Category: Linklog

Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will retire from Formula One at the end of the season. Love him or hate him… Formula One won’t be the same without him…

It looks like the Series 3 HD TiVo will be shipping September 17th and it’ll cost around $800. Hopes. Dreams. Wishes… All dashed… I was hoping for the $300 to $500 bracket.

Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The delicate sounds of the glockenspiel, vibraphone, and other instruments will lull your little one into a sweet slumber. Yes, your baby can rock out in their sleep to the likes of Radiohead, Pixies, Tool, Björk and even Metallica. Plus the album art is funny…

Tony Blair has faced a wave of resignations by junior members of his government over his refusal to name a date for resignation as Labour leader. 7 resignations and counting…

Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance. A series of bi-weekly “webisodes” that should bridge the gap between season 2 and season 3 before the premiere on October 6th.

Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast. He died doing what he loved best, trying to get himself killed…

Sadly, the Airfix Spitfire is no more. Thirty-one of the company’s 41 employees were last night made redundant after “severe cash flow pressures” and disruption of supplies from Heller – itself now insolvent – finally shot down the company.

The Atlanta Braves beat San Francisco 13 – 8 as Barry Bonds hits 2 home runs. His last game with 2 home runs? August 29th 2004, yes two whole years ago, and the venue? Turner Field against the Braves… Silly little trivia for you.

There IS a big, ultimate, 6-film Star Wars anniversary DVD box set planned for 2007. There will be more changes to the films, and there will be LOTS of new, never-before-seen special features – all the good stuff that was held back by Lucasfilm from the original Trilogy DVD release a few years ago. And so the LucasFilm cash cow keeps on rolling… And I’m an SO there! [via]

Heard the one about the Irish firm that claims to have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy? No? Me neither, I would have expected this kind of physics defying news to at least be covered by everyone, but no… I guess this world really does follow the laws of thermodynamics when it comes to potential hoaxes…

British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny, refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers. That is too awesome for words, a huge mulitinational company going on an old fashioned treasure hunt at the expense of a spammer…

Crazed Squirrel ransacks house. A family today told how a squirrel went berserk and trashed their house after falling down their chimney. An unfortunate series of events but still, it’s possibly the best headline you’ll see this year…

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

Happy 15th Birthday to the ol’ WWW. Without it I wouldn’t be here, and neither would you for that matter. [via]