Art and Nudity

There's an exhibition of Fine Art that's encouraging visitors to strip naked in a Vienna gallery

There seems to be a recent trend for nudity in Art. Last month Spencer Tunick, a New York photographer, had 1,700 people strip naked in public on the banks of the river Tyne in Britain. People came from as far as Australia to take part in this installation.

I'd love to see something like this in a Singapore hawker centre. Imagine, Newton Circus full of naked people eating. Fantastic!

Widgets!!!

Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! Widgets!!! They're greeeaaaat! WooooT!

A widget is a cool little application that you can drag around your desktop. I've got a nice digital clock and a handy CPU monitor, but there's tonnes of other great widgets for free! How about an i-tunes shuffler or an e-bay feedback monitor? And you can even make your own! Woooooo!

Download widget software called Konfabulator (a Yahoo company) and get loads of cute free widgets on your desktop.

Click for Konfabulator Widgets

Pentrix.com

Ever seen someone effortlessly spinning their pen (usually in class or in a meeting). Well now you can learn these skillz too. click for trix training

And for some videos of these pen trix click for trix vidz

8 days

We got you in 8 days. Don't mess with London. You're not hard enough. click me

Monopoly - with London cabbies

Shame! We missed the promo! Monopoly has been played out online in London using real London cabs as pieces on the board (the board was the whole of London). Click here

Fabulous idea. You pick a cab, wherever it stops you buy a property or pay rent. Just like in real Monopoly.

For a full description go to BBC's ClickOnline - Webscape

This reminds me of a game of PacMan designed by Singapore students

For Monopoly Live click me

PeeWee Herman likes crack

Crack is cool kids. So sez PeeWee Herman. duh. click for crack

Like, we care?

The Aristocrats Joke - versions

Warning. Not for the easily offended.

"This site features what has been described by the New York Times as 'The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told' - The Aristocrats. Inspired by the forthcoming film from Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette which features 100 comics talking about and telling their versions of the joke, this site is a home for filth virtuosos everywhere."

You have been warned. click here

My faves? Christie Corpus's The College Try. Or Kilf's kazoo and baton show. Hell, read them all to get the gist.

the war on terror told with game cards

A bit of web zen. Someone has pieced together cards from 'Magic: the gathering' (role playing game) and told the story of the war on terror. Impressively nerdy. click me

Haikus for a newly neutered dog

Unbelievable, but true. Someone's got a site of poetry dedicated to their neutered dog. Click for wtf

For example:

You traitorous scum
I gave you my loyalty
But you undogged me

by MaPoDoFu

GALVANIZE!

The Chemical Brothers have a game on their site. Quite fun to look and listen to, but not much gameplay. GALVANIZE!

The Sun - Romantic Death - NSFW

Not Safe For Work. The Sun have taken clips from neo-porn site Beautiful Agony and cut them into their music vid. The song's called Romantic Death Click for movie

Home alone again

Macaulay Culkin is home alone with Wacko Jacko. Amusing. Click me

I Like Drawing ™

Here's a nice slant on graffiti. This guy draws on rubbish. He's British, of course. He calls them 'Rubbish Drawings'. Nice work fellah. I Like Drawing ™

mrstevenson@ilikedrawing.co.uk

London - cringe or laugh or both

I shudder at the well-intentioned (wet) offerings on the Web, like this London hurts (puke), but thankfully someone posted a real Londoner's response: London will f***ing Twat you in a minute, son

Ahh! That's better.

Then there's Were not afraid (puke some more) and the much more balanced response I am f***ing terrified which is gloriously funny.

And here's something for all the happy trainspotters. A live Underground map showing which lines and stations are operational (or not).

I'm Gonna Flip Out Like A Ninja

Rathergood/Joel Veitch/ 7 seconds of love, have a new tune. "Flip out like a Ninja". It's an ear-worm (ie catchy). Flip out here

Beam me up Scotty

Scotty has been beamed up. Obituary: James Doohan

and Obituary: James Doohan




All my dilithium crystals xxx

London is closer than you think!

On the day of the London bombings I took this pic of a British Airways ad in the underpass near Raffles Place MRT station, Singapore.

The ad was posted all along the underpass.

It shows a hole blown through the wall into Gloucester Rd tube station in London. The caption reads "London is closer than you think".

Scary.

Shakespeare's accent

How did Shakespeare really sound? What were the accents of his actors at the Globe?

"They say their accents are somewhere between Australian, Cornish, Irish and Scottish, with a dash of Yorkshire - yet bizarrely, completely intelligible if you happen to come from North Carolina.

For example, the word 'voice' is pronounced the same as 'vice', 'reason' as 'raisin', 'room' as 'Rome', 'one' as 'own' - breathing new life into Shakespeare's rhyming and punning."

click me for BBC:

Confuse your children

Golden nuggets of parental advice, like

Always keep your child guessing as to whether they're really your child. "Am I going to have to do to you what I did with your real parents?"

Confuse your kids click here

The Most Beautiful Machine, 2003

Here's a nice idea. This machine's purpose is to switch itself off once it's been turned on. Confused?... check it out.

Jorn Olsen Photography

Following my earlier post, Jorn sent me the link to his site.


So, for more great pics of mammatus clouds... Jorn's site - click me

bollocks!

I saw this ad a couple of years ago and thought it was great. I saw something today that reminded me of it, so I searched it out and here it is. click me

Gene Kelly body pops

Gene Kelly breakdancing. Most excellent. click me

jackson chocolate factory

Come inside MJs chocolate factory. click me Oh so cruel, but funny. We like cruel and funny.

Earth Changes TV Gallery :: Storm Photos

More great pix of clouds. click me

Aphex twin - rubber johnny - Chris Cunnigham

This is challenging. Awesomely horrid. Deformed aliens in wheelchairs and a scary chihuahua. Do not watch. It's a nasty clip. Very disturbing. Do not watch. click for cringe




Sheer brilliance. "Would you mind if I gave you an injection?"

Chris Cunningham's site - for rubber johnny. Verrrry nasty. Do not click. Oh! yuk, deformity

or try this for lesser quality video at Mucho Sucko

Chihuahua.

Osbournes or Osmonds

We're the Osmonds. I like Ozzie's face in this. click me for pepsi ad.

Awesome cloud photos

I saw these a while back, but didn't blog them. Silly me. These are fantastic photos. click me for photos - june2004hastings-mammatus



Here are some more... clouds
... and some more great cloud pics
...and a Wikipedia entry

The photo was taken by Jorn Olsen, he lives in Heartwell Park in Hastings, Nebraska. His email address is jolsen@dutton-lainson.com - maximum respect to Jorn.

Button Maker - top tip!!

Adam Kalsey has this great online gizmo for making your own pixel perfect buttons. Button Maker - click me

I used this tool to make the buttons down the right of this blog. Just fiddle with it to make your buttons, then upload them to your site.

They're png files, so it's best to export them as gifs before uploading them (gifs are crisper).

Skype me for tips on how to do this. (if you know me, you know my Skype)

Big cheer to Adam Kalsey!

Chili cook-off

I came across these pepper-fired descriptions of chili dishes by a judge at a chili cook-off in Texas.

"You could put a grenade in my mouth and pull the pin, and I wouldn't feel it. I've lost the sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water. My clothes are covered with chili that slid unnoticed out of my mouth at some point. Good! At autopsy they'll know what killed me. I've decided to stop breathing: It's too painful, and I'm not getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I'll just suck it in through the 4-inch hole in my stomach."

click me

Yay! Olympics?