um... iPod?

http://www.poltrone-massaggianti.exar.it/paradise.htm

iBand

muppets

Times Vs The Sun

The Times reported on the recent 'controversy' generated by a speech given by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury to a bunch of lawyers, but however I think it demonstrates a noticeable difference in writing styles...

The Times writes:
The tabloid newspapers were unforgiving. On Friday, under the front-page headline “What a burkha”, The Sun claimed Williams had “handed Al-Qaeda a victory”. Yesterday it followed up with an entreaty to “Bash the bishop”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3342059.ece

Stoooopid!

http://hk-ergonomics.com/en/?page_id=8

Zeroids?

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/01/pollen-robots/

Definitions # 1

Adjective: civilised

1. Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological "terrorist acts that shocked the civilised world"


2. Marked by refinement in taste and manners

Verb: civilise

1. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
 

2. Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

I don't get it... seriously I don't get it.

Its Monday afternoon, round about 4pm-ish and I have just returned from a little errand run on the local high street (Gloucester Road). On my travels, I stopped at the post office to post a birthday card - the ordinary nature of which was disrupted by a loud voice singing in the distance. Now that in itself isn't really that unusual these days - you'd expect to come across a busker or some sort of singing troop cluttering up the pavement (only joking).

What wasn't unusual even was the fact that it came from a late-twenties-man ('Lee?') listening and dancing to music, obviously 'high' on life ('conversing' with him a little later, he definitely wasn't in his right mind - the random nature of his words was like throwing a dictionary into a shredder and watching all the words being spat out of their own volition at the other end). Incidentally, Lee was doing all of this in the middle of Gloucester Road and I do actually mean in the middle of Gloucester Road between the coming AND the oncoming traffic.

What struck me, and caused me to act after what seemed like ages but was probably only about 30 seconds, was the fact that people passed by on both sides, cars & buses passed by on both sides, maybe apathy passed by on both sides... no one did anything!!

After talking to him in the middle of the road, persuading him to go back to the pavement and convincing him that actually there are a lot of other places where he could engage in expressing himself, most of which didn't involve any traffic at all I started to think...

I thought we lived in a fairly civilised society.

Yes we are all very civil and polite when we need to be, whether that at someone's house, down the pub or at some sort of social function; serving the social etiquette is never really a problem.

However in a day and age where we are always willing to point out the inadequacies elsewhere of someone else or someone else's culture we need to carefully examine our own.

Why did no one go? Was it because Lee was off his head? Was it because he was a scary-yob-type-person? Would there have been a different reaction if it was an old lady instead ? Or a child even?

Human beings have dignity. People have dignity. But people don't always live in it. WE ALL don't always live in it.


Here's another definition for you.

Grace

–noun

1. elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action


2. a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment


3. favour or good will


4. a manifestation of favour, esp. by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school


5. mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace


6. favour shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity


7. an allowance of time after a debt or bill has become payable granted to the debtor before suit can be brought against him or her or a penalty applied: The life insurance premium is due today, but we have 31 days' grace before the policy lapses. Compare grace period


8. Theology




• a. the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God


• b. the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them


• c. a virtue or excellence of divine origin: the Christian graces


• d. Also called state of grace. the condition of being in God's favor or one of the elect




9. 9. moral strength: the grace to perform a duty

Sony unleashes a holographic monster on Tokyo Bay

24 Season 7

crankituplarge

Road Safety Campaign: Your iPod will kill You!

http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2008/01/nsw-police-department.html

"DDB Sydney has released a print campaign to raise awareness of the fact that the number of teenagers dying as a result of listening to ipods whilst they cross the road is beginning to reach “epidemic proportions”.

... Whilst what I noticed was that they weren't using an up to date model of the iPod

Dangerously Edible?

"Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL... erm novelty pumpkin shaped like a DEATHSTAR... um... I'll get me coat..."

Puppy Vs Robot

I'm a geek... always have been

So this excites me... JJ Abrams (Lost, MI3, Alias, Colverfield) is doing the new Star Trek movie...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

Advert

Halifax continues its Brown Pound campaign... more importantly this provided a good source of fun the other night at the pub, at least for everyone else... hehe

MacBook Air?

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/breaking-macboo.html

Recycle # 1 Clipboard

What you will need:
1 x Discarded lid from broken TiBook
1 x Bull Dog clip


(optional)
1 x A4 paper
1 x pencil

FBI wiretaps cut for unpaid bills

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7182455.stm

tankchair.com

Need I say more...

