Beautiful Engineering

Date December 12th, 2006 Comment No Comments

What sets the Fletcher Capstan Table apart from other dinner tables is that it can expand “by 73%, growing from a capacity of 6 to 12 people in seconds.” Now this is craftsmanship.

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They're At It Again…

Date December 4th, 2006 Comment No Comments

Still glad I don’t live in the States. How much power do these people have that they can do shit like this? The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29″ with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a home theater would [...]

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You Are Taking The Piss

Date October 13th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

I came in this morning to be greeted with the following headline: Sony claims Wii and Xbox 360 overpriced and I thought I’ve got to have a read of this. Obviously, Ephraim is living in a tiny little world of his own. [Via: The Inquirer]

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No License? No Connect

Date October 11th, 2006 Comment 2 Comments

Thanks Gary. I do feel strongly about this. With the state of the internet these days, I feel that it is only reasonable for you to know what the risks of connecting are and know how to prevent them. “Think of the children! Think of the children!” If you go online unprotected, and worse knowing [...]

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USB Batteries

Date September 22nd, 2006 Comment No Comments

Now whoever came up with this idea needs to be receiving some sort of award real quick. This is real genius. [Via: GadgetSpy]

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There Goes The Day…

Date August 17th, 2006 Comment No Comments

Gary gave me a heads-up about this site containing one and a half thousand 80′s music videos. Oh well, it wasn’t really that urgent anyway. Update: I read somewhere today that YouTube is planning to host _every_ music video ever created for free. I’d love to know what their financial strategy is.

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Seaforth Hotel Blaze

Date August 9th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

I woke this morning to hear on the breakfast news that the Seaforth Hotel was ablaze. I drove down on my way to work, and sure enough, there is huge of plume black smoke rising from the structure and several tenders present. According to the news, people as far away as Montrose were ringing the [...]

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IE Start Page Hijacked by Microsoft

Date July 25th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

Why is it that, even though my Automatic Updates are turned on, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided that periodically my IE start page should be the Windows Update site?

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Much, Much More Money Than Sense

Date July 25th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

As you may or may not be aware, the Open Golf Championship in coming to Carnoustie next year and, as in previous years, the rental market for the week of the event is beginning to hot up. Now when I say hotting up, I mean hotter than the surface of the Sun, hotting up, as [...]

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Torched

Date June 13th, 2006 Comment No Comments

My sister-in-law’s car got torched by some knobend on Monday night. The annoying thing is that because my brother is in the RAF, they live in married quarters on the base. There was an airshow on the day of the incident and the MP patrol that normally looks after the billets was called off to [...]

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