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Down Today - Jonathan Coulton- Manchester Academy. I wish...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:49:26 +0100

Down Today - Jonathan Coulton- Manchester Academy.

I wish everyone who plays a ukulele played a ukulele the way Jonathan Coulton plays a ukulele. With his fake gut strings.

The Watford Riots

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:27:17 +0100

The Watford Riots:

@weaselpipe writes of the riots that never were.

Then at 6, when the shops close on a Tuesday, people began claiming all the shops had closed early because of the riots. A couple of the bars at the top of the town (closest to the park) actually did board up a window or two, but as I walked through the town everything was exactly as normal- just with more nervous people. At about nine the rumours started that a local cocaine dealer had boasted on facebook that there were now nearly 400 people gathering in Cassiobury park and it was all about to kick off. I decided to take my dogs to that park for a walk and a look.

Having lived in Watford through my formative years, I particularly loved this description of the mindset of the place:

A quick note on the mindset of Watford, as a town. It is situated just within the M25 but also within the boundaries of Hertfordshire- this gives it the belief that it can have the best and worst of both Herts and London. If a rapist is reported as being active ‘in Hertfordshire’, the people of Watford can be on edge, likewise on 7/7 people were on tenterhooks as “we’re technically London though”. On the other side of the coin you can be excited about the olympics coming to “our city” and also be smug about all the excellent grammar schools Hertfordshire has to offer. It is a truly conflicted place full of teenagers who believe they live in a ‘Kidulthood’ style urban environment, and their parents who believe they live in a 1980’s middle-class Essex dream.

Best picture I’ve seen today. Amazing cleanup effort going...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:25:04 +0100

Best picture I’ve seen today. Amazing cleanup effort going on in London. Particularly love the Twitter hashtag: ‘#riotwombles’.

Pic by Ricky Wilson (yes, *that* one, who predicted this a while ago) via Nick Rougvie.

travisestrella: Hot dripping JUSTICE.

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:47:25 +0100

travisestrella:

Hot dripping JUSTICE.

The Beautiful Ones/Sex On Fire. (Beyoncé at Glastonbury) Watch...

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:59:41 +0100

The Beautiful Ones/Sex On Fire. (Beyoncé at Glastonbury)

Watch it quick before the BBC have it taken down.

Plot Device. Awesome short film. (via John August)

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:02:00 +0100

Plot Device. Awesome short film. (via John August)

Who doesn’t like a buttery biscuit base?

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:18:29 +0100

Who *doesn’t* like a buttery biscuit base?

"Our Japanese customers once taught us that their superheroes don’t wear capes."

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:00:06 +0100

“Our Japanese customers once taught us that their superheroes don’t wear capes.”

- From the Apple Retail 10th Anniversary Poster. Most of the poster is fairly typical American corporate guff, but really I liked that line, referring to the role of the Apple Stores after the recent earthquake in Japan.

star trek and romance I so wish I’d thought of this.

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:35:06 +0100

star trek and romance

I so wish I’d thought of this.

And today’s earworm is… (From here [App Store Link])

Wed, 18 May 2011 19:14:13 +0100

And today’s earworm is…

(From here [App Store Link])

Activate the Queen! Considering the popularity of the...

Tue, 17 May 2011 16:01:58 +0100

Activate the Queen!

Considering the popularity of the ‘ACTIVATE THE QUEEN’ meme, this video has far too few views.

"Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino..."

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:01:25 +0100

“Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender (he once climbed Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit to raise money to fight the cretinous trade in rhino horn), Apple Computer has lost its most eloquent apologist. And I have lost an irreplaceable intellectual companion and one of the kindest and funniest men I ever met.”

- Richard Dawkins’ Lament for Douglas Adams

Your New TV Ruins Movies

Tue, 10 May 2011 14:00:06 +0100

Your New TV Ruins Movies:

Maybe you got a new TV for Christmas. Or maybe you just got one recently. Maybe you are thinking of buying one. Whichever is the case, take heed: your TV will try very, very hard to make whatever movies you watch on it look not just bad, but aggressively, satanically, puppy-drowningly bad.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I hate watching TV in other people’s houses.

Brilliant advert for Thor (Helps if you’ve seen the VW ad...

Tue, 10 May 2011 07:46:09 +0100

Brilliant advert for Thor (Helps if you’ve seen the VW ad it’s parodying, mind…)

nickclegglookingsad: Nick Clegg contemplates the crushing...

Fri, 06 May 2011 12:29:57 +0100

nickclegglookingsad:

Nick Clegg contemplates the crushing futility of existence.

Poor Nick Clegg.

merlin: Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear Commercial (circa 1983) (by...

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:11:46 +0100

merlin:

Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear Commercial (circa 1983) (by MrCrazycommercials)

Yes, I so love this.

Yes, Pixar made it.

Yes, I would love to have been in the office when a couple people were asked, “Hey, wanna go make a fake 80s commercial for Lotso? Make the tracking look screwed up.”

How to vote in tomorrow’s referendum.

Wed, 04 May 2011 20:46:40 +0100

How to vote in tomorrow’s referendum.

Here we go again.

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:02:05 +0100

Here we go again.

Spotted near Middleton Top.

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:10:42 +0100

Spotted near Middleton Top.

lonelysandwich: dalasverdugo: Head Tracking for iPad:...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:22:34 +0100

lonelysandwich:

dalasverdugo:

Head Tracking for iPad: Glasses-Free 3D Display (by DocteurCube)

Whaaaaaaaat? Saw this on vhx.tv

Whaaaaaaaat? (That’s eight a’s.)

Awesome idea.