Category: Odd
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XKCD reaches 1,000
Today the cartoon blog XKCD posted it’s 1000 cartoon. Here’s six favourites of the previous 999: – – – – –
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6 Music Shout Out
Here is a clip from Friday 16 December’s 6 Music breakfast show where Shaun Keavney reads out some middle aged shout outs. This one is for my brother who became a dad the day before: Download clip
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Inventive spam
Here’s a some recent spam comments which have caught my eye: In response to A cold winter evening at Brisbane Road: Hey There Blog, Maybe a little off topic, however, its not even the middle of winter and its already getting to 5°C… Kindest Regards In response to How tech giants deal with dissent: lovely…
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Adam and Joe’s festival jingle
Taken from their Glastonbury podcasts, this is Adam’s jingle about how much he enjoys festivals. Well, it made me laugh. You can download the MP3 if you like.
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The best of my spam comments this week.
By “alicia littlefield” I would not believe we should be placing on loincloths made of dingo skin, a lot we have been excited to exercise session. The time we realize they have deserving of workouts, it might be sensational looking. Must stop blogging about dingo skin. By “Larraine Roesner” Whats up…notable content material. Pleased I…
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My new favourite tumblr is My new favourite tumblr
Collated by Mike Phllips, mynewfavouritetumblr.tumblr.com lists his favorite tumblr accounts.
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Why be Denny Different?
Why be Denny Different? Why? Investigate the answer on facebook and twitter and more twitter, get the T-Shirt on Red Bubble and be inspired by illustrations. Or download the full “Denny different” Adam and Joe podcast from the BBC site.
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Daily Mail reveals Andrew Marr silhouette
What would we do without the daily Mail? Without them we’d never know what a silhouette of Andrew Marr looks like. “Silhouette: How Marr was seen in newspapers when reports of his injunction were published” That’s one less thing to worry about. See the shocking truth yourself at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380546/Andrew-Marr-abandons-injunction-affair-fellow-journalist.html
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Using photography to promote a borough
Council websites can often be a bit bland looking; lots of text, any imagery is straight from a stock library and usually struggles to properly relate to the content. One council has taken an altogether different approach with using locally sourced photography to dominate their homepage (they use a number of images, refresh to cycle through at…
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April fools roundup
Google Motion [youtube width=”400″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0[/youtube] More at mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html Helvetica Google Helvetica search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&q=helvetica Playmobil [youtube width=”400″ height=”240″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSU3ijxkp8Y[/youtube] Playmobil Apple Store: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/ Richard Branson Branson buys Pluto, reinstates as planet: www.virgin.com/travel/news/branson-buys-pluto-reinstates-as-planet/ NME – Blur and Oasis Liam Gallagher is set to make an on-record reconciliation with Damon Albarn – with Beady Eye covering Blur for a new single. www.nme.com/news/various-artists/55836 Royal Wedding preparation Guardian live…