Monday, January 31, 2005

iFrigate Could Blow Away iPod

I posted about toughening up your iPod the other day but the Royal Navy seem to have taken it to the extreme with the introduction of the iFrigate. Apple needn't surrender yet though - it's an interactive guide to a Type 23 Frigate. Yay for a Flash enabled Senior Service!

It looks like I can forget all thoughts of cruising the high seas listening to a random party mix. Pah.

via The Flophouse

Flash Player Prices Fall

It seems the arrival of the iPod Shuffle has forced other flash based music player manufacturers into a rethink on pricing. Yay for a price war!

FirefoxIE

Make Firefox like IE - in a very superficial fashion. Don't worry it's not a tutorial on introducing IE security flaws into the Firefox code base - it shows you how to set up Firefox with an IE LnF which could be useful for dragging across the techno fearing luddites in your family who refuse to upgrade to that there new fangled Firefox because they are 'used to' IE.

via Blogywood

Pinball Games Online Directory

This page has lots of links to pinball games you can play online at various sites. It includes a one paragraph review and screenshot of each to help you sort the wheat from the chaff.

via Ultimate Insult

London Underground : The Movie

With the amount of links we rip from the b3ta newsletter it was most remiss of me not to post a link to the London Underground mp3 in a Jam stylee from a few weeks back. Never mind I've got a chance to make amends with a link to to the new flash enabled version.

Extra flash goodness added by Manic.

EDIT: I forgot to mention - this is NSFW unless your employers don't mind shouty, sweary songs.

VW Files Charges Over Suicide Bomber Ad

Looks like we may have been slightly off in our speculation over the real culprits behind the VW ad. We thought, because no charges had been filed, that it was the usual 'company lets bad taste viral out of back door, reaps publicity, denies responsibilty'. It seems Volkswagen are pressing charges against the 'unknown pair' behind it after all.

The two apologized for offending people but refused to identify themselves. Reuters noted that under German law, charges can be filed against unknown persons, obliging authorities to track down the perpetrators.


Presumably if the offenders are tracked down and then VW drop the charges then they (VW) will be charged with wasting police time so you have to think they mean to follow this through. This should be interesting.

But why are the media still claiming the perpetrators are unknown? You'd think that with the regularity that traditional media steals stuff off the net that they might have seen their names all over the place.

via Joi Ito

Pokemon Causes Cancer

After writing about Pokemon just the other day I was shocked to find that Pokemon causes cancer! I suppose it adds new urgency to Gotta Catch 'Em All.

via Waxy

Oops! Morning folks.








More Fantasy coffins. via

The voices behind The Simpsons. Cool clip. via


SDurf Movie Posters
Surf Movie Posters of the 60's. via


First Drink of the Day. Excellent.

nuclearfiles.org/. Everything you need to know about nuclear age history. via


Pakistani painted truck
Colours on the road. Truck painting in Pakistan. via



Ahh, the memories. A brill video of babies vomiting set to music. I just love it when they get the granny in the face.

Slang of the 1920's. via

Friday, January 28, 2005

Goatse.cx? Not As Gross As This!

We've had one or two penis mutilation stories on here before but this is the mother of all knob chops. This is a livejournal page showing a series of photos of some total nutter chopping his dick off. This is NSFW. Or for anyone with a squeamish disposition. Or men. Or anybody.

You have been warned - this is grosser than you can possibly imagine. I bet you still look though!

via b3ta newsletter 167

I'm back!







Did anyone even notice that i was missing. I had some nasty problems with my PC but thanks to a couple of NewLinkers I'm almost running at full speed again.

Massive cow manure mound burns for third month.

An amusing name. via


Roller Bed
Designer Dog Bed. via


Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners

Man Pickup: A Secret World War II Pilot Rescue Manual. via

Talking Dogs. It's not that clever, we have one at NewLinks who can post stuff. Occasionally. :)

DarrenS' Amusing Classified Ads slideshow on Flickr. Neat. via

The Economists. Pointless, I know but i thought it was funny. via

Age-Maps. Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together. In this fusion a jump-of-time is established at the tear. via

Giant KitKat

Chris at qwghlm made a giant KitKat from four Chunky Kitkats and posted the pictures on Flickr.

