ID KO'd

Victors hail US evolution ruling

"the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom...it is ironic that [the members of the Dover school board], who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy...The breathtaking inanity of the Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial...
To preserve the separation of church and state mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution... we will enter an order permanently enjoining Defendants from maintaining the ID Policy..., from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID."

compiled from the Full 139 Page decision in PDF format - well worth reading the conclusion starting on page 136.

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Whipping Boy, Moving Couple

Whipping Boy return.

And I arrive. For anyone who knew about it, and fror those who don't, me n Zoe have arrived safely on our first house, and have put the bed and the wardrobes up. All is well.

Poade's 30th

Poade's Birthday was apparently celebrated in good style last night at Snobs night club in Birmingham.



Which makes it all the more unfortunate that at the time Poade was sat in the Viceroy Curry House in Wolverhampton, head in hands, muttering "I'm tired. I want to go home".

How to Write a Pathetic Personal Ad

Good conversation always is good

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lumberjacked

Lumberjacked is a project that makes it possible to play a computer game against a tree.

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Cardboard Fun

Hakos, which I've never heard of but look like cardboard Kubricks, to download, cut out and make. Includes Samurai Jack and Mojo Jojo.

Halloween Party

Halloween Party in honour of Diane Holmes' 50th. Zoe as a spider...

(she won) and deadmanjones as Aku, shape shifting master of darkness

(I didn't, and I didn't unleash an unspeakable evil either).

Happy Halloween

Zoe makes me a sandwich most days...

John Peel Day

We spent our John Peel Day at the Baker's Vault evening hosted by Darren Poyzer ('Admission free + free chip butties'). Highlight was Anarchy in the UK on a concertina, from a TMBG / Eels type duo.

I couldn't tell where Poade was, despite all his phone calls, but he seemed to be listening to some popular beat combos too.

Hallowe'en geekery

This gives me so many ideas but I'm sure they'll go unappreciated...

Zoe and Scott's Birthdays

So it was arranged we were getting a 10am train on Saturday morning for the one and only train going to Nantwich that day. Well, after the drinking onslaught we'd subjected ourselves to for George's birthday the night before, that was never going to happen. Me n Zoe don't remember anything after Gaia. Don't know where we went, don't know what we did, but we weren't well on Saturday morning. So a slow start to the day was necessary, and we eventually dragged ourselves to Stockport station at 12:45 where we randomly meet a couple of party people. Bugger, it's a replacement bus. Double bugger, there's no driver. The rail guys did eventually procure a driver, I can only presume by kidnapping him, as he was from London and this was his 2nd day on the job. He didn't know the way to either Wilmslow, Sandbach or Crewe. Having transferred all the Wilmslow passsengers to a different bus he only had to worry about Sandbach and Crewe, and us four were his only passengers. So we navigated whilst he drove. Had to stop the bus a couple of times to get directions, but we got there and made it to Nantwich Beer festiival by two, five hours late, a fact few seem content to let us forget.

From what I can make out from my scribbles on the programme, I sampled:

1. Raven Ale, Orkney
2. Audley Gold, Townhouse
3. Ode2Joy, Station House
4. 45, Northern
5. Gold, Williams
6. ?
7. Auld Humdinger, Houston

whilst Zoe sampled:

1. Town Crier, Hobsons
2. Eastgate Ale, Weetwood
3. Fraoch, Heather Ales
4. Scorpio Porter, Hanby
5. Goldings, Leatherbritches
6. ?
7. Thrappledouser, Inveralmond

We did step out to try and find the food festival, but being late, lazy, hung over / re-drunk and also being so easily distracted by the glittering delights of Nantwich's charity shops (£3.75 for a pair of roller blades), we didn't make it, so carried on drinking instead, whilst Grommett the Balloon Wyzzyrd sculpts hats for the birthday duo.


