Archive for May, 2006

WoSTV

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

The fine folks at the World of Stuart forum have a threadfull of links to various music videos, many of which aren’t quite as sucky as they should be. It was a tough choice, but I decided to go with Daisy Chainsaw’s Love Your Money embedded in this post, as I was well into that [...]

Sleater Kinney are the Rock

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Despite the fact I was infected with T-Virus or similar, my brother and I went to see Sleater Kinney put on an excellent, if not particularly chatty, gig at the Concorde 2 on Sunday. Help She Can’t Swim provided some decent support, though the sound system didn’t really help them, as it all came across [...]

Disappointing spam of the day

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

The hits just keep on coming. Sitting in my inbox is the subject line:
“Someone has invited you”
from one PBL.
On opening, the body of the message turns out to be:
“Someone has invited you to play bingo.”
They weren’t even excited enough to use an exclamation mark. I’m going to bed.

I am pathetic when I am ill

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

I am feeling rubbish, and my entire brain has shut down, along with all parts of the body not essential for coughing, grating my throat or generating mucus. Earlier, having stocked up on enough low grade over the counter pharmaceuticals to slightly daze a shetland pony, I went to the card shop to get [...]

Gripping

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

The AlphaGrip keyboard/controller thingy (check out the back view, that’s money) is exactly what Atari would be using for their console if the jaguar hadn’t been rubbish. Though it probably wont cripple you, so perhaps not.

RIP Skeeter Rabbit

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Dude rocked.

Usually Rather Dull Affairs

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Ugly violence errupts in the otherwise sedate world of Czech politics. The cheering of the dentists in the video is well worth it.

Today’s YouTube themed post

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Audiences agree, The DaVinci Code movie is nowhere near as good as this.