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Dirty Mouse

2007-09-12T12:55:00.000+01:00

bungers has a new job and part of my job involves blogging now. So all is good. I've also just been invited to be a contributor on this rather swanky new site called Dirty Mouse.

Visit the mouse for sweet design related resources!

Every film would be better with Transformers

2007-07-06T07:39:00.000+01:00

Here's proof that every film that has ever been made would be better with the addition of Transformers.

Lord of the Rings

300

I;m sure there's more, I'll see if I have time to post them next May.

I'm soooooooooooo looking forward to the real movie!! :)

Moore blames women for 'banal' TV

2007-05-08T15:45:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Moore blames women for 'banal' TV

Salute Patrick for his non-PC 5|<1775.. More Patrick Moore related news can be found by searching this site. Hooray for Patrick Moore!

Land Of The Free?

2006-11-08T09:39:00.000Z

Gone into hiding? Bah. I'd just like to say I'm making no false promise of "we is back" because I know I'm not. However I would like to say well done to the peeps in America for taking a kick at the balls of the Chimpmeister. Woo and yay!

The Democrats have taken back the House of Representatives and look on course to be regaining the Senate too. This of course means the biggest terruhist in the world today has probably been cut off from the funds needed to continue his War Of Terror as any request he makes should now be ignored. Yay for world peace. Or something.

Now about that Kyoto Treaty...

Fuskers.

2006-11-03T12:37:00.000Z

Well well. Looks like Yahoo! has been reading NewLinks again... Two days after I launch my legendary bungers' Recipe of the Day™, they come along, steal my idea and do this!

Recipes, Restaurants, Wine, Entertaining, and Cooks on Yahoo! Food

/shakes fist "Why I oughta!!!

Pesky Yahoo.

Bunger's recipe of the day

2006-11-01T16:36:00.000Z

Feeling inspired after watching that new cooking programme on the telly last night, I've decided to devote a portion of my day to finding you the best recipes on the net.

Let's get started:

Bungers' recipe of the day #1

Woo+!

HMS Hermes - Warship Wednesday

2006-10-25T12:11:00.003+01:00

A weekly column looking at interesting naval ships from around the world.

HMS Hermes

HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be ordered by any navy. Previous to Hermes existing ships had been converted to allow the take off and landing of aircraft. Ordered in 1917, during the First World War, construction began in 1918 and Hermes was launched in 1919. Too late to play any part in the war, Hermes was not commissioned into the Royal Navy until 1923.

Drawing on what little practical experience of operating aircraft at sea there was, inevitably the design was flawed. She lacked operational endurance and her complement of aircraft was limited. Of more concern to her crew she had been built with similar lines to a light cruiser, a wholly unsuitable choice. The large starboard island, sited forward amidships, caused her to list, and, she was, particularly in rough weather, somewhat unstable. Despite all these faults, Hermes can be recognised as the first real aircraft carrier.

During the inter war years Hermes served in the Far East on the China Station. Twice she returned to Britain for refits in 1928 and again in 1934.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Hermes was back in Western waters, operating against the German U-boat threat. During the short-lived British Expeditionary Force's foray into continental Europe Hermes provided air cover. She continued her active service by assisting in the epic hunt across the South Atlantic sea-lanes for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was wreaking havoc amongst Allied shipping.

In July 1940 while operating off Dakar (to keep an eye on French vessels) Hermes bow and flight deck were damaged in a collision with the armed merchant HMS Corfu. Putting into Freetown for basic repairs, she sailed onto Simonstown, South Africa for a more complete work including a refit. Hermes was back at sea before the end of the year.

In 1941 Hermes joined Force T, which was to operate in support of a land offensive against Italian forces in Somaliland. Later that year Hermes served in the Persian Gulf, helping to prevent any German incursions into Iraq, then in the Indian Ocean. Christmas 1941 was spent in Selborne dry dock Simonstown.

Hermes, at this time commanded by Captain R.F.J. Onslow, was back on active service in the spring of 1942 as part of Force B, based at Ceylon (Sri Lanka). On 9th April Force B was southwest of Trincomolee, attacked by a massive air strike launched by the Japanese carriers Akagi, Hiryu and Soryu. Virtually defenceless, Hermes suffered 40 hits and went to the bottom with 307 of her crew. Many of the survivors were picked up by the nearby hospital ship Vita.

Fact: Hermes badge can still be seen on the side of the Selborne dry dock wall.

Fact: The wreck of Hermes is located off Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean.

Fact: Due to the delay in commissioning Hermes, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hosho, commissioned in 1922, has the honour of being the first aircraft carrier actually entering service with a navy.

Fact: The Akagi had been the flagship for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

HMS Hermes (D 95) Particulars

Hermes was built by Armstrongs of Newcastle-on-Tyne, although ordered in 1917 she was not commissioned until 1923.

Laid down: January 1918
Launched: 11 September 1919
Commissioned: July 1923
Displacement: 11,085 tons
Length: 182.27 m
Beam: 21.41 m
Draft: 5.64 m
Propulsion: Two steam turbines, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Complement: 700 officers and men
Armament: 6 x 5.5in (140 mm) guns, 3 x 4in (102 mm) AA guns and 8 x 12.7mm AA guns. 6 x 20 mm guns added in 1934
Aircraft: Initially 15 (Fairey III and Flycatcher) then 12 (Fairey Swordfish II or Supermarine Walrus)

Next week choose from:

USS Constitution: 'Old Ironsides', the heavy American frigate from the War
of 1812
IJN Yamato: one of two 65,000-ton behemoths built by Japan during WWII
H.L. Hunley: the first submarine to sink an enemy warship

If you'd like to see previous Warship Wednesday posts, you can choose from:

HMS Victoria: flagship of the British Mediterranean fleet, involved in one of the most notorious disasters to strike the Royal Navy.

SMS Emden: the infamous German commerce raider from WWI.

HMS Conqueror: 'Gotcha!' the sub that sank the Argentinean General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

Awesome Zombie Game

2006-10-19T11:26:00.000+01:00

Awesome Zombie Game: De-Animator

SMS Emden - Warship Wednesday

2006-10-18T09:19:00.002+01:00

It's Wednesday again, and that means it's time for Warship Wednesday again!

Warship Wednesday is a weekly column looking at interesting naval ships from around the world. This week, it's time for...

SMS Emden

The infamous SMS Emden was the scourge of allied merchant shipping during an extended raiding cruise in the early months of the First World War.

In the latter part of 1914 the strategy of the German surface fleet was to disperse around the globe and wreak havoc amongst Allied Shipping. In just one cruise in the Indian Ocean, Emden sailed into the history books, reportedly capturing or destroying 23 Allied ships.

