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slowfoxLink via soupytwist: Neil Gaiman's library. *covets*
Here's a Guardian photo gallery of Obama's Staff, and another one of the top 25 British films, which I mostly don't pick holes in, even if I think there may be some omissions.
The Times continued the film theme with its nominations for the 10 most historically inaccurate movies of all time, not to mention the 50 best movie villains.
Continuing the pic-spam, the Guardian's coverage of the Californian wildfires manages to convey the scale of the fires to us Brits, who've never had to contend with anything like that magnitude. I hope all those of you affected are OK :-/
The Telegraph had an article claiming to show how 20 popular websites looked when they launched. The web was a little plainer back then, that's for sure. The Torygraph's Euroscepticism might explain them latching on a pair of feuding Paris mayors declaring the same one way street in opposite directions...
Wired had how the telegraphs ran on electric air in a crazy magnetic storm back in 1859. Awesome stuff.
In this week's It Could Only Be Texas News, and not at all related to my sudden Sookie Stackhouseobsession enthusiasm, the Telegraph reports that two men believe that they have found the body of a Chupacabra in the Lone Star State. On the other hand, the State of Illinois is represented by this fine, fine Register story, the moral of which must surely be never use a cigarette lighter to check how full a petrol can is.
The petrol station at the end of my parents' street is serving up unleaded at £1.089/litre, which partly explains why the British government might have come to a deal involving trade and oil when releasing the Lockerbie bomber. Not impressed.
Best accidental headline of the year ever. Surely someone's head is going to roll over that one?
Speaking of headlines, you've got to admire El Reg's ability to wring the utmost sensation from the most prosaic of texts. Witness 'Exomoonologist': NASA can detect forest moon of Endor, and even the link itself (Exomoonology_is_go).
In pet news, kinda, take a look at this awesome pencil drawing of a cat from the Telegraph. Meanwhile, the Telegraph told us how a burglar may have left his dog at a crime scene, and the police are therefore hoping that in reuniting the hound (which, like all domestic dogs, is apparently descended from a single wolf pack on the Yangtze river) with his owner will solve the crime, too.
Over at YouTube, the AutoTune folks have come up with another instalment (number 8). For mindboggling skill on rollerblades, though, watch this clip of Korean freestyle rollerblading - she starts rolling at 0:50.
However, video of the week goes to The Great Office War.
And finally, video games too complex? Can't remember all those weird button mashing combinations? Distracted by constantly having to check which keys you're pressing for movement? CANABALT is the answer! A single key platformer :-) Enjoy...
soupytwist: Neil Gaiman's library. *covets*Here's a Guardian photo gallery of Obama's Staff, and another one of the top 25 British films, which I mostly don't pick holes in, even if I think there may be some omissions.
The Times continued the film theme with its nominations for the 10 most historically inaccurate movies of all time, not to mention the 50 best movie villains.
Continuing the pic-spam, the Guardian's coverage of the Californian wildfires manages to convey the scale of the fires to us Brits, who've never had to contend with anything like that magnitude. I hope all those of you affected are OK :-/
The Telegraph had an article claiming to show how 20 popular websites looked when they launched. The web was a little plainer back then, that's for sure. The Torygraph's Euroscepticism might explain them latching on a pair of feuding Paris mayors declaring the same one way street in opposite directions...
Wired had how the telegraphs ran on electric air in a crazy magnetic storm back in 1859. Awesome stuff.
In this week's It Could Only Be Texas News, and not at all related to my sudden Sookie Stackhouse
The petrol station at the end of my parents' street is serving up unleaded at £1.089/litre, which partly explains why the British government might have come to a deal involving trade and oil when releasing the Lockerbie bomber. Not impressed.
Best accidental headline of the year ever. Surely someone's head is going to roll over that one?
Speaking of headlines, you've got to admire El Reg's ability to wring the utmost sensation from the most prosaic of texts. Witness 'Exomoonologist': NASA can detect forest moon of Endor, and even the link itself (Exomoonology_is_go).
In pet news, kinda, take a look at this awesome pencil drawing of a cat from the Telegraph. Meanwhile, the Telegraph told us how a burglar may have left his dog at a crime scene, and the police are therefore hoping that in reuniting the hound (which, like all domestic dogs, is apparently descended from a single wolf pack on the Yangtze river) with his owner will solve the crime, too.
Over at YouTube, the AutoTune folks have come up with another instalment (number 8). For mindboggling skill on rollerblades, though, watch this clip of Korean freestyle rollerblading - she starts rolling at 0:50.
However, video of the week goes to The Great Office War.
And finally, video games too complex? Can't remember all those weird button mashing combinations? Distracted by constantly having to check which keys you're pressing for movement? CANABALT is the answer! A single key platformer :-) Enjoy...
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Date: 2009-09-05 08:49 am (UTC)Re: the fires - The serious ones being reported in the news are 400 miles away from us, here. The sunsets are prettier but that's about the only effect we've felt. However, there've been other fires much closer in the past several weeks, and while my home's never been in danger, my asthma has complained rather fiercely a couple of days. So far, the medication has always worked, and I'm quite grateful that my lungs aren't more seriously affected when the skies turn smoky.
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Date: 2009-09-06 01:01 am (UTC)Those pencil drawings are amazing. I'm in total and complete awe.
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Date: 2009-09-06 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-06 08:02 am (UTC)Also, apols for the Obama link - now fixed
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Date: 2009-09-06 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
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