2008
08.13

A very long fag break

I may have sent this link to a couple of you before but you should all observe this poor bastard’s ordeal.

The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs…”

2008
07.23

Shameless self promotion

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i shamelessly plug a blog just on the off chance that any of you are interested in what i’ve been doing the last 4 years

http://eoinshea.blogspot.com/

2008
07.22

The Rut

Very funny cartoons at The Rut, – this one, for example.

2008
07.20

Watchmen Trailer

Jizz jizz jizz. New trailer for the upcoming Watchmen adaptation. Don’t know if you’ve ever read it but it’s pretty sick.

2008
07.13

Lego Computer

Some guy has built a computer using lego – pure genius.

Best bit? The little blue doors you can open to cool the PSU…

2008
05.22

Yassir Arracat

2008
04.23

In case you are currently living under a rock… http://discipline.nin.com/

2008
04.02

w00t; some mad python hacker has created an iPlayer download script for XBMC!

2008
03.19

BigDog is a (downright terrifying) robot designed by Boston Dynamics (funded by those doomsday loving scientists at DARPA). The following video demonstrates how it can keep its balance when on rough terrain, deliberately kicked and even on black ice (which most of us would have trouble walking on)!

BigDog

2008
03.18

MI5 want Oyster card records

Slashdot cites a story in the Observer about the Security Service seeking to trawl the database of 17 million Londoners’ travel records collected by the Oyster card system.

Boy, I never saw that one coming(!)