Archive for September, 2006

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Monday, September 25th, 2006

Joel rips apart (metaphorically) his freebie Sprint phone
Bleep.com, Warp records’ online music store, has started selling FLAC encoded music files. Laudable, but they’re charging £1.49 per track instead of 99p for their standard, a 320kbps encoded mp3. How on earth do they think they can get away with that? Who’s going to buy an album […]

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Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Tangram shelving system. Me likee, and I have a taste for nice shelving
Elvis trooper
Wow, looks like I need to get myself down to Gloucester Rd. tube. Japanese artist Chiho Aoshima, part of the Superflat movement founded by Robotperson fave Takashi Murakami, has painted an enormous series of murals in the arches. Fantastic
I’ve listened to this […]

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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Send your future self an email at futureme.org. Fantastic idea. Great for reminders. I’ve just sent an insult to my future self. He’s so bloody stuck-up and arrogant.
Compare mobile phone tarifs at Reestit Mutton. Some great looking rebate deals if you’re looking for a new contract
Citroën’s C-Métisse ‘concept’ car is looking wild. And it’s a […]

Ongoing cluster bomb deaths in Lebanon

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The Independent reports that every day, cluster bombs used indescrimitely by the Israelis on Lebanese border villages kill 4 and injure many more.
Some Israeli officers are protesting at the use of cluster bombs, each containing 644 small but lethal bomblets, against civilian targets in Lebanon. A commander in the MLRS (multiple launch rocket systems) unit […]

Rubikins

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

A.K.A. Rubuskinde, Rubes, Littlekins, Rubycakes. Now 10 weeks old, here trying to stay awake in her seemingly unstimulating new chair.

Sandwich tools

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

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Friday, September 15th, 2006

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Saturday, September 9th, 2006

One for Pete: the Rock cursor
Atomic ballroom. Nice.
Snackonomies. Sort of an IA joke
Infographics pool on Flickr (with submissions of variable quality) highlights a nice NY Times graphic on the political pushes and pulls in the Middle East
Stef promises Robotperson an authentic set of stormtrooper armour if he wins the lottery. Although I’m a little short […]

Uhura

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Pet hates III

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Men who dress all in black under the mistaken belief that they are Johnny Cash
Drizabone full-length wax jackets. A matching outback style hat wins special hate multiplier points
Bluetooth headsets. Every single person who sees you will think you’re a dobber. Although on rare occassions they can be acceptable
People who read out phone numbers with the […]