2008

Jul

Mad Capsule Markets - Pulse Maybe five years ago, I was flicking through music channels late at...

(via chimp-shitbitch-kittenscrazy :...

Tumblr MP3 Player

Gordon Banks’ famous save from Pele’s header in the England v Brazil match during the...

He feints one way, dives another...

A few months ago, I went to an external seminar for work, with maybe 150 people there. During the...

The Pharcyde - Drop One of my favourite music videos…ever! I don’t know why I thought...

Maps - So Low, So High The opening track off We Can Create, it just grabs me from the start and...

A wordle of my most listened to bands. Easily done with...

Last.fm has had a redesign

that’s how I roll (Via gina)

johnbrissenden: (via hereharehere) The best thing about...

“Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free...”
— Twitter / Merlin Mann This is...

“I realised I was drunk when I put my arms out and made a...”
— A friend after coming home...

Ozma - Korobeiniki (Traditional Russian Folk Song) aka The Tetris tune Ozma were one of my favourite...

Why did something I post have to show up on the tumblr radar this week. Why couldn’t this have...

(via doodlepipski) Ahhhhhhhhhhhh… (Via...

Muse - Shrinking Universe A largely-unknown Muse B-side from their New Born single from 2001, and...

Noticed Today...

It’s a shame the number 5 takes so much longer to write (relatively) to the other single digit...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13)

Misfits - Horror Business This song just came up in shuffle and I remembered how much I love it. I...

I really need to make a macro for a new tab to open at Wikipedia.

80s Film Night!

Holy shit! Top Gun is on TV now! I have to watch this to the end and I promised friends that...

“Firefox 3’s update to allow you to save passwords after they’ve worked is...

40’ gap into pool - bad ass! (Via drunkirishhusbands) The first thing I thought about was the...

“What he means is real Old Testament, Mr Mayor. Real...”
— My favourite scene in...

“Listen! Do you smell something?”
— Dr Ray Stantz I’m...

Chicks - Let Me Go This is one of those songs that I get a massive urge to hear every now and...

Channel 4 Kubrick Season Ad (via spuller). A brilliant recreation of The Shining set for Channel...

Three great Thai adverts for Cheers beer (Via xstevemurphy : jnunemaker).

“I get upset that people don’t see the world as I do. It’s a...”
— A blog of a...

The Joy of Tech (Via azspot) It just made me laugh. ...

Printers

You know what I don’t understand? Almost every (office) printer now takes a full ream of paper. Why...

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6)

The last two nights, I have ‘slept’ fully-clothed on my bed.

In Flames - Only For The Weak (Live) I’ve had a mild interest in In Flames for a while, but I...

This little piece of plastic is an engineering...

“I didn’t know scissors could cut hair.”
— Amir This might be my...

Jackie Brown Trailer (via WorleyClarence). This is one of my favourite trailers ever. It’s...

The World’s First Album Cover (Via bullshit)) This is...

Bernard Butler - Not Alone Taken from the ex-Suede guitarist’s first solo album in 1998,...

Three photos, two pictures

A couple of nights ago, I was messing around with Canon’s PhotoStitch program, which is...

Getting old?

Are you ever surprised when you realise how old a film or an album you like actually is? It still...

butterflyeffect: vidhatch: “I’m beached as, bro!” New Zealander’s really do speak like this. A...

Jun

Manipulating Child (Via riotrepublic) I like how the dog follows the parents around, like...

(Via Nothing Nice To Say)

Asshole Mario World (via cubicle17) I wouldn’t last five minutes with this. It’s funny...

Two guys raise and rescue a lion cub in London. It gets too big and they release it. What happens...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29)

I just heard Arrested Development’s Mr Wendal and realised that the lyric is Mr Wendal, a...

“HEY! Get-get-get-get-get over it.”
— OK Go Hearing this song for...

Listening to The Clash’s first abum (Complete Control is playing at the moment) reminds me of...

I haven’t opened any post for nearly three weeks. ...

Go Opening Sequence (via stevenbeelen) It’s been nine years since I first saw Go and, ever...

That's Entertainment

“It’s like a gang war between the people who shout, the...”
— A friend who tried Tumblr for...

“Please call Stella…” Here is my reading of the script for The Speech Accent...

I was messing around with Canon’s PhotoStitch program...

It’s only one second of audio. I just made my favourite part of Weezer’s Pork And Beans...

I wish I could remember where I got this from.

The Wildhearts at Download Festival 2008 (via scardwel). Remember that video of Josh Homme losing it...

