There's probably the most fantastic, most concerted and deliberate campaign of weird reviewing going on at amazon.com, attached to a David Hasselhoff CD, specifically " Looking For ... the Best of David Hasselhoff ". No idea why, it's just there, and it rocks! The deliberate campaign of weird reviewing, that is, not the CD in […]
I've been clearing stuff off the TiVo , and one of the programmes I watched was an interesting looking Horizon about the threat of an asteroid strike on the Earth . As cheesy as Meteor was, as awful as Armageddon was, and as ponderous as Deep Impact was, I've always held an interest in the […]
Douglas Coupland on Windows 95, scary noises, fiction as art and personal transformation via literature — hat tip to the spool .
The hard drive in the Vaio just made a horrendous clunky clicky sound there ... Looks like it could be time to walk the path of new hard drive time ... or possibly new Vaio time, although I'm desperately trying to hold out until the Z series Centrino Vaio s have 802.11g WiFi built in […]
eBay has truly turned into the worlds clearinghouse of crap — viz this item for sale: "New Folder for Windows XP" [ local mirror ]. What absolutely kills me is that people are bidding on the damn thing, with the last bid at time of writing sitting at £56. Really people, just right-click and make […]
Holy moley ... this nutbar american decided to have a 20 patty burger — that's a bit of bread, 20 dods of 'beef', a load of cheese and some other crap. I'm suddenly both hungry and ready to boak! :) Also for some reason, I'm reminded of iyanus eating whoppers in Burger King all those […]
I've made another discovery about the weird relationship between bbc.co.uk — and now bbc.net.uk — and www.bbc.co.uk ... more »
hehe, just goes to show that being bored and trawling Hutton Enquiry publically available documents can lead to fame and fortune ... or a mention in this week's ntk ... I've reproduced screengrabs of the pages below, redacting the parts of the bill pages in a mosaic blur, which a lackey at either the BBC […]
Oh if only there really were one of those "which place/ personality / fictional character / fungicidal spore plant are you" tests which could spit out an answer like this ... take more tests like this one »