http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/14/windlight-first-look-is-back/

http://reppals.stumbleupon.com/

A cornucopia of corvidae.

http://www.toyvault.com/montypython/

One of Brother Maynard’s sacred relics.

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/gordon_brown/

“What is most important in the Age of Change is not change itself but continuity in change and change in continuity.”

Taken from the Little Brown Book, the Collected Thoughts of Comrade Brown, from the chapter entitled:

“Resolving Contradictory Tendencies Amongst The Political Cadres”

http://iphone-apple.fr/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/iphone-funny.gif

The killer app has to be the Paris Hilton News Blocker – I want one.

http://www.psywar.org/leaflets.php

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/zaky-infant-pillow-child-neglect-accomplice-191268.php

“Send me your pillow,
The one that you dream on.”

http://www.orgonite.info/what-is-orgonite.html

“Excuse me, but does this lift go to the top floor?”

Here you will find instructions on how to make “Holy Hand Grenades (HHGs)”.

Barking.

http://sophia.smith.edu/~bturner/index.html

A great comic site which links with Renrutia’s Stmbleupon pages:
http://renrutia.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.linkinn.com/_Art_of_Hand-chirica

http://www.sewerhistory.org/

A memento of my visit to Rome with the RV Effluent Study Group as reported by Captain Cloggy: http://clogiron.stumbleupon.com/

From Wikipedia:

“Cloacina the goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima, the system of sewers in Rome was worshipped as an aspect of Venus at the small Shrine of Venus Cloacina, situated before the Basilica Aemilia on the Roman Forum and directly above the Cloaca Maxima.

Some Roman coins had images of Cloacina or her shrine on them.

Cloacina was worshipped with rhymed prayer.”

Free copy of the RV Herald Tribune to any one who can compose a modern rhymed prayer to Cloacina.

http://taterunino.net/statistical%20graphs.html

Second Life statistics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piE-VEubGr4

“This is a box,
a magical box,
playing a magical tune.
but inside this box there lies a surprise,
Do you know who’s in it today?

It’s Sam Tyler.
Hello Sam.
How are you today?

Oh dear, not very happy,
is it Gene Hunt?

Is he kicking in a nonce…?”

Original Camberwick Green can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRE7BG_w72k
‘Life on Mars’ BBC TV series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_%28TV_series%29
The Trumpton Riots by Half Man Half Biscuit The Old Grey Whistle Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT-8zywifco

http://www.aviation-history.com/supermarine/spitfire.html

This spitfire is shown with Czech colours symbolising the Eastern European pilots who fought so bravely to preserve the free world in the dark days of 1940.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-British_personnel_in_the_RAF_during_the_Battle_of_Britain

http://moriash.blogspot.com/

= Sunday, August 26, 2007 =

Roto-Tracker

“…a primitive drum loop tracker, allowing the user to pick out simple repeating patterns with various percussion instruments.”

“The concept is fairly straightforward.

A central physical rotor smoothly turns (counterclockwise) through 360 degrees, using llTargetOmega. Spaced out over 180 degrees (22.5 degrees apart) are eight collision sensors (shown as white columns of light), which use filtered collision events and llVolumeDetect to sense the passing of the rotor.

Each time the rotor passes through the sensor’s volume, the light briefly flickers off (as if the rotor is blocking it- a superfluous effect, but kind of neat) and the selected sound sample is played. The rotor moves on, the next sample is played, and so on.

Each collision sensor comes loaded with 15 drum sounds, including various tom-toms, a bass drum, a taiko drum, a snare, a couple of cymbals, some wood blocks and, of course, a cow bell. The user cycles through the sound samples by clicking on the base of the lights. The sounds for a given sensor can be turned off altogether, as well.

The rotor has three speeds: low (about 48 beats per minute), medium (96 BPM), and high (192 BPM), where a “beat” in this case is defined as a single sample played by a sensor. The random control directs the eight sensors to select random sound samples, or randomly turn themselves off. A sync control is provided to synchronize the rotors of multiple adjacent Roto-Trackers, allowing more complex patterns. Using multiple trackers, and a relatively lag-free sim (unfortunately, severe lag sometimes pulls rotors back out of sync), some fairly complex drum loops can be created.”

http://georgebird.stumbleupon.com/

“If Liberty Means Anything At All,It Means The Right To Tell People What They Do Not Want To Hear.”

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/09/07/toy-study.html

“A new Canadian study examining toy recall records suggests that while problems have been found in China’s factories, toy companies should shoulder their fair share of the blame for faulty designs and varying standards.”

‘What I see happening is [the toy companies] seem to be putting the blame on the Chinese manufacturers and escaping their own responsibility.’
–Hari Bapuji, researcher

See also:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_drohan/20070818.html”

Sept 21st from the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/99b42156-683a-11dc-b475-0000779fd2ac.html

http://www.metroland.org.uk/

If so you’ll need one of these, price 1/-.

http://www.quizzes-online.com/asia/

Inaccurate:

Gaza and West Bank are not separate countries.

Hong Kong & Macau are part of the People’s Republic of China and have the status of ‘Special Administrative Regions’.

http://jenjen1352.stumbleupon.com/review/9777489/

What do you think of the SU BETA ?

Vote here!

FYI – I think the new SU BETA is awful.

Why do I say that?

Well…

Most of the new features now appearing on the web page seem to be duplicated by options available from the the SU toolbar or are currently available anyway. They also give the give the new page an ‘amateur’ look and feel by ignoring the need for clean lines and making good use of white space. Other blogging web-spaces give their customers options, SU seem to want to impose their solutions and are making the classic error of designing for the ‘average’ user rather than addressing the needs of the whole customer base.

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html?cid=en&deeplink=avatar

http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/villain/

I am Lex Luthor

“A brilliant businessman on a quest for world domination and the self-proclaimed greatest criminal mind of our time!”

Also as a ‘Man of Steel’ I can moonlight as either:

a) John Lumic
http://www.cybusindustries.net/lumic.htm

b) Joseph Stalin

http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=flego