It seems the spinneyhead central pc is having a tantrum. I’d only been away from it for a few hours and the monitor blew up. Casa Spinneyhead has a spare monitor (sort of, it’s on a pc that doesn’t get used much) but it is bloody annoying.
Coming soon. A global blog, either with local news from all over the world or comments on international news from the perspectives of many different locations.
There are a few people i want to invite to join the club, but that’ll still leave a lot of time zones uncovered. I check the site logs, i know we get people from all over the place. If you’d like to be part of something big with the potential (eventually) of rewards them drop me a line.
If you think you’ve heard this idea before you probably visited Johnnytheo in the good old days. Whatever else you can say about mister o, he did have this one great idea that deserves to live on.
JTO is dead! Long live Spinneyworld!
Green ISP (www.greenisp.net) offers to plant trees to offset the CO2 used to power its subscribers’ connections. (Links to follow when i’m not on the phone.)
Definitely not work-safe. And the esteemed webmaster scored 17 out of 20.
Ian requested that I include the phrase “breast enlargement” for his own pecuniary purposes.
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I’m going to be away for a couple of days. I may moblog, but otherwise posts will be sparse.
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This could have been another Catwoman, but turned out a pleasant surprise. It’s not a great movie, or even a particularly good one, all the major plot points can be seen coming a mile off and it takes itself far too seriously. However, it is far better than Berry’s Razzie, not least the fact that it sticks more closely to the origin in Frank Miller’s Daredevil run.
Kevin Smith’s “difficult” second film. Still more fun than most other movies.
I can see about four different explanations for this movie’s story, each of them valid but not perfect. I reckon the best thing to do is just sit back and enjoy it as a mood piece.
Previously-
Another film that could have been dire but turned out okay. The 15 rating means there’s not as much gore as some might want, and it’s a hard push to reconcile it with the previous Aliens. But there are some nice touches, like Lance Henrikson playing the billionnaire industrialist the Bishop android is based upon and a neat set up for any sequel.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
I could say this is the best of all the game based movies, but that would be unfair. The first movie was a bit like watching someone play a video game- cut scene, violence, cut scene, violence, cut scene, boss- this has more story to it, and feels less claustrophobic now the action takes place in Raccoon City and not the hidden base beneath it.
Technorati tag: Movies
As an extra to the story of the Colombian drugs sub earlier, here’s a proposal I wrote in 2003 for Commando Picture Library, based upon a news item about Russian gangsters trying to sell submarines to the drug runners.
Technorati tag: Fiction
I just rediscovered something I wrote over a decade ago, back when the Internet was young and I was trying to make points about University funding. It’s embarrassingly clunky and earnest, but I thought I’d stick it into Cycling on the Pavement anyway.
Technorati tag: Fiction
The Government has chosen to delay implementation of an EU law requiring recycling of computers and other coonsumer electronics. Apparently the suppliers and retailers won’t be ready until next year, when the law is supposed to come into effect in August. How long have they had to prepare for this and are other countries having similar problems?
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WhisperTech’s micro Combined Heat and Power systems come in AC and DC configurations, for use on the electricity grid or away from it.
via Treehugger
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Colombian drug smugglers built a mini submarine to sneak their product out to sea.
via Polizeros
Poser 6 is out. I think I want it.
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If you go to Hawaii be sure to rent one of these BioDiesel fueled Beetles to get around the islands.
via Treehugger and Jalopnik
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The director of Alien vs Predator is to write and direct Deathrace 3000, a remake/ update of Deathrace 2000.
via Jalopnik
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The Power Scorecard is limited in scope, covering a few US states and power suppliers, but the basics apply wherever you are.
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Hydroelectric power isn’t as green as we all thought. With the carbon dioxide released when the land is cleared and methane produced by rotting vegetation covered by the water, it can actually be worse than equivalent traditional power plants.
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Green Fuels sell BioDiesel production units ranging from the domestic to industrial.
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Another piece in Cycling on the Pavement- USS Blowjob– which segues neatly from yesterday’s mention of the Clinton Diaries. It’s a bit of an info dump. I’m taking all these ideas and I’m going to map them in the FreeMind software I mentioned yesterday, along with some other bits and pieces, to see if I can work out a grand scheme for Frightened to Death by Soldiers and start writing it.
Also, I’m going to shut down all the subscription stuff on the site, because I’m not producing fast enough to justify it and I’ve only had one subscriber (you know who you are, if you’d like a refund just ask.) So bit by bit, the old Cyclings are going to become available again and the whole of Deputised Experts will become available.
Technorati tag: Fiction, Bill Clinton
This is the sort of thing I hope Tony means when he goes on about “sustainable public procurement“. Seaton primary school in Devon has installed solar and wind power generators, which not only cover the shool’s own energy needs but can also feed power back to the grid.
Technorati tag: Sustainable Development, Solar Power, Wind Power, Education
I doubt Slick Willy would have a blogspot blog (and references to “lindsaylohanb” in all the Amazon links hint at a different author), but wouldn’t it be cool if this really is Bill Clinton’s Daily Diary? I’ve blogrolled it just in case.
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