At the start of the war Emden was commanded by Captain Karl von Müller and stationed in the Far East as part of Admiral-Count Maximilian von Spee's German Asiatic Squadron based at the Chinese port of Tsingtao. Müller was a superb cruiser captain, and aware of the situation in Europe in July 1914, took Emden to sea before war was declared to prevent her being trapped in port by Allied ships. Müller convinced von Spee that Emden would be most effective operating alone in her prime role of commerce raiding. Her famous cruise to attack British shipping in the Indian Ocean began on 14 August.

Emden's relentless activities, sinking or capturing British ships, caused utter confusion. The British authorities had viewed the Indian Ocean as a safe area for British shipping, now, with Emden on the loose, that had changed. Moreover, the losses sent insurance rates through the roof, and, as a result, merchant ships could not afford to venture forth from their safe harbours.

The British responded by dispatching a number of ships to hunt down the Müller and the Emden, but to no effect. In fact Müller had proved to be a cunning captain as well as a superb seaman. He had installed a fake smokestack on Emden, which made her silhouette extremely similar to the British ship HMS Yarmouth. This ruse fooled many a merchantman leading to their capture. Thinking they were saluting a friendly vessel they allowed Emden to close with them, at which point Müller would hoist enemy colours and fire a shot over their bow! At one point 60 Allied ships were chasing this lone German vessel.

Emden's activities were not restrained to capturing Allied shipping. In September 1914 Müller used Emden's 4.1in guns to bombard the British port of Madras, setting fire to fuel tanks, destroying 350,000 gallons of oil and causing widespread panic. In October Müller sailed the still disguised Emden straight into Penang harbour, raised the German naval ensign and began shooting up the many Allied vessels in the harbour. Making good his escape, the French ship Mosquet chased Müller; he made short work of this pursuer quickly sending her to the bottom. Emden's luck was holding out, but that was about to change.

Müller now decided to attack the Allied Radio station at Direction Island on 9 November 1914. It was a fatal decision. Although the attack was a success, the radio operators had recognised the ship and called for help. The signal reached Captain John Glossop in HMAS Sydney, an Australian cruiser, who just happened to be close by escorting an allied convoy.

With their landing party still ashore, Emden spotted the fast approaching Sydney. Müller immediately put out to sea to engage the new threat, leaving his men ashore. Over the next 90 minutes the two ships engaged in deadly combat. Sydney's superior 6in guns and her speed eventually told. Despite having one of her guns disabled early in the fight, Sydney managed to land over 100 hits upon the Emden, inflicting fatal damage.

It was obvious to Müller that Emden was going down, to avoid exposing his crew to more danger he ran her onto North Keeling Island. Sydney then chased away a collier that had been sailing with Emden, and upon returning to the beached ship found her still flying German colours. When his signal calling upon Emden to surrender was ignored, Glossop opened fire causing more casualties before the German ensign was hauled down.

Müller had lost 131 men killed and 65 wounded, the surviving members of the crew were taken prisoner and the now decrepit Emden was destroyed. Captain Müller was the last man off his ship.

Fact: Emden was the last piston engine warship commissioned into the German Navy.

Fact: In Sri Lanka people call a particularly obnoxious person an Emden.

Fact: The German landing party left behind on Direction Island seized a schooner and sailed for the neutral Dutch territory of Sumatra. They were picked up by a German commercial ship and taken to Turkey, then Germany's ally. Travelling overland the men finally made it back to Germany after an epic journey which began with Emden leaving China.

Fact: In 1917, a 105mm gun from Emden was installed as a monument in Sydney's Hyde Park. Another is located on display in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

SMS Emden Particulars

Emden was built by Kaiserliche Werft of Danzig, launched on May 26, 1908 and commissioned into the German Imperial Navy, on July 10 1909.

Laid down: April 06, 1906
Launched: May 26, 1908
Commissioned: July 10, 1909
Cost: 6,38 Million Reichsmarks
Fate: scuttled
Displacement: 3,364 tons normal
Length: 118 m
Beam: 13.4 m
Draught: 5.3 m
Propulsion: Twelve boilers, two 16,000 shaft horsepower (12 MW) 3-cylinder triple expansion reciprocating steam engines driving two propellers
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h)
Range: 3,700 miles (6,000 km)
Complement: 360
Armament: ten 4.1in QF in single turrets, and two TT
Armour: Deck 13 mm, Belt 51 mm, Conning tower 102 mm

Emden's confirmed victims:

Indus - 3393 tons
Lovat - 6102 tons
Killin - 3514 tons
Diplomat - 7615 tons
Trabbock - 4014 tons
Kabinga - 4657 tons
Clan Matheson - 4775 tons
King Lud - 3650 tons
Foyle - 4147 tons
Riberia - 4147 tons
Tymeric - 3314 tons
Buresk - 4350 tons
Gryjedale - 4437 tons
Pontoporos - 4049 tons
Troilus - 7562 tons
Clan Grant - 3948 tons
Benmohr - 4806 tons
Chilkana - 5146 tons.
Pourabbel - 473 tons
Exford - 4542 tons
Saint Egbert - 5526 tons
Zhemtchug (Russian Cruiser)
Mousquet (French Destroyer)

Estimated value of captures: £650,000
Estimated value of cargoes: £3,000,000

Next week choose from:

USS Constitution: 'Old Ironsides', the heavy American frigate from the War
of 1812
IJN Yamato: one of two 65,000-ton behemoths built by Japan during WWII
HMS Hermes: the world's first purpose built fleet aircraft carrier

Vote by leaving comments!

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm - Gizmodo

2006-10-13T13:16:00.000+01:00

Did you know that Japan's favorite and best selling cellphone strap is a golden poop? Neither did I...

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm - Gizmodo

Clown versus Ninja's

2006-10-13T12:37:00.000+01:00

Well, almost, anyway.

Check out Mad Ronz fighting skillz!

HMS Conqueror - Warship Wednesday.

2006-10-11T22:56:00.007+01:00

A weekly column looking at interesting naval ships from around the world.

HMS Conqueror

Conqueror returns to Faslane flying the 'Jolly Roger' to mark an enemy 'kill'.

HMS Conqueror was the third vessel of the Churchill class nuclear powered submarines and is famous for one major event that occurred in May 1982 during the Falklands War: sinking the Argentinean cruiser General Belgrano.

Conqueror, under the command of Cdr Chris Wreford-Brown, set sail from Faslane bound for the Falkland Islands on April 3 1982, a mere two days after the Argentines had invaded the islands. Arriving in the theatre of operations around the islands 21 days later, Conqueror's prime role was to find the Argentinean Aircraft carrier 25 de Mayo. The presence of the carrier in waters around the Falklands would have been dangerous for the British Task Force steaming south to liberate the islands.

In fact while Conqueror was operating to the south of the Falkland Islands, the 25 de Mayo was approaching from the north. On 30 April Conqueror located the Argentinean light cruiser General Belgrano (ex-USS Phoenix) off the Burdwood Bank, to the south of the islands. The British government, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, had imposed a 200 nautical mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands; any Argentinean ships entering that zone could expect to be attacked. But the General Belgrano, accompanied by two destroyers, was outside the zone. The British Task Force Commander Rear-Admiral Sandy Woodward gave the order for Conqueror to attack, but this was countermanded by Submarine HQ at Northwood. Admiral of the Fleet and Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Terry Lewin approached the British Cabinet to ask for a change in the rules of engagement in order to attack the cruiser.

