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In 2001 America destroyed the Kabul offices of al-Jazeera with two smartbombs; officials said it was an accident. In 2003 America destroyed the Baghdad offices of al-Jazeera with missiles; officials said it was an accident. Now, two British civil servants are on trial for leaking a memo revealing that Bush intended to bomb al-Jazeera... at their headquarters in allied Qatar.
posted on Nov-22-05 at 8:28 AM
dont pirate software cos if you do the cd will keep coming out of the drive and then you will look silly and injure your employer by making him trip over ADOBE RECOMMENDS GENUINE SOFTWARE THXBI [flash]
posted on Nov-17-05 at 6:31 PM
Man spends $100k on imaginary nightclub to tax those who hunt its native dinosaurs. Man is likely to make a profit. <bgsound>
posted on Nov-13-05 at 6:44 AM
NASA: For the Benefit of All Mankind [MPEG; context]
posted on Nov-10-05 at 7:08 PM
Blair loses in the Commons for the first time since his election in 1997. MPs refused to pass laws allowing terrorist suspects to be jailed without trial for 90 days, and Blair's parliamentary majority of 66 turned into a minority of 31. The government has been holding back on the vote for months in an attempt to persuade their party to back the Prime Minister - they failed.
posted on Nov-9-05 at 9:19 AM
Glaucoma [w/Flash audio. NB: mouse-over bottom-left for Elvis. Obviously]
posted on Oct-21-05 at 8:44 PM
for the bookmarks - free browser-embedded antivirus [IE only, I assume Windows only]
posted on Oct-4-05 at 9:57 AM
ViolinMP3 [Violins; MP3s]
posted on Oct-1-05 at 1:52 PM
It's Friday [Video, AppleFilter]
posted on Sep-29-05 at 3:28 PM
THE ULTIMATE SELF LINK: MY BRAIN. Use this excellent little MRI program to open .hdr 3d-scan files. Endless, disturbing fun.
posted on Sep-28-05 at 7:30 AM
daily show slash fiction
posted on Sep-26-05 at 6:01 PM
just get yourself high [lo siento para el Player Real]
posted on Sep-25-05 at 9:18 AM
At this challenging time for President Bush, let us reminisce about the system that elected him. Will the next election be different? Do you want it to be? What are you going to do about it?
posted on Sep-12-05 at 7:25 PM
Gloria Estefan and Mylo [warning: eighties]
posted on Sep-11-05 at 7:22 PM
Dyslexia - Myth?
posted on Sep-6-05 at 8:19 AM
BBC correspondent Matt Wells lays it down straight
posted on Sep-3-05 at 8:37 AM
Louisiana National Guard radio [ShoutCAST MPEG]
posted on Sep-1-05 at 1:46 PM
silicones [ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994] [silicones silicones [ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993]]
posted on Aug-24-05 at 10:41 AM
Witness the Whiteness as borderline-albino Canadian nerdcore MCs kick it Konami-school [Windows Media/Quicktime; more]
posted on Aug-16-05 at 5:56 PM
Kitten on the Keyboard [Macromedia® Flash®]
posted on Aug-15-05 at 5:51 PM
SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.
posted on Aug-13-05 at 6:46 AM
Neil Gaiman 1997 essay on the myth of artistic inspiration
posted on Jul-19-05 at 2:53 AM
AAAARGH
posted on Jul-16-05 at 8:33 AM
LCD computer keyboard
posted on Jul-14-05 at 2:16 PM
FUNNY CATS (back me up here)
posted on Jul-8-05 at 1:48 PM
United States Army 3rd Battalion 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment Charlie Battery Afghan Theatre Sixth Row Fifth Column
posted on Jun-29-05 at 5:57 PM
EDSAC - home of the first videogame, OXO.
posted on Jun-19-05 at 2:46 PM
Back to theFutureDrawing Board
posted on Jun-17-05 at 6:31 PM
The end of Concorde was one of the few times in modern history that technology has been forced to regress. But it won't take long to fix.
posted on Jun-15-05 at 11:24 AM
Video games are stupid [Windows Media, nsfw audio]
posted on May-31-05 at 5:29 PM
I just want to spread the immense joy of Winamp TV, which is a route to all kinds of Filipino servers playing all your favourite copyrighted television material commercial-free 24/7 but it's OK because I'm not linking to those servers directly no sir.
