technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Humour
OMG! This is soooooo cool!
May 11th
VW have a flash game to promo their new Golf GTI. They’ve put a camera into a mini Scalextrix version of the car and you get to race it. Not really, but it’s fun anyway. The fastest on the leaderboard gets a loan of the real thing for 3 months (if you’re from the UK).
No photos allowed
Jun 3rd
There’s a big fuss in the US right now over amateur photographers being blocked from taking pictures of public buildings because they might be terrorists. If you whip out a pocket camera in any public space, the odds are that you’ll have a burly security guard demanding that you delete the picture within seconds. Now there’s no law against taking pictures, nor should there be seeing as your taxes paid for the things in the first place, but they keep harassing people anyway.
Fox News were interviewing a PR flunkey for Washington DC’s Union Station, and the PR guy was More >
The funniest thing I’ve seen all day
Jan 29th
Memories of my youth
Jan 21st
This picture on Graham Linehan’s blog reminded me of the all-night MUD, Usenet & IRC sessions in UL’s VAX lab back in the day. Those who couldn’t go the distance woke up with a case of qwertyface. These were the early days of the Internet in Ireland (1991-1995), and IOL and the like were only getting started. Universities, via HEAnet, were the only connections to the net.
Many of the old timers still called it ARPANET and begrudged the intrusion of undergrads into what was supposed to be a serious academic and scientific tool. We were the kind of people who would post requests More >