Getting back was almost more difficult than getting there. We (about 20 of us, all drunk, loud but friendly) piled onto a regular bus from Nantwich to Crewe, arriving in Crewe at exactly the same time our train to Manchester would leave. All efforts to make the driver not stop at any stops inbetween were unsuccessful. Cue an absurdly futile attempt at running hell for leather across Crewe to catch a train we knew had already left. The people of Crewe were deservedly confused by seeing such an array of dreadlocks and balloon hats racing across the little town. Now we have to go via Stoke, ho hum. get back at 10, arrive at the Contact by 11.

MANY DIFFERENT SOUNDS was a stupendous eveing of bands, soundsystems and dancing, all in aid of charity. Everyone had a fucking brilliant time, our highlights being Without A Reason (thanks for the CD guys), the cool looking t-shirts we didn't buy from kitnkabu, and whoever finished the night up in Space 2 were fucking, fucking brilliant.

After all that, Zoe's birthday has been slightly anticlimactic. A quiet day of presents, chilling and pool playing.

George's Birthday

I'm meant to be in Nantwich now you know. But we not well. Oooohhh. Anyway, we don't know where we went afterGaia last night, but I apparently stole two coats from it. If you were in a venue on Canal Street last night and you lost either a denim jacket, or a cream cord jacket with fleece lining and a pot of VO5 styling clay in the pocket, they're round at my flat. Sorry.

Can I borrow a shovel?

One of those stupid questions that you really wish you knew the answer to. Now you can!

Kate's Leaving Do 16/09/05

Photo's from Kate's Leaving Do

camp as a row of pink frilly tents

Yarr, me matey!!

It be talk like a pirate day...

Ya lily livered landlubber!

Gort, Robert Wise barada nikto

Robert Wise Dies: "He made arguably the best science fiction film of all time (DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL), the best haunted house film of all time (THE HAUNTING) and he edited the best film of all time, CITIZEN KANE." nuff said. farewell.

Dictionaraoke - The Singing Dictionary

Main Entry: dic?tio?nar?a?o?ke
Pronunciation: 'dik-sh&-'ner-A-O-ke
Definition: Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of the dictionary.

Anyone got chianti?

Mmm, I've got a craving for man flesh and can be enjoyed by carnivores and vegans alike!

Sidmouth

Last weekend myself, Poade and Maddy buggered off to Sidmouth for a couple of night's camping.

Ladram Bay near Sidmouth

We stayed at Ladram Bay which had all the facilities we needed, although a hefty old walk to Sidmouth itself up and over a big bit of headland. We ate at the fantastic Neil's Restaurant where I, forgoing 5 years of vegetarianism, had my first and last taste of Lobster. I always said I'd never deny myself an experience, and Poade said this was the best he'd ever had, so... The weekend was polished off with golf and Tea and Scones at The Cosy Teapot. Which was spiffing.

Whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?

Was watching this last night. I haven't laughed so hard all year!! Al you have to get round to watch it...

Monobrow

Having trouble with your monobrow? These new specs can solve all your hairy problems!

WTF?!

Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree

New Scientist - Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree: "A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software 'bots' to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for real cash"

British Board of Film Classification

My life has been rated:

I blame the bumming...

Peekaboom

Peekaboom, a game approved by New Scientist

Tags and Ragwort

Not known for its outstanding natural beauty, the Ladybrook Trail is a good walk for people who like urban decay and want to get to Poynton for cheap from Cheadle.

Ragwort can kill a horse you know.

GTA 'scandal'

US moral champions are shouting a lot about the GTA Hot Coffee mod, and more will be said now Oz has banned San Andreas. The outcry is because this violent, blood filled, sweary, misogynistic, racist and fucking hilarious game has been rated 15 in both the US and Oz, when of course it would have been rated 18 if they'd known it had pixelated representations of sex in it. Moral fucking champions my arse.

Vegetarian Black Pudding

I've been boring anyone who'd listen for years with my witless observation that if the pig voluntarily donated the blood I'd be able to have Black Puddings. Thanks to R.S. Ireland it looks like they won't have to: VegSoc approved Black Puddings.

Return to geekdom...

OLED keyboard, Sweet...

