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Washing up

December 31st 2006

I don’t know – first trkey sandwiches and now washing up, I’m becoming too domesticated. Over the last few weeks I have found myself washing up, and it occurs to me quite how bad at it most people are. Now as numerous ex-flatmates will testify, I leave washing up for as long as possible until [...]

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Stuff

December 30th 2006

So much to say, so little to write. Damn it. One cannot help thinking that showing Saddam the noose was not a wise idea. Heating the boiling pan solves no problems. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Vista = evil?

December 26th 2006

Once again, microshite have proed themselves to be idiots. Vista includes a new hardware based autherication system or as it is being know long term death for windows Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Perfect human?

December 26th 2006

Its pretty rare read somethign to do with people achiving physical feats that impresses me enough to consider doing anything, however when it appears in Wired.com, I start to listern. Wired 15.01: The Perfect Human makes a really interesting read. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world [...]

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Christmas Sandwiches

December 25th 2006

Once the roast is done, and the presents have been opened, the Queen has finished, and it is time for… The Turkey Sandwich Now there are rules. This is not a Pret special. Bread: It can only be sliced white plastic style bread. No crusty buns, no baggettes, no country cobs. Sliced white, possibly lightly [...]

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RIP James Brown

December 25th 2006

James Brown has died on Christmas Day. I have to admit I’m not his biggest fan but it is difficult not to admit his influence on the worlds music scene. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Mathematical Genius

December 22nd 2006

I’m proud to call John Horton Conway my homeboy. Oh yes. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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My iTunes Party would suck

December 22nd 2006

Ok, if i used iTunes’s random party mode to control the music at my party, it would suck badly. Just too random, and badly mixed. Check it out: Fool (If You Think It’s Over)- Chris Rea Mugwump – Terrorvision Armageddon – Culture Bitch – Eminem Send His Love To Me – PJ Harvey Retired Colourman [...]

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Blender fun

December 22nd 2006

I want a blender. I want a really good blender. If these can eat marbles!c i want one. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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I need this in my lilfe

December 21st 2006

 A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking’s Greatest Hits “You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it’s true, if you drop a broken egg you will [...]

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Geek update

December 21st 2006

OK – this is odd but someone at 6music just in place a neat little tech-hack to feed whatever is being played on 6music out to last.fm, and it even has it’s own profile. he’s called sekrit. In other news CNET has released a list of the geekiest creatures, which is a little American centric, [...]

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BBC IMDB thingydoo

December 19th 2006

BBC Programme Catalogue is in beta – it’s a bit like IMDB, but for Tv, and with an open geek development interface. Sweeeeeet. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Next years holiday

December 17th 2006

I’m going to fly somewhere, and walk somewhere, stay for a few days, and fly back, then walk from the airport to my house. Hopefully. Will Self’s slow walk into downtown New York looks like fun. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my [...]

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Mashup Madness

December 17th 2006

Over Heard In New York + Google maps = overplot. Why didn’t I think of this. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Animals on the underground

December 17th 2006

I stared at the map for ages on Friday night but I could only see the bird and the whale, but then today I ran across a link to animals on the underground on a pirating blog. Amazing how life is connected. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks [...]

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Just a different class, a different time

December 17th 2006

I’ve just got back form a Christmas party, somewhere I never imagined I would go, and somewhere that I would have viermently not wanted to go a few years ago. I was invited to a dinner party (with top secret santa present giving), at the house of a friend who is a teacher at Eton. [...]

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Serious, very serious body-modding

December 16th 2006

Ok, I have no idea if this is a fake or not (instinct says yes, history says no), but Adding and Subtracting is the most amazing thing I’ve read in ages. Really really do not click on it if you aren’t fairly used to seeing bodymods though (subsisions, nullo’s etc), you will regret it. However, [...]

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Trains, and cunts

December 16th 2006

Blooody bloody trains! I leave a perfectly good party to make sure I don’t get the last train home (but the one before it), and it turns out they’ve cancelled the one before that so my crappy stopping train which takes 45 minutes to get me home now takes and hour and 45. and it [...]