Faced with the prospect of Conqueror losing the Argentine ships as they passed over the Burwood Bank (Conqueror's towed sonar array would probably have snagged on the underwater reef), the order from London came for Wreford-Brown to engage. The Cabinet were aware that both of the destroyers were armed with deadly ship-to-ship Exocet missiles and thought the General Belgrano may have been similarly armed.

It was feared that the General Belgrano was acting in concert with the 25 de Mayo to create a pincer attack on the British Task Force.

Conqueror launched three torpedoes, one of which struck the General Belgrano, virtually blowing the bow off, but causing no casualties. Another hit her just aft-amidships. The explosion blasted through two mess decks and ripped a 20m hole in the upper deck. It is estimated that 275 crew were killed in this blast.

The explosions had put General Belgrano's electrics out of action, and with water pouring in through the hull, within 20 minutes of the attack it was clear that the cruiser was going to the bottom. With her two destroyer escorts leaving the scene to hunt for Conqueror, General Belgrano's commander Captain Hector Bonzo gave the order to abandon ship at 16:24. Although Argentine and Chilean ships rescued 770 men from the water, total Argentine losses were 323 men.

The sinking was controversial for a number of reasons. It coincided with a peace initiative from the Peruvian President, though this would have been rejected by the British anyway. It also appears intelligence the General Belgrano was moving away from the Islands prior to Conqueror's attack was not passed to the Cabinet, though naval opinion considered this irrelevant given the nature of naval operations. Moreover, recent evidence has shown that the British Cabinet were aware of Argentinean design to launch the pincer attack on the Task Force.

Fact: after the sinking the Argentinean navy retreated to port and stayed there for the duration of the war. Therefore the sinking can be considered a decisive moment in the war.

Fact: Conqueror is the only nuclear powered submarine to have engaged an enemy vessel with torpedoes.

Fact: Conqueror's periscope can be seen in the Royal Navy's museum in Gosport.

Fact: as with all Royal Navy submarines that score a 'kill', Conqueror flew the Jolly Roger on her return to Faslane.

Fact: the British tabloid press reacted in jingoistic style, The Sun leading the way with their infamous "Gotcha" headline. In fact the headline only appeared on early editions of the paper and was quickly pulled.

HMS Conqueror (S48) Particulars

Built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, commissioned 1971.

Commissioned: 1971
Decommissioned: 1990
Displacement: 4,900 tonnes submerged
Length: 86.9 m
Beam: 10.1 m
Draught: 8.2 m
Propulsion: One nuclear reactor, one shaft
Speed: 28 knots submerged
Complement: 103
Armament: 6 x 533 mm tubes capable of firing:
Mark 8 torpedoes
Tigerfish torpedoes
RN Sub Harpoon Missiles

Agree or disagree with this? Make up your own mind:

Naval Historian Eric Grove's view
Margaret Thatcher's memoirs of the incident
Guardian Interactive guide to the Falklands war
Thatcher in the dark on sinking of Belgrano, The Times

Read more >>
Eighteen years after the sinking of the General Belgrano, Narendra Sethia travels to Argentina to meet the men he tried to kill :
Narendra Sethia, HMS Conqueror. (The Guardian)

Next week choose from:

SMS Emden: the infamous German commerce raider from WWI
USS Constitution: 'Old Ironsides', the heavy American frigate from the War
of 1812
IJN Yamato: one of two 65,000-ton behemoths built by Japan during WWII

Vote by leaving comments!

wash - All the clothes should have such labels! - Slibe.com

2006-10-11T16:58:00.000+01:00

wash - All the clothes should have such labels! - Slibe.com

hoverboard skills? no skateboard here! Invisible skateboards

2006-10-11T16:37:00.000+01:00

Check out these crazy ~~skateboarders~~ ~~hoverboarders~~ no
boarders! invisible skateboards

It's Warship Wednesday!

2006-10-11T12:04:00.000+01:00

But seeing as no one has commented... here's a poll!

Here's a reminder about what's on the menu:

SMS Emden: the infamous German commerce raider from WWI

USS Constitution: 'Old Ironsides', the heavy American frigate from the War of 1812

HMS Conqueror: 'Gotcha!' the sub that sank the Argentinean General Belgrano during the Falklands War

The World's Biggest Pez Dispenser -- Revealed

2006-10-11T02:37:00.000+01:00

Ever wanted to see a giant Pez dispenser? Well, wonder no more, for here it is. The World's Biggest Pez Dispenser, which is located at The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in California, stands at almost 2.4m (7'10") tall and weighs close to 40 kilos (~85lbs). See for yourself:

HMS Victoria - Warship Wednesday

2006-09-28T09:31:00.001+01:00

HMS Victoria (1887 - 1893) - Warship Wednesday

A weekly column looking at interesting naval ships from around the world.

HMS Victoria was built at Elswick on the River Tyne by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. and launched in 1887.

She became flagship to the British Mediterranean fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

While conducting naval manoeuvres on 22 June 1893 she was involved in one of the most notorious disasters to strike the Royal Navy.

Tryon, a strict disciplinarian well known for his love of precise naval manoeuvres, was conducting fleet exercises off the coast of Syria. He was steaming the fleet in two parallel columns, one of which he led in the Victoria, about 1,200 metres apart. This was a fatal mistake, as there was insufficient margin of error. The turning circle of one of these capital ships was a minimum of 600 yards. The columns were too close for what Tryon was trying to do. He ordered the columns to turn in towards each other, in order to turn the fleet around.

As the columns turned in Tryon at last realised there was a problem, but it was too late. Victoria collided with HMS Camperdown, leading the other column, and began taking on water. She listed gently at first, then suddenly capsized and sank
Although 357 crew were saved, 358 men were drowned, including Tryon. Standing on Victoria's bridge, his reported last words were "It's all my fault".

Fact: Tryon had been warned of the dangerous nature of the distance between the columns by several officers, but ignored the advice.

Fact: one of the survivors of the collision was John Jellicoe, later Admiral and commander of the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

Fact: Victoria was the first battleship to be propelled by triple expansion steam engines.

Fact: The wreck of HMS Victoria was found by divers in 2004. Unusually, for ship wrecks, Victoria's nose is embedded in the sea bed, her stern pointing almost vertical out of the mud. This is because her huge forward armament and her still turning propellers forced her down at great speed.