Fixr

Flickr let you share your photos without bothering to build a website. Now you don't have to take the photos either. Fixr: "submit a detailled description of the moment you missed to us and we'll do our very best to provide you with an image to fit your needs."

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Scientists Reanimate Dogs, Dislike Zombie Comparisons

Scientists Reanimate Dogs Dislike Zombie Comparisons

Macc Do (June 11th)

Kaz let me, Zoe and Mel gatecrash Mark and Leon's 40th at the Bulls Head, Macclesfield. The whole thing was superb - though the photos are of us, not them...

Glasto 2005

Glasto - we survived the floods, we ate the pies we watched and chanted along to The Goonies ("Hey-you-guys","Down here, this is our time, it's our time down here"), we saw (extra special brilliance indicated by bold) Undertones, The Thrills, Babyshambles, Secret Machines, Willy Mason, Alabama 3, Royksopp, The White Stripes, Levellers, Interpol, Longcut, New Order, Coldplay, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, Freestylers, The La's, Basement Jaxx. I was disappointed Cake weren't there.

Photos in the photo section. natch.

Solstice 2005

The last sunset before solstice, June 20th 2005, from Tip Hill in Poynton...


The solstice sunrise, June 21st 2005, from the heigt marker near Bowstones, Lyme Park, Cheshire...


and, er, the solstice sunset, from Lancashire Hill, Stockport...


two outta three ain't bad.

Don't thank me, thank the moon's gravitational pull

Richard Dean Anderson to guest star on The Simpsons

Forcing TMBG on people

The Summer Burn 2005

• Signup with your address details
• Burn 2 identical CDs of your favourite summer tunes.
• On the first day of Summer you'll get an e-mail from us telling you who you should send 2 CDs to.
• Post them off to the addresses you receive from us within a week of receiving the e-mail
• Sit back and relax, and wait for yours to come through the post from the people that have been selected to send you one!

The bins are a little more solitary

we make money not art: Bins and Benches

The benches love to be sat on, and they often take up position in new spaces to make themselves more attractive to potential human sitters. Sometimes, when it rains, they move themselves to drier, shadier areas of the square. To attract potential human sitting folk, they like to form patterns - the benches moving in to shapes in the centre of the piazza.

The bins are a little more solitary. When the mood takes them, the furniture like to burst in to song. Sometimes, small clusters gather together and sing a tight six-part harmony, and occasionally, though much more rarely due to their shyness, the bins join in with their sweet soprano voices.

Each bench drifts slowly around the square and is equipped with sensors that detect the presence of objects in its immediate vicinity, coming to a complete halt when any object is coming close.

reflected glory

As well as being a funny artist, Paul Loudon is also a google narcissist, as his comment on this previous blog post proves. Anyway, since I waxed lyrical about his student portfolio, he's got himself a website of his stuff, including his sick animals range, which are apparently on sale in Manchester now, at Magma on Oldham Street (always good for a browse) and Urbis.

scuse me... sorry... scuse me... sorry

Three firsts last night:

1. First time I've seen a play with no breaks in it
2. First time I've bought tickets for four rows from the front and right in the middle.
3. First time I've arrived late...

Oh well, An Inspector Calls was still superb, despite us.

not a neighbour, not even on the same block

666 might not be the number of the beast... "A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist".

Though of course, like EVERY prognostication in history, it has more to do with the situation at the time it was written than the abstract interpretations given since...

"...scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone's name.

'It's a number puzzle -- the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero.'

Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. 'It's a very political document,' Dr. Aitken said. 'It's a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it's written in coded language and riddles.'"

Bank Holiday Monday

A wee wander into the Delamere Forest.

2CV4C4

Someone at XBam has redone the C4 dancing robot car ad using a Citroen 2CV. And it's fucking genius.

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elgooG

So everybody uses Google now, but can you guess what the search word is from the pictures?

Moonwalking bird

Ok, there's this bird right? and it's a moonwalkin, know what i'm sayin?

The I.T. Crowd

C4 launches IT sitcom: "Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has joined with The Office’s producer Ash Atalla to create a new sitcom for Channel 4.

