On what must have been the bestest day to play with thespool, #evolt's very own blogbot , it was Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday ( Official British HQ ), and we were at it like troopers , errr, pirates. Arrrrr. Ah, sorry, it's next year now, isn't it.
Another amazon.com easter egg has popped up, a Key Tronic PC keyboard for — <drevil> one million dollars! </drevil>
I decided to treat myself to a new DVD player to replace my aging DV-530 , and at the same time got a couple of DVDs back from Ade, who had kidnapped them in a brutal attempt to deprive me from watching movies about cheerleading , six foot bunnies , and evil empires . That […]
There's probably the most fantastic, most concerted and deliberate campaign of weird reviewing going on at amazon.com, attached to a David Hasselhoff CD, specifically " Looking For ... the Best of David Hasselhoff ". No idea why, it's just there, and it rocks! The deliberate campaign of weird reviewing, that is, not the CD in […]
I've been clearing stuff off the TiVo , and one of the programmes I watched was an interesting looking Horizon about the threat of an asteroid strike on the Earth . As cheesy as Meteor was, as awful as Armageddon was, and as ponderous as Deep Impact was, I've always held an interest in the […]
Douglas Coupland on Windows 95, scary noises, fiction as art and personal transformation via literature — hat tip to the spool .
The hard drive in the Vaio just made a horrendous clunky clicky sound there ... Looks like it could be time to walk the path of new hard drive time ... or possibly new Vaio time, although I'm desperately trying to hold out until the Z series Centrino Vaio s have 802.11g WiFi built in […]
eBay has truly turned into the worlds clearinghouse of crap — viz this item for sale: "New Folder for Windows XP" [ local mirror ]. What absolutely kills me is that people are bidding on the damn thing, with the last bid at time of writing sitting at £56. Really people, just right-click and make […]
Holy moley ... this nutbar american decided to have a 20 patty burger — that's a bit of bread, 20 dods of 'beef', a load of cheese and some other crap. I'm suddenly both hungry and ready to boak! :) Also for some reason, I'm reminded of iyanus eating whoppers in Burger King all those […]