February 2008
87 posts
I’m Alfie Noakes! Allo Alfie!
White people can like purple drink too! →
Oh, ok. Maybe not. Thanks, TSF.
God vs Atheists vs The People vs Hitchens vs TSF... →
Roughly a week ago I posted a link to a link to a video debate between Christopher Hitchens and some whining Rabbi. It led to some typically interesting (if occasionally still belligerent) commentary from Tartley. I was taken by the debate because of the quality of presentation by Christopher Hitchens and his arguments against the existence of God. He had logic, and made sense, whereas the Rabbi...
Gothamist: Deliverymen for Saigon Grill Get Some... →
DMC taught me a long time ago to tip one’s waiter 20% in New York. It’s quite accepted as the norm out here. It’s also easier to work out than 12.5%, and I’m sure that they could make better use of those extra 5 bucks than I would. My only exception is where an “optional” service charge is included already, in which case I’ll go with what they recommend on...
“‘Suck my d*** f*** face’. The message had been meant to be seen only...”
– Ho ho ho And not in a father christmas way.. Yes, I know it’s Beeb front page, but this is too good to pass up.
Mac OS X Dictionary - list of presidents, the... →
And no, not by using the Wikipedia bit. Stumbled across this while trying to get to grips with the Mac OS Dictionary API (still can’t find what I need - may have to revert to reverse-engineering the Wikipedia dictionary entry).
tartley.com » If it's good enough for Benny... →
Tartley expressed disgust at people’s shallowness for letting it be believed that there was even a market for freezing your pet’s DNA samples for later cloning. His parting question was two-fold: Why do we bother working hard for a living when we could just siphon cash off idiots with too much money? Would his family be content to replace him with a look-alike? My attempt to answer him...
The answer to the $64m question? $60m →
I wondered out loud (there I go mixing up my outlets again) yesterday what it had cost to put up the soon to be shot down military satellite just 14 months ago. The answer, it seems, is $60m. Cheap at twice the price, since I can no longer fathom amounts of money greater than 20 quid.
Macbeth. Patrick Stewart. Rupert Goold. Perfect. →
I did Macbeth when I was at school, abridged, and in our English lessons and although it was awesome (I did the lights), this was just slightly better. Be fair though. We didn’t have a lot of money (approximately none), and we were 12. Also, none of us had ever been a space captain. We also weren’t allowed to have guns. Or hardcore porn. Or a lift/elevator. My stunningly awesome wife...
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T9 Karma
More T9 Karma. Sometimes context is crucial (as with the “in out”). Need any help? = Need boy help? trial = trick nude = muff See earlier posts (1 and 2) BTW, I can’t believe that when I originally posted GPJT’s “in out” I made reference to Burgess and missed a piss-easy “Burgess not Burger” joke. Loser.
Google iPhone usage shocks search giant. It... →
Create a mobile device with a nice big screen. Check. Make it intuitive and responsive. Check. Give it a browser almost as good as a desktop computer’s. Check. Integrate Google Search with the address bar of said browser. Check. Sell a few million of these things to people who cannot function without the internet. Check. Why are Google surprised that there are “50 times more search...
Imagine being a kid today... →
Dancing Elmo! How long before hands up arses are a thing of the past? This is pretty impressive stuff. But it’s not how I grew up. You’ve heard it all before. This Elmo dancebot is pretty incredible, but is it better than a meccano set? Who am I to say? I suspect I’d like both animated Millennium Falcon (complete with holochess) and a self-repairing mighty-morphing meccano set.
The Final Frontier →
OMG it’s just like totally James Bond. Just how much money did the US Military waste on putting this “small bus” into space just 14 months ago? How much will it cost to shoot down? How many Virgin Galactic passengers will be wiped out by the remaining debris (incidentally, puking is not the final frontier)? aaronindenver: I never thought I’d see the day when we were shooting...
Badvertising: Escalator Ads aka Queue Of Idiots →
All I can think is that people will just stand at the bottom watching the ads scroll past, pissing off people who really need to use them. Kings Cross tube seems to get closed because of overcrowding once a week. Don’t see how this would help.
Actors, Politics, Photos, Disaster, Humour. Kottke...
Wow. While the DMC is off watching MGMT and Naysayer, I’m just going to post links to Kottke’s current 4 articles in my RSS feeder, and some shortcuts. Old Man Jason is on fire: Actors. And Photographing them. And Jack Nicholson thinks back. Politics. Disasters. And photos of them. Humour. Of course, tangentially political. There sometimes seems no point in having your own site. Watch...
Dubai: Fuck you →
How can Dubai be one of the leading lights in the fantastical exploration of architecture and civil engineering when at the same time they can totally fuck everything up in Medieval fashion. Tosspots. Sort. It. Out.
Conventional Marriage? Never. →
The Brits certainly have a way to beat about the bush and find it immensely difficult to accept anything remotely out of the ordinary. Take this Daily Mail article. It’s Tilda Swinton for Christ’s sake. It’s quite charming and touching the way the British press tries to accept what she’s doing with an undertone of disdain whilst trying to figure out just where on the PC...
