Peter Gabriel and the Greek Gods

TP: Hey Peter, I am trying to write my next blog post and all I can think of is, well, there are a bunch of celebrities walking around here this year. Angelina Jolie is here, Richard Gere is here, Sharon Stone is here. I mean, I was just down in the press room and this little Irish dude wearing sunglasses with his hair all slicked back rushes by me with this blonde babe running behind him. You know, he had a leather jacket with fur sticking up around his neck and his chest is all puffed up, and I'm thinking—hey, that guy walks like a rock star. And the funny thing is, he is a star, it was Bono!

So I am just wondering—who cares? And should we care? I'm kind of wondering about this celebrity thing. You're a rock star, what do you think?

Peter Gabriel: I actually have a theory about that.

TP: [Surprised and relieved.] You do?

Peter: Yeah, the role of celebrities is just like that of the Greek Gods.

TP: Okay.

Peter: You know, when Margaret Thatcher was no longer our Prime Minister—and it is not like I agreed with any of her policies—I kind of missed her. But it was not about the Nanny State, it was about the Mommy State.

TP: This is getting a little Freudian here, but go on....

Whats wrong with this image

Theres something wrong with this picture. It took me a while to figure it out.

pictures are funny.

Sprite Ad

Flat chested lesbians drink sprite. So should you.

BSnow Crash wheels from Michelin

Michelin has developed a new non-pneumatic car wheel that has been adopted for various robotics uses. It reminds me of the "Smartwheels" in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: "Each one consists of a hub with many stout spokes. Each spoke telescopes in five sections. On the end is a squat foot, rubber tread on the bottom, swiveling on a ball joint. As the wheels roll, the feet plant themselves one at a time, almost glomming into one continuous tire. If you surf over a bump, the spokes retract to pass over it. If you surf over a chuckhole, the robo-prongs plumb its asphalty depths."

The heart of Tweel innovation is its deceptively simple looking hub and spoke design that replaces the need for air pressure while delivering performance previously only available from pneumatic tires.

The flexible spokes are fused with a flexible wheel that deforms to absorb shock and rebound with ease. Without the air needed by conventional tires, Tweel still delivers pneumatic-like performance in weight-carrying capacity, ride comfort, and the ability to "envelope" road hazards.

Michelin has also found that it can tune Tweel performances independently of each other, which is a significant change from conventional tires. This means that vertical stiffness (which primarily affects ride comfort) and lateral stiffness (which affects handling and cornering) can both be optimised, pushing the performance envelope in these applications and enabling new performances not possible for current inflated tires.

Link from Boing Boing

But the real article source is gizmag

Doom the Board Game

I think the reason they made a board game is becuase they got bored of the actual game...

Another Web Comic

Its a comic which I have found I understand.

The Joy of Tech

Word of the Month: Time Porn

time porn (TYM porn) n. Television shows and other media that portray characters as having excessive amounts of spare time.

So much for being time poor...

Alternate ending to LOTR: Now in gif format

No. Really it is in .GIF

...

Revenge of the Sith parody

More funny fan art for star wars.

Cant be anyworse then the actual film...

How to talk to deaf hookers

This handy guide explains how to communicate with your deaf ho.

Iran nears nuclear 'point of no return'

No one wants Iran to have nuclear weapons. No one wanted the commies to have them either, but that never stoped them.

Find releif here...

How to Use a Press Pot

It has a steep learning curve.

The road to congestion

More roads mean more congestion.

Its the Law

Computer Laws

The New Polo ad?

Executives at Volkswagon say they will actually drive the car if the ad isnt a success.

Why cyclists wear black pants

Isnt it obvious...

*BOOM tish*

Print Out Skin

SCIENTISTS at Manchester University have developed a printer able to produce human skin to help wounds heal.

It could be used on patients who have suffered burns and disfigurements. With more research it could even replace broken bones.

Using the same principle as an ink-jet printer, experts are able to take skin cells from a patient's body, multiply them, then print out a tailor-made strip of skin, ready to sew on to the body. The wound's dimensions are entered into the printer to ensure a perfect fit.