The I.T. Crowd, which forms part of the station’s new summer line-up, follows two geeks who work in an IT department."

GuideMeGreen

GuideMeGreen: "There is a growing public perception that companies are ignoring health and environmental concerns in their quest
to maximise profit and in doing so they ignore other equally important issues such as environmental concerns and
local communities.

GuideMeGreen offers a real alternative for people concerned with these issues and with businesses that
combine a strong ethical dimension in tandem with making profits."

Aubergine Monster

Cookie Monster curbs cookie habit:

"The blue-furred muppet who used to sing 'C is for Cookie' will now tell viewers that 'A Cookie is a Sometimes Food'.

Last year Cookie Monster revealed that before eating his first cookie his name was Sid.

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Remote controlled flies:

Scientists at Yale have genetically designed triggers in the brains of fruit flies that allow the flies' behaviour to be controlled with laser light. The light controls alter how the flies jump, beat their wings and fly in an escape response.

Sweet Dreams Security

Sweet Dreams Security...

"Fences with bunny rabbits for posts, razor-wire woven with butterflies, padlocks shaped like teddy bears and cat-like CCTV camera covers are just part of the Sweet Dreams Security™ range. Vicious but cute, designer Matthias Megyeri has carved an exciting new market for security products that respond to the uncomfortable balance of the growing demand for safety, exaggerated by the media, and the over-saturation of ‘niceness’."

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foolish findings

Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion: "The erosion has already revealed a large slab of jet-black rock deep in the crater". Some interesting observations from John Koenig too.

Polar Bears and Moai

Dreadfully generic photos of Zoe and Alan doing the tourist thing in London. No Andy, we did not have time to visit you. Not a party trip this one, but enough time to buy a 3 day travelcard as soon as we arrived on the Monday then walk from Hyde Park to Westminster to Leicester Square and see everything inbetween in a single sunny afternoon.
The second day brought enough time to buy many comic book items from Gosh!, visit the British Museum (getting to see the Rosetta Stone made Alan a happy bunny) and have dinner at the Bombay Brasserie (five yards from our hotel, the Millennium Gloucester (4 star means something slightly more luxurious than it did in Amsterdam I can assure you)). We recommend the Palak Pakodi Chaat and the Bhindi Jaipuri.
Our final full day was spent entirely in the National Theatre, watching His Dark Materials from 2 in the afternoon till 10.15. Superb entertainment it has to be said.

Amsterdam

Photos of deadmanjones and Zoe's trip to Amsterdam are now available; they're not of the highest artistic value, and are generally of the clog/windmill/coffeeshop tourist quality, so I can't guarantee it's worth your bandwidth to go take a look.

For what it's worth, here's some lists of what we did do, preceded by an explanation of the everyday machinations that made such activities possible.
We stayed at the Port van Cleve. It's 4 star, but star rating in Amsterdam does not guarantee you a sizable room nor a significant thickness of wall. Whilst the hotel was well located and we were well provided for, you may consider the extra expense over a hostel not worth the effort. A bike is well worth hiring if you plan to journey the city and beyond. Otherwise, both bikes and public transport are needless accessories for a compact and easily navigable city. Amsterdam is not the Venice of the north; there may be a lot of canals, but they are not the principal thoroughfares and are not the best landmarks to navigate by. We navigated the city using the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide and the Coffee Shop Guide. We rented bikes from the first place we found off Dam Square - Damstraat Rent-a-bike, for 35 euros for the week. As far as eating goes there are plenty of varied cuisines to choose from, though breakfast can be a trial if you don't want to gorge on pancakes or ham and eggs. If you like fallafel you're in luck cos it's the Amsterdam equivalent of chip shops. We went to Green Planet twice because of the friendly service and eco-vege menu. Lieve was an experience from the moment we opened the door. Before you see a menu you're asked to select an ambience to eat in; gastranomic, Belgian baroque or traditional. The website gives more details, but check the photos for the selection card we were given and the fab decor of the place. We're not sure if it was something they put in the wine, but we decided we were given some of the best food we've ever eaten, in particular the intense chocolate dessert which more or less induced orgasm. Well recommended.

what we did do
All the coffeeshops we visited listed vaguely in order of merit (created with the assitance of the Coffee Shop Guide (the best guide to Amsterdam regardless of drug philosophy and usually available to buy in the very first coffeeshop you pass over the threshold of))...

