Category: Linklog

Live Election 2005 results. The BBC tracks all the incoming results for the General Election in the UK.

How Lightsabers work. “NEVER point the blade emitter of a lightsaber toward your own body. NEVER look down the “barrel” of a lightsaber, even if you are “sure” it is in safe mode. If you accidentally activate the lightsaber, serious injury could result.”

Now you can play Advance Wars Online. A great way to waste some time…

Liverpool beat Chelsea 1-0 to progress to the Champions League Final in Istanbul later this month. There is still the possibility of them winning the competition and still not qualifying for next years tournament.

The real life runaway bride. Jennifer Wilbanks of Duluth, GA, fabricated an abduction after getting cold feet over her wedding… Strange, but true.

In a landmark case a 23-year-old woman has been convicted by a Norwegian court for the rape of a 31-year-old man. If I woke up and some chick was going down on me, screaming rape would be the last thing on my mind… But as most know, trying to rape a man is like stuffing marshmallows into a parking meter…

The trailer for the upcoming Firefly movie, Serenity. “This could get pretty interesting. Define ‘interesting’. Oh God, oh God, we’re all gonna die!” Now if only it could get back on TV…

Not only does Rosie O’Donnell blog, but she’s on Flickr too! And she’s a moblogging maniac by the looks of it… I wonder what other famous faces use Flickr…

Kevin Smith now blogs on a pretty much daily basis. News Askew has taken Kevin’s posts from their forum and put them into a blog format. [via]

American teenager Michelle Wie could become the first woman to play in The Open at St Andrews later this year. All she has to do is win July’s John Deere Classic, which gives an Open place to the leading player who hasn’t already qualified.

Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software, proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in his home country, Iceland. I knew the Icelandic people were mad…

The “long lost” original version of “Oops! I Did It Again” by Louis Armstrong. OK, not quite, but never let facts get in the way of good comedy…

Chelsea and Republic of Ireland winger Damien Duff has been taught how to “dive” correctly by a Judo master. But only to prevent another shoulder injury… So they say.

Monday Night Football, ABC’s flagship NFL programme, will be moving to ESPN at the start of the 2006 season. Moving MNF from network TV to basic cable could be risky one…

EA Sports are to unveil the next generation of their highly successful Madden NFL series during the first hour of the NFL Draft on Saturday. No doubt it’ll be full of ultra realistic graphics and huge mentions that genre killing “exclusive license,” I’ll stick with ESPN NFL 2K5 thank you very much…