More Christmas Choones

Unfortunately not the music video but a live recording of Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews - Baby it's cold outside:



Kylie - Santa Baby



A different version of above (simply for comparison perposes):



Bowie & Crosby in the Noel's Houseparty of Christmas songs:



Mud - Lonely this Christmas


Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Power of Love (why is this a Christmas song? Well I think it might only be because of the video)



Boney M - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord



Merry Christmas Arblognotters!

Christmas tunes

Obviously we've already had the best tune on here: Fairytale of New York (1st December).

But here are some other "crackers" - sorry:

All I want for Christmas is you:



Last Christmas:


Happy Xmas (War is over):


Stop the Cavalry:


I wish it could be Christmas every day:

YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com

Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it. Simply download a notice and place it on the car's windshield. The owner of the vehicle will be informed of their asshole staus as well as the proper tips to improve their poor parking techniques. It's time to put an end to asshole parking, or at least to make fun of it.

YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com

Musipedia - search by whistling (or humming)

Ever tried to remember a song but can't quite remember the words? Well Musipedia is search by humming or whistling.

Musipedia - search by whistling (or humming)

Save the change

I really like this idea... LloydsTSB are offering a card which automatically rounds up the cost of any debt card purchase and puts the extra into a nominated savings account.

Save the change

Back Dorm Boys get a contract

Remember those guys who lip synched the back street boys last year? Well they've signed a contract with a "talent" agency:

BBC video article: Back Dorm Boys get a contract

Who sent the first e-mail?

Who sent the first e-mail? - I'll give you a clue, it was the same guy who came up with the idea of e-mail, and also put the at sign in the e-mail address. He's never made any money from it though.

Get google to make your rounded corners for you

Get google to make your rounded corners for you A guy has found a nice hidden bit of google's site to which you can simply pass parameters and it will automagically create you corner images on the fly! Neat.

QI: Alan turns the tables for Christmas

Firebug for developers

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Flickr Xmas easter egg

Flickr's got an awesome Xmas "easter"-egg: if you add a photonote called "ho ho ho hat," Flickr draws a Santa-hat on your pic; make one called "ho ho ho beard" and you get a snowy white beard.

The 20 most overrated movies of all time

http://www.premiere.com/feature/3268/20-most-overrated.html

It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.

Bill Hicks on Marketing

The -693926 Days of Christmas

The -693926 Days of Christmas from The Daily WTF

YouTube Quick Capture

YouTube Quick Capture allows you to record a YouTube video instantly. Please fill out the form and then start recording. Make sure your webcam is installed and working correctly.

Hyperland 1990

Hyperland - Douglas Adams' BBC 2 documentory about what the internet could be 40+ mins

TelePresence

The next generation of conference call?

Cisco TelePresence demo

More about the development team

Looks amazing and at $299,999 a, er, bargain :) But then if you're IBM then it's chickenfeed.

(Katie does the PR for Cisco UK/Europe and is going to a demo of this at Tower 42 today...)

Apple logo as a birthmark

Apple logo as a birthmark

Servers In The Movies

The Ten Servers that Changed the Fictional World.

There are two guidelines for this list. One, they must exist only in the world of movies or TV. Second, they need to fit the following definition: A server is a computer system that provides services or data to other computing systems—called clients—over a network or other communication device. Here we go...

Magellin the penguin

Every blogger should live by the rules of this particular blogger:



Who was going to buy a penguin so she decided to have a giant outdoor swimming pool installed in her living room... Just read it! (Site down due to digg effect so here's a mirror: Mirror

Ground Control to My Imam

How do you know which way Mecca is if you're in space?

SeeqPod

SeeqPod is a nice little page for finding downloadable MP3s from the web, with the added advantage of having a player on the page so you can preview the tracks (or, I guess, use it as an on-demand radio station :)

I feel I was mean to arblognot in my previous post...

...so take this link from me in recompense: http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zL78c*l+gLvxpzI+cU

Blogger in Beta now launched for team blogs

Get this blog converted Adrian! God this feels so old school now. I can't believe I can even remember how to add a post (etc, etc...)

Ironic Sans: Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla

Ironic Sans: Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla: "The people of Tokyo should construct a giant building shaped like Godzilla. Imagine what it would do to the city’s skyline, and to the tourism industry. People would come from all over to take pictures. His eyes could flash red so airplanes don’t hit him. There could be an observatory in his mouth so people could look out over Tokyo. One of his arms could house a bar, and the other arm a restaurant. They could serve drinks called Mothra Martinis and dishes like Grilled Gamera Steaks, with a side of Mashed Potatoes."

Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data

Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data: "Swivel Co-founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy start off by describing their company as “YouTube for Data.” That’s a good start for someone trying to understand it, because the site allows users to upload data - any data - and display it to other users visually. The number of page views your website generates. Or a stock price over time. Weather data. Commodity prices. The number of Bald Eagles in Washington state. Whatever. Uploaded data can be rated, commented and bookmared by other users, helping to sort the interesting (and accurate) wheat from the chaff. And graphs of data can be embedded into websites. So it is in fact a bit like a YouTube for Data."

Tabbed browsing, for books

Tabbed browsing, for books

Forget Eye Witness News, now "You Witness News"

Flickr & Yahoo with a sort of citizen journalism section.

Yahoo! News - You Witness News

Forget Eye Witness News, now "You Witness News"

Flickr & Yahoo with a sort of citizen journalism section.

Yahoo! News - You Witness News

Weighing the Web

The internet weighs 2 ounces... apparently:

ADAMANT: Weighing the Web: "Forbes publisher and blogger Rich Karlgaard recently lamented his $1,200 monthly home utility bill. That's a lot of PG &E , but the yearly power bill for the global internet is just $3 per capita- a bargain even by third world standards. Yet looking at my ISP bill I’m not too happy - a dollar a day seems a trifle high when you reckon the weight of the penny’s worth of electricity my computation consumes. My daily fix of electrons in motion costs me about half a billion dollars a pound. Let me explain."

The Holy Grail

Monty Python's Holy Grail re-imagined as an epic:



(oh and because we all know we love it, the lego version of Camelot:



)

Scary Mary

Mary Poppins re-cut as horror:



(A la that Shining one)

Excel as a database

Neopoleon : Excel as a database: "As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of 'data' by someone in marketing and told to 'do something with it.' "

A very funny and true cartoon.

Apple’s iPhone Patent

Apple’s iPhone Patent

An iPod that makes calls or a phone that playes music..?

Forget ariel photography or birds eye view

why not have street level view:

http://preview.local.live.com/

This is very silly but very great (needs sound)

They Might Be Giants: Istanbul music video

Snap Previews

Snap

Nice little tool to add hover previews to your site links...

Luckily we saw this live...

but it is great. Torn as performed at the secret policemen's ball by David Armund:

First of December? Time for some music!