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19 December 2004
21:12:19
A QT VR tour of Club 33 at Disneyland
20:53:19
Made mince pies today.
16:26:19
RIP Dick Heckstall-Smith
18 December 200409:50:18
Floating logos - fabulous (via negatendo)
09:48:18
Eye Massager (via snarky)
09:39:18
Fusion Anomaly - lots of random and strange stuff here
17 December 200418:55:17
John Langdon - check out the ambigrams
16:16:17
The Breaks - rap samples (via negatendo)
12:08:17
Xeofreestyle - all flash and sound and wobbly things
16 December 200422:23:16
The Hardway (via Gaijinworld)
22:06:16
In God We Trust - excellent
16:36:16
Stillwater Players - you must view this site in Internet Explorer in order to appreciate its sheer awfulness, in Firefox the awfulness is not that apparent. I shall use this in my HCI classes!
13:21:16
Which file extension are you? (This looks familiar, but this time anyway I am .pdf)
12:17:16
Could this be the worst rap you have ever heard? I can't tell if this is a spoof or not - I'm guessing not but I hope I'm wrong
12:01:16
And the point of a Half Life History is? It's a game. You shoot things. You jump things. That's it.
11:51:16
A painting a day (via red ferret) - maybe I should start selling my postcard sized watercolours on the net!
11:42:16
More tea whisks - there are 120 different shapes it seems. Depends on the school. "During the 36 years that Mr Kubo has been an artisan he has been in a constant dialog with bamboo and knows his material so well that he can tell by the sound of trunks being split whether the worker is doing it right. Sure enough, when he calls out to one of his apprentices, "That didn't sound right!" they apologize and try again."
11:32:16
We were doing directions in my Japanese class yesterday (Massugu itte kudasai), and the teacher handed out a map for us to write some route descriptions about. It was a map of the West End of Edinburgh, and was centred on the street where I was born. The teacher also did a simple tea ceremony which was good, I think she comes from Nara and used a whisk similar to this one - a wonderful thing when seen up close. I hadn't held one before. She had her father's tea bowl - he was a government official in Nara and it had been presented to him, so I expect it was quite special, but you really can't tell with tea bowls!
10:14:16
Love this picture - somehow sums up the whole web thing.
08:57:16
Happy Birthday to ME!!!!
15 December 2004
09:57:15
Link is now timed out : it was to a description of a University course in Computer Games Development and Football Technology.....
09:19:15
Twin sisters have twins (via daily jive) - I particularly liked this quote : "Dr. Larry Matsumoto, a physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, said the chances of twin sisters being pregnant with twin boys due on the same date are probably one in a million." Some highpowered probabilistic analysis there!
07:35:15
Oh, it's the PC where Firefox won't work, not the Mac - I haven't put a new Mac version in recently
14 December 200422:22:14
Wrapping paper - some great stuff
20:23:14
I do like that Sharam Jey tune. Just been listening to it again.
20:15:14
Tijuana Xmas - oh dear
19:53:14
Honky Tonk - Look at this photo and explain why William S. Burroughs was at the Opry....
11:15:14
Video for Sharam Jey's Feel Nobody - fantastic track. Love the bass line.
11:07:14
I didn't know that self-raising flour was invented by a baker from Longhorsley.
09:31:14
An odd looking page for Euxton village, which also some very strange evangelical ramblings with tendency towards British Israelitism. If I lived in Euxton, I'd be hopping mad about this page. The message board is a hoot.
09:25:14
Broken Chairs - I'm interested in the "National Obesity Council" : is that for or against? (apropos of nothing and not related at all, one of the hornpipes I have written is called the Broken Chair)
08:53:14
Damn it, none of the recent Firefox versions will run on my machine. Can find no reason why either.
13 December 200411:26:13
Edgetone Records - avant garde stuff. Check out the MP3s
09:45:13
Bob Zabek - the Dead Man Etude. Rather fine.
09:37:13
Clips of Morihei Ueshiba in action - he founded Aikido. I can't get them to run though.
12 December 200420:53:12
The Nibiruan Council - why do these people never provide their information for free?
11 December 200423:37:11
Google suggest (via negatendo) - excellent
17:42:11
The Duck Company - these are nice I was just looking at them in a shop
00:00:11
Suburban Homeboy - the creator of the last thing
10 December 200413:20:10
Belief-o-matic - really badly designed quiz that produces inane results!
09:41:10
Oh, and go up one on that last link and check out the peephole (there is some good stuff on other pages too)
09:35:10
Backmasking MP3s - probably done this before
9 December 200411:28:09
In particular the Kurisimasu keki
11:14:09
Death Waltz (probably only funny for musicians! And possibly only musicians familiar with Satie at that)
8 December 200415:43:08
I wondered what had happened to Bing Hitler, though top British comedian is stretching it somewhat!
