March 31, 2005
Palestinian Downtempo Hiphop Electronica
It's funny that you sometimes bump into the most interesting links from the most unlikely places. Take tonight. I just pm'd a guy on Soulseek to compliment him on his music collection and he points me to his site which contains a load of his work which has a nice down-tempo feel reminiscent of Warp Records, but with a unique Arabic twist to it.
Well, I'm always up for giving interesting music a plug so check the site and download some of Boikutts stuff.
March 30, 2005
BBC Radio Player
One of the best things about getting ADSL is the ability you suddenly have to listen to streaming music without it cutting out every 5 seconds, due to lack of bandwidth. Now I can listen to Radio Nottingham in the heat of the Songkhla summer. Why I enjoy this I do not know as I used to hate it back in England.
By the way if you're still on shitband..the BBC radio Player does work fairly reliably, but the quality of the sound is a bit variable.
March 28, 2005
Test Cheating Game
Here's one my students would love. A game dedicated to cheating in tests. Very nice little concept, you copy your friends work while avoiding the teachers line of sight. The authors grasp of English is not too hot but it's a fun, rewarding game to explore.
I'm currently at the Henningan level.
Nasty People
The World's 10 Worst Dictators 2005
This year's top 10 arseholes who shouldn't have power....dishonourable mentions also go to the leaders of Laos and Vietnam.
March 27, 2005
No Sex Please We're American
modernatomic.com - what about girls?
A most enlightening and very po-faced pamphlet for servicemen in WWII on the dangers of shagging birds, both the variety you pay for and the ones who just fancy a quickie for free. The message is very clear, we don't mind what you lads do, but we're going to lock you sweet 16 slapper in a filthy jail cell, so don't for her sake. Here's a bit more blurb from the referring page.
Published in 1943 by the Division of Social Protection of the Office of Community War Services, the author is none other than Eliot Ness of 'The Untouchables' fame.Other charming titles in the series include "What About Our Japanese-Americans?", "The Negro And The War", and "Workers and Bosses Are Humans".
March 26, 2005
Coke-tastic
No really this is a mine of useful information associated with our favourite brown corporate liquid that used to be made from cocaine. You might otherwise like to pretend I didn't send you to a shitty tripod hosted site with some of the most unimaginative design I've ever seen.
Ah well, sometimes content is king on the Interweb.
Blankety Blank
This Page Intentionally Left Blank
Apparently a nod to the old print tradition of informing the reader of the author's intention of leaving a page blank this site's aim is to recruit members to have similar on their own sites. I can't see it catching on somehow....
Just incase you were wondering, the initial, sparse text on the page IS a link.
Gravity Defying Room
zestyping: How to really confuse your party guests.
A guide on how to turn your living room through 90 degrees and then take silly photos of your friends appearing to walk on the walls.
Crappy 8-bit imitation
Diarrhea Dan is a silly flash effort made in the style of a Spectrum game. Dan must try and find a toilet before his bowels explode or something, by testing out each o the toilet and earning a sheet of paper for answering multiple choice questions right. It's certainly quite likely that some mug paid 1.99 for a game half as entertaining as this once upon a time.
It's also by B3ta's Rob Manuel.
Is this a new trend in Flash gaming?
March 25, 2005
Hillarious Pet Product
Double Decker Cat Pram - Jesus who thinks these things up??
Haven't had a good blog entry from the B3ta newsletter for a while, and here's a corker. Just check out the pissed off looks on the cats faces by zooming in on their closeup app.
March 24, 2005
Pope's Hat Chip
I just don't know what to make of this Pope's Hat Chip thingy.
Is it viral marketing for Doritos? Is it's someone's idea to make some cash from a spuriously shaped corn chip? Whatever, it's getting blogged purely because it's the first time Google has EVER thrown up any interesting ads on my blog's adsense bar.
(I did of course not click on my own ads as that would be in violation of Google's TOS...of course.)
March 23, 2005
Dangerously Addictive Game Alert
Squares 2 is one of those crack cocaine like games that you play in very short bursts but come out wanting more. Its very simple (as these things inevitably are). Guide your black square with your mouse to collect other black squares and powerups (black circles), avoiding the red squares and powerdowns (red circles).
My current record stands at 103 collected, and no I can't remember what score that was.
On a geeky techno lovers note I love the way the music throbs in game-over mode, the jumps into highhat-enhanced life on resumption of gameplay.
March 22, 2005
Yahoo's 10
Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
Obviously told from Yahoo's perspective, this is a nice flash interface similar to the 10x10 site I featured a couple of months ago.
It's also a nice retrospective, and isn't entirely self-serving featuring as it does Creative Commons, Napster, Open Source, and Blogging.
Make A Wallet From Duct Tape
3M's Canadian Website features a fascinating article on how to construct a very neat looking and practical wallet just from the sticky grey stuff. Now it could be argued that anyone who had to make a wallet from duct-tape probably doesn't have anything much to put in it, but that said if you're broke you could always make one as a cheap present for someone.
March 21, 2005
..and you thought TEFL teachers in Thailand have it bad?
Channel 4's new series presented by Tony "Baldrick" Robinson explores some of history's worst jobs ranging from "groom of the stool" - wiping the kings arse, to "castrato" - being an opera singing eunuch.
An interesting half hours read.
March 20, 2005
Can Head
Canhead - Jay's stupid human trick.
Filed under utter idiocy, this mans unique and special talent is to stick tin cans to his baldy bonce with nothing but pure vacuum suction. What a hero!
Please Watch This Video For One Year
1 year performance video consists of two men in seemingly identical cells pacing, looking bored, looking at what appears to be a laptop, sleeping, eating, and just doing very ordinary things.
It's seems however it's not them who are trapped there...it's us. The viewer is the one who must log in and carry on where they stopped watching the last time, so it appears that whatever minimal activity i going on it's merely an illusion of captivity.
Strangely addictive.
Doggy Durex
Dog Condoms are todays double take product feature. Not quite sure whether this is for real, but my bullshit alarm is flashing.
How To BBQ a Man
This strange short instructs how to have a successful BBQ party, in which the centre piece is barbequed man...not quite as grotesque as it sounds. Very quirky and found via Monkeyfilter
Cool Stuff For Cool Dads
For Dads is a nice simple site with links to cool stuff you can teach your kids. Could be handy though of course it does seem to assume that your kid will be a boy (which on current thinking from the Doc. ours is not)