November 2011
1 post
Heavy D's cause of death still unknown: is obesity... →
Nov 10th
October 2011
1 post
What if academics were as dumb as quacks with... →
Oct 4th
September 2011
1 post
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Sep 24th
May 2011
1 post
So used am I to only getting the bus to work but not from, I just said “Morning!” to a bus driver at 8.50 pm.
May 22nd
April 2011
2 posts
Thinking about that “amusing” saying about waiting ages for a bus and then two coming along at once, and how not funny that is.
Apr 18th
Can you name this disease? http://ping.fm/mDyEd
Apr 14th
March 2011
4 posts
How to tweet bile without alienating people. Or making 13-year-old girls cry | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian http://ping.fm/RHQ32
Mar 28th
A serendipitously tasty soup, even if it was a bit thick (as usual - must learn to add more liquid to soups!)
Mar 17th
This “Glee” Christmas episode is so deliciously cheesy, my television actually smells slightly like reblochon.
Mar 14th
Hm. Now that my MP is the DPM, a lot of this letter-writing malarkey seems a bit pointless.
Mar 7th
January 2011
1 post
BBC3 just ran that Born on BBC3 ad, but as Little Britain and The Mighty Boosh were on R4 before BBC3, how are they “try[ing] new stuff”?
Jan 30th
December 2010
2 posts
Dec 5th
3,955 notes
Google Maps & Label Readability
41latitude: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors? For months, I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites. To me, Google’s labels seem to “pop” much more than the other sites’ labels. Major cities also seem to stand out much more. [1] And whenever...
Dec 5th
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November 2010
7 posts
A new and interesting form of wrong – Bad Science →
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Nov 28th
SNOOOW!
Nov 27th
The weird evolutionary story of cranberries →
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Nov 22nd
Science is about embracing your knockers – Bad... →
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Nov 15th
It’s hard to imagine how anyone with legs could be expected to sit down on this bus
Nov 11th
What's The Difference Between Regular and Decaf...
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Nov 4th
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Event Sheffield - Wild Planet Exhibition, 6th... →
Nov 1st
October 2010
14 posts
Definitely worth swinging by the Moor for http://ping.fm/27sTC
Oct 31st
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! http://ping.fm/4OHog
Oct 21st
The Joy of Tech comic... laughter is the best tech... →
Oct 21st
Performance piece http://ping.fm/D1SHz
Oct 20th
Don’t understand this baby experiment at all. How does the mask keeping the babies’ attention show that they “see” the illusion? #bbchorizon
Oct 18th
Mmm… Bacon-flavoured pudding!
Oct 15th
Don’t forget that tomorrow is World Spirometry Day. If you live in Sheffield, UK, your local WSD event is at the Children’s Hospital.
Oct 13th
Don’t forget that tomorrow is World Spirometry Day. If you live in Sheffield, UK, your local WSD event is at the Children’s Hospital.
Oct 13th
Year of the Lung - World Spirometry Day Events →
Oct 13th
Thursday is World Spirometry Day http://ping.fm/DxT6O
Oct 12th
I have discovered that, in Germany, “Marzipan” is a flavour of ice cream. Thus, I will not be coming home, but will start a new life here.
Oct 10th
Oct 8th
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Donald Duck Discovers Glenn Beck in “Right... →
This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed from dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald’s life is turned
Oct 4th
Donald Duck Discovers Glenn Beck in “Right Wing Radio Duck” | Rebellious Pixels - Digital Home of Jonathan McIntosh http://ping.fm/Npg8J
Oct 4th
September 2010
4 posts
Britain from the air | Art and design |... →
Aerial images of landscapes and scenes around Britain. The photographs are featured in a Royal Geographical Society exhibition which will be in Bath city centre from 28 September until early 2011
Sep 23rd
Britain from the air | Art and design | guardian.co.uk http://ping.fm/NE2K7
Sep 23rd
Loving the comic book panel-style bullet-time vignettes in “Smallville”. More of these, please!
Sep 14th
Yay! New Mad Men! Hold my calls, sweetcheeks.
Sep 11th
August 2010
4 posts
Crap! I’ve left my Oyster card in my pocket with my magnetic hotel key. Will it have affected it?
Aug 23rd
Shit! I forgot to take the bin out when I left this morning, which means the flat will stink of fish when I get back.
Aug 22nd
I still don’t see the appeal of first-class rail travel. This coach stinks of shit.
Aug 22nd
“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller’s eyes.”
– James Randi (via practicedindifference)
Aug 16th
July 2010
29 posts
New Magic Trackpad: not so new :)
simonos: Apple introduced a new “Magic Trackpad” today, a very nice trackpad to be used instead of a mouse. But I remember using it back in 1997 with my 20th Anniversary Macintosh. See this picture? http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
Jul 28th
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YouTube - Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy →
http://www.webitdesigns.com Funny video I ran across and uploaded it as funny content for my blog http://www.roopedog.com
Jul 19th
The genius of Louis CK: http://ping.fm/Wccme
Jul 19th
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jul/1... →
Jul 14th
Abstruse Goose College Friend →
Jul 13th
Woman on "Wife Swap" makes her surrogate family... →
The reality show Wife Swap is total dross. Families exchange matriarchs for two weeks as camera crews record the anarchy. However, last Friday's episode struck comedy gold when a 2012…
Jul 13th
Woman on US “Wife Swap” trains family for 2012 http://ping.fm/5QaHT
Jul 13th
College Friend http://ping.fm/fMXDo
Jul 13th