WandringSoul

If you're a Joss Whedon fan (or a Nathan Killion drooler), check out the Dr Horrible Sing along blog...

I so want one!

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/07/08/replace-that-old-gnome-with-a-garden-zombie/

http://www.teddy-babes.com/home.html

"Unlike the classic inflatable latex love dolls (blow up dolls), silicone love dolls, and related sex toys,Teddy Babes™ are made of velvety-soft plush material; with long hair, "come-hither" eyes, and a sexy expression --the perfect bedtime companion; a stuffed erotic fantasy come true. Well-endowed and shapely, and with a number of desirable characters to choose from, Teddy Babes™ are the kind of girlfriends you always wanted to have. Whether you enjoy real doll sex and are looking for a satisfying adult sex toy, or just something warm and friendly to snuggle, Teddy Babes™ are for you. Why hug your pillow at night when you can hug one of these?"

How bizarre...

I'm lost for words... even the four-letter ones. From The Times:

A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.

The pupil, who wrote "fuck off" after being asked in an English exam to "describe the room you are sitting in", got 2 marks out of 27 and would have got more if he had added some punctuation, chief examiner Peter Buckroyd told The Times.

"It does show some very basic skills we are looking for -- like conveying some meaning and some spelling," said Buckroyd, who works for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance examinations board. "It shows some nominal skills but no relevance to the task".

"If it had had an exclamation mark it would have got a little bit more because it would have been showing a little bit of skill".

According to The Times, to gain minimum marks in English GSCE papers -- an exam taken by hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds across England every year -- pupils must demonstrate "some simple sequencing of ideas" and an ability to put "some words in appropriate order"

If you ever tapped your toes to that old song, here's a really nice stop-motion video for it, great fun! (Can't embed at the owners request apparently)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4

Well, I finally cleaned and waxed it, so here's a couple of photos of the new (to me) car!

Also - after the cut, one of lolcat growing up, and a shot I took from the back of the house one night last week.


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http://humanbraincloud.com

Something I've been wondering about - whether it'll be any good or not?

http://www.scifi.com/tinman/

(Try the Oz experience at the bottom)

I don't have Sci-Fi channel, but will have to look for the series via other means, but if you've seen it, how was it?

Since the day they first appeared on our roads, I've dreamt of owning a Jaguar XK8... I was always a fan of the Jag coupes - the Etype, and the XJS... but they were before my time, and the XJS was terrible prone to rust and reliability.

The XK8 though is a sleek, sexy beast - sharing the lines of the Aston Martin DB7, and damit, I love 'em... and I'm just at the point in life, career etc when I was about to change cars and buy one. An old one mind you - now we both work for the same company, we were going to get rid of both cars and buy one nice one - and even then it would be 8 years old probably. I think we can just about do it... the mpg will be higher than the Audi I currently have, but then I'm driving 380 miles a week less on my commute. So - I've had my eye out, looking for the right one, until this morning I read the following:

"ROAD tax for gas-guzzling cars will soar to more than £1,000 in a shock bid to get them off the road.

Motors currently in band G, including Range Rovers, Porsches and Jaguars, will be hit by the new charge — to be unveiled in Wednesday’s Budget."

I could cry... or scream, or both. £85 a month in road tax basically means years of dreaming just went out of the window. At this moment in time I hope Alastair Darling meets a horrific fate under the wheels of a Toyota Prius - the irony will be perfect.

After a trip to Cosford Air Museum last weekend, I was playing with some online photo slide show thingies, and here's the result.

I've been singing the praises of Last.fm for a while, then they got bought out by CBS. Now they're offering free streaming music - up to 3 listens per track or album. (and you can reset it by cookie deletion). You don't need to register, just click and play

I've been playing with a 3d environment creator at work... it's free to try, and you can quickly build yourself a home from the rooms available. No geeky required : )

AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece

An interesting read:

"The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.

This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

On the other hand, we had Gordon Brown last week, in his "first major speech on climate change", airily committing his own and future governments to achieving a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - which is rather like prime minister Salisbury at the end of Queen Victoria's reign trying to commit Winston Churchill's government to achieving some wholly impossible goal in the middle of the Second World War.

Mr Brown's only concrete proposal for reaching this absurd target seems to be his plan to ban plastic bags, whatever they have to do with global warming (while his government also plans a near-doubling of flights out of Heathrow).

But of course he is no longer his own master in such fantasy exercises. Few people have yet really taken on board the mind-blowing scale of all the "planet-saving" measures to which we are now committed by the European Union.

By 2020 we will have to generate 20 per cent of our electricity from "renewables". At present the figure is four per cent (most of it generated by hydro-electric schemes and methane gas from landfill).

As Whitehall officials privately briefed ministers in August, there is no way Britain can begin to meet such a fanciful target.

Another EU directive commits us to deriving 10 per cent of our transport fuel from "biofuels" by 2020. This would take up pretty well all the farmland we currently use to grow food (at a time when world grain prices have doubled in six months and we are already face a global food shortage).

Then by 2009, thanks to a mad gesture by Mr Blair and his EU colleagues last March, we also face the prospect of a total ban on incandescent light bulbs.

This compulsory switch to low-energy bulbs, apart from condemning us to live in uglier homes under eye-straining light, is in practice completely out of the question, because, according to our Government's own figures, more than half Britain's domestic light fittings cannot take them."

As of Friday I'm out of here... the job, the radio station, and radio in general. Time for a change, less politics, less HR farces, less cretins.

I'll miss a few things - the main one being an hours drive through some stunning scenery...








And of course, I can't post pics without some kitten-cuteness:

So - you're in bed when the forces of evil strike, and gosh - your handy dandy shotgun is just out of reach!

What you need is the 'Backup'!!


http://www.the-backup.com/buy/commercial.php


I love the line 'Some people are buying one for either side of the bed'.

So - Oz becomes the 'Oh-Zee'... Dorothy Gale becomes 'DeeGee', and the Yellow Brick Road becomes the 'Brick Route'.

This isn't re-imagining anything, it's just playing numpy with names.

For the full effect of this travesty, watch this...

Daft Punk did a song a while back - which stood alone as a great track.

Kanye West decided to butcher it - which we'll just gloss over.

30 Seconds to Mars however, popped onto Jo Whileys show a week or two back and covered Kanye's version... and personally, I think it's brilliant.



and after is Dafk Punks original.. (not the video, that's a bit recent, but fun)

No word necessary.

http://www.ratemyturban.com

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? We may never truly know.

How many chews does it take to get temporal mandibular joint dysfunction? Exactly three. Romero, Mich. resident Victoria McArthur is suing the parent company of Starburst, Mars Inc. Why you ask? Well, it seems that Starburst Fruit Chews are … Wait, are you ready for this? Maybe you should sit down. Comfy? Good. She’s suing because they’re too CHEWY. Oh! Are you OK? You took a bad spill there. Didn’t see that one comin’, did ya’?

McArthur claims to be having difficulty chewing, sleeping, and talking and is suing for the usual $25,000 for “permanent personal injuries” she suffered after her run-in with the conniving confection.