Linky

Walk or Run?

Which is better walking or running? The Straight Dope has the answers.

The good stuff -> "To return to our main point, running consumes more calories per unit of distance than walking. For a person who weighs 70 kilograms (about 154 pounds), walking at 5 kilometers per hour (3.1 miles per hour) consumes 50 calories per kilometer, whereas running at 10 kph (6.2 mph) consumes 78 calories per kilometer.

Aha, you say, running is better than walking! Not necessarily, even if we narrowly define "better" as "consumes more calories." When you begin a workout your body is metabolizing carbohydrates, but as the minutes tick by you start burning fat--at minute 50 of light exercise, you're chugging along on a 75/25 fat/carb mix. Sixty percent of your maximum aerobic capacity (reached at roughly 75 percent of maximal heart rate, which is generally calculated as 220 minus your age) is optimal for fat burning; as exercise becomes increasingly strenuous you start burning more carbs. Some have seized on these facts to claim that sustained low- to moderate-intensity exercise is a better way to shed flab than going all out. The point is hotly disputed; I merely note that for the significantly overweight, walking can be easier on the heart, joints, etc."

The airy fairy stuff -> "At any rate, calorie consumption isn't the chief goal of exercise; cardiovascular fitness is. The American College of Sports Medicine says you should exercise three to five times a week in 20- to 60-minute sessions intense enough to raise your pulse to between 60 and 90 percent of your maximal heart rate. Such exercise should be aerobic, meaning something like running, brisk walking, biking, swimming, or cross-country skiing, as opposed to, say, weight training. Is running better than walking for this purpose? Depends. Running is certainly more of a workout per unit of time, but if your idea is that 15 minutes of running equals 30 minutes of walking, forget it--sustained exertion is the key. Then again, while any exercise is better than none, if your wife thinks a no-sweat half-hour amble around the neighborhood is the equivalent of your three-mile run, she's kidding herself too."

rel="nofollow"

"Now is the time to act and stop the spread of Viral Link Popularity. For far too long now the Internet has functioned as a network of interlinked sites that have been likened unto a 'web' of sites. This is clearly a poor view of the Information Super Highway. To that end the Powers That Be have banded together to fix this massive problem and reshape the web into a more useful controlled environment."

Spiders scare me

[Note: is a parody site on a new webstandard...]

Sony files patent for wireless gaming techniques

Sony has filed a patent application which describes several methods for using wireless connections in portable game machines. The methods described could very well be used with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming device in the future.

Its obviously a sony.

Weebl wins award

Weebls stuff has won yahoos peoples choice award.

[Note: only needs help when on fire.]

Stupidly cute picture of the month

Click here if you dare...

Nerd Songs

Songs that have been parodied in line with standard internet protocol.

Now all we need is someone to actually play the music, or at the very least sing it and we can sample the rest. Or to be even more nerdy, sample the whole song. EVEN teh words...

Frosty Graffiti

This is what happens to cars whens its cold in countrys that get cold.

Nude Gay Christian Athletes

Nothing funny to see here. it's just a guy explaining how in a gym people often get naked. And you don't have to get all freaked out, just because they're absolutely in the nude. And right next to you. Oh, and here are some pictures of naked athletes.

Not that theres anything wrong with that.

The Infinity Bowl

A gold fish bowl that gives the impression that it is much lager. Hence making your gold fish much happier (they are long distance swimmers apparently (unverified)).

Fish need room to. Why not just trick them into beliving you care.

The Republic of Bean Counting

Visit my nation.

Mobile Phone for your Pet

Now your cat can call you instead of howling away in the middle of the night to be let in. But why cant it use a land line?

Cybersex: not so easy anymore

Turns out cybersex is about as hard to find as offline sex. Seems like this is the first problem for the internet. A sort of a internet cancer. Cancer being somthing that cant be fixed.... Oh well, I guess its no supprise that after a few years people have realised that to have sex you cant be on the computer at the same time.

What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy nations but can't unravel a coded sculpture sitting outside their cafeteria window?