Police state? Never. →
With all the hubbub of the US elections and the waterboarding BS that’s being flapped around over here, we forget the simple stories that lead to innocent Brits being shot in the head because, well, Terrorists Win! Good job my iPod is white. Oh, wait, no it isn’t. Good job we all listen to scared little ladies. The aparteid police-state world that my good friend Tom Sharpe ripped to...
Aaron's Day Off: Modular Phone - The Answer to all... →
Aaron already talked about this. It looks great, in theory. So often so many concepts end up being half-arsed or retarded or just vapourware. This looks like it’s shaping up to be something real. And perhaps special. A gallery from EngadgetMobile shows some more Modu in action. Oh, and a video.
Woman files $54m lawsuit against Best Buy for... →
Way before I moved to America I felt I knew what a litigious nightmare lay this side of the pond. It’s a retarded thing to have to say, but last year the law saw fit to throw out the case of the damaged pants. A lawyer no less wanting shitloads of money from a small family run dry cleaner’s because they damaged his trousers or something like that. Perhaps they lost them. It really...
Scribble? Tibble?
Tumblr has brought to my attention what appears to be a gap in the English language; Tumbleposts are often hurried, and typically the only tidiness inherent in them is thanks to the simplicity and regiment of the Tumblr framework. I have on a couple of occasions already referred to my “scribbles” here, somewhat concerned that a scribble involves a physical interaction between marker...
An apology
Sorry I haven’t scribbled too much in the last couple of days. There have been a few moments of turmoil around here, but the good news is that I did get to grab a Royale burger on Friday night with the big LC&A, and I am finally feeling slighty better. Normal service is scheduled to resume soon.
More on Cat in jail in the UAE →
The site’s been updated to work now, and there’s more press awareness of the issue on a daily basis. This can only be good news. Sign the petition if you haven’t yet.
“Yesterday Mr. Hall wrote that the printer’s proof-reader was improving my...”
– Mark Twain on the publishing process of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Good man.
“It was like God was holding my leg and beating the **** out of me for everything...”
– James Krueger, Tornado survivor Tornados are not funny. Lucky (or graced by God if you want to believe the locals) James Krueger is one hell of a dude though.
Interview on XBMC for OSX →
Nerd alert. Just a quick follow-up to my post the other day on XBox Media Center for the Mac: An interview with one of the coders (via the giz). Not much new here, but a brief yet fairly realistic take on the target market and their development direction, I think. Not knocking Linux, but not blindly adopting it either. In case you can’t tell, I’m quite geekcited about this one…
Finally, some sense, but too late →
I’m not going Britneytastic all of a sudden, don’t worry. But Lindsay’s right in the reblogged post below of course, and finally by making her father (perhaps not the best choice, but better than the previous operation) in charge of her estate and by banning her manager from going anywhere near anyone or anything Britney, the pathetic US legal system has done what it should have...
“Britney turns to Ghalib and grabs his arm. “I don’t want her talking to me!” she...”
– The Tragedy of Britney Spears : Rolling Stone (via jessicagoldharalson) Okay, seriously. I’ve seen millions of articles, tv specials, magazine covers, whatever and here’s the thing: this woman is going to die. She’s going to die because she’s gone insane, and her children have been taken away...
“It’s finally happened—M. Night Shyamalan has lost his damn fool...”
– NYCFilmCritic.com: Lady in the Water Once, maybe twice a year I see a movie that’s so shit I feel that it surpasses all others. The first time I was acutely aware of this was with Cecil B. Demented. It happened again with The Phantom Menace. V for Vendetta. Van Helsing. But this does it...
nixta: Not updating nixtarolls.nixta.com anymore... →
Free Diz - get Cat Le-Huy out of prison in Dubai →
The laws seem pretty harsh. If you’re too lazy to even click on the link:The very worrying thing about Dubai law is that if they do a urine test on you and find that you have traces of anything illegal in your system – independent of where you consumed these illegal substances, then this will count as smuggling and the minimum charge for anything drug related is 4 years. Even if the charge...
WatchI never thought I’s say this… and… it’s kind of hard to… actually… say… it… now… Gggggnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaarrrrrrr: I’m boycotting porn. There. I said it. I need a lie down, that was tough. [claimer: above video sfw unless the way teenagers dress these days offends your boss]
Republican "Civil War"? →
I mentioned the other day the perhaps overlooked effect of the close-run yet highly fired contest between Obama and Clinton on the Democtratic party. Seems the BBC feels that the republican nomination is less close run but possibly even more divisive. Then again, the Boston Globe is concerned for the Democrats too. Oh, we’re all such brittle parties. Let’s make it a three party system...
On Super Tuesday
Me: So why did you vote for Hillary over Obama?
Female chum: Well, I'm disappointed by how many women are abandoning Hillary.
Me: What, are you voting with your vagina now?
