Inventor fuels car with dead cats
“this practice is outlawed in Germany”. Killjoy.Presumably this was outlawed under a generic law that would have made Simon Bond’s hi-hi-hilarious books also illegal. The more specific “und di[…]

Philips Paper-like Display prototyped already! WOOOOOOOO! It’s something i will rant on about to anyone who cares to listen (i.e. nobody. where would blogging be otherwise?).
You can keep your super next-gen 4-D graphics chips and wireless sync[…]

In 1997 I went up to Edinburgh to sample the Fringe. It was the year that the League of Gentlemen won the Perrier, and I saw their show. Matt Lucas was in the audience laughing his arse off, but i didn’t get much of a kick out of it. Mark Gatis[…]

Graphs and everything courtesy of a slashdotted article. Regular shuffle IS INDEED RANDOM and without duplicates – like shuffling a pack of cards and dealing them out. But the difference with party shuffle is that you get “with replacemen[…]

The officical DVD site announced (6 weeks ago) that the final series was definitely going to be released, and now (ok, 2 weeks ago) they’ve posted that all the extras footage is done, so it’s a count down to the release in November…[…]

Most weeks something pops up on the information superhighway about a project to hack some old technology into new, that you could make one up and someone has either done it or is working on it. Here I’ll make up: MAME emulator on the Nintendo D[…]

An experiment to determine which decade produced the best cult comedy radio programmes
Apparatus
BitTorrent
iPod
Time spent travelling on public transport and not otherwise reading books and news or listening to new music.
Method
BitTorrent is a marv[…]

There is something gothic in the way this pub towers over the low-level business units surrounding it, the pub’s name, high up, broadcasts across the Sainsbury’s car park to the Paddington Rail Crash memorial stone. The first thing I goog[…]

Fun minimum
I, like many fools (oh you poor fools), believed in Uncle Richard Angwin when he said serious rain gear would be OTT. In the event my sturdy hiking boots started to let in some water. Magnus had the right idea and got us both to queue up […]

To the more technically adept or adventurous I have an experiment for you to take part in. On my mac is a 140MB folder called “UK Number 1s 150-199”. I downloaded the new beta of BitTorrent that supports TRACKERLESS torrents and I have ma[…]