A New Fun Site from the Lolcats Crowd

Adding to the sites they already have, ICanHasCheezburger, IHasAHotDog and Pundit Kitchen, a new face-matching site has been added to the stable, called TotallyLooksLike. It’s great fun – check out some examples from the site below (I suspect that the last one might be a bit tongue-in-cheek lol) see more famous faces look-a-likes see famous […]

London Bloggers Meetup on Blackfriars Bridge

Once again I went to the monthly London Bloggers Meetup earlier tonight. We were at a new venue this time around, the Doggett’s Coat and Badge, just at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge. Although it is a bit of a brutal 60s building from the outside, it’s a lovely pub inside with enormous outside […]

Welcome to Planet ‘Buy n Large’

We went to see Wall-E tonight, and what a wonderful film it was I won’t spoil the plot for you, but the story basically revolves around the relationship between the two main characters Wall-E and his companion, Eve (but you’ll have worked that out already if you’ve seen any of the trailers or promotional posters) […]

“We’re in a Spandex spiral vortex”

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Late this week I went to see the B52s play at the Roundhouse near Camden Town, as part of their new tour. Many moons ago, in September 2001, we had tickets to see them at the Hammersmith Apollo but, as you may remember at the time, due to the sad events that took place few […]

What Are You Looking For?

You might be interested in one of the new sites that I’ve discovered recently – Viewzi. The site aggregates google/yahoo searches and a few other sites such as flickr and youtube, and presents the results in new ways that are better suited to the kind of content that they are. For example, when you enter […]

LugRadio Live UK 2008 Day 2

On to day two of the LugRadio Live UK 2008 conference… My day started in the main auditorium with a talk by ‘dotwaffle‘ about the demo scene – the wonderful graphical and audio creations that have grown out of the scrollers that used to precede ‘cracked’ games back in the Spectrum and Amiga days. These […]