HMS Victoria (1887) Particulars

Launched: 9 June 1887 at Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., shipyard at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Displacement: 11,020 tons
Length: 340ft (104 m)
Beam: 70ft (21.3 m)
Draught: 29ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion: Coal fired triple expansion steam engines, twin screws, 7,500hp
Speed: 16.75 knots (31km/h) maximum

Crew: 430-583
Main armament: 2 x 16.25in (413mm) 110 ton Armstrong guns in a single forward turret
Secondary armament: 1 x 10in (254mm) gun, 12 x 6in (152mm) guns, 12 x6 pdr (2.7kg) guns, 6 x 14in (356mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: 18in (457mm) belt

Next week choose from:

SMS Emden: the infamous German commerce raider from WWI
USS Constitution: 'Old Ironsides', the heavy American frigate from the War of 1812
HMS Conqueror: 'Gotcha!' the sub that sank the Argentinean General Belgrano during the Falklands War

Vote by leaving comments!

All The Simpsons episodes

2006-09-26T12:55:00.000+01:00

Like it says on the tin, all the episodes of The Simpsons, delivered via a medium similar to YouTube. Huzzah!

All The Simpsons you need

Tune in tomorrow for our Awesome™ new New Links Feature© with a secret title so secret I can't even reveal it here. In the meantime, enjoy all those episodes of The Simpsons. ttfn!

Awesome! Insect Macro Photography

2006-09-21T12:00:00.000+01:00

Fig 1:Ed's new Epic World of Warcraft Bughunter Armour set. Gief!

Behold the caning of bandwidth that this dude is about to suffer.

Photo from here, and lots more for your viewing, erm, "pleasure":????? ???? ????? ??????????

I, for one, welcome our new giant insect overlords.

New Links Reports About Tunnels. Again.

2006-09-18T14:09:00.000+01:00

Bah. Mutter. And fscking grumble.

Just sent Bungers a link and just because he has started a one man (and probably one reader) campaign to resurrect New Links he forced me to post it here. So here you a go - a guided tour of an abandoned missile solo. It will be joined tomorrow by Bungers' promised new skin and no doubt the VT report will be getting posted then too. Parp.

Warning: I think this may have appeared here before as its fairly familiar but as we have no one reading anymore there'll be no one to cry DUPE!!!! W00t, w00 and, indeed, yay!

OUR BIGGEST HITS

2006-09-18T13:40:00.000+01:00

New links is back!

Well, we might be. I'm back anyway, for a short while at least.

Here's an amusing link, featuring lots of dog poo. Excellent: OUR BIGGEST HITS

TTFN!

TV Themes

2006-08-01T17:11:00.000+01:00

This ~~must be~~ is the best TV themes tunes site ever made. If you can't find it, then it didn't exist. :)

Here's T-Z...
TV Cream Themes: T-Z

DevHook 0.45 Released

2006-07-20T22:20:00.000+01:00

Booster does it once again, with the latest iteration of his firmware/UMD emulation software, DevHook 0.45 being released.

New in this version are bug fixes and the ability to run homebrew under the emulated 2.71 firmware (userland software only, has to be recompiled as a .prx rather than a .pbp).

Here's the first recompile for the 2.71 emulation, the well-known NES emulator, NesterJ.

Dept. of Homeland Lunacy

2006-07-19T12:54:00.000+01:00

Happy Birthday for yesterday Mr. Merg, here's a little article that might make you chuckle. :)

The Seattle Times: Local News: Dept. of Homeland Lunacy

Opera DS Website Goes Live

2006-07-14T08:00:00.000+01:00

The Official Opera DS website has gone live. Sadly, it seems light on any real info, but it does confirm a Japanese release date of July 24^th. I may well be tempted to import this if it reviews well and is reasonably priced -- the PSP browser is nice but slow and having to enter URLs etc. cell-phone stylee leaves a lot to be desired. Plus, the PSP isn't quite as portable as my old-school DS...

Last I heard, there was no definite release for the US/Euro markets -- Opera was hopeful and The Big N was adopting a "wait and see" attitude -- possibly to how well it's recieved on the Japanese market.

DevHook 0.44 Released

2006-07-14T01:47:00.000+01:00

Booster's done it again - DevHook Sample Loader 0.44 has been released, and the biggie for this one is that it supports booting into firmware 2.71 from memory stick. Neat. 2.71 is the latest firmware release.

DevHook 0.43 minor updates

2006-07-12T20:38:00.000+01:00

Booster has released a couple of minor updates to DevHook 0.43. You just need the most recent one, as both are replacements for the main devhook.prx file (prx's are PSP library files).

The changes correct problems with save games being corrupted and fix problems with wi-fi when running the CPU clock at 333MHz.

DevHook 0.43 Released

2006-07-10T20:30:00.000+01:00

Yes, yes, more PSP stuff. Since I'm the only one posting atm, you get whatever I'm reading about most -- which lately is handhelds.

Anyway, Booster today released an update to his excellent Devhook software, Devhook 0.43.

New in this version -- if you can find a suitable copy of the 2.60 files, it'll run the 2.60 firmware from your memory stick.

GBA Emulator For PSP

2006-07-09T07:50:00.000+01:00

As I'm sure everyone knows, the DS has GBA compatibility built-in which results in a wonderful back-catalogue of games (as well as some unbelievable dross, but show me a platform that hasn't got that...). Well, the PSP-only guys n' gals (hat-tip, Jimmy Saville) out there need not be jealous, as there is now a GBA emulator for the PSP, courtesy of a VBA port by the wonderfully named ZX-81.

I've not tried it (quel surprise...) as I own a DS already. I suspect it's not full-speed, seeing as it's written in C, but it's still quite an amusing prospect.

This emulator's been around for a while now, but I've never gotten around to posting about it (I know, bad Merg...).

DS sales surpass PSP's in UK

2006-07-08T09:54:00.000+01:00

According to trade mag, MCV, the DS has pulled ahead of the DS in the UK:

PSP's impressive start in the handheld market has been soured this week as rival console Nintendo DS began to pull ahead in the race for portable supremacy.
The latest industry estimates suggest that the June 23rd launch of DS Lite, while deemed unspectacular by some at the time, has boosted hardware sales for the year so far ahead of Sony's PSP.

While I like both systems a great deal, it's obvious that the reason the DS hardware has outsold the PSP in Japan at a ratio of roughly 5:1 and is beginning to see a lead in the UK is down to the software library:

And Nintendo is eclipsing the competition in the software charts ? this week?s biggest selling DS game New Super Mario Bros outsold top PSP title Tomb Raider: Legend by a ratio of over five to one. The Nintendo format also claimed the prize for being the overall top-selling full price console platform this week.

The PSP is essentially a portable almost-PS2, to the point that if you already have a PS2 there's not a lot on offer that's new -- not that that's a bad thing with quality titles such as GTA: Liberty City Stories, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and BurnOut: Legends, but the gaming experience on the DS is unique -- there's nothing quite like Kirby's Magic Paintbrush, Nintendogs, Trauma Center: Under The Knife, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Brain Age, etc. on any other system. There's truely something for everyone.

Just stay away from the DS version of Burnout: Legends. It's dire. In fact, it's so bad it's funny.

