eyed street botherer David Blaine visit the Houses of Parliament in good 'ol Blighty. Sounds like a
set-up for a joke doesn't it, but no it
really happened (assuming the media aren't just making shit up 'cos
it's Friday).
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:44 PM
Thursday, June 13, 2002
I saw that
Newsnight (BBC) piece on the
Unencrypted NATO Aerial Surveillance feeds that are going over the
commercial satellite network and thus
available to anyone with the right equipment. The
claims that the information is of little use and therefore
unclassified seemed a bit bogus, and coming from spokespeople for one of the most
paranoid nations on the planet (I'm talking about the US) seems downright ridiculous. (Unless of course it's all a cunning disinformation campaign....)
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:45 PM
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:29 PM
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Real World vs Movie Physics
Fark have posted a link to this
great site discussing
Movie Physics. So true, but what would poor little
Bruce Willis do without that "Movie Magic"?
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:52 PM
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
World's most expensive biscuit
Ever wondered what the
World's most expensive biscuit is? My colleague Sam asked that very question this afternoon as we were discussing the merits of the 2 quid box of "Anton's Lemon Biscuits" I bought at lunchtime. The web, as ever, was giving, and an answer was quicky
found here:
How much to buy a biscuit? Thousands of dollars actually. One of the uneaten biscuits from the expedition of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is going up for auction - and it is expected to fetch at least £3,000. The special biscuit was created for the explorer's unsuccessful assault on the South Pole between 1907 and 1909. The biscuit comes up for auction at Christie's in London next month, as it managed to survive from one of the other explorers who stayed at base camp and didn't make it to the Pole. The biscuit is fortified with concentrated milk protein, and has an inscription on the back of it dedicated to all the other South Pole explorers. Even so, about US$5,000 for one biscuit that nobody will eat. Just think how many chocolate digestive biscuits you could get for that price...
posted by Andy Buchanan at 3:48 PM
Just to lower the tone, here's the
Animal on Drugs Joke:
A little rabbit is happily running through the forest when he stumbles upon a giraffe rolling a joint.
The rabbit looks at her and says, "Giraffe, my friend, Think about what you're doing to yourself! Come with me running through the forest, you'll see, you'll feel so much better!" The giraffe looks at him, looks at the joint, tosses it and goes off running with the rabbit.
Then they come across an elephant doing coke. So the rabbit again says, "Elephant my friend, why do you do this? Think about what you're doing to yourself! Come running with us through the pretty forest, you'll see, you'll feel so good!" The elephant looks at them, looks at his razor, mirror and all, then tosses them and starts running with the rabbit and giraffe.
The three animals then come across a lion about to shoot up. "Lion my friend, why do you do this? Think about what you're doing to yourself! Come running with us through the sunny forest, you will feel so good!" The lion looks at him, puts down his needle, and starts to beat the shit out of the little rabbit.
The giraffe and elephant watch in horror, then finally obtain the presence of mind to pull the lion off the rabbit. "Lion," they reprimand, "why did you do this? He was merely trying to help us all!"
The lion answers, "That little f*cker has me running around the forest like an idiot for hours every time he's on ecstasy!"
posted by Andy Buchanan at 3:31 PM
And the
fun just keeps comin' on.... make your very own
South Park alter-ego with the
South Park Studio!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:58 PM
Here's a
corker for you, it's the
Sims meets the Osbournes. All the fun of the show!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:45 PM
What a
brilliantly lame idea for a weblog:
whatdidyouhaveforlunch.weblogs.com, shame it's somewhat
polluted with non-lunch related stuff too
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:03 AM
Monday, June 10, 2002
You know, I got
cold-called by telemarketers
5 times on Saturday, a record for me, and I seem to be a
spam-magnet!. I did kinda
lose my humour a bit after the third call, but I did have a nice chat with the last guy. Of course I didn't let any of them get more than a couple of lines into the script, and the one poor girl who I offered to listen to for
5 pounds sterling seemed
genuinely stumped. You can get some useful information on this
evil, evil practice over at
Junkbusters.org. I know I did.
posted by Andy Buchanan at 11:54 PM
More Monkey Mayhem
According to the
Beeb police are
hunting a "criminal" chimp.
The caller of the second burglary confirmed to police he had seen an ape disappearing from the premises.
Mustapha Riat said he had been woken in his ground-floor flat on Sunday morning to find a large figure with five-foot hairy arms towering over him.
The first raid had been just 20 doors away at a ground-floor flat belonging to Gina Davidson, according to The Sun.
"The DVD player was moved and a watch missing," the 23-year-old told the newspaper.
"Police dusted my flat for fingerprints - but how will that help catch a chimp?"
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:58 PM
Mark Thomas show Axed
Oh No! I've just heard that the excellent
Mark Thomas Product is axed. This is a great shame, and now knocks the number of TV shows I watch down to about 3. The
conspiracy-theorist in me is wondering just whose line he crossed....
posted by Andy Buchanan at 12:52 PM
Sunday, June 09, 2002
I thought I'd treat myself to a
Kinder Surprise, but just look at this ridiculous thing
Jeez what a piece of junk! Oh well, at least the chocolate was nice...
posted by Andy Buchanan at 6:23 PM
