Saturday, September 20, 2008
CG Singapore F1 Circuit
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Doom Soundtrack
It's been years since I played doom - but I've never forgotton the tunes. I've never since known a game to have such a menacing, but fantastic soundtrack!! I once had one of the levels as a ringtone on my mobile!
I appreciated this YouTube video for exactly this reason - although this guy plays the doom level theme "megamix" purely on the piano!
Great Stuff!!
Labels: coolstuff, movie, video
Sunday, September 09, 2007
IT Crowd antipiracy ad
I'm a fan of the IT crowd and watch it whenever it's shown on Friday nights on C4 (My Sky+ automatically records it for me).
Catch it if you can, although you can download it using BitTorrent if you miss it!
Which is a bit ironic, considering this was the start of last night's IT Crowd - a parody of movie copyright infringement videos you get on DVDs these days!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Maglev Trainset
I want one of these! One wonders how long it would take to make these things more practical for lifesize everyday use... Imagine closer to room temperature superconductors and filling up on liquid coolant at the fuel station! Of course you'd need something to propel you too...
Link to watch video
Labels: coolstuff, gadgets, video
Monday, June 18, 2007
What happens when you bury a car?
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Originally uploaded by Michael Bates.
On June 15, 1957, a time capsule and a Plymouth Belvedere were buried in a vault next to the Tulsa County Courthouse. On June 15, 2007, the car and the capsule were exhumed and unveiled.
What a shame! They probably had high hopes in '57 this would work, especially since they coated it in rust preservatives! Let's hope they do it again, but this time try to stop the seepage of ground water!
Originally found on this BoingBoing post.
Labels: coolstuff, humour, video
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Chapel Cross Cooling Towers Demolished
The cooling towers at Chapel Cross Nuclear Power Station have been destroyed in a controlled demolition.
I read about this a few weeks back and the article mentioned they were going to broadcast it over the internet to try and minimise public presence at the site.
Well, they've done so and produced quite a nice site too with details of how the demolition works and a video of the towers falling down.
Pretty cool!
Link to Chapel Cross Cooling Towers Website
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Eurovision Song Contest
However, we arrived back to watch the last couple of songs with a few beers and see the final scores and of course Terry "We won the Cold War but we lost the Eurovision" Wogan's fantastic commentary. After watching the short clips we seeked out the Ukranian song 'Dancing Lasha Tumbai' and hoped it would win! A bit of a crappy song, but catchy and I am sure destined to be 2007's Macarena! Personally I think it's a perfect 'eurovision' song - a lot of effort's clearly gone in (doesn't that star sparkle) and in fact it's moved from 43 on the iTunes chart this morning to 16 right now and (hopefully) about to overtake Britain's lame attempt with 'Flying the Flag', which sounds to me more like a bad advert for British Airways and how much better the UK is to the rest of Europe (what?)
I was so disappointed that Malta gave the UK 12 points!?! Ireland of course did the neighborly thing and gave a couple of points to the UK - and of course the UK didn't reciprocate - surprising, given the fact that this week marked the restoration of power sharing in Northern Ireland... It would have been so amusing to see the UK entry 'scooching' off with no points.
Watch the Ukraine's 2007 Eurovision Entry (Verka Serduchka) on YouTube
Link to the Eurovision 2007 Final Scores
Labels: music, politics, video
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Colourful Encryption
The HD-DVD encryption system was cracked over the last week and the AACS licensing authority is trying to take down the numbers wherever they appear on the net. They are failing miserably as a google search for the numbers yesterday revealed 30,000 results and today they're indexing 370,000 pages with those numbers!
t3knomanser decided that it was a good idea to create a colour palette containing those numbers, unfortunately when he converted it to GIF - the HEX encoding was lost.
What do you think of the pretty image I've created on this page? I quickly made it up in photoshop using some colours I thought go quite well together...
t3knomanser's blog
Originally found on Boing Boing
The above image is licenced under Creative Commons. I hereby waive the Attribution requirement on this licence.
Labels: computers, coolstuff, video
Sunday, April 29, 2007
This'n'That - you can learn it at PubTricks.com!
Great card trick I found on via Stumble! Amusing trick involving three cards - not entirely sure how he does it though, but there are a couple of suggestions in the YouTube comments. Costs $9 to see how it works on pubtricks.com - I think I can live my life without knowing it...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Extreme Swing
I'm up for extreme activities - never done one yet, but i'd like to. This one however does look pretty terrifying! It's the world's largest swing across The Oribi Gorge (Google Earth Link).
The linked blog has a YouTube video on it demonstrating the swing - crap sound - good video though.
Original Posting on didntyouhear.com
Discovered on Neatorama
Labels: coolstuff, travel, video
Friday, February 16, 2007
Dom Joly in an Indian Call Centre
I get really frustrated with the number of calls I get from indian call centres and it appears Dom Joly does too. I watched this episode of Happy Hour last night and found it hilarious as Dom Joly puts a small spanner in the works during an Intelenet English phonetics training session by introducing some alternative words!
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Cringe Worthy Microsoft Video
Basically it's about a company needing to get a document out ASAP and one of the workers uses Windows/386 to get the job done with retorts from her colleagues 'that's not OS/2' and 'but that looks like 1-2-3'... It's all pretty horrid stuff.
I've got 4 applications running each with it's own 8086 machine with 640K memory.
Try that with Vista!
Watch the Windows 386 Promotional Video on Google Video
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saddam Hussein Hanging
Anyway, for those that wish to see what looks like his actual hanging from someone's phone camera, this video is on Google Video.
It does actually show Saddam falling through the trap with the noose around his neck so beware.
Link to the video of Saddam Hussein's Hanging on Google Video
Update
I didn't really notice this at the time, but the 'official' footage differs a little from this phone camera footage, in the fact that Saddam is being shouted at with jibes to 'go to hell' and he retaliates - far from the 'dignified' portrayal in the official video release.
More details can be found on this BBC news article about the differences with translations.
Here is a link to the boing boing thread about Saddam's Execution.
Labels: video
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