Kendrick Curtis

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:35 GMT

It's just struck me that Livejournal attempt to charge you for the privilege of blogging, whereas Blogger, if you set up Adsense ads on it, will actually pay you for blogging.

Interesting that both business models work.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:27:36 GMT

I notice thanks to Nathan Fillion via rhube that Richard Castle's new book Heat Wave is available for pre-order on Amazon.

My head hurts.

(If you're not watching Castle then I recommend that you start.)

In Soviet Russia, bus misses YOU!

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:15:28 GMT

(seen here)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:42:56 GMT

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is wrong - I realize this is a popular trope.

Specifically, cheese straws should be made with self-raising flour, not plain flour, and with roughly grated cheese (50-50 red leicester and strong cheddar works well) nor finely grated cheese. If you do it how he recommends, you end up with oblongs of dense, flat pastry. Do it my [sister's] way, and you get light, fluffy straws with nobbles of melted cheese throughout. Lovely.

cuteness

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:26:25 GMT

Baby anteaters!

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:12:23 GMT

Strathclyde Police have 10 Jedi in their number. However, according to the article there are 390,000 Jedi in a UK population of ~65m people, which is an incidence of about 0.5% - Strathclyde Police have 8000 officers, so having only 10 Jedi is 0.125% - clearly, they need to recruit more Jedi to better reflect the people they are policing :)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:27:25 GMT

I'm not sure which is more worrying - the fact that nuclear-grade duct tape exists or the implication that someone already tried regular duct tape and it wasn't good enough.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:46:51 GMT

Indict Blair for war crimes. Spread the word.

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:14:04 GMT

Guardian "Bad Science" columnist Ben Goldacre is being threatened with legal action for posting an audioclip from a radio show of, well, basically, a crazy person denying the efficacy and safety of the MMR vaccine.

Hilariously, this comes in the week that it is revealed that Andrew Wakefield faked his MMR-autism trial results in the first place.

Dear authors of the GIMP

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:52:17 GMT

Yes, you put in lots of your time for nothing. Well done. Have a cookie. Now sort out the window management in Windows. Opening dialogs *behind* the image and then disallowing them from moving on top is retarded.

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:14:21 GMT

The crash in the value of the pound may help my overseas sales of randomviolence (I've had two so far, ever) - I've raised the price to £20 from £15, but in euros and dollars I can still actually reduce the price a little bit from when I last set them (more than a year ago).

There is a new version - of course, always a new version - now sold in a shiny A3 plastic folder with A3 full-colour maps, photorealistic character art, totally revamped equipment artwork, new missions and a new 2-player campaign. You can see some lo-res artworks here: http://www.randomviolence.net/images/ingame

Intl

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:39:34 GMT

Clive Owen versus The Man: this is going to be awesome.

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:26:24 GMT

stackoverflow knows *everything*. Well, everything programming-related. Very impressed!

Rabid

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:02:05 GMT

I'm trying to publicize the boardgames / wargames group I go to in Bath on the 1st Saturday of every month (though it's 17th Jan due to the organizers getting married, aw!). If you know anyone who'd be interested, please pass them my details!

The group meets at Hedley Hall, in Oldfield Park: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=hedley+hall+bath&ie=UTF8&ll=51.383995,-2.378798&spn=0.027908,0.077248&z=14&iwloc=A

It's 6pm-9pm, and £5 (though less if more people turn up, so help me get more people to turn up!). If you need transport let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Choir

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:16:41 GMT

I'm going to join in with the chorus saying "no Christmas cards, thanks" - though I notice Hannah managed to sneak one in before I got around to this announcement, thank you!

It's not just that they are a bit of a waste of paper, it's also that I'm bone-bastard idle. It's not that I don't love you, I'm just a lazy sod :)

Holy

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:16:36 GMT

Vegetarians! I recommend doing this with Cauldron Lincolnshire sausages. It was really nice...

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:35:59 GMT

Vista 64 bit? y/n

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:11:28 GMT

Saau Kyuuute!

JCVD

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:58:14 GMT

Oh. My. Why doesn't this have a UK release date???

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:43:04 GMT

Dolphins blow bubble rings. Amazing.

Read

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:47:33 GMT

Some book recommendations from my sojourn:

-- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross, particularly for mysterycult: it's roughly equal measures James Bond, X-Files and the IT Crowd. Yes, you read that right.

-- A Short History Of Islam by Karen Armstrong; it is short indeed at under 200 pages but informative if a bit dry towards the end. Still, if you want a rough overview of where Islam is at and what the historical and philosophical differences are between Sunni and Shiite this is a good, quick read.

-- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; I can't recommend this highly enough. Alien life is discovered near Alpha Centauri. While the UN dithers, it's the Jesuits who send the first contact mission. It's a sort of heartbreaking suspense flashback mystery thing.

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:38:44 GMT

Now I remember why I dislike FF3... on Mac at least, the tabs are upside down. What kind of interface metaphor is that, exactly?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:47:29 GMT

Y'know, sometimes even if you do believe that God exists, you might just have to accept that he doesn't like you...

For God so loved the world...

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:04:38 GMT

(More here - this one is nice and pithy)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:39:22 GMT

Pro-life == pro-McMuffin.