Humour, Linkage
Dino Eating Frogs?
I think the most shocking thing I learnt this week was that giant frogs used to eat dinosaurs. Odd. [via BBC]
General, Linkage
How do car-share cameras count humans?
It was announced recently about cameras being used to count people in cars in car sharing lanes. Now, having lived in Leeds – and also having to use the lanes on my journey to university for four years – I know that they can help congestion. but at the expense of other road users. After […]
General, Gibberish, Humour
The Doctor & HSX
Last year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special, Voyage Of The Damned, (link contains a synopsis, in case you haven’t seen it…) was a highlight of my TV viewing. Indeed, it attracted 50% of the viewers watching at that time – a feat which is quite rare in this multi-channel age I would have thought. Anyway, the […]
Christmas, Linkage, Music
Lucky Soul For Christmas Number One!
Save Christmas from the God-awful, snorefest that is the X Factor. Last.fm, my favourite music based social network [my profile page], are behind a campaign to stop anything that’s rubbish getting to the Christmas number one. I’m thinking their main reason is because the public doesn’t have a great track record when left to their […]
Gibberish, Humour, Linkage
The Daily Mash
The Daily Mash is: a satirical news website which exposes the absurdities of modern life to rigorous scrutiny with “hilarious results”. The Daily Mash satirises the worlds of politics, media, culture, and sport with spoof news stories, commentary and opinion (this means that it’s all made-up and is not intended in any way whatsoever to […]
Gibberish, Humour, Linkage, Music
Morse Code In Music
It was a well known fact, commonly stated in recent weeks due to the death of its creator Ronnie Hazlehurst, that the theme tune to Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (which is horrible to type due to the apostrophes) incorporates the show’s title in morse code in its opening bars. The BBC has published this […]
Formula One, Linkage, Sport
Formula One In The Courtroom in 2007. Again.
Just when you thought it was over, it looks like there’s another twist in the 2007 season. It may come to nothing, it may change the title holder – but it certainly is confusing to the casual viewer who doesn’t follow the sport all the time and may have just watched one race this year, […]
General, Gibberish, Humour, Linkage, Videos
Defending the Internet
Entries like this are relatively difficult to write (and, for that matter, to categorise) and so forgive me for the stream of consciousness nature of it. Websites such as YouTube have come under fire recently for not doing enough to discourage cyber-bullies [BBC News]. Meanwhile, Tim O’Reilly, author of a number of computer based books, […]
Gibberish, Humour, Linkage
100 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year
The BBC has published a list of 100 things we didn’t know this time last year… what an exciting year for new discoveries 2005 was! Among my personal favourites are Number 6: WD-40 dissolves cocaine – it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub’s toilets; Number 18: If all […]