1. Abraxas
2. Rokerij
3. Dampkring
4. Barney's
5. Greenhouse
6. Bluebird
7. Pink Floyd
8. The Doors
9. Jolly Joker
10. the bushdocter

...thought frankly we generally only visted the best, so the tail end of the list doesn't represent places we hated.

Places to go and things to do because we did and we liked (1) obvious: Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh museum, Zaanse Schans, Anne Frank Huis, Vondelpark...

Places to go and things to do because we did and we liked (2) less obvious: Amsterdam Bos, Tuschinski Theatre, Sauna Deco, IJ micro-brewery (Brouwerij 't IJ)...

Places we ate: Green Planet, Lieve

Places we drank: IJ micro-brewery (Brouwerij 't IJ),de barderij, Soho, Casablanca, Cafe Schiller

Places we danced: Back 2 Back xtra large at Kingdom in Marcanti Plaza.

Places we shopped: Henk

Things people frequently do but we didn't for one reason or another: See a live sex show, try a vaporiser, visit the erotic museum, visit the hemp museum, heineken museum, royal palace, any of the churches, ride a tram...

Questions we did not find the answer to: why is Betty Boop everywhere, why are there so many shops specialising in light fittings.

Things you should never do in Amsterdam: walk on a cycle lane, try to pronounce Van Gogh the same way Dutch people pronounce it.

Batman New Times

"more fun than a tub of monkeys bathing in nair". I don't know what that means, but Harry is right, this is way funest. Batman: New Times - Adam West as Batman, Mark Hamill as the Joker and Dick van Dyke as Comissioner Gordon in a CGI Lego short film. Action packed and pretty damn amazing and hilarious. Waaaaay huge download, but well worth it.

29th Birthday

Last night saw me and the missus indulging in a Japanese Evening on the eve of my 29th Birthday.



This involved using the ingredients provided by Japanese Kitchen to make sushi and tempura veg. Easy peasy, if messy (the tempura bit anyway). Everything was delicious, apart from the red cabbage roll where Zoe went mad with the Wasabi. All washed down with warm saki and followed up with Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Volume 2. Given our propensity for all things anime, the DVD watching didn't exactly mark the evening as unique, but everything else was a first.
Tonight we go see a covers band called Beaver at Stockport's Baker's Vaults with my brothers. Because, frankly, Chemical Brothers were sold out.

wassup

"People wanting to contact extraterrestrial beings through
www.TalkToAliens.com can dial a premium rate US number and have their call routed through a transmitter and sent into space through a 3.2-metre-wide dish in central Connecticut, US."

Hello aliens, this is Earth calling

whilst topical steroids can be given to babies as a snack treat

Cancer warning over eczema creams

If I die, remind me I blogged this so I only have myself to blame.

okily dokily neddy

Pacemaker 'cure' for depression

"Scientists have developed a "brain pacemaker" that can cure depression by drilling holes into the skull and attaching electrodes to the brain which create a brighter mood."

you sank my shitting battleship

Battleships with Mr Insult. Puerile.

It's Just a Plant

It's Just a Plant

"We believe that a child's first awareness of drugs should come from a better source than the government, the media or drug manufacturers. It's Just a Plant is for parents who want to be involved in discussing and educating their children abou the effects, the dangers and the benefits of marijuana."

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Japanese Shirt

This alleged Japanese shirt slogan...


...sums up rather neatly why I never buy shirts with foreign writing I don't understand on them. You're all wandering around with "My gerbil has strangle nun lots" written on your chests, you do know that don't you?

Sudan 1: What every parent should know

The ever funny Rockall Times comes up with a brilliant response to the current "a cat we once gave it to caught cancer thirteen years later" Sudan 1 'crisis'...

