August 2007
Electric Picnic
My Saturday Night line up will be: 18.45 Jarvis Cocker 20.45 Erasure 22.00 The Jesus and Mary chain 22.45 Beastie Boys 0.00 to 2am The Chemical Brothers Electric Picnic I believe the correct expression is: WOOoooOOOOoOOOt!!!
10 energy saving gadgets | Guardian Unlimited →
5 Tumblelog Designs to Inspire You →
Quote: “There aren’t many to choose from, but hopefully we’ll see that changing. For now, check out Cameron’s excellent set of themes” via yum9me - It’s got to be said, credit where credit is due, Cameron is definitely the king of tumblelog themes :)
Wii is taking over. Casual games have conquered... →
Botox appointments are apparently more important... →
Patients seeking an appointment with a dermatologist to ask about a potentially cancerous mole have to wait substantially longer than those seeking Botox for wrinkles.
aibohphobia
The irrational fear of palindromes (words that read the same forwards and backwards). Dude 1: Hey, what’s your name? Dude 2: Bob. Dude 1: AAAAAAAAAAH! *Runs and hides behind sofa* Bob: Wow. Dude 1: AAAAAAAAAAH! *Runs away and falls down stairs*
Weekend Project: Teach yourself a magic trick -... →
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online →
“Enter what you’re reading or your whole library—it’s an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things”
Download Springsteen's Radio Nowhere for free -... →
And it’s not half bad.
WatchUtterly fantastic. Can’t beat the sound of real (stop motion!) drums.
Smelling the Coffee: LA Times Makes Coffee →
“ONCE you’ve bought the beans, you’re going to need to grind them. Don’t let the store do it, unless you live right next door and don’t mind running over whenever you want a cup. Coffee beans lose their flavor very quickly once they are ground. Within even just a couple of hours, you’ll notice a difference in taste, to say nothing of the several days it will...
BBC NEWS | In pictures: Smoking warnings →
The British government is adding full-color graphics to the back of cigarette packets by the end of 2009. The BBC has posted all the warnings on their website, including photos of black lungs, sick babies, enormous tumors and dead people
The Dublin Community Blog :: A group blog all... →
Featuring some of the best looking authors in the world (cough).
“The temperature in Ireland is currently increasing at twice the global average”
– RTÉ News: Action on global warming needed, says Gormley
Pitchcapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“Pitchcapping refers to a form of torture devised by British forces in 18th century Ireland which was widely used against suspected rebels during the period of the 1798 Rebellion, most famously on Anthony Perry, one of the leaders of the Wexford rebels. The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar (mainly used at the time for lighting purposes), into a conical shaped paper...
Make an iPhone/iPod stand from a business card
DIY web site Instructables details how you can make your own iPhone or iPod stand on the super cheap with nothing but a business card. via Lifehacker
BBC NEWS | Africa | Monkey misery for Kenyan women... →
“In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women, they claim. This monkey scarer is armed with stones “The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us,” said Mrs Njeri.” Words fail me…
6 Factors Besides Salary That Boost Happiness -... →
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her”
– Oscar Wilde
TSG Mug Shot: Billie Joe Armstrong
via thesmokinggun.com/mugshots I find it truly astounding just how many celebs are caught DUI. You’ve got more money then you will ever, ever need, just order a taxi or a limo or a frickin helicopter you stupid fuck!
Some day
I’m determined to get more then 20 visitors to the site in one day. Best I’ve ever managed is 19 and it’s driving me crazy. Perhaps if I mention my new book “Big Brother promotes: Pamela Anderson’s boobs and Britney Spears naked along with Paris Hilton naked on American idol singing the ipod and iphone classic: How to make a million dollars and influence...
The Smoking Gun →
Lots of specific celebrity crime information (complete with mugshots) “The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents—cool, confidential, quirky—that can’t be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, we guarantee everything here is 100%...
why? why? why?
Table makes you kill dining partner “They have designed a table (now to be known as the table that made me kill my wife) that has each setting (glass, fork, knife, etc) tethered to its match on the opposite side of the table. So if you’re using your fork, your dining partner cannot.”
How to Memorize Anything →
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice…it is conformity”
– Rollo May
Turkey bans Wordpress blogs after alleged libel of... →
Ankara - Turkish Internet users have been blocked from accessing sites on the Wordpress.com hosting service after a court in Istanbul ordered the site be blocked after lawyers complained that a number of blogs hosted by Wordpress were libellous of Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar.
Six Ways to Start the Writing Process -... →
“Lower your standards. Writer’s block really originates from high standards: often, you will sit down to write but not like what you’re producing. The trick to eliminating this? Stop worrying so much over whether or not every little bit you write is a good as it can be. Either way, you are probably going to have to return to your draft several times an revise it: don’t attempt to revise...