July 2009
81 posts
Muse — House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals...
Poll: What's the best TV show of the decade... →
jhnbrssndn:
(via wireporn)
Fucking “Top Gear” is walking it at the moment; “The Wire” is running a poor second. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
I don’t want to tell people what to vote for, but now fucking QI is in second place? Seriously? I don’t think I have ever even cracked a smile at that pompous, smarmy crap.
As a hint to who I voted for: “QI?! Come on!”
“By 1.40 p.m. the sidewalks were baking, the buildings were ready to turn cherry...”
– Lady Killer — Ed McBain
I love Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels.
“I want my dolphin!”
– A little Welsh girl kept saying this in a shop I was in today. It turns out she was referring to a dolphin stuffed toy her mum had just bought.
I’m pretty sure this is the best sentence I will ever hear spoken in a strong South Wales accent.
My Kid Took These.com is back! →
mykidtookthese:
When I first created this site in July of 2008 it was built to showcase some of the photos that my then 3 year old son had taken. I didn’t spend too much time thinking about what I wanted to do with the site I just built it and uploaded some of his photos. To my surprise people liked the idea and the site got a fair bit of attention. I got emails from people from all over the...
You ever get that thing when a TV advert for a...
You know how a film can sometimes seem way better...
I’m watching Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes for the second time and it sucks exactly the same amount as the first time I watched it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Gorilla Biscuits (19)
Sublime (17)
Quicksand (12)
Rise Against (11)
Jawbreaker (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Both Seasons of Spaced Available on Hulu →
nostrich:
One of Britain’s best comedies is now available in its entirety on Hulu!
Unless you are actually British!
Yay!
(via musicbrain)
Please - if you haven’t seen this, do so. You will not regret it.
We won a pub quiz tonight!
It was a work-related quiz night for charity. But the important thing is that we won!
It was a brilliant team effort, with a team of what turned out to be specialists/chancers. Impressive answers that we got included naming ten songs by 10cc (I can’t remember any of them), how old a car has to be to be considered a classic (25), and which song is popularly-linked to Torvill & Dean...
My laptop is getting fixed (for free!)
After my adventures the other day, my laptop crapped out on me again, so I did a bit of research and found that it might be a common problem with MacBook Pros manufactured in 2007-2008, with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor.
It looked like I had this problem, which seems to be a big enough issue for Apple to offer free repairs for up to three years after the date of purchase, even...
It's weird how the same time of day can feel so...
Four albums I've just bought on impulse
Gorilla Biscuits — Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Biscuits — Start Today
Sick Of It All — Scratch The Surface
Sublime — Sublime
I had no intention of buying anything tonight and only went on Amazon to check on an order I’m waiting for.
Also, this post was brought to you by the letters ‘G’ and ‘S’.
Living on the edge
Last night, my MacBook Pro died. Kind of.
At about 11pm, I put the lid down and went off to do some things (tidying up, ironing a shirt, putting the bins out — all that good stuff).
About half an hour later, I open it up again and…nothing. The light on my power cable was on, the machine was on, the fans were going, but the keyboard wasn’t working (the caps lock light...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-19) →
The Draft (25)
The Thermals (11)
Genghis Tron (10)
Penfold (8)
Mastodon (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut... →
“Collins was forgotten. Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind. But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11. Not that he holds grudges. “It was an honour,” he said last week.”
We Choose the Moon →
rand0mflora:
bryonmcdonald:
science:
Don’t miss this one. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, WeChooseTheMoon.org is broadcasting the mission in real-time, delayed by 40 years. Listen in to ‘live’ communications, follow the astronauts on twitter, and explore archival videos and photos. After Apollo lands on July 20th, all the content will be available for...
Thanks for the heads up
Yesterday, I used this phrase in an an email to a few people at work.
Today, one of them asked me what the phrase meant. He honestly had no idea, had never heard it before, couldn’t work out what it possibly could mean — it just seemed like random words to him. He thought I’d had some kind of brainfart when I was typing it.
I’m not criticising him — this kind of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-12) →
Thrice (17)
Descendents (15)
The Gaslight Anthem (14)
Biffy Clyro (11)
Million Dead (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Gravity Hill →
bestofwikipedia:
A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope.
There’s one of these a few miles away from me — it’s called Magnetic Hill. It’s good for a laugh every couple of years.
I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of...
My name is Elvis Presley, girls are sexy, sitting on the back seat, drinking all the Pepsi.
One step out.
I am experiencing a feeling of dread.
ursulasteinberg:
I feel like I’ve forgotten to do something vital or that if I don’t do something before I go to bed tonight that I am going to be in the shit tomorrow. I wish I could remember what it is I’m meant to do - or just shake this horrible feeling!
And you know when you figure out what it is, it’ll be something insignificant, like not buying those spare shoelaces you were going...
Thank You
unecho:
setuplikeadeckofcards:
http://un.tumblr.com/
http://mabelmoments.tumblr.com/
Legends.
That’s something at least. I think it’s Tumblr’s custom domain redirect that’s the problem. Look at http://marco.org, unless that’s just not working for me as well.
Marco is resolving ova heeya (you are welcome Setup’)
So that’s got to be my ISP not allowing redirects, right? (I’ve...
Thank You
http://un.tumblr.com/
http://mabelmoments.tumblr.com/
Legends.
That’s something at least. I think it’s Tumblr’s custom domain redirect that’s the problem. Look at http://marco.org, unless that’s just not working for me as well.
Please let me know if you can see this.
Just ‘like’ it for a couple of minutes so that I can see it, and then unlike it, or something like that?
My custom domain http://setuplikeadeckofcards.com doesn’t seem to be working, but the http://setuplikeadeckofcards.tumblr.com domain does work, if I remove the redirect.
But I’m not sure if it’s me, or Tumblr, or GoDaddy, or what.
Thank you.