It says, perhaps, that artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cryptographic sculpture named Kryptos that sits on CIA grounds, could have a career in covert operations if he ever grows tired of stumping the experts.

It's been nearly 15 years since Sanborn installed the 12-foot-high, verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture inscribed with four encrypted messages at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1990. And it's been seven years since anyone made progress at cracking its code.

Can you solve the puzzle?

US to be Aussie nuclear dump

hahahah Of course we only have one nuclear power station so like it really matters... get it (sometimes it feels like I'm the only one laughing...)

Captain Ozone's

Who is Captain Ozone's. And what are his super powers. No one quite knows. Except that time travel on a toilet is now possible.

Thank you Captin Ozone.

50 Most Loathsome People of 2004

1. Kenneth Blackwell

Crimes: The greasy, rancid piece of crap who delivered Ohio for Bush by any means necessary, and then bragged about it in a recent fundraising letter. A black man who has no reservations about screwing over his own people in his lust for power and money. Blackwell is the kind of soulless traitor without whose complicity no nefarious evil plot ever goes down. In step with the future of global elections.

Smoking Gun: Phony recounts, media lockouts, intentional misallocation of voting machines, you name it.

Just Punishment: Dissolved in barrel of acid.

Let the loathing begin.

Crappy Photo Diagram Thingy

Its might be crap. But crap can also be amusing.

The Balance Shits

The importance of IT to the finance function is growing

Article

Stop being so Gross

Improve your manners with the help of an internet quiz

Mystery compound in beer fights cancer

There is a compound in beer that fights cancer. No one can identify it for some reason. Some would say I didnt even read the article and they would be right.

The Simpsons Personality Test

Which Simpson are you?

[I'm Lisa Simpson]

Wear a Plant

NO! No fungus!

Actual plants that you wear. Well they are cactus type plants, but really small and you wear it like a pendant of some kind. If you are one of those people that already wear large objects (eg phone/mp3 box etc) around their necks this it for you.

Truely Fashionable

I normaly dont delve into fashion too much, apart from the time I had to buy some clothing and now I just buy the same stuff over again so I dont have to (true story)...

Anyway, from Boing Boing (yeah, I cheated) I present Locher's. Lets just say its a fashion label with attitude, or at the very least cool T-shirt slogans.

Boy, 11, heads gang of thieves!

This is one child prodigy who won't be applauded for his skills. Believe it or not, a 11-year-old boy caught in Lucknow recently is an expert auto thief and was leading a gang of men twice his age.

Aniket alias Pappu had allegedly masterminded a series of thefts in the city. The police, who had no clue about the boy's criminal activities, were dumbfounded when the case started unravelling.

Despite the age difference, Pappu's men followed him without question. No one doubted his ability to steal cars, engine parts and accessories like car stereos. If nothing else, he would filch petrol out of parked automobiles.

Armed with a bunch of master keys and other tools of trade, the young thief could unlock any two or four wheeler within minutes.

Man builds own Mech Warrior

Nail gun and flame throwers, named as best features.

Worlds Fastest Train?

Shanghai's flashy new Maglev, the world's fastest train. Way ahead of its time seven decades ago, the still-futuristic magnetic levitation system may yet redefine travel everywhere.

Smiles abound inside the sleek train as, with a breathtaking whoosh, it rockets to 300 kilometers per hour in two minutes flat. Overhead, like a giant scoreboard, an LED blinks out our record-breaking progress till we top 430 kph.

Fox Fudges Familiy Guy

Fox has pixilated The family guys butt as there was too much crack showing.

US Inadvertantly Destroy Old Shit

"It was like this when I got here."

US finds another country to fuck up

And its not Pakistan...

Gloves to cling to walls

Spiderman Gloves have been inventended... Which now means you can climb walls and cealings like spiderman. Should make rock climbing easier apart from the whole having to support you own weight thing. And then theres the fact the plaster board proberly wont support your eighty kilograms.

The BitTorrent Effect

Wireds write up of BitTorrent.

