Slap-to - the latest tune by Oingo

Here's my latest tune on Acid Planet. It's not finished yet, but I thought it was about time I uploaded it... So this is the tune I've been fiddling around with for the past 3 months. Give me some feedback on how to finish it. Slap-to (click here)

Send 1Mb files by email?

Simple and good this one. You upload a file onto YouSendIt's server. Email the link to your recipient. Your recipient can then download it. It stays on the YouSendIt server for seven days. Much better than sending an email with a 1Mb attachment. YouSendIt (click here)

Eminem - Mosh

Yeah. Eminem - Mosh (Quicktime video - big file)

Mad Jap Goths

For 'way-out-there' fashion see this site dedicated to the fans of Japanese band, Dir en grey. There's Kimono clad Cruella deVilles, PVC Nazis, Victorian black-widow brides, punked up Little-bo-peeps...and a nurse. Click here

Here's the band's 'what's new' page on their site Dir en grey (click here)

While you're there check out the video of their latest release 'saku'. Hmmm.

UK officially goes for open source and Creative Commons

Two articles from the Guardian about recent significant e-policy changes in the UK... Things are looking up.

A cool embrace
The Treasury's Office of Government Commerce have announced that open source software is a "viable desktop alternative for the majority of users". Move over Microsoft. Click

Creative comfort
The Creative Commons license is being introduced in the UK. Can't be bad. Click

What's the 'Creative Commons'? Here are some links to sort you out...

1. Creative Commons

2. Lawrence Lessig

I've got Creative Commons button at the bottom of this blog. Scroll down and have a look.

Common People - William Shatner version

A few months ago, I found a really crappy snippet of this tune. I'm delighted to say that I've now found a more hi-fi version. William Shatner and Joe Jackson 'Common People' on NME.COM

Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth

Absolutely the definitive websource for everything to do with the Bush/Kerry election. It's a kind of archive of everything on the Web about both candidates.Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth

It has the full version of Eminem's anti-Bush 'Mosh' on mp3, Quicktime and BitTorrent... with the full lyrics.

It's got the Jon Stewart 'Crossfire' interview, Britney Spears being a bimbo for the Bush, Condi Rice's damning 9/11 testimony, a smorgasboard of goodies. All free, naturally.

To quote from the site:

"Our goal is to present you with these clips to help you make an informed choice next Tuesday.

We hope you enjoy, and draw your own conclusions.

Please help spread the word. Tell a friend, a relative, a co-worker, or Ohio.

And to paraphrase Jon Stewart, please, please, please vote."

Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth

John Peel

John Peel

You rocked my world
RIP

BBC Obituary (click here)

Web Cite - interactive thingies

There's a lot of fun little e-thingies to play with here. Discover, experiment, play, tinker

The interactive Mona Lisa is a larf. Click her button and make her smile

Navy approves first ever Satanist - BBC

Mr Cranmer realised he was a Satanist nine years ago. He is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion in the armed forces. In the Navy (click here)

(we want you, we want you, we want you as a new recruit!)

Personality Tests

Find out who you are, by taking some 'fairly ok' personality tests. Includes a Myers Briggs test and a Left-Right Brain test. Not bad considering it's free and fast.

Click here for the site or click one of the links below.
Here's my 'Left-Right Brain' test:

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (82%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (28%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

And here's my MBTI result:

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Hmm...

RhymeZone rhyming dictionary

It's an online rhyming dictionary, for budding poets, rappers, etc... It does synonyms, antonyms and homophones too. Cor! RhymeZone (click here, m' dear)

If you've got Firefox, you can add it to your search bar dropdown (so you can rhyme from your browser). Firefox searchbar add-ons (click here)

Lobster phone

Quotes from the man who said:

"I don't take drugs: I am drugs."

...and...

"The only difference between myself and a madman, is that I am not mad!"

Salvador Dali Quotations (click for more)

Yay Dali! Youdaman! Fish.

Revolution! Yeah!

Rock to the revolution (because we're confused). World of Evil (QuickTime vid)

They've got better hair! Yeah!

It's a competition entry from this site: Revolution USA (why not enter yourself?)

Art History on timelines

I wish I'd had something like this when I was at college. It's the world history of Art arranged on timelines. It's worth reading the instructions for first-time users. The Met (click here)

F L O W

Interactive flash music video oddity. F L O W (click here)

Google Smackdown

Which is the most popular word? Which spelling is more commonly used? Who gets more mentions? Put two words head to head in a popularity contest scored by Google's API.

Here are a few examples:

email (123,000,000) vs. e-mail (9,650,000)

web page (3,890,000) vs. webpage (2,650,000)

favorite (14,000,000) vs. favourite (3,680,000) (ouch!)

hell (7,070,000) vs. heaven (6,420,000)

Smackdown (click here)

Reaction from the US to the Guardian's Clark County project

The Guardian (UK) suggested that some of its readers write to undecided voters in Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people asked for addresses. Read the responses they got.
Guardian Unlimited (click here)

Ok. So maybe they should have kept their noses out of this. But some of the reactions are a bit scary.

