February 2006 Archives
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Great pictures of an amazing event, with photographer's voice over
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'Animaux', funny pictures
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Apparently it's Dylan season
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Hmm. Suddenly the UK press is all over Clooney now that they've finally discovered his politics, years after the rest of us were aware.
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"It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say."
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There goes another childhood hero
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"PS I promise I won’t make a record out of this one - even though it is tempting."
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I've seen a bit of this film, Ray Winstone is, as always, excellent - who needs Russell Crowe, eh?
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"We are re-writing the book on cinema here"
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Web based WYSIWYG form builder
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Famous irishmen
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Maximizing S/N Ratio in Digital Photography
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John's son, stars in The Constant Gardener and is the best thing in it. Says I.
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Pictures of the recent riot in Dublin during a Loyalist parade
Elsewhere, a sign on the indoor bird house asked visitors to remain quiet, since the Hornbill is breeding. The female is sealed inside a tree trunk and the male waits outside and feeds her. All the kids were screaming and the parents weren't exactly quiet either.
Another guy was taking photographs of an orang utan through the glass of its cage. It was sitting very close to the glass, looking unhappy as orang utans do. The guy stuck his little camera right in the animal's face and used flash. Repeatedly. I should have done the same to him.
Stupid people everywhere. But perhaps not as criminally stupid as this family that got two bears killed because one of the bears may or may not have bitten their 4-year old after the kid and one of its parents CLIMBED OVER THE FENCE around the bear enclosure.
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Ordered this t-shirt
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"Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger became Der Kali-Führer in 2003..."
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"OK, Philip Seymour Hoffman, what's it like to be a star at last?"
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Baker singing Video killed the radiostar, using BT's text to speech tech
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Kottke spoof
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"In the opposite corner a healthy Dutch stair-climber whose mother pumped beer from her breasts."
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'Dutch' University of Darmstadt. It's in fucking Germany, eejits.
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"This is a video directed by Stephanie Van Houtte, featuring Stephanie Van Houtte and Steve Van De Casteele and was filmed in Ghent, Belgium. Summer 2005."
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Dutch version
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Wow, a digital p&s with fixed 28mm lens
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I don't understand a word of question or answers, but it's fascinating nonetheless
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Each episode will include Pythons performing in favorite clips from the television series repurposed with new material.
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More Almond: sample of Tainted Love used in R&B singer's single
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You have got to be fucking kidding me.
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The explodingdog.com meme
Some of you may remember I had a little scare concerning my plumbing. It appeared I had a passenger riding my tube. Well, they've prodded me and pricked me and the plumber's assistent put their fingers up Myfanwy. I answered inappropriate questions that were read out to me from the hospital's intranet. I answered unnecessary questions because they did not listen to my earlier answers. I gave blood and I worried for a few weeks, but at last the plumber has spoken: I'm fine, it's benign, come back in three months time.
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I got lucky. Picking mine up this weekend.
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Create your own site at Google pages
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Gainsbourg covered by Cat Power, Placebo, Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Michael Stipe, Tricky (long time no...), Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithful, Sly and Robbie...
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The specs. Awesome. Good price too.
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7/10
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He's an ex-micropatronaged blogger
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'Tante Es' is a weekly guest on the Rayman is laat show on Dutch broadcaster NPS.
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The 30D. Spot metering!
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I have all kinds of plugins to achieve this effect, but reading up might not be a bad idea
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'Your favorite stars, and the roles they didn't get.'
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Marlon's 'noble tool'...
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Insane angle on a penguin
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Brown sauce is so trendy
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Yeah, care for me, dammit.
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And the follow up, an interview with 'How to care for your introvert's author.
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... as heard on TOTP
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Amazing interior shots of abandoned Irish contage
- I walk the line: 'And take the pills.' Joaquin Phoenix is highly watchable channelling Johnny Cash, but the film felt a little too much like a tv/mini series to me.
- North Country: 'Life is tough when yer a miner girl.' Very 'Silkwood', in fact Charlize Theron might just be the new Meryl Streep.
- The Matador: 'Bond. Not Bond.' Eye-opening performance by Pierce Brosnan, great support from Greg Kinnear. I fell asleep 3/4 through the film, must watch the end soon.
- Walllace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit: Gave up after five minutes. Not in the mood for clay-silliness.
