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Plinky: A Muse for the Blog Age
During my usual work-avoidance feed reading, I came across a link to a gem of a web service, Plinky. Plinky is a new take on short-form blogging services (like Twitter, Tumblr, etc), but with a twist. Instead of being presented with a totally blank text box - which to many... -
Coffee: A Blessing and a Curse
I'm amazed by the recent surge in research into the effects of coffee on the human brain. First came stories such as this: Caffeine can induce hallucinations "Kiwis who imbibe the caffeine equivalent of one and a half cups of espresso coffee – or seven cups of instant – are... -
Now That I've Got Your Attention
A new billboard has appeared recently on Southwark Street (note I avoided the obvious pun). As I trudged reluctantly to work on Monday, I couldn't help noticing it, not just because it uses an advertising gimmick little younger than the oldest profession, but primarily due to its somewhat garish colour scheme: My initial shock... -
Maxiumum Resolution
The season for merriment is now more or less over: you've emerged from that slightly unreal time between Christmas and New Year, you're dreading the prospect of work on Monday and you finally realised you don't actually have a wheat allergy, but rather ate like a pig for the past... -
Validation
Courtesy of the Chief Happiness Officer, I saw this beautiful short film today, had me welling up at my desk. If there's anything that can encourage a positive outlook on life, this is it. UPDATE: Embedding seems to have been disabled, here's a direct link to the movie. Just before you... -
Tom's Christmas Hit Countdown
It's early December, the point of the year when its actually approaching acceptable to have your Christmas decorations up. When men across the Western world just about start thinking about maybe beginning their Christmas shopping. And quite possibly the busiest time of year for Noddy Holder. The best thing for... -
Coffee Stains as Comic Strip
Never failing to provide the best of the weird and wonderful snippets on the web, Boing Boing's RSS feed today brought me a link to a set of illustrations by Christoph Neimann, an award-winning illustrator with a coffee fixation. Drawn in coffee on napkins, they depict the artist's lifelong experiences and... -
Everyone's a Nintendo Fanboy
Haven't posted in a lil while, as I've been on holiday (and completely forgot to set an out-of-office notice, whoops). To keep things ticking over, here's a wonderful video game related parody of "Wonderful World". I'm sure the Satchmo would approve. Amusingly enough, the mid-90s Nintendostalgia continues, with a... -
Dolphins: What Wildlife On One Didn't Tell You
I was reminded today of a charming piece of trivia that everyone seems to know, but nobody is capable of substantiating. Namely that Dolphins and Humans are the only animals that have sex for pleasure. How on earth could anyone have developed this hypothesis? What would they use as contraception? Eel condoms? Quite probably... -
In a World Where Music Is Honest
Quite possibly the weirdest, and yet somehow coolest, music video of all time was A-Ha's Take On Me (with the 90s cover version by A1 possibly being the worst video of all time). As is the case with many awesome videos, it has next to bugger all relation to the...
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