Time Management and gherkins

This is quite an old article, but it remains a good one. The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management.

Although I think he could have used the gherkins, small gherkins, sauerkraut, water analogy. But his loss...

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates, Back to School (with Napoleon Dynamite)

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Bill Gates followup on Daily Show the following day

Bill Gates on the Daily Show for Visa launch

YouTube - Bill Gates on the Daily Show: "Bill Gates on the Daily Show"

No really.

Vista DRM hacked on the day of Vista launch

Alex Ionescu’s Blog � Update on Driver Signing Bypass: "However, it does bypass DRM. As part of the Protected Media Path, (PMP), Windows Vista sets up a number of requirements for A/V software and drivers in order to ensure it complies with the demands of the media companies."

We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

A visualisation of how the blogosphere feels

Get a Mac - by Mitchel and Webb

Get a Mac - by Mitchel and Webb

Beardyman Human Beatbox

Beardyman Human Beatbox

Obviously we know him. Can you remember his name Katherine?

Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon-landing Conspiracy Theorist

Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon-landing Conspiracy Theorist

Real Bradford Curry - To You!

"Bradford has a well-deserved national reputation for being the home of fantastic South Asian food. To order on line, browse our menu and simply add items to your basket. We can deliver your food by courier to your home or workplace, usually within 2 working days of placing your order."

Real Bradford Curry

Result! I have many happy memories of wonderful nights working for BBC Radio Leeds covering Bradford City football matches and dining out on excellent curry; that's what sound engineers do. I even shared a balti with Sir Trevor Brooking once...

Voting machine key copied from online photo

DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE KEY COPIED FROM PHOTO

National Security? We got it...

Tax Takers Send in the Spiders

Wired News: Tax Takers Send in the Spiders: "Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites."

OpenMoko - An open source phone with Linux on it

OpenMoko: "The Revolution to 'Free Your Phone' is Coming..."

Oh and Python and Ruby... Doug's going to love this:

Here's a presentation which seems to not be linked to from the site and really gives all of the details:

http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf

Bommer man in real life

Bommerman in real life: By wearing a different colour beanie you choose which character you are and your position is tracked from the ceiling.

PDA? So last century...

The Hipster PDA - for all us uber-techies out there...

Francis Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the structure of DNA

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD: "FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago."

Every Video Game Nintendo, Sega and more!

You know like when someone makes a claim like "every video game" and you think really can it be? Well here are a lot of them, and they are all playable right there on the site.

Every Video Game :: Nintendo, Sega and more!

finetune

Finetune is a quite a lot like Pandora except it seems that you can build your own playlists. And that you can add the music from that playlist so that it streams on your blog. Welcome back to random pages which automatically start playing music when you arrive on them...

finetune

It's The Big Red Button!!

The Big Red Button - The Daily WTF

(Alex, you probably saw this, but...!)

Online image editing

[you might have seen this on digg, but useful for those no Photoshop/GIMP moments]

Online image editors compared

Cellsea comes out top, might give it a go...

A

Are you ready to feel the caffeine in your ears?

Download a coffee replacement

"I created and I'm posting here a 20 minutes duration brainwave file [in MP3 format] that I called "Coffee Replacement" because of its feature to keep you in an energizing state giving you a "caffeine" energetic boost."

WARNING!
The following people should not use brain entrainment:
> People subject to any forms of seizures or epilepsy
> People using pacemakers
> People suffering from cardiac arrhythmia or other heart disorders
> People taking stimulants, psychoactive drugs, or tranquilizers

TagMaps - World Explorer

TagMaps - World Explorer

Neat way to find flickr pictures by location.

The Ten Word Review

The Ten Word Review

eg. A Scanner Darkly: Rotoscoping gives Keanu a soul. Shame he opens his mouth.

Geni

Geni

Nice ancestry site - would have been nice to be AJAX rather than Flash but looks groovy...I'm in.

Ms. Dewey - Microsoft's new "interactive" search

Ms. Dewey

Very strange indeed. Type in "Yo Mamma" or "Yo Daddy" for some very strage results...

IKEA Online shoping from spring in the UK

IKEA | Can i Shop Online!: "
We'll be kicking off the New Year in a new way at IKEA, with the pilot of our online shopping service, Shop Online!