I'm looking for a good book to read after Banville's The Sea and McEwan's Saturday. Any suggestions?
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live pictures from May 1, 2005
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Nice looking black skin for WP
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Mostly night scenes, Taken in 2004
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'The greatest thing he showed me is that ability is unimportant. He just went, "I don't fucking care! I know I can't fucking paint feet or heads or hands or eyes, but that's not gonna stop me painting how I feel."
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Derek shaves the goatee
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It's a little buggy, but it works. Imports text messages from phone and exports to a .csv file. Can do lots of other stuff, but that's what I use it for.
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"I wish them many blissful and lubricious loops around the pole."
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"His images are drawn completely deformed which give a 3D image when viewed at the right angle."
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Now I can search for Brokeback Mountain and not get the OMG-noise.
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I've been reading more books recently. Hope to keep it up by checking out literary weblogs a bit more.
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It took me a while to get into Saturday and I felt it was poor man's Banville in its observations. It's like McEwan's taken one of Banville's characters and fed him prozac
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I *finally* killed the splash page (sooooo 1996) on gavinfriday.com. In preparation for impending rethink/redesign
<fangirl moment>
OMG I just scored two tickets for Morrissey in Amsterdam on April 10.
*fans self*
It's been 22 years since he last played here.
</fangirl moment>
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Joss Whedon crushes rumours in his own inimitable way
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Jeff Veen's company bought by Google
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Matt mentions TVEyes, must check that out
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Goes live today
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My current favourite. Will not win, but I hope he gets a fab career out of it.
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Some mp3s to download
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(beware MEGAUPLOAD link)
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I must have this
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Hey... dooce is in Amsterdam.
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Sheesh. American tourist board, please copy this campaign, I'll sign up pronto.
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Nutter shoots at Werner Herzog with an air gun during BBC interview in L.A.
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How to get a banned Adsense account unbanned
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(It's obviously full of spoilers, so don't read it if you want to stay virginal.)
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Chairman Matt has a brand new day
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Christ, where have I been, there's new Morrissey to be had all over the interweb!
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Click on a button to send a voice message via Odeo
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'Can you think of at least one word for every letter in the alphabet, where the sound it starts with does not match the letter it starts with?'
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photograph by Fred Miranda
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Jeez, that's pwetty
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Booked for March 10
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Book by MeFi regular. Looks like a good read. Have ordered it.
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Crikey!
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... research for work
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dunce!
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'tracking web 2.0'
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Pictures of my growing collection of 70s/80s black rangefinders.
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battery adapters
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'web 2.0 design in a nutshell'
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'We're now a post-CD household.'
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The next version of MSN messenger
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Creating a sitemap xml file for google
Spending money before you've got it... to be able to earn it. That's what I did today. I have been working on a website for a colleague the last couple of weekends. It's been tough because the house has been drafty and cold - not the ideal circumstances to sit still in - but also because my old LG monitor was getting old in the teeth and very blurry in some areas of the screen. I was squinting too much and it was tiring. So I went to a computer hardware store this morning to buy myself a TFT-monitor.
I hadn't really prepared for it, all I knew was I wanted 'a black one' and I wanted it fast.
In the shop I pointed out their cheapest Acer monitor and asked if it was available in black. It wasn't. So I pointed to the dearer black Iiyama ProLite E431s and said: 'Ok, gimme that one.' They came back with a box, I pulled my credit card, cussed when they charged 1.5% extra for the use of the card ($&#*!! bloody annoying country...)
Then I rushed back home to connect the thing and start working. On the tram I thought to myself... 'wouldn't it be typical if they'd sold me a silver coloured monitor?'
Well, they did.
But fuck it, at least I can see what I'm doing now.
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Oh my poor, sweet Gav, he wasn't expecting that!
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Handy list of battery replacements for Yashica cameras
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The Great British Design Quest is a vote to discover the public's favourite British design icon.
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Pictured with Bono, who called her his 'new mama'.
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Ex-colleague and friend Evelyn is defending her PhD thesis ('Images of passion and devotion; prayer and devotional cards in the Northern Low Countrie')s tomorrow in Nijmegen. I hope to attend. I worked with her on a devotional prints project at the Museum
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three-column css layout
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France Gall, Gainbourg, Bardot, Adamo, Brel, etc
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Christ, these old 30 years old Yashica's are doing 213 dollars now.