posted on May-26-05 at 3:27 PM
Fig-leaf-eating Velociraptor Scandal! Look, I've got nothing against religion but if you believe a word of it you are, in the words of Robert Burns, "a dumbass fuck".
posted on May-22-05 at 11:57 AM
ALL THE BARCODES. Awesome, pointless geekery.
posted on May-18-05 at 7:50 AM
Shatner [QuickTime]
posted on May-13-05 at 10:56 AM
Highlight of the election coverage: George Galloway is the leader of Respect and won a historic and unexpected victory against the Blairite Oona King, on an anti-war ticket. He was then interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, an increasingly controversial interviewer well known for asking questions absurd numbers of times until they get answered - a technique which arguably backfires here. You might want to watch Galloway's acceptance speech first. [Windows Media. My two cents: Paxman is an egregious cock, more interested in getting his eternally righteous indignation across than any issues.]
posted on May-6-05 at 6:18 AM
Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show, 1987-1989. [(Low-quality RealMedia I'm afraid.]
posted on May-3-05 at 5:46 PM
BBC - Question Time Leaders Special [Windows Media or RealMedia]
- Panorama: Iraq, Tony and the truth [transcript]
posted on Apr-28-05 at 6:39 PM
Sick of ▯? Try Code2000.
posted on Apr-27-05 at 1:25 PM
UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job.
posted on Apr-24-05 at 7:06 PM
On the trail of The Collector comes The Game Room. What a rubbish television.
posted on Apr-16-05 at 6:04 PM
Kris Kross loves bloggers
posted on Mar-26-05 at 7:17 PM
Kofi Annan has issued his recommendations for tackling poverty and promoting security and human rights, incorporating the greatest alterations to the UN and Security Council in history.
posted on Mar-21-05 at 5:31 AM
Bridge the gap
posted on Mar-15-05 at 5:18 AM
Africa. Lol.
posted on Mar-13-05 at 4:01 AM
Todd Solondz + Childrens Television Workshop [Flash; Not Safe For Anyone]
posted on Mar-8-05 at 2:25 PM
Intermittently hilarious soundboard-based prank calls
posted on Mar-5-05 at 7:09 AM
Yahoo! wants to buy you an ice cream [today only, in USA, Puerto Rico, Canada, UK, Australia and South Korea (apologies to North Korean Baskin-Robbins afficionados)]
posted on Mar-2-05 at 9:20 AM
Some good news! The greatest problem Africa faces is bad government. When the President of Togo died earlier this month, the constitution dictated that power should go to the head of Parliament, until democratic elections could take place. The army expressed their regret that this couldn't happen, since the head of Parliament was out of the country. This was due to the army closing all the borders. They instead gave power to the ex-President's son, and altered the constitution to remove any reference to presidential elections. Now, it looks like progress is being made through protest and peer-pressure.
posted on Feb-22-05 at 10:19 AM
Straight outta Belgium, it's "The Matrix: The Beginning". This is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion. [20m WMV; Trailer for those with a lower tolerance for this sort of nonsense; Main site]
posted on Feb-20-05 at 7:10 PM
The Viral Chart tracks British viral marketing videos.
posted on Feb-18-05 at 12:48 PM
posted on Nov-22-05 at 8:28 AM
dont pirate software cos if you do the cd will keep coming out of the drive and then you will look silly and injure your employer by making him trip over ADOBE RECOMMENDS GENUINE SOFTWARE THXBI [flash]
posted on Nov-17-05 at 6:31 PM
Man spends $100k on imaginary nightclub to tax those who hunt its native dinosaurs. Man is likely to make a profit. <bgsound>
posted on Nov-13-05 at 6:44 AM
NASA: For the Benefit of All Mankind [MPEG; context]
posted on Nov-10-05 at 7:08 PM
Blair loses in the Commons for the first time since his election in 1997. MPs refused to pass laws allowing terrorist suspects to be jailed without trial for 90 days, and Blair's parliamentary majority of 66 turned into a minority of 31. The government has been holding back on the vote for months in an attempt to persuade their party to back the Prime Minister - they failed.