My boy loves his Thin & Crispy Pizza with Pepperoni and Worcester Sauce. Now they tell me it could kill him. What the hell am I supposed to do?
Stay calm. There are literally dozens of alternatives to pre-cooked meals which will help your son through the temporary withdrawal of processed-meat-product-topped dough discs.
Oh yeah? Name one.
Fruit.
I've heard of that. How many minutes in the microwave?
No, you can eat it raw. Apples are good.
You must be joking. I'm not letting my child eat something which just fell off a tree. God alone knows what he might catch.

phunny links and more

On the 9th of September 2004 at 2 in the afternoon, Bazzoh sent us all a link to TOWER BLASTER. It has 8 levels. As of today's date, February 22nd 2005, I have completed it.

There will therefore be no apology or expression of regret to the Daily Mail group

Mayor of London's Statement 22 February 2005: "To the Daily Mail group I say that no-one in Britain is less qualified than they to complain about anti-semitism... the Mail group no longer smears Jews as bringing crime and disease to the UK... they have moved on and now describe asylum seekers and Muslims in similar terms. For the Mail group the victims may change but the intolerance, hatred and fear pervade every issue of the papers."

The full text of red Ken's statement is well worth the read. You'd be aggrieved if the Daily Mail accused you of racism too. It's like Hugh Heffner complaining about pronography.

he stomped terra

As you attorney I recommend something stronger than aspirin.

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Come to think of it, I never noted the passing of a similar hero last month...

"Malcolm Hardees final send-off was completed last night with a gig at the club he founded – ending with a stage full of dancing naked men, including one with a firework up his backside."

Malcolm Hardee was clearly more than just a todger with a balloon in front of it. He was also a thief and a drunkard. Someone to admire and love in fact. Many funny tales at the Malcolm Hardee memorial guestbook, including entries from Jerry Sadowitz, Charlie Chuck, Jeremy Hardy et al.

Happy Computers Training - A Great Place to Work

Happy Computers Training - A Great Place to Work is "a great place to work"... and their disclaimer proves it. After reading it I'm convinced it's not only a great place to work, but that all the people who work for it would be great people to go for a drink with too.

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Notepad Invaders

Notepad Invaders. The sound will drive youm schizoid.

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Miss Betty at the thrift store

'Dave' made fun of this before I managed to, but John Galliano's "sweatshirt and down vest layered over loose trousers, with a chunky knit cap", as featured in the New York Times, is a sight to behold. Not for the usual antipredispostmodern fashion-bashing reasons, but because, intentionally or not, it looks like every old, insane-yet-endearing, homeless woman that has appeared in an American movie from the 1980s to the present day...

Underwater gnome threat 'returns'

Underwater gnome threat 'returns': "Wastwater is quite clear at the bottom, but there's nothing to see. At a depth of about 48m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them. But several years ago there were a number of fatalities and the Lake District National Park Authority asked us to get rid of them... now there's a rumour about a new garden beyond the 50m depth limit."

I first read this story on my phone, where the graphic used was a jocular line of gnomes. On the BBC website however they're evidently doing their best to make it sound serious - but really you know the apostrophes should be around 'threat' in their headline and not 'returns'...

Death, dinosaurs and gopher sex

Damn funny cartoons from Nicholas Gurewitch over at the Perry Bible Fellowship (thankyou Andrew).

Which reminds me; Don Herztfeldt's new film is finally completed and doing the rounds. In America.

Film festival scmilm festival

The most important event at Cannes this year - Sony Ericsson releasing new products. Mmmmm, K600i. What the news media is picking up on is that now they're going to do Walkman's. Clever old news media. We've already got mobiles devices with MP3, a good size memories and a speakers, but that's not news. Sellotape a walkman logo to it though and suddenly it's new technology.

make money not art cull

2 links stolen from we make money not art...

Coming to a bin near you, the spy that tells how much rubbish you create: "...the microchips will be used to tell council officers how many of the borough's 100,000 bins the refuse collectors have emptied and how many have been missed.... [they] may well be adapted so that the council can judge whether they are producing too much rubbish."