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Uk hip hop?

December 15th 2006

Rare is the day that I recommend UK hip hop, but we do have a few rising stars out there (and a few people making music like nobody else – I will always enjoy The Streets), but I’m currently listening to Realities Of Life by Life, and it’s tops. None of this “ah nigger, gunz, [...]

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10 techy things which will rule next year

December 15th 2006

Popular Mechanics yhas an article about the 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007 including the very funkyn bendable concrete, printed solar panels and data clouds (meta data and data mining are moving out of the field of artificial intelligence experts at the moment, with things like backstage.bbc and google.api’s kicking ass.) Thats [...]

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Big bloke saves fish

December 14th 2006

The world’s tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards and just in case you found that as news worthy as I did, The world’s tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs [...]

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William Bloke

December 14th 2006

Overheard in a shop, I shall now have to go and buy William Bloke by Billy Bragg. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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More cutting news stories from the interweb

December 14th 2006

Ananova – Man needed surgery after sex with hedgehog Nuff said. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Late night ananova finds

December 14th 2006

Can’t sleep. Reading Ananova. It would appear that a very lost seal: could well have been on hnis way to a Babyshambles gig in a car park. Meanwhile Kate Winslet’s body inspired new Jag (bootylicious one imagines) and the new stamps appear to feture Santa shitting down a chimney. Bloomin’ marvelous I tells you. Possibly [...]

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Plague

December 13th 2006

I have plague – a definate case of man-flu. I’ve gone home from work, bought pizza and enough chillis to kill something, and am holing up on the sofa with films. Goodnight kids. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Stright Dope

December 12th 2006

nedd some odd questions answerting? The Straight Dope Archive: Gateway is your boy, Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Phototrickery

December 11th 2006

Transparent Screens are supercool, but make my face ache. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Infinate cat project

December 11th 2006

And the award for most cute goes to… The Infinite Cat Project/a>: Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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The return of Emo?

December 10th 2006

Emo appeared in the 90′s and seemed to die.  I remember Steve Lamaq getting a touch tearfunl about it vanishing, yet I keep hearing about it this week.  Emo Kids seems to be about 16 (so whats new) and I’ve no idea which bands fall into Emo either.  How odd. Emo Kids seem to have [...]

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Why not just declare martial law?

December 8th 2006

When will people realise that more guns results in more gun crimes. As a small U.S. town may encourage firearms will go virtually un noticed I would imagine, surely people must have cottoned on to the simple fact, as made so clear in things like Bowling For Columbine, the more guns your society owns, and [...]

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Medical art

December 7th 2006

Some of it will make you go “bleugh yak”, but I love the work of < < l a u r a s p l a n > >. Her blood scalf was on makezine last week, but it’s the meat pillows I love most on here. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! [...]

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Random connectivity in the UK Geek Populus

December 7th 2006

Funny how things are connect isn’t it? I was just reading my flist and it turns out that one of my favorite bloggers Random Acts Of Reality met cubicgarden at the Webby’s last night. I had dinner with cubicgarden a couple of weeks ago in newcastle with Randomcat Chris. A few years ago I went [...]

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Lighters and the GI

December 7th 2006

A light into the hearts and souls of GIs in Vietnam is an interesting little piece about collecting engraved Zippo’ from the forces. Shame there aren’t more pictures. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Deep water pool

December 7th 2006

I love swimming, but I hate deep water so the worlds deepest swimming pool scares the living poo out of me. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Less geek – more speak

December 6th 2006

OK, maybe it’s that I’ve moved the major content of my blog to livejournal (if you are reading this on colclimate.co.uk, fear not – it will always be here, I just like some of the livejournal feed methods), but i feel the need to reduce the random crappy links I post on here, especially those [...]

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Is fish meat meat, or just meat?

December 6th 2006

For lunch I am having fish soup – does this mean I have broken my vegitarian challenge? Fish is flesh from a living animal, which I guess means I have (which is very annoying), however many people I know who say they are vegitarian eat fish (I guess they are technicallpisco-tarians), but I think some [...]

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