Ask Doctor Joshua - Free Physician Consultation

Hooray! At last there's a free internet based Doctor to hand when you need one. I reckon this could catch on...

This one is different from most other Q&A sites, in that Dr J tries to provide practical, individual advice to those who can't get to a doctor, instead of giving the sort of general information that other physician Q&A sites have. Check it out, it's got some interesting entries.

Like this classic: Bullet in the leg

More here...

Ask Doctor Joshua - Free Physician Consultation

Maybe I could start an "ask bungers" site.

Protester is returned to prison

I'm loving this.

I wonder what the deal is in Islam for selling drugs. I think that if he had been caught by the Taliban, I reckon they'd probably cut his head off. Or his hands.

BBC NEWS | UK | Protester is returned to prison

MSN Search: gorillaz official webpage

Nice to see that msn has got it's search sorted out. Check this:

MSN Search: gorillaz official webpage

Newlinks are number one, the official Gorillaz site is number 8! Huzzah!

Undersea Cables Map

Image: Undersea cables map

Google Maps Creation Tools and Resources

You Know You're An Internet Addict When

SiteAdvisor blog: How Much Does 'Free' Cost? (via)

Internet Activities by Time Spent

AOL and Yahoo take lead in putting price on e-mail

Eeeenteresting...

AOL and Yahoo take lead in putting price on e-mail

Dunno what "run the gantlet" is though, but if it stops me from getting the 500 spams a day I get in my work mailbox...

Shearer Is God

Congratulations to Alan Shearer on getting his 201st goal for Newcastle United and breaking the all-time goal scoring record of the late great Jackie Milburn.


As usual the goals, links and much more are available at Toongoals



Bonus: Heyy Shearer. WMA file.

Google Maps Update UK Satellite Images

Huzzah! Google Maps have finally updated their satellite image coverage of the UK!

That there London has always been shown in high res but when you came north the images were atrocious - some sort of purple and green goo. Now you can see my house in hi res glory. I'm a bit puzzled though as to the source of the images - they must be at least a couple of years old (The yard linked to here hasn't been full of vans for at least 2-3 years and NTL haven't sponsored the toon for at least 2 seasons now) so why haven't we had them earlier? BUSH looking for evidence of WMD? Or has Google just went out and bought someone else's existing satellite images? They must be using their own satellite to spy on the Chinese people. Or something.

Scratch the World - Google Video

Wikkid!

Scratch the World - Google Video

via bhell13 :)

Flying car captured on Google Earth!

Pictures of bullets are all very impressive, but do you have a picture of a flying car??

Flying car captured on Google Earth

so let's put things into perspective: iNeed - Gizmodo

How many billions was that again??

via A Moment of Perspective: iNeed - Gizmodo

Rip Off Britain part 638726783...

So, here's the deal...

My gas bill has gone up this year from about £20 a month to £40. The electricity has gone up to £50. Petrol is up at about 90p a litre or something now too. And in the middle of all this, Shell post record profits following on from Exxon's record last week.

What's even more impressive is that Shell said production
fell to 3.5 million barrels of oil from 3.84 million for the same period of 2004. So they produced less, but made more money! How does that work?

Modded Laptops

Case Mod: Coppertop

Photos: Modded laptops

Mousebot Revisited

A brief history of hard drives

Most Highly Rated Webcams

IE7 Beta Goes Public

Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. You need to have XP Pro SP2 installed and be fully patched (or at least as fully as MS have patched it anyway!) on your current IE install.

I had a quick try at work today and it looks alright. They've obviously took a lot of inspiration from FF but that's no bad thing. I don't know how secure it is compared to current versions but it still runs ActiveX so many would say not very secure at all.

It's got some sort of anti phishing tool which basically calls back to MS who presumably have a big database of scam sites to check it against. Eeks - MS having a history of your browsing doesn't sound very appealing.

The neatest thing I saw in it was a preview page of all your tabs - it has a thumbnail of each website you have open which is a nice quick way of navigating between tabs.

It's worth a peek - but be careful where you visit while using it. If there are any exploitable holes you can bet there'll be people writing exploits for it right now.

Pigs On The Wing

Pigs On The Wing. Pink Floyd@Live8 video and MP3 to download.

Making Music: A big list of FREE music making software!

If Microsoft made guitar amps...

80's Music Videos

Michael Jackson Spotted in Robe and Veil

Copy, Right?

NPR Live Concert Series

Commercial Breaks and Beats :: The UK TV Advert Music Database

Nintendo DS Lite Arrived last week...

So lets announce it now!



Nintendo DS Lite Arrives

Hooray for being the last people to know about everything!

makes it look a bit less like a toy i suppose... ;) via Gizmodo again.

Imation Flash Wristband

How cool is this? Trendy wrist band + data storage = Imation Flash Wristband | Uncrate!

via Gizmodo

Meme Tag, I'm It

ILN has meme tagged me for one of those fill in the list things. Thankfully there are only 4 items per section so it's reversing the trend for these to get bigger and bigger.