Handheld Gaming Boosts Game Sales

2006-07-07T08:00:00.000+01:00

Handheld Gaming Boosts Game Sales:

Sales of videogames in Japan have risen by more than a third in the first half of 2006, an industry survey reveals.

Revenue from games and hardware totalled 277 billion Yen (£1.3 billion), up from 207 billion Yen in the same period of 2005.

The increase was driven by sales of handheld consoles including the Nintendo DS, the report says.

The DS has massively out-sold the PSP in Japan, with the regular DS outselling the PSP this year by around 40%, and the shiny new DS Lite outselling the PSP by almost 350%, I think we can see which console is responsible for the lion's share of the sales boost.

DevHook 0.42b Update

2006-07-06T19:54:00.000+01:00

The updates just keep rolling in.

Booster has released DevHook 0.42b for the PSP.

DevHook 0.42 Update

2006-07-05T00:45:00.000+01:00

... talking of the PSP ...

Not bothered to update the PSP-y goodness in a while.

Well, Booster has updated DevHook to 0.42.

Since I haven't covered the inbetween versions for a while -- and our archives have the big hole in them from our Drupal adventure -- I'll do a quick summary.

DevHook will allow users to run ISO images of games from the memory stick. This has the huge advantage of being able to conserve battery life significantly, since the mechanical drive with all its moving parts is a bit of a power-hog. More recent games require a bit of jumping through hoops, however. It doesn't need a UMD in the drive tho, for those that have dead drives...

On top of that, it can boot the 2.5 firmware from the memory stick, allowing usage of all the 2.5 advantages, such as the web browser and enhanced video playback.

These features you require you find a dump of the 2.5 firmware, or make your own.

I've not tried the 0.4x series yet, but it appears quite a lot of people have had good luck with it, so there y'go.

You will need a 1.5 firmware PSP to use this, but even PSP firmware 2.6 owners can downgrade these days -- tho' do so at your own risk. There's been some reports of bricking. 2.7+, forget it.

UPDATE: Booster just released DevHook Sample Launcher 0.42a with some minor bug-fixes.

Sony Add Fuel To "Racist" Accusation Fire

2006-07-05T00:23:00.000+01:00

Oh dear, oh dear... While I felt the Loco Roco thang was people being a bit overly-sensitive, the latest "White is coming" ad campaign - featuring a feisty looking white woman grabbing a black woman by the throat, no less - is perhaps more than a teensy bit ill-advised...

Offensive? I think so. Flat out stupid? Yes. Attetion-whoring? Damn straight.

New Sony Trademark A Veiled Hint?

2006-07-03T21:14:00.000+01:00

Sony has apparently got a new name for their "We're not ripping off Nintendo, Honest Guv" PS3 controllers:

Sony Japan has trademarked the new PlayStation 3 controller as ?P oo S?.

The trademarked logo is actually using an "infinity" symbol between the P and S. Still, it does look like Poos. Which means we have "Wiis" and "Poos" for the next generation. Ahem.

It also can be translated, by someone with a slightly warped thought process (i.e. Your Correspondent), to "Number Ones" and "Number Twos" -- so does this mean Sony has already conceded being the Japanese leader for this console's generation? ;)

Of course, with the '360 continuing to sell more poorly than the GameCube or even the GBA, at least Sony is assured they won't be last on their home turf...

We're Not Dead!

2006-07-01T00:11:00.000+01:00

"You will be in a minute..."

Yersss... so much for Python.

How about The Emperor taking a call from Darth instead?

Ever wondered if you're colo(u)r blind? Try the Reverse Colorblindness Test, where only those who are colourblind can see "stuff" -- but not, you'll (probably) be glad to know, dead people...

Is Loco Roco racist? I can't comment because apparently, as a White Guy™, if I don't agree it is,my opinion is invalid because I'm part of the problem -- institutionalised racism, doncha know. You decide (unless you're white, in which case... um... move on to the next item).

UK researchers have developed cheaper, more environmentally friendly way to make microchips -- and the chips made via this process should be of higher quality, to boot. Cool -- literally!

And finally....
The RPG Cliche List -- probably a dupe, but funny enough for a repost (if indeed it is such!)

Wheeeeeee!

mmchronic test post

2006-05-26T11:47:00.000+01:00

Mothers Expect Anti-Christ

2006-05-06T23:27:00.000+01:00

More proof idiocy isn't dead, with expectant mothers worried that if they give birth on 6/6/06, their child might be the Anti-Christ...

All this despite many biblical scholars agreeing that the infamous number was actually 616, not 666. Of course, that would be rather confusing when the British would consider that to mean 1st January, and the Americans the 1st of June ...

No-one has explained why 6/6/1906 or 1806 or 1706 or ... would have been the one. Perhaps it was Adolf Hitler's real s3kr3t birth date?

Of course, not all of the article is about this, much of it considers the "marketability" of that date as a launch date... with various hard rock/metal bands such as Slayer and the truely abysmal Deicide using the date for new album launches, as well as ultra-right wing talentless hack-harpy Ann Coulter's latest barely coherent diatribe appearing on that day.

It's also primary election day in the state of California...

"Creationism" is Paganism?

2006-05-05T21:25:00.000+01:00

Head exploding irony from the Catholics:

BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth" had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.

I guess that's superstitious paganism as opposed to superstitious tri-theism? Does that differ from superstitious monotheism?

Of course, the fundies are generally Protestants who think the Catholics are a couple of steps below the Satan Worshippers, so the prospect of burning in hell for their "paganism" probably isn't going to worry them too much.

Former Disney Dancer Becomes Playmate of the Year

2006-05-05T20:34:00.000+01:00

A former Walt Disney World dancer who went on to become Playboy's Miss June 2005 has been named "Playmate of the Year".

Kara Monaco, who once perfomed at the theme park as Cinderella and Snow White, was awarded a car, a motorcycle and a cheque for $100,000 for the title.

Pictures of Ms. Monaco "doin' her thang" are apparently widespread on the internets. [NSFW]

Best Own Goal. Ever.

2006-05-02T07:38:00.000+01:00

World Cup Excel chart

2006-05-01T09:59:00.000+01:00

Micheal Wray is simply the best at producing Excel football spreadsheets. On his site there is a 7.1MB World Cup chart (download here).

"Packed with all the usual features you've come to expect, such as:
- Review of all past tournaments and 2006 qualifiers
- Small preview of what's happening with the 2010, 2014, 2018 World Cups
- Review of host cities
- Review of stadiums
- Review of finalists
- Referee information
- World Cup stats for the finalists
- World Cup pedigree display for finalists - World Cup pedigree for all
FIFA members past and present (similar to what was in the qualifers, but
now includes note for which team prevented further progress). As I figure
most people will want to look at the finalists, I've separated into two
pages; one for finalists and one for the 175 other FIFA members and 4
non-members.
- Past World Cup results for all finalists
- Head-to-head World Cup results for all finalists
- Timezone converter with automated Daylight Savings conversion. I think I
have picked up all DST settings correctly, but there is an override
function if not.
- Group phase sorts using full FIFA regulation criteria. (FIFA caught me
out briefly by changing the rules from the qualifiers!)
- Brief article comparing UN and Olympic membership to FIFA membership."

