Harbin Ice and Snow World 7 by websterish : Weather Underground
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BBC – dot.life: Bill Gates – You Asked The Questions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/bill_gates_you_asked_the_quest_1.html
Bill Gates – You Asked The Questions
“…we tried a new tactic – getting BBC viewers, listeners and readers to ask the questions. We had thousands, covering every aspect of Bill Gates and Microsoft – past, present and future.
…one gentleman was proposing himself as the next CEO of Microsoft, and another wondered whether the secrets of Windows software had been recovered from a crashed UFO.”
Comments:
6. “Microsoft’s technology might have originated with a crashed UFO; it certainly didn’t come from a functioning one.”
Apple – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – The world’s most advanced OS
The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements
Aluminum
Atomic Weight…………26.981538
Density………………….2.7 g/cc
Melting Point…………..660.32
Leodis – a photographic archive of Leeds – Home Page
lolpresidents CSS Design – Gallery of CSS Websites
Correcting internet errors
Correcting internet errors, one mistake at a time.
http://www.epica-awards.com/pages/pastresults2005_epicador_press.html (dead link)
You can view the site here as it is still online.
To be honest I am heartily sick of seeing these insulting ‘flags’ popping up when I click the stumble button.
The Chinese flag was particularly annoying because it is factually wrong see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
…so I decided to correct it.
Anybody else want to ‘correct’ one of the others?
About the Epica Awards
‘Established in 1987, Epica Awards is unique as it is the only creative prize judged by the press.
Today the jury brings together more than 200 chief editors and senior reporters from trade, specialist and mainstream titles in over 60 countries. The awards are open to agencies, design studios, production houses, advertisers, digital marketers – in fact, talents from every corner of the communications business.”
Man Through History at Kontraband
Sorry link no longer works…
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=5920&genre=0&page=1
Pictorial record of history seen with a jaundiced eye.
Update: Contraband seems to have vanished sometime in 2020 and the wayback machine doesn’t have the original picture that I was referencing. Also it’s from2007 which is a long time ago – not all links and content can be restored
Uncyclopedia – Mae Zedong
https://uncyclopedia.com/wiki/Mae_Zedong
‘Mae Zedong (December 26, 1893 — November 22, 1980)
…was an actress, writer and communist revolutionary famous for her daring double entendres and her belief that proletarian revolution could come from the peasant classes.
After winning control of mainland China in 1949, Zedong modernized the country through a series of risque comedies and films, filled with quips, one-liners and denunciation of “reactionary” elements.
These were later collected into the “Little Black Book,” which became a standard text for revolutionaries into the 1960s.’
Noggin the Nog
http://www.nogginthenog.co.uk/
“In the lands of the North,
where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea,
in the dark night that is very long,
the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires,
and they tell a tale…”
The Bureau of Communication – Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence
The Ugly Spaceship
Words are Pictures
http://www.wordsarepictures.co.uk/
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“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found?
The same old fears…”
ourpasthistory.com
http://www.ourpasthistory.com/
WW1- Camp Silhouette Series No 9 – “LIGHTS OUT”
Is this festive enough?
My site is worth 2/6 * .
How much is yours worth?
* or half a crown to you guv’nor
SLHamlets favorite websites – StumbleUpon
http://slhamlet.stumbleupon.com/
Please give a warm StumbleUpon welcome to James “SLHamlet” an embedded journalist for the online world Second Life.
James’ blog New World Notes is one of the oldest and most highly respected news sources for Second Life and is well worth a visit.
Oh yes, and his book “The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World” will be released on Feb 28th, 2008.
The Space Frontier Rocket Garden by Jimbo Perhaps
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Space%20Frontier/73/148/27
The Rocket Garden is adajacent to the Space Frontier Sandbox provided courtesy of the Space Frontier Foundation, www.space-frontier.org
Biro Art epic biro doodle drawings with a ballpoint pen of weird stuff and terrible puns
Pengrim Reaper
on his spectral walrus steed ushers the souls
of departed penguins into the afterlife.
b3ta.com challenge: life after kids tv
Northern Kites in Gatesheads Derwent Valley
http://www.northernkites.org.uk/
I saw two of these magnificent birds whilst driving to work this morning.
Marvellous.
British Comics from Comics UK
‘The Dandy’ seventy years young today.
For more about the world’s longest running comic see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dandy
http://stumblerank.com/index.php?sort=3.1
If my name ever appears on this site please have me taken outside and shot. All I ask for is a quick, painless death.
Thank you.
This site no longer exists, just as well it sucked – Oct 2008
Caledon is a small, windswept forested country at a temperate latitude. Wild creatures, country estate life, sights and sounds that were common well over 100 years ago are the hallmark of the land.
Technology is approximately that of the 19th Century, though some astonishing breakthroughs have provided for incredible wonders. Ground vehicles, airships, and even a device known as a ‘telehub’ are made possible through the power of exotic material properties and the wonders of Steam Technology.
The government is an expansionist monarchy, supported by a strong aristocracy.
See:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Independent_State_of_Caledon
TAIPEI 101
http://www.taipei-101.com.tw/index_en.htm
Taipei 101
臺北101
Second Life Blogs: Features: WindLight First Look is back!!!
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/14/windlight-first-look-is-back/
Reflections at Calleta harbour
By Nolligan
Click for a larger image hosted on my Flickr account.
reppalss reviews – StumbleUpon
http://reppals.stumbleupon.com/
A cornucopia of corvidae.
Steelworks | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzone-inc/731070794/
Industrial Hartlepool at night, the visual inspiration for Ridley Scott’s dystopian epic Bladerunner.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/ff_bladerunner_full?currentPage=all
“I don’t think all directors do, but I certainly draw from personal experience
— sometimes I remember things, sometimes it will come out from the back of my head and I’m thinking, I never knew where that came from. And then I can analyze afterwards and realize that’s what it was.
Funny enough, the beauty in industry, which is probably killing us, but actually nevertheless is beautifully like Hades, is one reason why you start to feel the beauty in the godawful condition of the red horizon and the geysers of filth going into the air.
I used to go to art school in West Hartlepool College up in the north of England, which is almost right alongside the Durham steel mills and Imperial Chemical Industries, and the air would smell like toast. Toast is quite nice, but when you realize it’s steel, and it’s probably particles, it’s not very good. But I’m still here. So, you draw back on that.
And to walk across that footbridge at night, you’d be walking fundamentally above, on an elevated walk on the steel mill. So you’d be crossing through, sometimes, the smoke and dirt and crap, and you’re looking down into the fire.
So, things like that are remembered.”
By Nolligan
In Da Club
And when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey,
There’s sadness in your beautiful eyes,
Oh, your untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes,
My life down I shall lie.”
By Nolligan
Virtually my home.
b3ta.com challenge: gordon brown
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.
Propaganda Leaflets
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/zaky-infant-pillow-child-neglect-accomplice-191268.php
“Send me your pillow,
The one that you dream on.”
What Is Orgonite? A Brief History of Orgone Research, The Advancements of Orgonite, Cloudbusting: Then and Now, The Orgonite Gifting Movement
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.