that canadian girl

You know you’re a proper geek when you can write in LOLCODE, the latest and greatest programming language to grace the Interweb. It’s a simple language written for the cats, by the cats. File open example HAI CAN HAS STDIO? PLZ OPEN FILE “LOLCATS.TXT”? AWSUM THX VISIBLE FILE O NOES INVISIBLE “ERROR!” KTHXBYE What can [...]

Get your headphones now, put them on your head and listen to the virtual barbershop. It’s one of the most bizarre experiences ever. Come on, play along and have a listen. Oh and happy Friday!

When I was a kid, I used to get this feeling all the time. This floating feeling that life’s great, like you could explode if it gets any better. As grownups, we’re busy, stressed, worried over all sorts of trivial and not-so-trivial stuff, and we rarely, if ever, get that floaty feeling anymore. However, in [...]

Knitting: I don’t know why, I just want to knit something painfully kitsch. I think it’s a mix of watching Ugly Betty, coming across an old blog entry by Katie mentioning crocheting, and just wanting one of those really soft scarves but never finding one I like. Get a Wacom graphics tablet: I’ve had a [...]

Cabel‘s been playing Saints Row, and has produced what is possibly the most entertaining bug review in history – a Musical review. “For starters, it was literally, down to almost every detail, an exact clone of Grand Theft Auto. (I couldn’t believe Rockstar didn’t K.C. Munchkin all over their faces.) Saints Row does, to its [...]

A few links to prove the world’s still going ’round and people are still doing their thang… Need to stock up on plonk for Christmas? Thresher is offering 40% off all wine and champagne from 30th Nov to 10th Dec. Print the voucher and pass it on to your friends! Viral marketing at its simplest. [...]

Following a post dating back from a few months ago where I posted a picture of some idiot who crashed into a Cambridge bollard, someone has sent me a video of an unknown intersection in the UK that seems to be an idiot-magnet. Bollards are ruthless, don’t argue with them!

If you’re bored at home… Create your own zoo!

Nah, actually, I wouldn’t. And neither would they. But they’d walk 96 miles, they would! “They” are two newly married couples who will be walking 96 miles across the Scottish Highlands in May. The idea sprouted in October, and slowly the sheer grandeur of their Scottish escapade is starting to make itself known. “Kindly, the [...]