You might have to reduce your security settings to enable all the macros. I have done this & my computer is still running :-)

What's Your Theme Song

2006-04-30T01:31:00.000+01:00

What's your theme song? - Exactly What It Says On The Tin?

Here's mine:

Your Theme Song is Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

"There is no pain, you are receding.

A distant ship?s smoke on the horizon.

You are only coming through in waves."

You haven't been feeling a lot lately, and you think that's a good thing.

The comfortable part is nice... but you should really work on numb.

What's Your Theme Song?

Rather pleased with that one... Pharyngula, where I saw this, got Britney Spears "Oops I Did It Again"(!)

Quite Atrocious...

2006-04-24T18:48:00.000+01:00

Just Say What You See™.

make Pingu dance :)

2006-04-23T14:57:00.000+01:00

This is pure quality to be honest, make Pingu Dance . Genius.

Respect

2006-04-21T19:10:00.000+01:00

LALAS

2006-04-20T19:43:00.000+01:00

Via Newcastle Online, comes this gem:

Even if you add the games from the mackems last premiership season they still wouldn't be out of the relegation zone.


.................................Pl...W...L....D...F....A....GD...P
15...Aston Villa.................34...9..12...13..37...47...-10..39
16...Fulham......................34..11...6...17..43...55...-12..39
17...Portsmouth..................35...8...8...19..32...57...-25..32
18...Sunderland..................72...6..13...53..43..126...-83..31
19...Birmingham City.............34...7...8...19..26...48...-22..29
20...West Bromwich Albion........35...7...8...20..29...52...-23..29

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ...

Gentle Giant's Leia

2006-04-20T10:22:00.000+01:00

Gentle Giant's Leia
Originally uploaded by Don Solo.

Sexy princess Leia ahoy!

I wonder if he's done one in the gold bikini.

Mmmmmmm bikini...

Salon Books | Machiavelli personality test

2006-04-20T09:53:00.000+01:00

The Machiavelli personality test has a range of 0-100
Your Machiavelli score is: 71
You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli's opinions.

Most people fall somewhere in the middle, but there's a significant minority at either extreme.

Take the Machiavelli personality test!!

Mmmm more monitor goodness...

2006-04-19T13:14:00.000+01:00

Can I have one of these please?
30-inch Wide-screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor

Father Dan's Easter Quiz

2006-04-18T05:45:00.000+01:00

A little late, but "better late than never", as the old saying goes, it's Father Dan's Easter Quiz, testing your religious knowledge of Easter (or testing your faith - if you had any start with, unlike the heathen lot here at NL).

Men Who Have Sex With Dolls

2006-04-14T02:21:00.000+01:00

Continuing with the disturbing theme, we have possibly the first time NL has ever linked to Marie Claire with "Men Who Have Sex With Dolls", all about ... ahem ... "satisfied" clients of "Real Doll", a company that prides itself on making the "World's Finest Love Doll™".

Most disturbing part of the article? Perhaps:

After a last attempt with a dating agency, Malcolm came across RealDolls online. 'I bought Rebecca a few months ago with the money left from my redundancy payment,' he recalls. 'In my imagination, she's 14 and earns pocket money by working in her school library. 'She's very important to me,' he continues. 'I feel affection for her which goes beyond sexual desire.'

Oh dear...

The owner of Real Doll also chips in with some of his clientel demographics:

His clientele are mostly single, ranging from twentysomethings to pensioners, and over half work in IT or engineering.

Oh dear, oh dear ...

Distrubing Advertisment

2006-04-14T01:48:00.000+01:00

An ad that apparently promotes paedophilia in the process of selling "Creamsicles", whatever that may be...

Of course, it could just be someone with photoshop and a sick sense of hoomar...

Update: Yup, it's a sick spoof. It's sad that things are so far gone with ads that while I thought it was, I wasn't 100% sure...

Ancient Worm Poop

2006-04-13T23:35:00.000+01:00

Scientists in Sweden have discovered some half-billion-year-old worm poop:

Eriksson told the newspaper they examined the level of phosphorus of the samples and that "we realized pretty soon that it could not be anything other than coprolites, in other words fossilized dung."

At least it's not so fresh it'll stick to your shoes...

Tripple monitor gaming

2006-04-12T19:41:00.000+01:00

Now, I may have a special interest in this because of my own set up and addiction to Counter Strike : Source.....

However i think you will agree this bit of kit looks particularly tasty :D

Linky

Marijuana Myths

2006-04-11T08:33:00.000+01:00

Richard Pryor loaded on cocaine

List of songs about drugs. They missed Golden Brown by The Stranglers.

Medical Cannabis Resources

www.streetdrugs.org. A database of drug information for parents, teachers, students, DARE Officers, or anyone interested in learning about illegal drugs.

Interdope - psychedelic visuals and virtual drug experiences

Marijuana Myths

Gravity Bongs FAQ

Thundercats ho!

2006-04-11T00:42:00.000+01:00

The new UK "FBI", SOCA has just unveiled their new logo... Brilliant.

Linky

2006-04-08T01:08:00.000+01:00

Just had to post this one

Coprolite

2006-04-06T11:07:00.000+01:00

Today's word of the day is: coprolite.

Do you know what it means? Clue is in the iconage. :)

Lego Poo

2006-04-05T11:09:00.000+01:00

Just for Taoski then, it's a fusion of Lego and Poo.

Bristol Stool Form Guideline

2006-04-04T13:58:00.000+01:00

Bristol Stool Form Guideline

Hooray! This is a handy guide to the consistancy of your stool. I wonder if Dan could start using the scale on his site. Let's find out. :)

Hiccup remedies :: Adam Kalsey

2006-03-29T14:01:00.000+01:00

Ah sweet jesus!

I've had the hiccups for two days, and all i needed to do was read this blog!

Hiccup remedies :: Adam Kalsey

Sock Master's Video Game Controller Family Tree

2006-03-28T10:05:00.000+01:00

Does what it says on the tin. It's nice!

Sock Master's Video Game Controller Family Tree

Sparky The Geordie Budgie

2006-03-28T09:31:00.000+01:00

Panda painted onto single hair

Clive's tortoise dies at age 255

Spiders web after rain

Tongue-twisting budgie is CD star. The linguistic skills of a Geordie budgie that died more than 40 years ago have been immortalised on a CD published by the British Library.
Sparky lived in Newcastle until 1962 and had a repertoire of more than 500 words and 380 sentences. His stuffed remains are on show at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle, where visitors hear examples of his mimicry.

Antcam - Natural History Museum. Great.

British Big Cats Society

Meow Mix. The first ever restaurant for cats.

