Friday, May 20, 2005

Death by PowerPoint

Now this is what I call torture!!!!

I wonder whether American Intelligence have subjected Saddam to an attack of PowerPoint? If that don't get him talking, nothing will

And on the subject of murderous ex-dictators who deserve to burn in Hell for ever and at least a day, perhaps thewy could subject Pinochet to a never ending PowerPoint-based reminder of all the people he had murdered and all his abuses of power.

Who cares if you had a stroke, I hope you suffer

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Yes, but is it art??

Well it looks like bollocks, so it must be



Shy not go to SEattle and buy yourself a handknitted superhero costume

Friday, May 13, 2005

Password generator

This is really useful, a tool for generating passwords to websites that are esy to recover too. You put in a master password and the website name and it scrambles a secure password. There's even a boomarklet version too.

There's even a Dashboard version available from O'Reilly's website.

Sorry windows people, this one's Mac only ha ha ha

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Is Colin Baker bonkers

One for the factcheckers at the belfast telegraph, I think

Baby-faced actor David Tennant will make a great 10th Dr Who, says stage and television star Colin Baker, who is about to appear in high drama at the Opera House in Belfast.
And Baker should know - he was the sixth Dr Who and he still attends Dr Who conventions all over the world ...
... I loved my time as Dr Who, with Louise Jameson as my partner Leela in the Tardis and the bonus now is the reunions in towns like Belfast,' adds Baker. 'I spend my day with people who think I am wonderful.'


Colin Baker had Nicola Bryant and Bonnie Langford as his companions during his time in Doctor Who. Did someone make up the quotes and then not check them

Watch out world, here's the first generation of Terminators

US researchers have devised a simple robot that can make copies of itself from spare parts.
Writing in Nature, the robot's creators say their experiment shows the ability to reproduce is not unique to biology.
Their long-term plan is to design robots made from hundreds or thousands of identical basic modules.
These could repair themselves if parts fail, reconfigure themselves to better perform the task they have been set, or even to make extra helpers.


Friday, May 06, 2005

The thoughts of the last Dalek

Awww almost makes you feel sorry for the evil tin-pot monsters

HAVE KILLED MORE HUMANS. LOST COUNT PART WAY THROUGH. WHAT'S THE POINT, AFTER ALL?

THESE FEELINGS ARE CONFUSING ME. THINGS USED TO BE SO SIMPLE.

I . . . I HAVE WRITTEN A POEM ABOUT HOW I FEEL. PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU LIKE IT, AND WHY:





AS MY PLUNGER DEALS DEATH
MY SOUL PLUNGES
INTO THE DEPTHS.

MY VOICE CRIES
IN THE WILDERNESS:
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
BUT WHY?
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT
TO EXTERMINATE
FOR.

Scott's place :: Vote Dalek

How to fold a fitted sheet

Now this really will come in useful

Being lazy I'm a fan of fitted sheets but boy do I hate folding the bastardos. I've never quite managed to work out a foolproof folding method. Well here's a page that tels you how to - absolutely marvellous

Now here's a thought

If peanuts are legumes and very definitely not nuts, why are all the foodstuffs that are labelled with 'danger, may contain nuts' not labelled, 'danger, may contain legumes'?

Also, if someone is allergic to peanuts, which are legumes, why are they not allergic to peas and beans (or are they), and hence why do tins of Baked Beans come with health warnings?

If someone is allergic to peanuts (which, remember, aren't actually nuts, but grow in pods, just like peas) are they also allergic to nuts? If not, why am I constantly bombarded with warning notices telling me my food may contain traces of nuts when in fact it's legumes which are dangerous to some people?

If anybody can tell me, please leave a comment

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Only in America

SEATTLE - Police who went to the aid of a distraught man jumping off a bridge in Seattle ended up shooting him early Friday morning.

Designline - A Design Timeline

Nice site that illustrates designing a blog from start to finish using CSS within an animated gif



Just what I need - as inspiration to set abolut tidying up my template

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Macworld UK - Gartner urges Mac user vigilance

Interestingly, since the release of Tiger, Apple has dropped all mention of Virex from the Dot Mac webpage. Now I've paid for that as part of my .Mac membership and I'm intrigued that Apple would so casually dispense with a piece of software which helps to keep one's computer safe

Garbage in, garbage out

More than 120 children in Durham have taken part in a trial to see if taking a cocktail of natural oils could help performance in class.

Half used a combination of omega-3 fish oil and omega-6 evening primrose oil and half took an olive oil placebo

Results suggested that after three months, the group using the fatty acid made 'highly significant improvements' in 12 out of 13 behavioural scales, including three diagnostic ADHD features - inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Short term memory also significantly improved.


It's hardly surprising, when you see the slop that children are fed nowaday (he said, sounding like an old bastard) - all the additives and sugars and lack of vitmains, minerals and essential oils can only be to the long-term detriment of studying

Tweaking Google

There's an interesting article over at the Wall Street Journal looking into the various ways people are leveraging web technologies such as Googles new map facility.

Some good ones include Marcus Weskamp's graphical interface to Google News

Then there's an interface that ties house adverts on Craiglist to Google Maps - that's a really good one and it would be great to see that launch over here in the UK too.