Multi-player PacMan jumps between devices

Multi-player PacMan jumps between devices: "PacMan Must Die! - is played on Toshiba Pocket PC hand-held computers, which automatically connect to one another via an ad-hoc wireless computer network.

When a ghost leaves one side of the player's screen, instead of reappearing on the opposite side of the maze in the same display, it instantly leaps to the nearest person's console. To continue, the player must look over that person's shoulder at his or her computer screen."

Big Bass Theory

Brief History of Rhyme: "Dr. Hawking lost the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985. Since then he's used a speech synthesizer that speaks for him when he types in the computer what he wants to say. After seeing the Beastie Boys in 1988, be became obsessed with rap and immersed himself in the culture, favoring the harder-edged music by NWA and The Ghetto Boyz. From this, MC Hawking was born. Here are 16 dope, booty shaking, digitally mastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics..."

RFID badges coming to a school near you

RFID badges coming to a school near you: "the only grade school in a California rural town, is requiring students to wear FRID badges that can track their every move. Teenagers must wear those identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher's handheld computer"

gizoogle

"...Me n Nizzle on our recent tizzy ta tha alps..."

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Geekgate

Hi George readers, here's some Stargate news.

On the day the 90 minute episode Threads has its global premiere on UK channel Sky One, there comes the offical website for the computer game (can't be worse than Samurai Jack), and news that the Beau Bridges, the Louis Gossett Jnr and the Mitch Pileggi will all be joining Stargate next season. Beware spoilers on that last link George readers...

Project Blinkenlights

Project Blinkenlights: "With Arcade you can play Tetris with your mobile phone - on a playground 3370 metres square in size. Whoever stands in front of Bibliotheque nationale de France can connect himself with the building by dialing 33 (1) 44 24 73 50. The current show will be interrupted and the text 'TETRIS' announces that the game can begin."

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black manga

Face Perception

Lee sent me a link to web application called a Face Transformer. I tried the different options on my face and here are the results:

1)Original Photo, 2)Baby Face, 3)Teenager

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4)As an older man, 5)Of Afro-Caribean origin, 6)Of East-Asian origin


7)Of West-Asian origin, 8)Feminised, 9)In the style of Modigliani


10)In the style of Botticelli, 11)In the style of El-Greco, 12)In a japanese manga cartoon style


13)Apeman (50% chimpanze)

Laptop MISSING too

I'm still here by the way, but my laptop's in Scotland, hence the lack of posts. Anyway, as an update to this, some good linkage for you people.

• UK Scene >Oct 23rd Photos
• more photos
• Principle Organizers
• online haunt of everyone else

Supper With The Stars

Supper With The Stars: Go West... "will be more than happy to perform a medley of hits after dinner in the privacy of your own home. Special Requirements: 3 electrical sockets and also an 8 x 6 foot area in which to perform."

Meanwhile Nik Kershaw chats about his career "at length", whilst Schnorbitz "will fetch and play dead". (Special Requirements: A dog bowl, basket (with mo-hair blanket) and a bone)...

You're still using DVD's? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

In my opinion VHS died when one of the mainstream home appliance shops decided to stop selling recorders.

It seems that DVD's end might already be in sight with the introduction of Blu-ray. It can store upto 27GB (54 GB double-layer) compared with the measly 4.7GB stored in a standard DVD. That's 13 hours of starndard video or 4.5 hours of high-definition video, which seems to be the main reason for launching it in the first place.






p.s. why do they always launch a novelty size player with any new format?

Bible Porn

"Bible porn continued. In place of the official CHIC lesson every night, I read to my campers about how Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him, the sexual purity laws from Leviticus, how Noah got drunk and naked and his sons had to cover him up, and the place in Song of Songs where it talks about breasts."

A funny tale from Erik Hanson, who discovered that indoctinating against indoctrination is indoctrination. Many more intersting bits and bobs over at Killing the Buddha, the religious magazine for the irreligious.

Nack's Photos

what me and zoe did do at the new years. we did have a lovely time and would go again.