January 2009
50 Creative Designs Of 404 Error Pages [PICS] →
This article presents 50 more examples of beautiful and original 404-error-designs. Some of them look beautiful but are not user-friendly; the other ones are user-friendly, but are not really…
HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt →
There have been numerous ‘revolts’ on Digg (social news), hundreds of thousands of users have created numerous groups to stage protests on Facebook (social networking), and hundreds of blog posts…
A Refreshing Dose of Facebook Honesty →
If you’re on facebook, you’ve probably received a friend request from someone from years back who you never particularly liked. If you’re anything like me, you probably just accepted their request….
A-Team Film Directed by Ridley Scott To Hit... →
A long-awaited big-screen version of the cult 1980s television series The A-Team produced by Blade Runner director Sir Ridley Scott is reportedly set to hit cinemas next year.
trying to remember how i installed something nearly 3 years ago so i can do it elsewhere is like pushing constipated rhinos through a sieve
New pornography laws 'could make comic books... →
New laws designed to tackle extreme and child pornography could make owning mainstream comics like Batman or Judge Dredd illegal, campaigners claim.
man, if only there was a way to hook my tv up to last.fm so i could scrobble all the music i’m listening to
and now it’s actually gotten to the point where i’m using my 17 year old tv as a cd player. i doubt it’ll handle the digital switchover tho
today i want all my food to have the texture of mozzarella cheese. for some reason, i believe this will be unlikely to happen
The only problem with chinese new year is the food. Mostly the vast amounts of it. Though it’s not so much a problem really.
yet again i am reminded that short hair is awesome. it still dries way quickly and doesn’t get in the way when eating chinese food.
today i saw someone who could have been neil gaiman if he wasn’t so tidy-looking and wearing not!black.
“Ex-KGB spy buys newspaper for £1. Now THAT’S what I call a slow news day....”
– BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor
Woah. My hair is really really short now.
Oh man brains hurt copious handfuls of pills not working >.<
AFI selects 2 WINNERS & extends VOTING of BEGIN... →
Congrats to Natacia & Raine, the first two selected winners of AFI’s Begin Transmission contest. Due to popular demand, we have decided to extend voting and winner announcing until next Friday, Jan…
Woman gets tattoo to win island reef job →
A WOMAN has tattooed a permanent advertisement for Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef on her arm in her bid to score a $150,000 tropical island dream job.
Google Giveth, and Taketh Away →
A number of Google services just announced that they are about to shut down.
Ricardo Montalban dies at 88 →
Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV’s “Fantasy Island,” died Wednesday morning at his home, a city…
…and now I have remembered why I didn’t use curling tongs on my hair when it was normal coloured
NSA's Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes →
Led by the NSA, an industry group has published a list of the 25 most dangerous software programming errors.Two of these bugs led to more than 1.5 million Web site breaches last year. Often, these…
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Wanted: Paradise... →
A ticket for a silent movie = WIN
Top Gear's The Stig's Secret Revealed! →
One of motor-racings most guarded secrets has been answered - Top Gear’s The Stig has been unmasked as a married man in his 30s who lives in a £300,000 house with a boring £15,000 car.
Would-be Chinese bride, 107, seeks first husband →
BEIJING (Reuters) - A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have…
Girl, 13, sends 14,528 texts in a month →
A California father says he discovered his 13-year-old daughter sent 484 text messages per day last month — one message every 2 minutes of every waking hour.
Men’s Second Style » Blogger Style Throwdown: Emo... →
Suspect I need another teapot
this whole savings malarky is RUBBISH. STUPID LOW INTEREST RATES. IS IT MY FAULT I DON’T HAVE A MORTGAGE?
BBC NEWS | UK | UK e-mail law 'attack on rights' →
Rules forcing internet companies to keep details of every e-mail sent in the UK are a waste of money and an attack on civil liberties, say critics.
English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear... →
Black holes 'preceded galaxies' →
A cosmic chicken-and-egg question has been solved by astronomers, who now say that black holes came before galaxies.
BBC NEWS | UK | 'No God' campaign draws complaint →
An atheist campaign claiming “There’s probably no God” has been reported to the advertising regulator.
The Whittards in Watford is closing down and the nice helpful guy who works there has lost his job. :( Economic downturn = suck
Yet another thing to add to my big fat rss feed.