[Its a long read but worth it]

Overclock your calculator

The Texas Instrument (TI) calculators are proberly the best. Casio actualy makes a range of calculators so they are second by default.

Anyway. If you ever thought your calculator took too long to display the calculations, then you will no longer have to wait.... because now you can just overclock it.

Is this too geeky?

Legal Torrents

LegalTorrents is a source/collection of torrents which are legal. Having said that. Its not just crap. They do have some good stuff there. Check it out.

Activision dont like Firefox

Activision apparently dont like firefox.

[Note: this only works if you have firefox.]

Clink Eastwood: I'll Kill Michael Moore

"Dirty Harry" actor Clint Eastwood says if Michael Moore ever shows up at his door with a camera, he will kill the controversial movie director.

Eastwood stunned a New York filmmaking audience with his comments, the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove reported today in his must-read column.

He gets the job done.

Extra Search

Now you can add search engines for other stuff that you need to search. Like ebay or imdb or wikipedia or astalavista...

MUWHAHA

Man saved by fat

Chilean doctors say a 266 pound man who was shot in the stomach was saved by his rolls of fat.

They say the bullet lodged in the man's fat and did not damage any vital organs. A thinner person would have been killed immediately.

What will those doctors think of next...

Never Fear for the Internet will save us

Turns out you can by-pass the google cookie and their ads... Its ironicly called
ie. (dont worry about the search results as its just a proxy working in the back ground...)

Turns out google arnt so bad. /end transmission \(^-^)/ *chants* "Google! Google! Google! Google! Google!..."

Long life cookies

Googles cookie lasts untill 2038. For some reason this seems wrong.

The Physics of SpiderMan

Radiation... phft, this article attempts to debunk the spidey non-sense and provide real answers. Check out the lab notes.

62-foot stogie rolled in Puerto Rico

Now thats a big blunt.

Keyra/Agustina/Julieta/Solecita/Mystery Booty

one web cam, one girl, one internet....

Also you might want to check out this site called supertangas.com its in a different language, but the links are in a language we all understand...

100mbps WiFi

The Speed and Range eXpansion (SRX) line of 802.11g WiFi products from Linksys will expand the wireless range three times and increase the speed eight times of normal WiFi-G products. Using Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) technology from Airgo Networks allows the boost, with the Wireless-G SRX PC card ($129) and the Wireless-G Broadband Router SRX ($199) available in stores now.

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Dolby Digital Plus

Dolby built a special theater in the middle of the CES floor to showcase Dolby Digital Plus, the next generation of Dolby home theatre protocols that starts at 7.1 and currently goes as high as 13.1 channels. Of course, they use all 13.1 channels in their booth. Not only does this one go to 13, but the audio is sampled at a much higher bit rate, for truer sound. Dolby bumped the sampling rate from 640 kbps to 6 Mbps. HD-DVD has already selected Dolby Digital Plus as its audio codec of choice. Of course that means that once you get an HD-DVD player and the accompanying receiver, you’ll need enough cable to wrap around the earth’s circumference just to wire a single room.

13.2 would of been better because u could of had stereo subs....

Mobile Phone with Flat Panel Speaker

Phone that uses the screen as a flat panel speaker

'L.A. Times' Drops Daily 'Garfield'

"described 'Garfield' as 'a strip produced by a committee, devoid of originality, devoid of guts, a strip cynically DESIGNED to be inoffensive and bad, on the theory that public tastes are insipid. "

Hooray!

Oh Deer

A series of pictures of what happens when you hit a dear.

Dirty Old Man

And now for a picture of a dirty old man.

Cool Cartoon Type thingy

Its like a cartoon, but not... Hmm its best to just click on the link and see for your self.

Note: contains graphic violence.

Celebriducks

Ducks with the faces of celbrities...

Quack Quack...

House work, the special way...

Ever wanted to get the house work done and "punish" someone, well now you can with the Humiliator.

Freaky Food

Food. It comes in all shapes and sizes. Some just a little more weird...er...

Cardstacker

Dont have anyone that will play strip poker with you... well fear not. Why not learn to stack them into shapes resembling buildings and the such.

