Archive for December, 2006
Monday, December 18th, 2006
Funny pigeon business
Some Surrey council was going to do a cull of pigeons and this was reported on The Surrey Comet website. They shut down the comments but some of them are really quite funny, here’s a selection:
Posted by Martin Wildoat on 10:56am Wed 29 Nov 06I agree with this action. Pigeons carry all manner of diseases […]
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Long title mouse overs in Firefox
One of my favourite webcomics, xkcd (see below) always has little comments attached to each comic (at the xkcd site, not on my cut and pastes), you get to see them when you mouse over the comic image, but they truncate due to some firefox irregularity. Anyway, here’s the post on fixing it, and the […]
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Does anyone remember the Ninja Turtles?
From XKCD today, those who know me will know its particular significance:
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
David Walliams lookalike says I’m Time Person of the Year
Apparently 2006 was the year of “you” media according to Time mag. No arguments there. What is freaky is how much Time mag editor, Richard Stengel looks like David Walliams from Little Britain.
Richard Stengel (with Time magazine):
David Walliams (with Matt Lucas):
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Holy Toast!
If you remember that piece of toast that apparently had a picture of the Virgin Mary appear on it and was sold via Ebay to, I think, a casino for a huge sum… you can now get your own on a daily basis with the Holy Toast Bread Stamp. Well you could if it wasn’t […]
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
White Peaches, Bellinis and Funny Monkey Recipes
White peaches are in season, I bought a few from my local greengrocer and my are they tasty! I think the last time I had white peaches they weren’t completely ripe or something because I don’t remember them being anything special, maybe just a tarter version of a normal peach. These ones were ambrosial, so […]
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Ikea Mood Lamp Hack
Via Ikea Hacker, Toon Beerten has hacked an Ikea Mylonit table lamp into a super cool mood lamp. I love the video of it changing colours, maybe it’s the music in the background (Goldfrapp - Lovely Head - YouTube clip), I’ve just been playing it over and over again. If you are comfortable putting together […]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Chrissie Present Idea - Light up the Darfur Wall
For a slightly different Christmas present idea, consider getting a number lit up on The Darfur Wall. The idea is that there are 400,000 numbers covering 40 panels which each number representing a person killed in Darfur. One dollar lights up a number of your choosing and each remaining dollar goes to light up another […]
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Mmmmm… internet
Have to read the most recent xkcd, I just love the idea of baking someone a cake shaped like the internet.