Top 10 Strangest Animals

More Skateboarding Dog

Fighting The International Dog Meat Trade (via)

IE Security Flaws yawn So what's new?

2006-03-28T07:20:00.000+01:00

Courtesy of The BBC comes news that there has been not one, not two, but three serious security problems for the price of one in IE6. Microsoft's take?

Microsoft said it would produce patches for the vulnerabilities in its next security update due on 11 April.

So, the fix is at best, over two weeks away. Unless the threat has "grown significantly". Personally, I consider remote code execution exploits to be a pretty damn' significant threat, but they didn't ask me.

Microsoft suggests users avoid visiting sites they don't trust -- which for me at least, means not visiting any sites...

No, this isn't a "two minutes of hate" about Microsoft, I just find it hard not to snark when they make such ludicrous statement.

The good news is that the IE7Beta2 "technology preview" isn't affected -- so that's my laptop safe, at least.

Regardless, for my regular browsing, I'll stick to Firefox.

Zelda DS Trailer

2006-03-24T22:14:00.000Z

I've been a bit remiss in posting, I know. Sorry chaps. Some heavy RL stuff happening right now.

Anyway...

Here's the trailer for the upcoming Zelda DS title, (wmv) "Legend of Zelda: Phamtom Hourglass".

Looks cute. Old-school top-down using a nice 3D engine with quite a lot of stylus interactive-y stuff. Can't wait.

Edit: A smaller Quicktime version is available here. I recommend the WMV version unless you're on dialup or can't view Quicktime.

Marijuana Recipes

2006-03-24T08:37:00.000Z

Drug Ring Sold Pot-Laced Candy, Soda

The glorious art of smoking - a photoset on Flickr (via)

Dutch children of 12 'addicted to cannabis'

Marijuana.com Recipes

The biggest collection of full cigarette packs in the world

Methamphetamine on rotten.com

Contents of Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures by Charles Hayes (via)

Amazons unfortunately named author list!

2006-03-23T23:13:00.000Z

Amazons unfortunately named author list!

Jerry springer the opera

2006-03-22T18:38:00.000Z

Jerry springer the opera opened in Manchester recently and some bible thumpers turned up to protest at the blaphemy only to be out numbered by anti-protester protesters 3 to 1.

Linky

pics
Love the one with the sign saying "stop being so bloody silly" on it. ;)

flickr pics

Great stuff i am sure you will agree. :)

More Lego stuff... The Stormchasers Flagship Tamar

2006-03-22T09:55:00.000Z

Stormchasers Flagship Tamar
Originally uploaded by Brickenrocker.

Stormchasers Flagship Tamar

The Stormchasers, led by Dr. Spamcake, seek out interstellar energy to create the ultimate unobtanium, spamcake.

This is a pretty cool photostream. :)

ILuvNUFC's Animals Dinklump

2006-03-20T19:38:00.000Z

WOOT! My internets are broken no more. Stoopid British Telecom are really crap at everything they do. How I wish that I lived in a cabled area.
Anyhoo here are some links about animals for your perusal.

Fainting Goats Video

Celebrity dogs (via)

To be or not to bee

Animal Tracks Slide Show Archive - MSNBC.com (via)

Skeeter on Flickr. EEK! Run away.

Pigeon Blog

'Giant' lobster lives up to name

Scientists discover swimming ants

Fat Lazy Cats

Photos of dogs wearing headscarves (via)

Lego shadow photography

2006-03-20T11:16:00.000Z

DSCN1418
Originally uploaded by mlf1660.

super cool lego photography from this dude

Pictures of crap cycle

2006-03-17T00:36:00.000Z

Pictures of crap cycle lanes

Pictures of crap cycle lanes

Pictures of crap cycle lanes

Ha ha ha America

2006-03-16T18:01:00.000Z

A funny video - from China about America.

link

pile of spidey

2006-03-16T17:09:00.000Z

pile of spidey
Originally uploaded by epersonae.

Argh! My army has been defeated!

Trash compactor!?!??!

2006-03-16T17:07:00.000Z

Lego tables @ SXSWi 2006
Originally uploaded by Julie Leung.

When I saw this I thought it was an interpretation of the trash compactor scene from Star Wars!

Look at all the x-wing canopies!

Look at the hideous beast ready to drag you under and drown you!

Jazz Stash Bedroom Shelf For Teenagers

2006-03-16T09:28:00.000Z

Stash your jazz mags away in safety!

72 degrees Bedroom Shelf For Teenagers - Gizmodo

And, the coolest "car" in the world...

It can do 280mph on a "part throttle". I want. :)

To carry on the robot theme

2006-03-16T00:36:00.001Z

Has everybody seen the new Asimo that runs?

Linky

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

2006-03-15T16:10:00.000Z

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

Yeah, yeah, Japanese robots builds robot to carry bodies out of buildings and compost to power their robot minds... Arrrghhh!

Destroy!

2006-03-15T16:08:00.000Z

Buy my products or I shall send my Army of Spidermen to destroy you!
via Flickr

The Specials Video Linkdump

2006-03-15T09:18:00.000Z

Folk Archive Resource North East

His brother admits Jacko's 'thing for young children'

Music resources on the World Wide Web

Where will you be if you catch the last train to Clarksville?

The Specials Video Linkdump

Google Mars

2006-03-15T07:18:00.000Z

No, not the way to find candy bars.

Google Mars is your internettingest way to look for little green men.

Probably.

It's Google Maps. Of Mars. Hence, Google Mars.

How To Become A Power Ranger

2006-03-14T08:35:00.000Z

Letterfu - Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue

How to become a Power Ranger

How to peel a potato in one step

Some awesome tips

Japanese people show tricks and tips

The Autotelematic Spider Bot makes little girls scream

2006-03-13T12:54:00.000Z

They're even in Sunnerlind!

The Autotelematic Spider Bot makes little girls scream

They make me scream!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh!

Did Somebody Say Robots?

2006-03-13T12:40:00.000Z

Cartoony papercraft robots

The Robots. Robot Toys Of The 1980's and 1990's.

Top Ten Movie Robots of All Time

Robot Mania

How to survive a robot attack.

The 50 Greatest Robots Ever

Shotgun-wielding helicopter

2006-03-13T12:22:00.000Z

Seriously.

I mean, I couldn't make this up.

Here's a Shotgun-wielding helicopter. It can fly on it's own.

We're all going to die.

Can't hide in the trees, can't run away. Shit they'll be in the tunnels next. Argh!

Tree-Climbing Robot - Gizmodo

2006-03-13T11:42:00.000Z

Argh! More robots!

This time, they can climb trees to kill us!

Run away from the hideous Tree-Climbing Robot before it's too late!

Millenium Bridge Closing Video

2006-03-11T12:43:00.000Z

Here is a video that I shot with my camera, so excuse the quality, and uploaded to Google Video.
It was my first attempt to upload videos to Google Video and it was all rather easy as you would expect as Google seem to be good at letting HTML idiots like me rule the web! You do have to download and install a tiny program to upload the videos from then on it's very easy. They also seem to accept most file types before they convert it to Flash. My only moan was that I had to wait 2-3 days for them to "verify" my video.

