Category: Linklog

Place The State. See if you know where your American States go… I got 86% right, average error of 32 miles and a total time of 272 seconds

A half-eaten slice of elderly cheese on toast purportedly showing the image of the Virgin Mary has attracted 100,000 hits on the eBay auction website. A tad ridiculous? Yeah, but what about these ones?

What does Huggy Bear, An ex-All Saint, a coked up model, a washed up singer and an infamous former Royal butler have in common? They’ve all hit rock bottom and are participating in “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.” Oh dear…

NBA tells Vince Carter to turn off iPod. The NBA has banned Vince Carter from listening to his iPod during the 20 minute pre-game warm up citing “a violation of the league’s rules on proper attire.”

Half-Life 2 comes out tomorrow and GameSpot gives it a measly 9.2 out of 10. The horror… I’ll still get it (once I have a PC capable of running it).

Jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of murder, death penalty possible. “Scott Peterson was found guilty today of murdering his wife, Laci, and the couple’s unborn child, and ruled eligible for the death penalty, climaxing an internationally watched trial that took so many unexpected twists it became as much a bizarre show as it was a legal proceeding.”

These sites have been popping up quickly… First there was Sorry Everybody, then We’re Not Sorry and now to cap it off we have Apologies Accepted… It’s like some kind of weird cult.

ABC affiliates in at least eight states will not televise the network’s broadcast of the World War II film “Saving Private Ryan” because they fear repercussions from U.S. regulators. One of those affiliates are WSB-TV in Atlanta, they asked if they could show it after 10pm and to have the option to edit some of the scenes, ABC turned them down…

“The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era.” Shame, Winamp 2.x kicked all kinds of ass, then they lost direction with Winamp 3.

Rangers 2 – 1 Celtic. Finally, after 7 Old Firm defeats in a row, Rangers come good in the “mickey mouse” CIS Insurance Cup…

“Fuck the South. Fuck ’em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they’d stay part of our special Union.” One of the “Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite” isn’t happy at all…

Konfabulator comes to Windows with the same widget goodness that the OSX version had. Another application to run in the backgound, oh well… With this and Rainlendar, my desktop is fully covered.

When is a cease-and-desist not a cease-and-desist? When it involves the United States Postal Service and The Postal Service. This is what happens when a rock band and a huge corporation join forces…

Canadian immigration officials said the number of US citizens visiting their website went up six-fold the day after the US election. Now, that’s just being a bit melodramatic isn’t it? Everyone knows you should just get the borders changed…

Rap mogul Sean “P Diddy” Combs is making a bid to be the first black James Bond. The man formerly known as Puff Daddy said: “The world is ready for a black James Bond.” Kill me now…