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Audio Books – from where?

My family was always about words and stories. I remember from a very early age having story tapes with songs and books to read along. The first “grown up” audiobook i remember hearing was Trial Run by one of my favourite authors, Dick Francis (maybe one of the reasons I like him so [...]

If I were in the Simpsons I'd look something like this

I like the Simpsons, although I haven’t watched it for ages.  I fell into watching it on SKY ONE when we got cable in but now:

the Muppets at Virgin can’t work out how to get me Sky One
I’m never in at the right time

Anyhoo, now that the simpsons Movie is coming out I decided to [...]

Now it’s time for a round of “one song to the tune of another”

No, it’s not time for “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue“, I just wanted to record a site which I found recently (almost certainly via BoingBoing.) It’s a site dedicated to cheesy records and compilations which are no longer available, and it’s called Way Out Junk. There are MP3 files available for download [...]

Missing Pages

I was reading on JC Hutchins site about a downloadable film called Missing Pages. It really is amazing. It’s in 3 episodes (quite hefty downloads) and tells the story of a man who invents a time machine and the consequences of his invention.

It is quite frightening in parts – some of the characters [...]

okay, now I'm angry

okay, so maybe not angry yet, but annoyed enough.

I’ve been a Telewest subscriber since I moved into my home, and we had it when I was at home. I was happy with the Broadband options and the TV package, but recently I’ve been more and more irritated.

Ever since Virgin Media took over the system, [...]

Post-It DonkeyKong

I would love to be involved in something like this. These guys spend 5 hours arranging post-it notes in the shape of a scene from Donkey Kong. That takes quite some dedication. I suppose I just need some inspiration, a bit of planning and a whole heap of post-it notes.

In the [...]

Podcast TV: Stranger Things

I was getting my weekly escapepod fix and Steve mentioned a new project, Stranger Things, a sort of podcast twilight zone series. I downloaded their premiere episode, which was adapted from a short story by Scott Sigler, and was really impressed. It was a good story, well acted and the special effects were really [...]

Posting via IMified

which allows you to perform various tasks using your IM client. I’ve given it my pordpress details and we’ll see what come sout of this – very exciting!

Sensible UK Copyright Laws – Sign the Petition

Did you know that if you rip a CD to MP3 files and then copy those onto your Ipod or other MP3 player, then you are breaking the law?
There’s a Petition to the Pirme Minister to look at more sensible copyright laws.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception to copyright [...]

Wiki-wild wild

I love Wikis, but I can never say the word without thinking of that Will Smith song Wild Wild West

Wikis are amazing. I installed Instiki at work and now pretty much everyone uses it to document work procedures and meetings, and just bits and pieces that there wasn’t a place for before.

I [...]