We've been working for quite some time now to get everything ready for Spring 07. "

They want you to visit their test site and comment on what's wrong - this sounds quite a lot like Adrian's job. Instead of getting paid you could win £1,000 of vouchers!!!

Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut

YouTube - Star Trek Cribs - The Director's Cut

How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

Techdirt: History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

France, 1666:

"Shortly after the matter of cloth weaving has been disposed of, the button makers guild raises a cry of outrage; the tailors are beginning to make buttons out of cloth, an unheard-of thing. The government, indignant that an innovation should threaten a settled industry, imposes a fine on the cloth-button makers. But the wardens of the button guild are not yet satisfied. They demand the right to search people's homes and wardrobes and fine and even arrest them on the streets if they are seen wearing these subversive goods."

Oh how we laughed....

Stormtrooper effect

Stormtrooper effect: "The Stormtrooper effect, also called Stormtrooper syndrome, is a cliche in works of fiction where minor characters (cannon fodder) are unrealistically ineffective in combat against more important characters (almost always the protagonists 'equipped' with character shields). The name originated with the armed Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy, who, despite their considerable advantages of close range, overwhelming numbers, professional military training, full armor, military-grade firepower, and noticeable combat effectiveness against non-speaking characters, were incapable of seriously harming or indeed merely hitting the protagonists. The effect is generally employed either to increase the dramatic tension of an action scene or to accentuate the heroes' fighting prowess."

UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked!

UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked!: "Community Opinions ... Ranked!"

Sort of like Digg but for lists of anything, not just news. eg. Most popular Programing Languages, Most popular beers, etc.

Buy Sealand

Buy Sealand

So the guys behind The Pirate Bay, in a mighty two fingers to the RIAA, are thinking of buying Sealand...

No More Cingular?

Cingular is no more

Suddenly an iPhone in association with AT&T doesn't seem quite so cool, does it?

iPhone: what's in a name

iPhone: does Cisco miss out due to prior art? - Engadget

There is no such thing as prior art when it comes to trademarks, but what they say in the update is the thing I've been saying. Cisco have been inconsistent with protecting their trademark and that's the killer.

Dylan Moran on Children's Parties

"I've got a migraine"
"You can't have a migraine, you're ten you can be electrocuted or dead but you can't have a migraine".

Ultimate iPhone FAQ

The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions

The apparently reliable Pogue's Posts (New York Times blog) sets out what the iPhone will and (mostly) won't do...

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

I thought this was very clever...

sizeasy

sizeasy - your size comparison website

Got a, er, thing?
Want to know how it compares to other, er, things?
Length, breadth, height, depth, girth (maybe not girth).

Example: iPhone vs competitors

Vista test-drive...

Take a Windows Vista test-drive on the web - Lifehacker

Haven't tried it myself yet, mind...

The Venice Project

The Venice Project

What is The Venice Project?

The Venice Project is a new venture that combines the best elements of the TV experience with the most powerful internet technologies, in a way that will redefine the way people think about television. It is not a file-sharing application or a video download service.

(they are signing up beta-testers, I thought you might be interested!)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Morrissey in talks for Eurovision

Morrissey in talks for Eurovision
"Former Smiths singer Morrissey could represent the UK at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC has confirmed."

Arblognot in takeover talks?

Arblognot in takeover talks

and if you want to know what's going on here try this

Which is from this blog which seems pretty amusing:The Triforce

Macworld Expo Keynote

It's great fun reading it, especially the way he just brashly writes off the incredible success of the last year. As though to say, forget the fact we're incredible at making computers and MP3 players. We're not resting on our laurals. Now these products are going to blow your minds.
Macworld: News: Macworld Expo Keynote

And to be honest from the descriptions of the appletv and iphone they really will!

As a postscript how much are they hating the uk's third channel iTv these days?

McSweeney's Lists

McSweeney's Lists/links/lists/

Some are better than others. There are a lot of puns too, which we like :)

And I'm not sure that just three things should count as a list, really, but *shrugs*

Looks like they've fixed BlogThis! - thank goodness

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?: "BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!"

Channel 4 goes on-demand

You can now download full television programs from Channel 4 for watching on your PC. At about £1 a show for 1 month.

Harvest time? Whose idea was that?

Bit out of date, but a great little article from Giles Coren:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10653-2359798.html

10 Kick Ass Opening Credits

I almost agree with them too:

10 Kick Ass Opening Credits