Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Pirate Bay Hopes to Buy its Own Country: Sealand

One of the most successful of Bittorrent sites has it’s eyes on owning a country now, the offshore platform known as Sealand. They’ve underbid by many millions of pounds thus far from the looks of it, but good luck to … Continue reading

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vlowe YouTube Gallery 1.0

I’m going to investigate this further, it is a wordpress plugin that shows your favourite youtube clips embedded in a gallery on your blog. Could be an interesting little thing to have set up [Download] [Plugin Page]

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Public can purchase $100 laptop – Neowin.net

The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year. This is great news, the idea was to create a laptop that could be given en masse to children in developing … Continue reading

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Words matter, but the message is King – Presentation Zen

Presentation Zen is a great little site discussing, well, presentations. They had a good article a few days back comparing the recent speeches by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, praising in particular Jobs’ ability to express complicated concepts simply. In … Continue reading

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Police Trails in Oxford – Flickr

Alex Hay posted a photo: This light trail was taken in oxford as a police car drove past. Great picture of Oxford here

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Blair defends long-haul holidays BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition

The PM says he will not give up holiday flights, saying a green agenda should not stop people having a "good time". When I got riled about Global Warming the other day, this was exactly the sort of attitude I … Continue reading

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George Carlin – People that should die.

I’ve only recently discovered George Carlin, and he is an utter treasure that I need to see more of. He was one of the unexpected highlights of The Aristocrats. part one part two | digg story

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Homemade Pong watch! – MAKE Magazine

From MAKE Magazine, a pong game on your wrist. This is truly the future, sod the hovercar and meals in a pill!

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Witness The Guitar Hero II For Xbox 360 Bundle – Kotaku

This, I simply have to have. I’ve heard great things about the PS2 version, and a few months back spent ten minutes in a shop just watching someone playing it. Just looks damn good fun.

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random thoughts

-I now have one of those new iPod Nanos, courtesy of Mrsfb for Christmas. It is a lovely bit of kit, and until you see one you really can’t imagine quite how small and slim they are. Yet they are … Continue reading

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