Useful stuff for your computer

Now I've finished studying for this year, I thought I'd post something useful here (for once). So here's a list of some useful computer stuff.

1. Ad-Aware SE
Lavasoft have just released the latest version of Ad-Aware. It's free, just like previous versions. For all your ad-bot, mal-ware and scum-ware woes. Ad-Aware SE (click here)

Check out Lavasoft's Ad-Aware 'add-ons'. There's one that switches off Windows Messenger (yes, you want to do that). Lavasoft 'add ons' (click here)

2. Google Desktop
Install this on your PC so that you can search all your files on all your drives.

Simply type a word or phrase into the Google Desktop search box and it'll instantly return all docs and ppts and emails (etc) with your chosen word/phrase in it. Where Google normally searches every word on the web, Google Desktop searches out every word on your computer. It's unbelievably good. Try it. Google Desktop (click here)

3. Furl and Spurl
Either of these two web-based apps will store all your favourites/bookmarks online. Why? So that you can access your bookmarks at home, work or anywhere else. That's why.

Actually, there's more. They also keep the webpage alive for you even if the original link goes dead. So your old favourite links won't ever go 404 on you again. I think this feature might also mean that you can access web-pages from subscription sites long after your subscription has expired. Hmm, Copyright? Oh well.

There's not much to choose between the two. Furl looks better (I think). Spurl has multi layered folders and is a bit more useable (I think). Up to you.
Furl (click here)
Spurl (click here)

4. DeadLink
On the subject of links going dead in your favourites folder... Ferret out those deadlinks (and doubles) with... Deadlink (click here)

5. A9
Amazon have used Google's technology (and some) to make a rather nice search engine interface. A9 (click here)

6. Mozilla Firefox
If you are still using Internet Explorer, you need your head examined.
Why Firefox? (click here)
More on 'why Firefox?' (click here)

Get Firefox HERE

Check out the 'extensions page' for customising the functionality of the browser. Mine has Ad-block, Image-zoom, Copy-URL & Copy-Plain-Text, and opens fullscreen (single window & autohide). It rocks.

Check out the 'themes' page for modifying the look and feel. I've got Noia 2 eXtreme, but GrayModern also looks great.

7. Skype
Free telephone calls on the internet to anywhere in the world for as long as you want to talk. Skype (click here)

There you go. Enjoy.

The Llama Song

This will surely become a classic. Damned annoying tho. Llama Llama, duck.

My Dead Pool

Here's the pool I've got running on the people I think will die before the year is out. What's your dead pool? Rotten Dead Pool

Bin Laden supports Bush and Cheney - video

Bin Laden commercial promoting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Bin Laden commercial (Quicktime 800k)

Bin Laden commercial (RealPlayer 1.4M)

Akrylis

Fantastic CG movie! Huge woo. Akrylis

Climate fear - satellite images

Recent satellite images showing pollution in your area. PhysOrg

Climate fear - CO2 levels soar

Recent news on the state of the planet. Guardian Unlimited

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Banksy

As Banksy says, "Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access." The Woo is strong in Banksy. Banksy

G dubya - keeping the world scared

When in doubt, scare everyone. Invoke 9/11

Skulls in art

Lots of cool stuff about skulls. Skulls

psychedelic adventure flash game thing

Woo. I recommend that you press F11 and go 'fullscreen' for this one. amanita

Your first scar...

Hey, think about it. Your bellybutton is your first ever scar. Here's a site with everything you ever wanted to know about bellybuttons. omphaloskepsis (navel gazing)

"Joke" Conversation Thread in which the :-) Was Invented

A bit of Web History here. The original conversation thread where the first smiley emoticon was invented. Woo. the first emoticon

"Fahrenheit 9/11" Out On Home Video/DVD Today! Pass it Around...

As Mike says "Get multiple copies and pass them out, especially to groups and people who can't afford to buy it. In a free society, which only survives if it has an enlightened electorate, information should be shared, not privately owned." Yay Mike. Pass it round

How many days until you retire

Calculate the number of days left before you retire. Scarey. Retire?

Toxic Chemicals - a Visual Guide

The US Dept of Homeland Security (spoof site). You may wish to consider leaving the country. Be Informed

Science of Cooking

Ok kids. It's time to learn the science of cooking. Science of Cooking

EVIL PLAN

Here's a useful thing. An evil plan generator. How evil do you feel today? EVIL PLAN

C-Mon And Kypski - SHITTY BUM

Great funky acid jazz video. C-Mon And Kypski - SHITTY BUM

Frank Sinatra Parody: You Are Either With Frank Or You Are With The Terrorists!

Frank Sinatra Parody: You Are Either With Frank Or You Are With The Terrorists!