Problem Solved.

Largets Nipple ring in the world?

........ yes its a ring. And yes its attached to a nipple. And yes you can play basket ball with it...

LiveJournal Sold!

LiveJournal has been purchased by Six Apart.

Will Eisner Dies

Comics legend Will Eisner died on Monday, January 3 2005, following quadruple bypass surgery, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he lived. He was 87.

William Erwin Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 6 1917, the son of Jewish immigrants. His first comics work appeared in Wow, What a Magazine! in 1936, but it was The Spirit, who first appeared in June 1940, that was to be his biggest and most influential creation. Part of the initial appeal of The Spirit was that the main character had no super powers, which were very popular at the time, following the appearance of Superman and Batman a few years earlier.

Spidey Sense Tingling...

For.. Some. Reason..... My.... Spidey....... Sense.. Is.. Tingling...........

FARTFULL work bench

This is a product only available at IKEA...

Bottle Cap Tripod

Have a camera but need a small tripod. Well now you can make one out of a plastic bottle cap.

Making stuff is fun. Its exciting and you can call your self an inventor. And thats bound to rake in the ladies.

Top 20 Nude Scenes, Year 2004

Top 20 Nude Scenes, Year 2004

I think thats enough information.

10 year old master forger

Child forges real life into pictures for money.

Idioms and Sayings

Why do we say these things. Well now you can find out. But only if you visit this site.

The Rasterbator

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.


I think I just wet my self

10x10

10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.

ach hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other.

10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds.

With no human editors and no regulation, 10x10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events. In 10x10, we respond instinctively to patterns in the grid, visual indicators of relevance. When we see a frequently repeated image, we know it’s important. When we see a picture of a movie star next to a picture of dead bodies, we understand the extremes that exist in our world. Scanning a grid of pictures can be more intuitive than reading headlines, for it lets the news come to life, and everything feels a bit less distant, a bit closer to heart, and maybe, if we're lucky, gives us pause to think.

By Jonathan J. Harris

Tracking the Way We Use Language

WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.

The Sea Organisation

In 1967, L. Ron Hubbard raised a private navy, appointed himself Commodore, donned a dashing uniform of his own design and set forth on an extraordinary odyssey, leading a fleet of ships across the oceans variously pursued by the CIA, the FBI, the international press and a miscellany of suspicious government and maritime agencies.

Tsunami Video

This is the stuff they are showing on the news, only with the original commentary...

Stalite Picture of the Tsunami's Destruction

Satalite pictures are cool.

With a parrachute

A stupid man is gona jump out of a plane without a parrachute, instead he will be equiped with a "Wing suit". Basicly its a suit with "wings"...

Not sure how he's gona slow down after reaching terminal velocity...

Radio Station Blowout

Few would argue that Rockstar Games have set a precedent in terms of in-game music with their latest installment of Grand Theft Auto. While the unique device of in-game "radio stations" was first explored on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, with San Andreas it has been taken to an entirely new level of intricacy.

Basicly a break down of all the stations...

GTA 4 - on the way

GTA 4 is coming in 2006 apparently, proberly on the next gen ps3/xbox2/GC2.... And it might not be in the USA anymore, thinking of puting it in europe. And hell, it might just be a map OF europe...

NASA - World Wind

Now you can download the entire world...

Microsoft - 'Bigtop'

Details have emerged revealing Microsoft's intentions to enter the grid-computing space by developing what will most likely be a distributed operating system. As first reported by Microsoft Watch, the project, code-named "Bigtop," will couple together moderately powerful computers into grids to allow customers to maximize computing power and create low-budget, high-performance systems.

Distributed Computing by Microsoft

Also check out "microsoft watch"

"Puppets Suck" - Matt Stone

Matt Stone doesnt like puppets. So will not want to do any more crap with Trey, but thats what they said after the Southpark Movie....

Freekish elf thingy

Is this evidance that elfs etc (small humanoid creatures) exist or is it just a hoax?

You be the judge...

Real Deep Impact

NASA is gona send a rocket thingy into an astaroid to take samples of its composition.