Pleo gets Mar 07 Launch Date

Hooray - just in time for my next birthday! :D

Acid Rave Music on the Up

According to the Sunday Times Style Magazine RAVE is Going Up in the world: New tunes, new renegade parties, new Day-Glo... yay! Here's a rave website.

Ricky Gervais Microsoft Videos

Episode 1, Episode 2

911 Cover Up

Hermann Goering. Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII said: "Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Film here about 9/11: Google Video. Wonders why there were no remains of a plane crashing into the pentagon, why the twin towers collapsed when fires have never caused towers to collapse previously, why a 3rd wall street building collapsed several blocks away. etc. entertaining video about recent terror alerts in britain / US regarding flights.

The IBM PC - 25 Years Old

Engadget have written an interesting piece on their first PCs. Mine was a 486DX 50 with 8mb of ram and an 80mb hard drive second hand for a whopping £325 from Butts, Bits and Bytes (How did they get away with a name containing butts for so long?), who are now called 3B Systems.

Pheobe's Songs, Lisa Simpson's Poems

Lisa's poem about her cat:

"I had a cat named Snowball
She died! She died!
Mom said she was sleeping
She lied! She lied!
Why oh why is my cat dead?
Couldn't that Chrysler hit me instead?
I had a hamster named Snuffy
He died..."

Could Pheobe in Friends be the real life grown up version of Lisa Simpson?
Pheobe's Songs

Biased media in the UK? Never...

Interview on Sky News with some interesting opinion / facts about the Lebanon / Isreal thing. Death toll: Isreal people dead: 244, Lebanon people dead: 1076.

Borat the Movie

Ali-G is making a move: Borat Trailer - here he is on the Conan show.

www.channel4.com Live, Free, TV

www.channel4.com let you watch channel4 live. you just need to register and then you want watch live tv! (if you live in the UK) I checked with Channel4 and you DO NOT need a TV license to watch it!

Apple Mac Pro Quad Core Announced

Did you notice? Apple announced the new Quad Core MacPro - it feature 2x Dual Core Xeon CPUs with 4MB Cache per CPU (8mb total), with speeds up to 3GHz. The CPUs feature SSE3 which is pretty good. (Like MMX but on steroids with actual benefits rather than pretend benefits)

All your snakes are belong to us

Merry-go-rounds - the silent death trap.

According to people who worry too much merry-go-rounds are potential death traps because IF you get a moped and put it's back wheel on the merry-go-round and spin it at high speed with people on board, then they fly off at high speed like rag dolls, POTENTIALLY crashing into the moped and NOT the soft ground that surrounds the merry-go-round. West Sussex council have so far made no plans to get rid of the offending MERRY-GO-ROUND but may be forced to if it hears of similar incidents.

You can watch the video here of the seemingly WILLING participants. I say: If idiots want to find new ways of potentially killing themselves, then let them!