not that it matters...: Archive

Nov 16th

Connect with dead on Facebook →

Oct 26th

Oct 19th

The Big (Crap) Lunch →

“Now just picture that advert in the form of some cunt at one of these barbecues. Picture listening to a cunt like that at a barbecue. And that’s Britain coming together. Fuck that.” From Limmy’s blog. He has something of a point, don’t you think?

Apr 9th

Google Sci/Tech News →

Apple, Apple, Apple, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Token Science Article, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Ok I get who the big players are in web & phone tech but where is the rest of the Tech, not to mention the Sci? I know I can do advanced searches and go to other proper science sites but I feel like having a wee moan about what used to be a useful daily digest turning into iPhone...

Apr 8th

Video games may improve vision →

Further vindication of my lifestyle choices!

Mar 30th

The joke's on us →

From penny-pinching misers to sentimental soaks, Scotland has no shortage of comedy stereotypes. But, asks Graeme Virtue on the eve of the Magners Glasgow Festival, do we also have a national sense of humour? (Sunday Herald)

Mar 19th

Not "No Line on the Horizon" stream →

http://fairtilizer.com/playlists/12270 “it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don’t have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be...

Mar 11th

Pink Dolphin! Look! →

Mar 3rd

Apple Nixes South Park iPhone App →

Baffling decision. If you’re going to pay to download a South Park app you pretty much know what you’re going to get. Maybe it’s “potentially offensive” to whoever steals your phone or something.

Feb 18th

Video Games "Good for Children" →

I KNEW IT! (Disappointed that this Manhunt bs is still being cited five years after it was established that the game belonged to the victim and not the killer)

Feb 12th

Feb 9th

Alpine Capsule

This is gorgeous. See more here: http://www.dezeen.com/2008/12/23/alpine-capsule-by-lovegrove-studio-2/ The capsule comprises a mounting living unit, where visitors can stay over night in the Italian Alps. Power is provided by several “power plants’, which consist of photovoltaic panels combined with a vertical axis wind turbine.

Jan 29th

Jan 28th

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Tic-Frac-Toe →

Kind of mesmerising version of tic-tac-toe.

Jan 15th

“If you’re going to do what you truly want to do, don’t expect a...”

– Henry Rollins

Jan 15th

Jan 3rd

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Dec 31st

Facebook and Google hot Christmas Day sites during... →

I would have been among the Googlers - trying to find a quick and easy way to honey glaze carrots. My only other browsing was, somewhat sadly, to find out the winner of the Seventh Generation Console Wars poll on “I Love Games” (XBox 360, by miles - none of yer twee fun family friendly wii types on ILG).

Dec 31st

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Nov 28th

Excellent DFA Remix of Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Nov 28th

Nov 26th

Web Suicide Viewed Live →

“Online communities are like the crowd outside the building with the guy on the ledge.. The anonymous nature of these communities only emboldens the meanness or callousness of the people on these sites, rarely does it bring out greater compassion or consideration.”

Nov 26th

Nov 19th

Nov 15th

All Quiet on the Home Front →

Fascinating extracts from an illustrated diary kept by Glasgow clerk Thomas Cairns Livingstone during the Great War. I think I may buy it. http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Contents/Title/Pages/default.aspx?objId=41463

Nov 12th

“Rosa Parks sat in 1955. Martin Luther King walked in 1963. Barack Obama ran in...”

– Email quoted without source by New York Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen here.

Nov 6th

eBay buyer faces libel action →

I’m with the buyer here. I hate this eBay etiquette thing whereby you’re expected to withdraw negative feedback because you got a refund. I can’t help thinking the seller isn’t doing himself any favours in pursuing this now that it’s become newsworthy. Chris Matyszczyk a Technology writer from CNET said: “Surely Jones is seeking sympathy rather than...

Oct 27th

Oct 23rd

Obama on the campaign trail →

Some great photos from Barack Obama’s campaign.

Oct 22nd

Oct 15th

Oct 14th

Internet use 'good for the brain' →

I KNEW IT!

Oct 14th

Any chance ay a sub? →

Furious email from senior staff member to Sunday Express editorial department Subs and writers on the Sunday Express were sent this strongly-worded email from a senior staff member pointing out mistakes in an edition of the paper

Oct 10th

Oct 8th

MI6 uses Facebook to recruit spies →

MI6 is using the social networking site Facebook to recruit the next generation of spies. The Secret Intelligence Service, which has traditionally scoured the country’s elite universities for recruits, launched a series of online adverts this month as part of its attempts to attract people from a variety of backgrounds. —————— Not sure my top score on...

Sep 30th

Sep 28th

I’ve neglected my tumbling :( Anyway -...

Sep 28th

“Some people, I think they’re called racists, say America is not ready for a...”

– Russell Brand, MTV Video Music Awards 2008.

Sep 10th

WolfenFlickr3D →

Run around Wolfenstein3D maps looking at flickr pics! (via beforeitistoolate)

Sep 2nd

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