The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time

A list of the Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time. I think my favourite is no. 8.

Superman II gets a re-edit

Apparently, Richard Donner is going to re-edit Superman II. Does that mean we have to buy that DVD as well? ;)

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names: "When working on the paper 'The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity' (paper PDF link) we built MusicSeer to collect human evaluation of artist similarity. We expected a lot of responses but needed a way to ferret out 'bad' results-- robots, users just clicking randomly, and people that didn't know the bands presented. One idea was to pepper the list with 'red herrings' in the form of fake bandnames-- and if someone chose one, we'd ignore their responses later on. "

Chris Cornell records Bond theme

US rock star to record Bond theme: "Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell is to write and record the theme tune to the new James Bond film, Casino Royale. "

Do you remember the internet in 1996?

I do it looked a bit like this:

In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They've now archived 55 billion web pages. That's enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate's printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.

http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm

Take everything in your house and turn it into dominos

Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert'

Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert': "The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate, alarming research suggests. And the process, which would be irreversible, could begin as early as next year. "

Joe's Goals

You know how you always want to go to the gym more (apparently) and eat less (allegedly). Why not use this neat little app to keep a tab on how well you're achieving your aims? http://www.joesgoals.com/

Luckily you get to choose your own goals and vices.

Getting Real: building web app book

Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas.

Getting Real: the book from 37 Signals

Polar bears in Berlin chill out

Polar bears in Berlin chill out

Sparklines

A sparkline is a small line graph designed to be used in-line within text to illustrate a time series; the concept was developed by data presentation guru Edward Tufte.

Here's a page with an example and a way to create them in photoshop: here

Worst song lyrics evah

We can do better can't we?

Here's a list which started this:

32 worst lyrics of all time

And here's some suggestions I have gleaned:

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
--Alanis Morissette

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly
I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please
Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
--Lenny Kravitz?

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold.
They call the Ghostbusters and they're in control.
Had them throwing a party for a bunch of children.
When all the while, the slime was under the building.
So they packed up, regrouped, got a grip, camera quick.
Grabbed their proton packs on their backs and they split.
Found out about Vigo, the master of evil.
Try to battle my boys, that's not legal.

--Bobby Brown

We stayed in by the telly although the room was smelly?
--Squeeze

You said to trust you, you'd never hurt me
Now, I'm disgusted, since then adjusted
Certainly, you fooled me, ridiculed me
Left me hangin', now shit's boomerangin'
--Puff Daddy

Diviner than the dolphin, that there is none
'cause dolphins just-a like to have a lot of fun
No one tells 'em how their life is run
And no one points at them with a gun
They have a lot of love for every living creature
The smile of a dolphin is a built in feature
They be movin' in schools but everyone's the teacher
Someday mister dolphin, I know I'm go'n to meetcha
--Red Hot Chillie Peppers

I don't like cities, but I like New York.
Other places make me feel like a dork.
--Madonna

I'm afraid of the dark,
especially when I'm in a park,
I don't want to see a ghost,
it's the sight that I fear most.
--Des'ree

and my personal fav:

I'm as serious as cancer
When I tell you rhythm is a dancer
--Snap

and one from the charts right now:

Shakira, Shakira,
I never really knew that she could dance like this,
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
--Fugees feat. Shakira

Anything else?

Swipe-card plan to ration consumers' carbon use

Swipe-card plan to ration consumers' carbon use

A radical plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions by rationing the carbon use of individuals is being drawn up by government officials. The scheme could force consumers to carry a swipe card that records their personal carbon allocation, with points knocked off each time they buy petrol or tickets for a flight.

Click OK?

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1818631,00.html
Quite! Back to that TAB order in CRM :)

Microsoft shuts down Windows 98

Microsoft shuts down Windows 98

Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.

Why Bose Sucks

Why Bose Sucks

Bose, like Bang & Olufsen and Nakamichi, sell lifestyle and designer products whose prices are very heavily saturated by image and appeal. They are by no means, no means at all performance products. They have no cost-effectiveness, no bang-for-the-buck value, and draw no respect from any true audio enthusiasts

The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar 2006-2007

Um... It's work safe, and very embarrassing.

The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar 2006-2007 is emerging soonÂ… stay tuned to this spot. The calendar features beautiful photos of real women working in the IT industry, in poses inspired by movie goddesses old and recent.

http://www.itgoddess.info/

Dice Wars

This would appear to be somewhat like Risk, but without all that unnecessary testosterone-fuelled army behaviour.

Dice Wars

Didn't have long to play it, so it might be cr@p :)

Interior design - for books

India, Ink. � Making Castoff: "Last week I attended a reunion of people who used to work at a certain nonprofit literary organization. Some are in publishing now, many are writers, and all are bookish people who buy and read books—past page 18—regularly. Yet I was asked several times, while catching up with folks, what it is that a book interior designer does. “So, like, you pick the fonts?”"

The Intergalactic Mashup King

The Intergalactic Mashup King:

In Werner Herzog’s films, the main characters tend to be ambitious explorers who find themselves crashing in spectacular failure. Aguirre, the Wrath of God follows a 16th-century conquistador who sets out to find El Dorado, only to end up on a raft, demented and alone, adrift on a stagnant river. In the documentary Grizzly Man, Timothy Treadwell becomes so adept at cohabiting with wild grizzly bears that he comes to believe he’s one of them – until he gets eaten.

Huggable Urns

Huggable Urns: "Huggable UrnsTM offers the most unique way to keep your loved one
close to your heart!"

John Powers

John Powers, artist

Some rather nice geometric art type stuff

evidence that typing is becoming a performance medium

Wired News: Real DJs Code Live:

A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. "Livecoding" practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade programming architectures to build compositions from the ground up, replacing instruments and samples with raw code authoring before a live audience.

Don't you want your own internet

27B Stroke 6: "The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's."

Do you want me to send you an internet:

The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's.

One of the senators explained that as he hadn't received an e-mail he'd been sent on Friday it was probably all the people using youtube's fault so they should be stopped. When he starts talking about tubes the whole thing gets a bit out of hand.

Shelley The Republican

Shelley The Republican � Google : The America-hating empire is taking over: "Friends,
I don’t have the great insight and knowledge Tristan has when it comes to that tech stuff, but I will attempt to write an article why I think it’s utterly wrong to use Google’s services."

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor

A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor - New York Times:

When Google was a graduate-school project being run from a Silicon Valley garage, its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their own computers out of cheap parts meant for personal computers. They wanted to save money, and they felt that they could design a network of computers that would search the Web more efficiently than those available from traditional manufacturers.

Praying for people in not really working shocker!

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: No Prayer Prescription -- [ PSYCHOLOGY ] -- Send good vibrations, but keep it to yourself:

Seeking to assess the effect of third-party prayer on patient outcomes, investigators found no evidence for divine intervention. They did, however, detect a possible proof for the power of negative thinking.

Viral e-mail for fun and profit

eefoof.com - Make It. Post It. Profit.:

When you upload a piece of media for submission to eefoof, your first hit immediatly starts generating income. Each month, we measure the amount of individual page views for each item you submit, and then calculate the percentage of hits it accounted for its media type. We then use this number to figure out your share of the sites ad revenue. Once your account exceeds $25, we will send you a Paypal transfer to the email specified at account creation.

Nominet signs up to ICANN

Nominet signs up to ICANN:

"In a hugely significant move, .uk registry Nominet has signed up to internet overseeing organisation ICANN and put to bed an historic battle between the US not-for-profit company and managers of county-specific internet domains."

Not sure why exactly, but apparently it's very significant.