How long will it be before we see it on supermarket shelves next to all the other super sized sweets?

WWW VIP Sir TBL (OBE) Best Brit 2004

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been selected as the Greatest Briton 2004 to go with his title and big pile of money. Yay for Sir Tim - work would be so boring without his t'interweb.

Ancient Lego Building Contest

A contest was held to recreate ancient buildings (including the Circus Maximus, Angkor Wat and the Parthenon) in the medium of Lego - here are the results.

Get Your Picture Turned Into An IPod Ad

For only $3.99!

Podapic will take any image, silhouette it, stick it on one of the five 'Apple' coloured backgrounds and add a caption so your picture looks just like an ad.

By my reckoning Bungers owes me £2.12. I'm off to start a 'turn a picture into into an ipod ad in 30 seconds and charge a couple of quid for it' business.

via Brand Brains

Armour Plate Your iPod

If you want an iPod but can't bear the thought of carrying around some piece of kit that looks wimpy then you might need the tutorial on armour plating your iPod to turn it into a shiny chromed man's toy.

It has the dual purpose of being able to take out would be muggers with a single blow.

Lego Stack-It

Here's a little Lego based puzzler called Lego Stack-It to while away a few minutes. Stack your bricks to pop balloons which gives you more bricks and so on. You can also get extra bricks by getting 3 balloons of the same colour in a row.

via Milk and Cookies

Bungers 'Wipe' Of Choice

After Bungers finishes reading his fapping how-to he'll be needing some tissues. Of course someone with a street savvy, ultra chavvy image like Bungers can't be using no Kleenex. He'll be wanting tissues that look like an iPod!

I wonder which model that is supposed to be? Is it the iPod '5 Knuckle' Shuffle™?

via boingboing

Need an African slave? Try eBay ...

Perhaps to help out round the house? Buy slaves.

More Google news to follow...

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I might have to re-do our icon now! Class!

Blingin' in the rain!

This Ad for the New Golf GTI is ace.
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The Joys of Sex Hex Caffeine

In case you hadn't noticed, ILN has been moonlighting for another site, and it's rather good™. Here are The Joys of Caffeine


Here's one for mmChronic....
"The closest you get to Starbucks in Oslo, is a chain of coffee shops called Kaffebrenneriet (The Coffee Roastery). Their greatest product is called Tors Hammer (hammer of Thor), which is a double espresso topped off with a cup of brewed coffee. Now that is pure devotion."

Maybe you should try your coffee with the 'new age' sounds of Nils-Ole Finbak here.

He's from Bodø, Norway and writea and records music in his spare time. As Nils says, "this is done at my home in "Down in the Cellar Studios"!".

His site is set up with something called Soundclick, and it's pretty cool. I've set up a page for my band, and as soon as I can convert my WAV files to mp3 and then cut them down to a more managable size, I'll post the link!

SF Babes Archives

This site runs polls on SciFi Babes and the subject of the latest is Dr Who's Assistants. There's also an archive of previous winners from other SF shows.

I suspect everyone will vote for the assistant that was current around the time they were 12/13. I'm off to vote for Leela.

via linkfilter

Any one want a DS today..?

Being a valued Nintendo customer I can get my DS VIP pack from today from the stars catalogue. For £129.99, this special pack includes:
  • Nintendo DS system

  • Super Mario 64 DS (pre-release version)(rated '3+')

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (Demo version) (rated '12+')**

  • Wario Ware Touched! (Demo version) (Rated '3+')

  • Exclusive Nintendo DS T-shirt

**The wireless multiplayer function in Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (Demo version) will not be compatible with the final European version of the game.
Europe gets the Nintendo treatment again.