Wonder of wonders, a British "Top 100 Toys of times past!" I fondly remember many of the things presented here -- mostly in the board games mode -- but I can't help wondering why Meccano (aka Erector Set (aka U)) didn't make the list.

Oh man. Thanks to tikimonkey I'm now a total Pastafarian convert to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.

WWFSMD indeed!

Why is it that blank Imation brand (and only Imation, so far) DVDs smell like curry?

The new Cassini probe pictures of Hyperion are way way cool. This might just be neat enough to replace my solar eclipse desktop picture.

Went to the theatre tonight.... How civilised we are!

On the stage was the Reduced Shakespeare Company doing their Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). tikimonkey and I have the DVD and the audio tape already but it was great to see it live. It was performed by the off-Broadway cast and was really quite enjoyable. The Ophelia-from-the- ( Read more... )

A new All Black haka made its debut at the Tri-Nations tournament on Saturday. I hope I get to see footage of it at some point; the lyrics read wonderfully in Maori!

Edit: there are videos at AllBlacks.com but they played really jerkily for me. Will have to find a non-streaming format (or make my own).

Browsing in the local thrift store today I found an iMac sitting on the floor where someone had attempted to get it to work, without success. I had a quick look at it and thought it would be worth the gamble so we took it away for $75.
Turns out it's a G3 333 (MacOS 8.2), one of the fairly early blue variety and after a little bit of an internal ( Read more... )

Woohoo!! Ugly Dog slideshow!!!

Dear Palestinian Bomber..........

Yaaaayy!! Here comes the Beefmobile!

I think it goes around the neighbourhoods tinkling its meaty little songs, handing out chilly meatsicles to all the little kiddies.