15:34:08
Copper Moonshine Stills (via Daily Jive) - not listed for the stills per se 9though they are quite fun) but for the worst selection of cheesy MIDI ever - go down the different still types lisetd and listen to "appropriate" music. (To be fair, the version of Rocky Top is almost listenable)
10:58:08
Guangdong Animal By-products Import and Export Corporation - Stainless Steel Dustbins? Check out the jeans
10:24:08
Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist
08:53:08
Unusual Museums - this is probably an old one, but you can never have too many unusual museums.
7 December 200422:08:07
Just got back from what was the first live performance to an audience at the Sage in Gateshead. Celtic Feet were playing for a tuning session for the acoustic engineers. They were excellent and the hall is utterly superb - wonderful sound, spacious, comfortable and unobstructed views everywhere. Best hall I have ever been in. A must see (And McCoy Tyner is playing in March....)
13:29:07
TRIZ Journal - if it is so good why doesn't everyone use it then?
6 December 200416:35:06
A bar at the Folies Bergère (via negatendo)
16:07:06
Answers In genesis "Upholding the authority of the bible from the very first verse" Stupid person alert!!!!
5 December 200409:32:05
Xmas would not be complete without one - I particularly like "brilliantly coloured by craftsmen skilled in mold making, glass blowing and hand painting" - do they mean brightly coloured, or that the colouring is done really well? And what has mold making got to do with colouring? Also special is "using a Renaissance-era technique" - a description that could be applied to many things when you think about it : peeling potatoes, digging, washing
09:26:05
Turning the pages - excellent stuff
09:25:05
I Love Horses - why would anyone want this jingle as a ringtone?
4 December 2004 3 December 2004
09:13:03
You will regret finding out about the ESP game
07:24:03
Anime Popeye - brilliant
2 December 200422:17:02
Radio Earwax - bangin' choons
16:01:02
I was looking at my earliest post on Usenet (1983) and it's about Julian dates. Teh Google ad at the top of the page is trying to get me to go to the Julian hotel chain....
12:35:02
Rock on Rock (via snarky) - my mother and father have been doing this for years at the seaside. They build "rock gardens"
08:31:02
Deleted this item since it was a trojan for IE users. I would hope, though, that everyone reading this had made the switch to Firefox (or Opera or Safari or....) by now!
07:10:02
Centre Point in London of course - you don't get to Sydney that easily!
1 December 200422:32:01
Today I was on the 28th floor of Centre Point - fantastic view.
22:31:01
Educate Yourself - conspiracy stuff of all kinds
22:15:01
Chrismukkah - check out the cards
21:53:01
Lesbian Studies Institute "To track, synthesize and expose the secret, social and political corruption of America's powerful, government financed Lesbian Mafia" This is a snickers of a website : nutty and not very nice.
21:47:01
The Scotsman Digital Archive - nice one
21:42:01
Do they know it's awful? (it's in fact execrable!!!)
30 November 200413:43:30
Head transplants - or is that body transplants? Hard to tell isn't it.
07:41:30
Zen and the art of pumpkin bombing On an entirely unrelated point, I really hate the "Zen and the..." title. I bet most of the people who use it think only of "...art of motorcycle maintenance" - how many have heard of or read the original which in fact is usually "Zen in the art of archery" by Eugen Herrigel? 
(Or the companion "...art of flower arranging" by his wife (Gustie L. Herrigel)
29 November 200414:18:29
Hardware Book (via Red Ferret) - just what the Internet is for
10:22:29
Funny Brains Bauble?!?!?!?!
28 November 2004 27 November 200422:19:27
Damn these realistic games - I can only ride the jetboat in Half Life for a short time before I start to feel motion sick and I have to pack in.
19:55:27
Keeping warm in Japan - interesting (and sensible)
26 November 200417:13:26
Crazy Monkey (via Snarky) I suppose this is only funny if you have watched skate/bmx/blade videos, but I have so that's OK
17:00:26
You could of course try looking for a brothel near Intercourse and see that it doesn't work as well as you might think.
16:59:26
Looking for a bar near Intercourse?
09:36:26
Assault Weapon Watch - read the FAQ. Even gun nuts have a sense of humour it seems.
09:07:26
Just arrived today - a fantastic rivets tin from the Judson L. Thomson Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass. "MEND your own HARNESS with the Thomson Bifurcated Rivet. The ONLY rivet that can be SET and CLINCHED with a common hammer. Prongs clinch outward."
25 November 2004 24 November 2004
22:49:24
"threading the jack" was a googlewhack. When this gets picked up it won't be of course.
11:28:24
Fixed the text and url search buttons so as to be the same size. Been annoying me for weeks.
23 November 200414:54:23
Part 2 of the legomation - possibly NSFW?
13:23:23
Legomation by one of my students
12:42:23
Brad Litwin - nice tunage here
22 November 200423:08:22
Jetpods - note the predicted date of 2006. I bet it slips and is always 2 years down the line.
13:55:22
Daily Jive has a cracking set of links today! Kudos
13:02:22
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that'" I don't even begin to comprehend how hunters think. *I Screwed up the link for this - it was about that hunting over the Internet website, not the firefight in the forest*