Four Jobs I've had:
Milkman
Pizza chef
Painter and decorator
Computer programmer

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over:
LOTR (1,2 and/or 3)
Goodfellas
Godfather (1,2 and definitely not 3)
Memento (it's probably a good thing to watch at least a couple of times anyway)

Four Places I have Lived:
Byker
Heaton
Wallsend
Battlefield

Four TV Shows I Would Love to Watch:
Now this is an oddly phrased one - does it mean stuff I've seen and would love to see again (and if so would that bar stuff that I AM watching again on cable) or is it stuff I've never seen and would love to see? I'll go with the former (without barring stuff I am already rewatching) as there's nothing I haven't seen that I'd love to see.
Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em - being repeated lots on cable - woo!
Walking With... (Cavemen, Dinosaurs, Beasts) - complete series available free as part of my Cable On Demand package - double woo!
Fawlty Towers
Connections - a cool history/science series in the 70s by James Burke. Never seen this one since I first saw it when I was about 10/11 and would love to see it again.
Look ma - no ITV! ;)

Four Places I have been on Vacation:
Amsterdam
Milan
Blankenberge
Beddgelert

Four Websites You Visit Daily:
Google
Digg
Reddit
NUFC.com

Four of My Favorite Foods:
Calamari
Steak and chips and all the trimings
Things with chili in
Chicken Jerk sandwiches from the sandwich shop near my last job.


Four Places I would Rather Be:
Than work? Or where I live? If the former bed is always a good place to be rather than work and if the latter nowhere.

Four Albums I Cannot Live Without:
2 self titled albums:
The Stone Roses
Box Car Racer
And 2 compilations to get a good sampling of the artists as I couldn't limit myself to a single album by them:
Shenanigans / Green Day
Who's Better, Who's Best / The Who (though I wouldn't mind getting hold of Ultimate Collection too)


Four People to Tag:
I'll choose 3 New Links posters (we have to get postage somehow or other!) and 1 off site blogger:
Bungers
Merg
Shepy
Taoski (though he might be too busy playing on his new 360!)

Lego Stencils

Morning! mmChronic and I were out stencil spotting the other day. We found some cool ones in Newcastle. This one (above) looks like it might be in Southwark or somewhere, and comes to you courtesy of flickr and yorkshire4. I'll get my camera tomorrow and post the cool one we found. TTFN!

Cheltenham Goals

For those of you who maybe interested the goals from saturday's FA Cup 4th round game with Cheltenham are now up at Toongoals.

GREYCstoration

...or Fast Anisotropic Smoothing of Multi-Valued Images by Curvature-Preserving PDE's. Oh well that's clear then. ;)

So what is GREYCstoration? It's a nice mathematical method of cleaning up dirty images. By dirty I mean those with speckles, scratches, JPEG artefacts and various other defects. There's a big gallery of before and after images and some of the results are vey impressive indeed.

It's available as a command line tool but installation sounds a bit fiddly as it relies on various other things being installed. However there's a much easier way to get your hands on it - it's available as a plugin for Gimp.

Oh and it's free. We likes free. :)

via digg

Where Is Chantelle?

This link posted on Linkfilter is no great surprise or particularly interesting the fun is actually an image posted in the comments.

Where could Chantelle be?

Geordie Songs

I came across a couple of really funny Geordie songs that take the micky out of the great unwashed(Sunderland) somewhere on the net and I thought I would upload them to Rapidshare for your enjoyment.

I Could Have Been Born A Mackem
Dirty Monkey Mackem

Dead Body Guy

Death at the wrong time

Cinemorgue. Database of actors that have died in a movie.

Autopsy: Life and Death from Channel4.com

Where do birds go to die?

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

Kearl's Guide to Sociological Thanatology

Dead Body Guy

Death With Dignity

New Links, New Template (and a rounded box hack!)

As you'll no doubt have noticed by now we've got a blogspot version of ourt gta:sa skin from the old site. It's not quite finished as there a a few layout problems, one or two 'wrinkles' to sort out, some ickle graphic bits to do and the sidebars to fill but it's nearly there.

No doubt you'll be marvelling at the wondrousness of the rounded boxes which I think are very funky. The code for those came from a post on the Modx blog about the rounded css boxes. It's a really simple hack to implement (which makes it all the better) but it does involve fairly large graphics and I haven't made ours quite large enough as you'll see on some of the longer posts.

"I devised the hypothesis that if I could do it with only one really big sample image and a max of five CSS rules for the basic structure, then I would be able to stop sending folks email along the lines of, 'I'd really like to help out but I don't really do Photoshop tutorials and Google can probably help you figure it out... and yes I'm aware there's a massive gap on your monitor that's large enough to show two HD-res movies side-by-side'."

BTW I say our graphics but I nicked Ryan Thrash's box image (as well as his code) and recoloured and resized it. So that's two thank yous to him then. ;)

Yay! We is back. Or something.

Unearthing the Kenton Bar Bunker

Hmmmmm... Here's a bunker, near to Kenton Bar.
Defence Lines, No. 5

I'm thinking that those offices are either the old ones where you used to have to take your driving test, or the ones just round the corner. Which have now been turned into a nice new housing estate.

Woe is the lost and forgotten history of Newcastle upon Tyne... :(