It is a hids hids world
This man may be the best bullshitter ever.
Egypt’s strongest man generates 260 Horsepower never sleeps and is banned from working because he is too powerful. Oh and he has sex 15 times a day. Seriously after watching the interview I think this guy has just read the hulk comic and said, mmm that looks fun. I will pretend to be the hulk.
Look like he is being interviewed by the Egyptian Richard & Judy…
Via Kotke
The caption writer had a field day with this one.
“Gov. Palin Apparently Oblivious To Turkey Carnage Over Her Shoulder”
The site has been down for a couple of weeks because my last host burtonhosting.co.uk took my money but didn’t actually provide any hosting services. They don’t respond to emails and the phone seems to be disconnected. They of course still have their billing systemsup and running and will happily take your money.
I have had to go through the excellent services of tucows to get my domain unlocked and transferred over to my new host hostmonster.com. The guys at hostmonster seem very professional and responsive and so far the service is excellent.
I am not going through paypal’s resolution center to try and get my money back for the hosting that burtonhosting.com so singularly failed to provide.
This is a test post on the new server.
One of the things I really wanted on my iPhone was a good application for viewing my google reader feeds. The iPhone optimised google reader site is pretty good but when Phantom Fish came out with Byline a native iPhone application that synced with reader I jumped at it. Unfortunately v1 was pretty sparse and I quickly went back to using the mobile web interface. This week Byline v2.0 was launched and wow has it improved. It is orders of magnitude better than v1 they are barely recognizable as the same application.
There are some very neat touches
Byline is probably the best $3.99 I have spent in the app store so far. You can check it out here
1: Amazon Kindle
I bought an Amazon Kindle as a birthday present to myself in March and it has been the smartest purchase I made all year. As a device its not perfect the page buttons are awkwardly placed and its not that comfortable to hold but despite these shortcomings I find myself reading far more now than I did before. A good book is only a few clicks away. When someone suggests a book to me I buy it there and then and find time to read it later. It’s light easy to carry which makes it perfect for traveling. My carry on weight has dropped substantially now that I am not lugging books and magazines.
Update On the flight back to the UK my Kindle developed a fault. The display is now shifted halfway across the screen making it impossible to read.
2: Sennheiser HD595 Headphones.
Fantastic sound with fantastic comfort. I will happily sit reading with these on listening to music for hours at a time. My apartment is very bare and the concrete floors and ceiling make it very echoey so any speaker system sounds horrible. For personal listening you would be hard pressed to do better than these.
3: My big ugly brown leather couch
It’s big it’s ugly and it’s cheap. On the other hand I can sleep full length on it its leather and did I mention its cheap.
4. iPhone (on probation)
Ys I do have an iPhone yes its very good, but I haven’t fallen in love with it yet.
This is a very impressive speech by the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Seeing a white labor union man so aggressively and directly attacking racism is a profound endorsement of the candidacy of Barack Obama. If you have 7 min I heartily suggest watching the video.
Via Andrew Sullivan
I have become rather addicted to possibly the most exciting US election race in my lifetime. The twists and turns from the primaries through VP selection to now would each in their own right made this a special election cycle. Combined it is a total roller-coaster. On top of all that we are possibly witnessing the ideological failing of the Republican Party. The party of small government is currently impotent in the face of the free market.
Here is some recommended daily reading to keep you up to date with the unfolding drama.
Someone is selling a canon 5400mm, F14 lens on ebay, apparently only three were ever made. The picture below has a canon SLR attached highlighted in red.
My favourite question to the seller, “Can you provide this with a 2x teleconverter?”. Current price $55,000 USD which with the way the stock market is going will be roughly the entire value of General Motors.
I think i will print this off and keep it in my carry on just in case.
The rest is here
but a video can…
Is this what she was talking about…
Screenshot above is of a robot on Mars using twitter to get involved with Talk Like a Pirate Day. That may be the most awesomely internety thing ever. (So its really some guy or girl in a lab somewhere but its still very cool)
You can follow both the mars rovers and the Phoenix lander on twitter.
How did he manage to produce 33 episodes before I heard of this. Anyway problem solved subscription added and here is a sample for the rest of you.
These look awesome first time I have been excited about a pair of goggles in a long time.
They also make this incredibly cool looking body armour. Think I might be a bit more keen to go for those corked 7’s in this. Or more realistically feel like a super hero and jump on all my friends.
More cool stuff here POC
I have been meaning to write something on the Hood to Coast relay experience but haven’t found the energy having used it all to get over the bloody coastal hills on route.
For those who don’t know anything about Hood to Coast it is on one of the largest running relay races in the world. It starts off at Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood at 6000 ft and finishes 197 miles later at Seaside on the Oregon coast. You compete usually as teams of 12 and in our case in the mixed category they had to be 6 men and 6 women.
We started the race early Friday morning and were expected to finish Saturday afternoon having run through the night. Teams split into two 6 in each minibus. You don’t really interact much with the other bus at all so you could make up a team out of two groups of 6 that don’t know each other. The main thing to get right is who you get in your bus. The first two legs of the
I have been meaning to write something on the Hood to Coast relay experience but haven’t found the energy having used it all to get over the bloody coastal hills on route.
For those who don’t know anything about Hood to Coast it is on one of the largest running relay races in the world. It starts off at Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood at 6000 ft and finishes 197 miles later at Seaside on the Oregon coast. You compete usually as teams of 12 and in our case in the mixed category they had to be 6 men and 6 women.
We started the race early Friday morning and were expected to finish Saturday afternoon having run through the night. Teams split into two 6 in each minibus. You don’t really interact much with the other bus at all so you could make up a team out of two groups of 6 that don’t know each other. The main thing to get right is who you get in your bus. The first two legs of the
No refund got a replacement instead, the robohorror.
This is a screenshot from the front page of Fox News web site. To the best of my knowledge and Merriam-Websters there is no such word as slained, it should be slain. How does this get onto the front page of a major news propaganda outlet.
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