Euclid Crash - This Mess A defunct “Pop Punk/Powerpop/Alternative” band from Edmond,...

Because dental hygiene is important. Even at music...

“I’m a mumbler. If I’m walking with a friend and...”
— Mitch Hedberg Mumblers of the...

If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day,...

Fuck off

no I won’t do your gay little survey. We provide the content without which David and his chums...

That Little Red Light

Every time I’m heading back to my desk from a meeting (who am I kidding, I don’t get invited to...

Top 5

You know, I was just wondering what the top 5 most played artists of all the people I follow was...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22)

It’s 11.30 pm, I’ve got work tomorrow for the first time after a two-week break,...

I saw this graffiti in a car park I was in today. Although...

Watching friends and family greet each other at the airport is really enjoyable.

(Via twink : florencio)

One of the coolest-looking things you can do on film is to light a cigarette and/or smoke while...

Where the Hell is Matt? is back! (Via danhacker) This has just become one of my favourite videos...

Top Gear Telly Advert Meeting - Tea (via BBC). I just saw the advert for the new series of Top Gear...

Hitchcock Classics (via jona)

Beastie Boys (Via atherdiscretion : placebogirl :...

Rainburn

Yesterday was a really nice day. I got a bit of sunburn on my arm from sitting outside for a couple...

I was just walking home along the street and a maybe 10 year old kid came cycling up the road. He...

Just one of my favorite Office moments. (Via xstevemurphy) I’ll go for some of that. The...

I’ll try to make this the last photo from Download...

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well...”
— Albert Einstein (Via 10,000...

Oops

I am too drunk to go to work… One doesn’t try to have this problem often, but it happens… Who wants...

New food!

I get a ridiculously big kick out of opening new containers of food, whether it’s cereal,...

Mates Of State - Halves And Have-Nots. From their Our Constant Concern album, this just played on...

I just broke the 10,000 song barrier in my iTunes...

“I’m handy now.”
— Niles Craine from Frasier. In...

I took a photo of Ste taking a photo while also taking a...

(Via pile : ericlodwick : kevindavidcrowe) This seems so wrong and so right at the same...

Requiem For A Day Off (Via un : bendelaney : jacobbijani : Kottke) In the late 80s...

In honour of Lostprophets, who: Just headlined the last night of The Download Festival; Despite...

Sonic just scared me

I just kicked a hedgehog outside our house, but not on purpose. I heard a rustling and went to walk...

Ali and I watched Lostprophets headline the final night at...

Me and Jimmi at Download before the Rise Against set on the...

The rest of the gang at Download, an hour after setting up...

Not the best photo that I took at Download, but I think...

Blackcurrant Tango Advert (via hollysmoke) This is perhaps the greatest British TV commercial ever...

Hilarious Dancing Air Traffic Controller - This cracked my cack up. I love the Michael Jackson bit!...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15)

I'm not a boy, not yet a man

I was walking through the street today and there was a little girl, maybe 5 years old, who was...

(via danhacker) Tell me you’re not smiling right...

In preparation for The Download Festival in a few days, I...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8)

(Via BBC Sport) I’m not really a cricket fan, but I...

(Via strelau) : kendalldoesit) This is ridiculous and actually makes me angry. I’m...

Fold a T-shirt in 2 seconds. So much awesome on the Interwebs lately. ( If you need it, there is a...

“Tell it to the one-legged man, so he can bump it off down...”
— Sloe, from Lucky Number...

Dodgeball with Medicine Balls in the Dark (via JimRat21). I saw Jackass: Number Two for the first...

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their...

This thing is a: Meme

(via eec : alohanico) Use the first letter of your first name to answer each of the...

I’m currently reading “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by...

As much as I love Google Maps, I’m pretty sure right...

That'll Be The Day

My dad brought me up on Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys and Roy Orbison. I realised tonight that I...

I got my first hit from South America today!

I hate getting my hair cut

Looking in the mirror a few minutes ago was the first time since I got my hair cut on Saturday that...

EPIC MOVIE 2 from Andrew Pile on Vimeo. (Via pile). The puppy’s look back at 26 seconds is...

Jesus, Tom Cruise looks about 12 years old in A Few Good Men.

Pork & Beans Acoustic - Tay Zonday and Weezer’s Brian BellI want to not like Tay Zonday, but I...

(via misterpeace : stevemakesnoise) You guys are so...

Refused - New Noise (Live) Refused are one of those bands that I wish I could have seen live. I...

Father's Day

My parents are on holiday in the USA for the next three weeks, which means that they’re away...