Anyhoo on with the video...

You can download a QT video of it from here if you so wish.

Stuff

2006-03-11T09:11:00.000Z

I've fixed the sidebar the only way that I know how to and it is looking a little better but I would expect someone who knows what they are doing to go in and tidy it up as my efforts were rather haphazard. There still seems to be a problem with the post boxes in that they don't work properly if the post is too big. I've no chance of being able to fix that myself so either I'm waiting on someone else to fix that or just don't do any long posts.

I've also renamed an empty box in the sidebar with our other sites in so please let me know if I've missed you out and I will add it the next time I go there. I've also renamed one of the boxes to stuff which, for now, only includes a link to the icon generator so you can add Technorati icons to your posts.
If you can think of anything else that should be added please let me know.

One final thing for now. We are looking for new contributors to this site so if anyone wants to post here go ahead and email me.

You will find my email address at my place Look At This...

Robot videos

2006-03-11T01:53:00.000Z

BigDog @ bostondynamics.com (file under geek).

"The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth"

"BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight".

The video on this page is incredible - or there's a copy of it here (11.5MB) if you know how to download from rapidshare.

There's 4 of them at the robtics department at Boston Dynamics.

Emo

2006-03-10T20:04:00.000Z

A funny vid on google video about the fall out boy song.

Linky

ILuvNUFC's Lego Dinklump

2006-03-10T09:45:00.000Z

Disney Main Street built from Lego

Air conditioner make out of Lego

Lego Picks 100 Techies For Robotics Toyland

Lego iPod Case

Lego NES Case Mod

Lego Harpsichord

Lego South pointing chariot

Lego USB Drive

If "The Simpsons" were real...

2006-03-10T07:24:00.000Z

... then the intro would probably look something like this.

bungers' linkagedumpage

2006-03-08T13:05:00.000Z

Whoops, I posted that to the wrong blog!

Good news: BT 'quadruples' broadband speeds

fat cat news: fat cat, 30" waist

isoHunt - Yes, the MPAA is suing us

2006-03-08T12:35:00.000Z

BBC: "File sharing is not theft"

Our Open Letter to AOL

Verdict in cyberdissident Li Zhi case confirms implication of Yahoo

How the warez scene works

Man builds 60 ft tower in backyard to get internet access (via)

China to split the Internet?

How To Download And Save Youtube Videos

isoHunt - Yes, the MPAA is suing us

Gridwars - Geometry Wars for free!

2006-03-07T23:23:00.000Z

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you must have heard of arguably the best game on the Xbox360 -- Geometry Wars!

Available as a $5 download from Live!, it's fast, frenetic and hugely addictive.

And now it's been cloned for the PC. It's free and a tiny 2.5MB download -- if you're on DSL/Cable, start now and by the time you finish reading this post, it'll be done downloading!

On the same page there's also a bunch of recreations of classics which, like Grid Wars, are written in Blitz Basic. There's Marble Insanity, a tribute to the venerable Marble Madness, DeBlitzer, a Defender-a-like, Blitzatron, a decent simulacra of another Williams' classic, Robotron 2084, and number of others, all for free! Head on over to check it out.

Blitz Basic, of course, started life on the Amiga, a home computer close to many a new-linker's heart.

Are we still alive? Hard to say. We're certainly still twitching ;)

Are We Still Alive?

2006-03-06T08:33:00.000Z

Historical Photos of Weather Damage

Mark Eubank's "Best Of" Weather Pics

January 2005 Ice Storm in Geneva, Switzerland

Tropical Wellington Weather

The Cloud Appreciation Society

New York City Lightning Photography

Snowflakes and Snow Crystals

Spectacular Mammatus Clouds

Flood in Toronto

Spore

2006-03-05T13:00:00.000Z

Possibly the coolest most innovative god game ever.

Linky

SNL Digital Short - Natalie Portman

2006-03-05T11:30:00.000Z

What's a day in the life of Natalie Portman like?

ILuvNUFC's Dinklump

2006-02-28T08:57:00.000Z

The Viking Giant

Black and white twins

Obsessive Ex Syndrome

Old People Are Funny

The Big Nose Appreciation Page

Johnny Eck, the man who was born with no lower half

Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing

New Links

Dirty Mouse

Every film would be better with Transformers

Moore blames women for 'banal' TV

Land Of The Free?

Fuskers.

Bunger's recipe of the day

HMS Hermes - Warship Wednesday

Awesome Zombie Game

SMS Emden - Warship Wednesday

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm - Gizmodo

Clown versus Ninja's

HMS Conqueror - Warship Wednesday.

wash - All the clothes should have such labels! - Slibe.com

hoverboard skills? no skateboard here! Invisible skateboards

It's Warship Wednesday!

The World's Biggest Pez Dispenser -- Revealed

HMS Victoria - Warship Wednesday

All The Simpsons episodes

Awesome! Insect Macro Photography

New Links Reports About Tunnels. Again.

OUR BIGGEST HITS

TV Themes

DevHook 0.45 Released

Dept. of Homeland Lunacy

Opera DS Website Goes Live

DevHook 0.44 Released

DevHook 0.43 minor updates

DevHook 0.43 Released

GBA Emulator For PSP

DS sales surpass PSP's in UK

Handheld Gaming Boosts Game Sales

DevHook 0.42b Update

DevHook 0.42 Update

Sony Add Fuel To "Racist" Accusation Fire

New Sony Trademark A Veiled Hint?

We're Not Dead!

mmchronic test post

Mothers Expect Anti-Christ

"Creationism" is Paganism?

Former Disney Dancer Becomes Playmate of the Year

Best Own Goal. Ever.

World Cup Excel chart

What's Your Theme Song

Quite Atrocious...

make Pingu dance :)

Respect

LALAS

Gentle Giant's Leia

Salon Books | Machiavelli personality test

Mmmm more monitor goodness...

Father Dan's Easter Quiz

Men Who Have Sex With Dolls

Distrubing Advertisment

Ancient Worm Poop

Tripple monitor gaming

Marijuana Myths

Thundercats ho!

Coprolite

Lego Poo

Bristol Stool Form Guideline

Hiccup remedies :: Adam Kalsey

Sock Master's Video Game Controller Family Tree

Sparky The Geordie Budgie

IE Security Flaws *yawn* So what's new?

Zelda DS Trailer

Marijuana Recipes

Amazons unfortunately named author list!

Jerry springer the opera

More Lego stuff... The Stormchasers Flagship Tamar

ILuvNUFC's Animals Dinklump

Lego shadow photography

Pictures of crap cycle

Ha ha ha America

pile of spidey

Trash compactor!?!??!

Jazz Stash Bedroom Shelf For Teenagers

To carry on the robot theme

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

Destroy!

IE Security Flaws yawn So what's new?