December 2005
20 posts
Mr X (who doesn’t wish to be named) works in Moscow for Russia Today. It’s a state sponsored TV station, running 24/7 pro-Putin propaganda. It’s hilariously amateurish at times, mostly because of the strong russian accents. Today though they are running a great segment about robo-crayfish being used in the St Petersberg waterworks. The crayfish swim in the outgoing water,...
Japanese flash animations are all I feel like linking to today, well that and a picture of the Snuffleupugus chilling with Spike Lee: Hilarious S&M Mario 64 japanese machinima. Star Wars recreated in household objects, with great soundtrack. (Relatively) conventional flash point n click game. Skyfish, a game of terrifyingly japanese sensibilities. If you think that lot are...
Completely demented Japanese flash game: Nanaca Crash. (Top score from me: 1909.62m) Santa does Parkour video, with insane barefoot ice-skitching segment. Howto: deep fry candy bars. Word of the day: hechsher. Hilarious blogger version of The Aristocrats. Namechecks Jorn. 4 minute video of Rodney Mullen demonstrating why he is clearly the greatest skateboarder who will ever roll the earth. The...
I didn’t post yesterday, and I might not post tomorrow.
Top 3 Xmas Flash Games 2005 1.Nothing quite says Christmas like a new version of Grow Ornament. 2. That or a game of Frosty Flips, a variation on BMX Backflips. 3.A rather poor third place for Christmas Time, a horizontal scrolling Santa simulator. Channel 4 has a rather more comprehensive Top 10. Happy Christmas to one and all. My gift to you: Silent Night (2.1Mb MP3) by The Dickies.
Top tip for Xmas/NYE parties: “If you are at a loud party and find yourself shouting louder and louder just to talk to people, begin speaking “under the noise.” What is happening is that the voices in the room are competing in the same frequency range - so that people raise their volume and their pitch when they feel they can’t be heard. They shout in high voices. All you...
Right now there’s a queue of 15 kids from Japan and Hong Kong outside the Busy Ape Workshop in London. They’re waiting until 11am tomorrow, for a camo cap. I think they might be insane. I queued for all of 30 seconds last Sunday for Stussy Court Forces, before deciding that my self-respect was more important than a pair of sneakers. Either I’m getting old, or streetwear just...
Techy virtual GIS coolness at: The Party At The Centre Of The Universe, read it and weep non-i/Power-book users. Top ten: most puzzling ancient artifacts. How much do various liquids cost?
The recent reports that (a) a new neural net “knows” which movies will be successful and (b) a new emotion recognition algorithm “knows” that Mona Lisa was mostly happy, seem to me to be utterly wishful thinking. The media are reporting these clever bits of software as if they are somehow better at doing what they do than a human would be. The movie rating neural net...
The collected 1968-1974 Alcoholics Anon Comic Strips. Biggie Vs Baskerville, a musical, typographical, awesome flash animation. The many faces of Lohan, another flash amusement.
The History of Ideas in 2005 from The Star (That’ll be the Toronto Star, not the UK’s rather more “busty babelicious” version.) It’s a fine list, though they’ve practically made-up Lebowskiism (7 hits at time of writing). The LeafySeaDragon Cetacean-Human Network fulfills all my Zizzou-esque dolphin communication needs. It’s open-source software,...
My actual factual life has overwhelmed me (in a good way) over the last couple of days, hence the dearth of posts. I did however manage to start an interesting thread about becoming a power shower power user.
I don’t think anyone has ever asked this, but imagine if you will, for a second the hypothetical question, “What happens to all the links that don’t make it into howithappened.com?”. Strangely there is an answer; it’s that odd links, or links I don’t quite have time for, get a kind of preview run on my del.icio.us list. Nothing particularly makes these links...
“Your Amazon.co.uk order has dispatched” According to Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: dis·patch Etymology: Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, from Provençal despachar to get rid of, from Middle French despeechier to set free, from Old French, from des- dis- + -peechier (as in empeechier to hinder) Transitive senses 1 : to send off or away with promptness or speed;...
Some stuff on my xmas list: A baby tiger. A marshmallow gun. An R/C Humvee that climbs walls using suction. Anything by iDiom. Wild Palms on DVD. A set of Protiles. A Bugatti Veyron.
Some stuff on my xmas list: A baby tiger. A marshmallow gun. An R/C Humvee that climbs walls using suction. Anything by iDiom. Wild Palms on DVD. A set of Protiles. A Bugatti Veyron.
Making my own custom Nike Dunks Some people were less than kind about my planned design for a custom Dunk. I took their critcisms on board and planned something equally gauche. I gathered my materials: Liquitex paint, mock-croc leather, craft knife, sable brushes, masking tape and fluid, and entirely white Dunks sourced from Foot Locker. Step one: Neatly cut mock-croc leather into the shape...
Making my own custom Nike Dunks Some people were less than kind about my planned design for a custom Dunk. I took their critcisms on board and planned something equally gauche. I gathered my materials: Liquitex paint, mock-croc leather, craft knife, sable brushes, masking tape and fluid, and entirely white Dunks sourced from Foot Locker. Step one: Neatly cut mock-croc leather into the shape...
Google Earth secret leaked beta for OSX! Woohoo! Download now before it gets pulled. del.icio.us got bought by yahoo!, which makes me think Google might buy and rebrand digg. Phrase of the day: blazecock pileon (scroll down). Seemingly some people like to dance to My Humps, despite it being the devil song. I loathe squidoo, it’s an even more commercialised evil web2.0 version of...
Google Earth secret leaked beta for OSX! Woohoo! Download now before it gets pulled. del.icio.us got bought by yahoo!, which makes me think Google might buy and rebrand digg. Phrase of the day: blazecock pileon (scroll down). Seemingly some people like to dance to My Humps, despite it being the devil song. I loathe squidoo, it’s an even more commercialised evil web2.0 version of...