July 2007
11 posts
New Music
Having returned from an excellent weekend at WOMAD. :) Dulsori (Korea) Toots and the Maytals (Jamaica) Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga (Congo/Kenya) Seth Lakeman (UK) - Third favourite Asian Dub Foundation (UK) - My favourite Beat Bristol (UK) Isaac Hayes (USA) Steel Pulse (UK) The Dhol Foundation (UK) - Second favourite Mr Scruff (UK)
House: Oh, and he was hit by a bullet.
Cameron: He was shot?
House: No, somebody threw it at him.
Civilization is coming to the DS →
This is perhaps the coolest news I’ve heard in absolutely ages.
Hydrogen Atom Scale Model →
Run Little Big Adventure 2 on Windows XP with... →
For those who grew up in the 90’s and experienced perhaps the greatest game ever.
Best movie of '06
Last week I would have said The Departed, but now I cannot decide between: The Departed Children of Men Pan’s Labyrinth BabelAnd I stll need to see The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine…
O2 'to get iPhone contract in UK' →
Worth remembering
I have seen millionaires go bankrupt multiple times and folks build a multimillion dollar a year business with less than a thousand dollars. It’s all about living within your means. NEVER EVER spend more money than you have. Avoid buying anything that depreciates (car, fashion, computer) unless it will make you more money than you spend. Easy. Impressing people (including yourself) with your...
Fantastic iPhone review from Engadget. →
I can’t wait until December!
June 2007
61 posts
Jaman, Online Cinema →
I missed this. It looks promising, I’ll have to give it a whirl.
Led Zeppelin to reunite? →
Oh, my, God, somebody clean me up; I’ve made a mess…
“You know what I hate? Perverts at swimming pools. It’s like: you run up...”
– Greg
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in,...”
– The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (currently reading)
So i got Warlords, and I have to say; I love the Great Wall wonder for 2 main reasons: How it looks it surrounds your current country with a wall, as oppossed to all other wonders that appear in the city itself. For the fact that it keeps all barbarians out of your land while you’re still a young and most likely powerless nation.
While waiting for a bus to Stroud with Tosca today a naked man wrapped in only a duvet ran past us. Another man waiting for the bus asked if anyone else saw that or if it was just him. A few moments later the man returned, still naked, still with a duvet, now carrying a bag of tobacco he’d just purchased from the Post Office around the corner. This prompted the man waiting to question where...
The Dr. Who episode, Blink is perhaps the greatest TV episode I’ve ever seen. It’s almost a shame that the story was used on only 45 minutes of film and not a feature length movie. Definitely my favourite Dr. Who episode so far, which makes 2 out of my top 3 by the writer Steven Moffat (the second was Girl in the Fireplace). The third episode he did for the show I missed when it...
Finished reading Ender’s Game today. Fantastic story and I reccomend it to everyone. However I firmly believe that, because of the children’s language in the book, the younger you are when you read Ender’s Game, the more you will like it.
Major update set for Steam →
Fingers crossed for 360-esque acheivements…
Just spent the last half an hour of work on the roof watching a police chopper, car, fire engine and ambulance arrive at the Primary School next door. Turns out a kid got dared to headbutt through one of the School’s windows with a bike helmet on. What he didn’t seem to realise was that if his head went through (which of course it did) his body would follow. Messed up his arm pretty...
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Pat: i'm alreayd pssised
Spore Slip Sliding Away →
Not Spore, please, not Spore…
“The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that...”
– Kevin Spacey
“I want to meet [Derren Brown] on the street and shout at him ‘til he mind...”
– Miles
Lucid Dreams →
I used to get these as a kid, I loved them but didn’t know this is what they were or how to provoke them myself. Interesting stuff.
A* Pathfinding for Beginners →
Pixar's WALL•E Trailer →
Holy crap, Finding Nemo, A Bug’s Life and Monster’s Inc. were all thought of at the same time.
OS X Leopard on Amazon →
Loving the plug for Vista!
Ender's Video Game →
This could be so very good, but then again, so very bad. I have my finger’s crossed.
I get to play Team Fortress 2 on October 9th! →
Screw my birthday, 4 days earlier, I’m counting down ‘til the ninth.
WatchFire Physics Simulation — Oh my god.
A Very Sweet Solution →
Steve Jobs’ arrogance kicks himself in the teeth.
Clarkson's First Ferrari →
Films
Jon asked me for a list of films he could work through and I came up with this, in no particular order: American History X Usual Suspects LA Confidential American Beauty Fight Club Primal Fear Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid The Sting Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Kill Bill (1 and 2) Se7en Batman Begins The Prestige Memento The Departed Shaun of the Dead Hot...
101 Best Screenplays →
Butch Cassidy needs to be 10 places higher, but otherwise a great list.
Here’s a lil theory I want to record: Apple will release Leopard for PCs. Apple are moving away from Mac’s and towards software and accessories. The iPod, Apple TV, iPhone and now Safari are all being released universally, it’s a perfectly logical (and very profitable) step to release Leopard to PCs, they will make much more money from selling the OS than they will lose from...
Apple.com Redesign →
The tabs are gone… FINALLY!
Phylotaxis →
Awesome visualization tool.
A few things...
Primal Fear is awesome, American History X is awesomer, I’m loving Coldplay, again. Civilization 4 is now dominating my life, Ocean’s 13 looks like it may live up to 11 and Django rocks.