Archive for September, 2007

Most popular professions

September 11th, 2007

10 per cent of UK residents want to be an author. Fewer want to be an astronaut or sports personality.


Cleaning up

September 11th, 2007

A guide to cleaning stains out of your carpet.


Staying safe

September 11th, 2007

A bedside table that converts into a baseball bat and shield.


The greatest video game movie ever

September 11th, 2007

No more needs to be said.


Talking about my generation

September 11th, 2007

A list of terrifying facts about the mindset of this year’s university intake.


Save this for the caretaker period?

September 10th, 2007

How to make your own chinese finger trap.


How Bionic are you?

September 10th, 2007

I’m 58% bionic.


More than meets the eye

September 10th, 2007

The new Transformers remake of Soundwave includes a working MP3 player.


Incredibly practical

September 10th, 2007

A watch with perpetual calendar and longitude functions.


Dystopia or Utopia?

September 10th, 2007

Plans for a 13,000 foot high, one million person building. Personally whenever I see these I just wonder exactly how long the complete collapse of sociey that cyberpunk predicts is going to take.


Revenge on Junk Mail

September 7th, 2007

Got a reply-paid envelope? Try putting this 16 page leaflet in. (Probably not safe for work due to cartoon nudity).


TV RetCon

September 7th, 2007

Nine shows with big revamps at the end of Season 1. Explanation of RetCon.


Islam and Capitalism

September 7th, 2007

A massive shopping centre is being built just next to the Ka’abah in Mecca.


This is going to suck

September 7th, 2007

A writer from Lost and the creator of Alias are writing the movie adpatation for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. How many ways are there to point out that these are exactly the wrong people for this series. Clint Eastwood or no one!


Stupid statistics

September 7th, 2007

Facebook costs Australia $5b a year. By the same methodology I could say that the human digestive tract costs Australia $7.2b a year…


Do you get your tera and giga confused?

September 6th, 2007

Try this set of Russian nesting dolls.


For your Star-Wars-themed kegger

September 6th, 2007

R2-Beer2.


Between runs

September 6th, 2007

Currently I’m spending a lot of time waiting for models to finish running. Maybe this is the answer.


Style to die for

September 6th, 2007

A beautiful motorbike.


Spare $10,000?

September 6th, 2007

Try this new laptop with four processor cores. Honestly, I don’t just need it to play games!