Okay... maybe not exactly like one of these but still no more pratting about to London to oggle over things I can't afford. Cabot Circus we thank you (in advance)
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
We're gonna get one of these!
Okay... maybe not exactly like one of these but still no more pratting about to London to oggle over things I can't afford. Cabot Circus we thank you (in advance)
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
GIGANTOR!!!
"Massive Gigantor statue coming to Japan
Erecting an 18-meter high robot statue in Japan may not shock and awe as it would in the US of A, but a brightly colored, 70-ton Gigantor is still apt to catch quite a few eyes. Kobe, Japan is set to be the home of the mammoth tribute statue, which will simultaneously commemorate the life of the late Mitsuteru Yokoyama and the revitalization of the surrounding areas since the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The project will cost an estimated ¥135 million ($1.09 million) and should be completed next Spring, but how it will affect property values (or tourism from fanboys and girls) remains to be seen."
Source: Endgadget
Erecting an 18-meter high robot statue in Japan may not shock and awe as it would in the US of A, but a brightly colored, 70-ton Gigantor is still apt to catch quite a few eyes. Kobe, Japan is set to be the home of the mammoth tribute statue, which will simultaneously commemorate the life of the late Mitsuteru Yokoyama and the revitalization of the surrounding areas since the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The project will cost an estimated ¥135 million ($1.09 million) and should be completed next Spring, but how it will affect property values (or tourism from fanboys and girls) remains to be seen."
Source: Endgadget
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
This disgusts me!!
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1038941_bacon_roll_on_the_lean_side
Real life Magneto?
"Joe, a 12-year-old boy in the town of Richland in Oswego County, began calling himself "Magneto Man" last year, after his teachers concluded that his presence could crash the school computers.
"Another student could use a computer, and it would be fine. But if Joe was on it, weird things started to happen," said Marie Yerdon, computer lab teacher at Lura Sharp Elementary School in Pulaski. "I think there's something in his body chemistry, something in his makeup, that causes the computers to go haywire."
The idea that a human being can be magnetic, electric or electromagnetic is considered paranormal, but a quick Internet search reveals lots of believers."
Well if its on the Internet it must be true!!! Love the idea of real Xmen though!
http://blog.syracuse.com/news/2008/02/computers_go_haywire_around_ri.html
Friday, February 29, 2008
Contenders ready...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/30/bskyb.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
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
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
Monday, February 04, 2008
Definitions # 1
Adjective: civilised
Verb: civilise
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
- Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological "terrorist acts that shocked the civilised world"
- Marked by refinement in taste and manners
Verb: civilise
- Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- 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
- elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action
- a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment
- favour or good will
- a manifestation of favour, esp. by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school
- mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace
- favour shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity
- 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
- 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. moral strength: the grace to perform a duty
Friday, February 01, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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..."
Monday, January 28, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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/
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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
Saturday, January 12, 2008
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
Friday, January 11, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
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/
Saturday, December 22, 2007
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!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Friday, December 07, 2007
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...
Monday, December 03, 2007
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