FakeBook Pros

Pressie from the Egners

Sis, just so you know this is what you got me for Christmas (via Amazon)

Christmas/Meat

... Mum would be so proud of you guys...

KITT is back!

"NBC Two Hour Movie Event Sunday, February 17th - KNIGHT RIDER"

Executive Producer David Liman ('The Bourne Identity' Franchise and 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith') and Executive Producer David Bartis ('The O.C' and NBC's 'Heist') have joined together to bring back the 1980's television classic "Knight Rider." The two-hour movie event brings KITT and a talented cast of young and seasoned actors into the 21st century with speed, drama, love and triumph. David Hasselhoff as a special guest star returns as Michael Knight."

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/23/knight-industries-three-thousand-specs-revealed/

More looping

Unsurprisingly looping has become popular... at one end of the spectrum, Imogen Heap... at the other end... this guy... whilst driving... he's not bad its just the operating several tonnes of machine at the same time that got me!

Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live at Studio 11 103.1FM)

Dark Knight Trailer is out!

School days

Cool Orchestra!

The Fellowship of the Quiz Show

Was flicking through and happened to come across a show on BBC2 called 'Eggheads' and couldn't help think of Lord of the Rings...

These guys rock!

music for shopping

was in somerfield yesterday and they were playing "don't fear the reaper"... hmmm festive...

Crayon Physics

Had a play with the demo...lovely!

Misc Founds

The last two were from a lift that hadn't yet been finished or something and kind of looked like a padded cell...

Feeling a little LOST?

"Lost: Missing Pieces are 13 two- to three-minute stories of compelling, new, never-before-seen moments from the hit television show LOST. These newly-created scenes (not deleted scenes from previous episodes) reveal answers and new details about your favorite characters. For each story, we leave it up to the fans to figure out where these pieces fit into the overall mythology. The new stories are from the same creative team responsible for the series and feature the show's main actors in stories that have all the compelling values that make LOST one of the most popular dramas on television around the world."

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index

Make Your Own iPod Touch!

DevoWeekendAway

Wednesday

Well today was WARK Wednesday, so inspired by a friend I decided to go to the local Sainsbury's, purchase a tin of chocolates and proceeded to give them away just outside Clifton Down Shopping Centre. Which was surprisingly difficult really...

One woman responded with "What's the catch?", most responses were "No thank you" but a good few seemed to be able to get past any suspicions and take the free chocolate.

Even the security guard, who came and asked me "Do have permission to give away free chocolate?" to which I surprisingly answered "No", seemed most amiable and even accepted a chocolate after I had moved away from the entrance and onto the pavement area. Hurrah!

Tuesday

- had fun last night at fireworks thing last night
- actually slept in (a whole 8 hours!, thats a Colse Record!!)
- almost everything is in its new place, in a new room
- bought a new coat
- had a nice little chat with a friend on the street

Monday

- car broke down, AA came to tow me to garage. possibly expensive
- walked home with guiutar in hand before realising i had left my house keys with the mechanic, so had to go get them.


- met my new neighhbours

Found # 15

More vegetable shapes! Heart-shaped potato @ W3 01/11/07

The carrot

Bounty from a visit from my parents

Which includes:
- chinese procured sausage
- wontons
- moon cake
- blackbeans
- oyster sauce
- sesame oil
- cleaver
- small knife
- replacement power cord for a rice cooker
- cough medicine
- dumplings
- lots of dried things that I couldn't really describe but it was stuff that we ate as kids
- oh and a small weekend away/laptop bag thing on wheels

New Facebook Group: WARK!!!

WARK on Facebook

From the Deco Lounge Website

pacman

What is krumping?!?

Vending Machine Disguise

Cool photo stuff - geeksville!

Is this the hat of Dan Hunter?

Do something nice today!

Everyone needs a little encouragement from time to time, so maybe today as you read this you could think about doing something nice for somebody.

It doesn't have to be a big thing, it could be something seemlingly insignificant but enough to make somebody's day... it doesn't take much to...

- hold a door open for somebody
- make a donation to charity
- take the time to take to somebody and actually listen to them
- make someone a cup of tea and deliver it to them with a smile


So go, go, go...

Free WiFi with fries

http://www.pcw.co.uk/computing/news/2200905/free-wifi-fries

Oh dear...Those crazy people in Japan # 1

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/u-tsu-shi-o-mi/

Smoke Signals Over Bristol

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/smoke-signals-over-bristol/

I was on TV... well not really

Its really Mr Nigel Savage talking about Woodies... check it out... oh and thats me walking past someone getting interviewed hehhe!)