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May 29, 2006
Coffee, tea or me?
Posted by scally at 06:35 PM | Comments (0)
May 27, 2006
Suits made to fit on Saville Row, sir?
If you're a "tailored fit" kinda guy, you might be pleased to know that you can shop for more than suits that are sized to fit properly now.
Condomania are now offering sized-to-fit condoms in 55 different combinations of length and girth, to suit just about every sized willy out there. (Who's done the research to find out the optimal range in sizes, I don't know - although thinking through my friends, I could probably name a few experts).
Download a "fit kit", print it out, measure your pecker, and get ordering.
http://secure.condomania.com/TheyFit/
Posted by scally at 02:17 PM | Comments (0)
May 26, 2006
How *not* to go about selling things on eBay
Imagine you're 19 years old, and have a laptop. One day, your laptop dies, and so to get the money together for a new one, you decide to flog it on eBay. Except, you don't realise that the person who buys it might be slightly more computer savvy than you are.
Imagine then the surprise that they'll get, when they resurrect your hard drive, to discover your extensive collection of porn. (Well - you're a horny - and confused - 19 year old, after all)
And also imagine the anger they're going to feel, given that you sold them this laptop "in good working condition".
http://amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/
Read the comments that have been left - it's well worth it. There are many posted by Amir himself, although he seems to be facing some challenges over which gender he belongs to on a daily basis.
Via Holy Moly
Posted by scally at 12:44 PM | Comments (0)
May 25, 2006
Happy Towel Day!
Today is Towel Day.
Celebrated every year on the 25th May, Towel Day celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams - author of the quintessential novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy.
Why Towel Day? From the book:
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value—you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you—daft as a brush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag [non-hitch hiker] discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have 'lost'. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with." (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter Three)Now if only I'd known that before I came to work this morning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
Addendum:
The official site: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/
Proof that there are lots of weirdos out there (ahem, sorry guys), who actually carry around a towel. Really, go look - there's hundreds of them! http://www.towelday.kojv.net/2005-europe.html.
(Scroll down a bit. There are some rather cute weirdos!)
Posted by scally at 02:24 PM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2006
Sex theme park to open in London
From the beeb....
A £7m sex theme park, which has no rides, is to open in London's West End later this year.
Visitors to Amora - The Academy of Sex and Relationships at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, will pass through seven zones including Pleasure and Orgasm. You have to be aged 18 and over to get in and tickets will cost £15 for the attraction which opens on 7 September.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5012334.stm
Posted by scally at 04:47 PM | Comments (0)
May 23, 2006
Reinforcing your popup blocker
Most people utilise a popup blocker these days, and if you don't - you really should! A pretty good one comes built into Firefox, as it does Netscape, AOL's browser, and a variety of other standalone applications such as Safari on the Mac. Internet Explorer does not have the facility built in, however add-on toolbars such as Google's offer a 3rd party solution.
However the crafty bastards who sent out all the popups in the first place are finding ways around these blockers. I've been getting more and more popups advertising smilies for my IM's and offers to protect me from spyware and lordy only knows what else. Which is fucking annoying.
However, you can put a further obstacle in their path by modifying something called your "hosts" file. This usually blocks the popup code from reaching your computer, before it can even open the popup window.
More information and instructions can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file.
Posted by scally at 02:44 PM | Comments (0)
Organise yer life
A few years ago, I had an idea. My DVD collection was growing at a rate of knots, and I could never remember what I had. I also could never remember what I'd lent to people - my collection did tend to atrophy every now and then.
I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if I had an application where I could just list and categorise all my movies. If it was online then it could grab data about the movies from IMDB or Amazon. I could share lists of stuff I have with friends. It could be expanded to include CD's, games, etc etc. Hey - all these things have barcodes on them - how about plugging in a barcode scanner, to make cataloging everything really easy!". See - my ideas are really kinda genius sometimes.
Anyhow, I never really got any further than creating a database and playing around with a little bit of PHP. Not being a developer means I never really get any of my cool ideas off the ground. I'd like to think that I squished my eyes together really hard and sent my creative thought juices off through the stratosphere though, because today I discovered that someone has come up with pretty much the exact same application. The Delicious Monster team have released an application called Delicous Library, which - in their words - lets you "Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games". It keeps track of whom you've lent your stuff to, it grabs metadata about your stuff from Amazon, but possibly most impressively - if you have a webcam attached to your computer, you can use the webcam as a barcode scanner. Wave your DVD box in front of your webcam, and the title appears in your library.
There is no function that I can see which lets you browse your friends collections yet. Part of my original idea was that you could browse your "universe" of titles, and then email your friend, asking if you could borrow one. Perhaps I should email them and suggest it. Or just squish my eyes together really hard again and wish.
Posted by scally at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)
May 22, 2006
Why we should all use Flash
Sorry, that should read why we should *not* use flash. For an example of the worst user interface I think I've ever seen on a website, have a look at the Kent Building Society.
Posted by scally at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
May 18, 2006
Where's that 'plane gone?
I'm always up for a bit of a conspiracy theory, so this video has got me believing more than just a little in the claims it lays...
The basic premise is that there is no way a Boeing 757 could have crashed into the Pentagon back on 9/11....
Posted by scally at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
May 09, 2006
Über-X-Ray
Heard about the new X-Ray machines they're fitting at airports, that let the operator see through someone's clothes? Wonder what they see? (Are you thinking that secretly it would be quite a nice pervy job, and you'd get to check out lots of hunky firemen off on a firemens holiday together where they're going to frolic around on the beach in the waves with each other, wearing skimpy speedos) - er - ahem - sorry. Anyhow, what you're more likely to see is something like this. Hopefully without the gun.
Posted by scally at 04:16 PM | Comments (0)