As I write this, Spinneyhead cannot be accessed. I guess the server has gone down. I’ll try to fix the problem tomorrow, but, whether I can or can’t, I’m going to carry on posting stuff.
Blogging was going to be sparse for the next few days anyway, because we move to a new casa Spinneyhead tomorrow and there will be no broadband for I don’t know how long after that.
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This morning it was so warm i left the house without a coat. Now it’s almost time to leave the office it’s pissing down.
I probably should have had one of those ‘oh, wait, i live in manchester’ moments and realised this would happen.
Hello if you’re visiting Spinneyhead because of the City Life article. If you’d like an introduction to Spinneyhead then I suggest you read this post.
The Monitor and its offspring were probably the first modern battleships. Having guns in a rotating armoured turret and presenting very little structure above water, the Monitor was effective against the tall fixed gun ships of the day. It’s first battle was, famously, against the Merrimac- a sort of floating fort captured and modified by the South.
More at The Monitor Centre and the US Navy’s own site.
One student’s account of building a sex toy that fulfills several of Spinneyhead’s criteria.
I shall now detail how I constructed this item. The first order of business, right after the conga line, was acquiring a vibrator to modify. We went to Condom Kingdom in Melbourne Central at about 4pm. We had already been past there during the conga line, and were too soft to go to a proper, poorly-lit, sex shop. We bought a black battery operated vibrator for about $25. Then for about an hour we played with the vibrator, sneaking up on people, humping their heads and cock slapping them.
When we got tired of that, I dropped by home to see what parts I had lying around that I could make use of. I grabbed a cordless drill motor/gearbox, some aluminium tubing/sheet/rod, nuts and bolts, transistors, resistors, diodes, an old parallel port cable and a protoboard. I also grabbed my notebook computer, an IBM PIII 700, running Slackware Linux 10.1. I determined that the only other parts I would need to buy would be three relays, two 3 amp for two vibrate speeds, and one 5 amp for ‘thrust’.
Via BoingBoing
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BoingBoing rounds up online Hurricane Katrina resources, and Screenhead linked to a list of New Orleans webcams.
Killer whales in captivity have been seen to both innovate and teach their new found methods to other whales.
You could make a comparison between the US now and the British Empire at the turn of the last century. Indeed, the article looks a little like the basic premise I had for Sounds of Soldiers, my occasionally added to sci-fi/technothriller satire.
via BlogLeft
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The Science Museum is hosting an exhibition about life on other planets, or at least, what scientists think it might look like.
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If you live in Manchester, sign the pledge and agree to do your bit to reduce CO2 emissions.
The site also includes a number of energy saving tips.
I’m off to pride in my ‘nobody knows i’m a lesbian’ t shirt. Post modern? Ironic? Really dumb? Only time will tell.
“I pledge to play my part in reducing this city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent before 2010, to help the UK meet its international commitment on climate change.”
All fellow Mancunians can sign up to the pledge here.
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I have half an inkling, when I get a video camera to shoot original footage for videos, to start vblogging. For my future reference, here are two sites dedicated to the subject- videoblogging.info and freevlog.org.
via Screenhead
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After a week off, Spinneyhead’s Saturday serial returns. Chapter Four of Heavensent for your delectation.
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The National Front are to hold an anti-Gay Pride demonstration tomorrow. The anarchists are planning an anti-anti-Gay Pride demonstration.
I didn’t even know the NF existed any more and frankly I think the pathetic buffoons will be more than drowned out by the colour and music of the Pride parade without any extra effort required from anyone.
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Omaha the Cat Dancer returns. New episodes of the cult classic erotic comic are to appear in Sizzle magazine from November. No reviews of the pussy on the site and, even though they’ve been blurred, the ones that are there are definitely NSFW.
If you’re not familiar with Omaha you could do worse than pick up the reprinted Omaha Volume 1
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Well, indirectly anyway. 16 year old Peter Ash wired up his hamster’s exercise wheel so it could recharge his mobile phone as part of a GCSE science project.
via BoingBoing
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Official watercolour depictions of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. No matter how horrendous the subject matter, these are gorgeous pictures and I’ll be coming back and referring to them when I do my alternate 50s story.
via BoingBoing
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One of those concepts that seems silly at first glance, but I could leave one of these on the window sill for a few months and not worry about flat batteries the first time I cycled in the dark after summer.
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