posted on Nov-9-05 at 9:19 AM
Glaucoma [w/Flash audio. NB: mouse-over bottom-left for Elvis. Obviously]
posted on Oct-21-05 at 8:44 PM
for the bookmarks - free browser-embedded antivirus [IE only, I assume Windows only]
posted on Oct-4-05 at 9:57 AM
ViolinMP3 [Violins; MP3s]
posted on Oct-1-05 at 1:52 PM
It's Friday [Video, AppleFilter]
posted on Sep-29-05 at 3:28 PM
THE ULTIMATE SELF LINK: MY BRAIN. Use this excellent little MRI program to open .hdr 3d-scan files. Endless, disturbing fun.
posted on Sep-28-05 at 7:30 AM
daily show slash fiction
posted on Sep-26-05 at 6:01 PM
just get yourself high [lo siento para el Player Real]
posted on Sep-25-05 at 9:18 AM
At this challenging time for President Bush, let us reminisce about the system that elected him. Will the next election be different? Do you want it to be? What are you going to do about it?
posted on Sep-12-05 at 7:25 PM
Gloria Estefan and Mylo [warning: eighties]
posted on Sep-11-05 at 7:22 PM
Dyslexia - Myth?
posted on Sep-6-05 at 8:19 AM
BBC correspondent Matt Wells lays it down straight
posted on Sep-3-05 at 8:37 AM
Louisiana National Guard radio [ShoutCAST MPEG]
posted on Sep-1-05 at 1:46 PM
silicones [ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994] [silicones silicones [ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993]]
posted on Aug-24-05 at 10:41 AM
Witness the Whiteness as borderline-albino Canadian nerdcore MCs kick it Konami-school [Windows Media/Quicktime; more]
posted on Aug-16-05 at 5:56 PM
Kitten on the Keyboard [Macromedia® Flash®]
posted on Aug-15-05 at 5:51 PM
SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.
posted on Aug-13-05 at 6:46 AM
Neil Gaiman 1997 essay on the myth of artistic inspiration
posted on Jul-19-05 at 2:53 AM
AAAARGH
posted on Jul-16-05 at 8:33 AM
LCD computer keyboard
posted on Jul-14-05 at 2:16 PM
FUNNY CATS (back me up here)
posted on Jul-8-05 at 1:48 PM
United States Army 3rd Battalion 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment Charlie Battery Afghan Theatre Sixth Row Fifth Column
posted on Jun-29-05 at 5:57 PM
EDSAC - home of the first videogame, OXO.
posted on Jun-19-05 at 2:46 PM
Back to the
posted on Jun-17-05 at 6:31 PM
The end of Concorde was one of the few times in modern history that technology has been forced to regress. But it won't take long to fix.
posted on Jun-15-05 at 11:24 AM
Video games are stupid [Windows Media, nsfw audio]
posted on May-31-05 at 5:29 PM
I just want to spread the immense joy of Winamp TV, which is a route to all kinds of Filipino servers playing all your favourite copyrighted television material commercial-free 24/7 but it's OK because I'm not linking to those servers directly no sir.
posted on May-26-05 at 3:27 PM
Fig-leaf-eating Velociraptor Scandal! Look, I've got nothing against religion but if you believe a word of it you are, in the words of Robert Burns, "a dumbass fuck".
posted on May-22-05 at 11:57 AM
ALL THE BARCODES. Awesome, pointless geekery.
posted on May-18-05 at 7:50 AM
Shatner [QuickTime]
posted on May-13-05 at 10:56 AM
Highlight of the election coverage: George Galloway is the leader of Respect and won a historic and unexpected victory against the Blairite Oona King, on an anti-war ticket. He was then interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, an increasingly controversial interviewer well known for asking questions absurd numbers of times until they get answered - a technique which arguably backfires here. You might want to watch Galloway's acceptance speech first. [Windows Media. My two cents: Paxman is an egregious cock, more interested in getting his eternally righteous indignation across than any issues.]
posted on May-6-05 at 6:18 AM
Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show, 1987-1989. [(Low-quality RealMedia I'm afraid.]
posted on May-3-05 at 5:46 PM
BBC - Question Time Leaders Special [Windows Media or RealMedia]
- Panorama: Iraq, Tony and the truth [transcript]
posted on Apr-28-05 at 6:39 PM
Sick of ▯? Try Code2000.
posted on Apr-27-05 at 1:25 PM
UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job.
posted on Apr-24-05 at 7:06 PM
On the trail of The Collector comes The Game Room. What a rubbish television.
posted on Apr-16-05 at 6:04 PM
Kris Kross loves bloggers
posted on Mar-26-05 at 7:17 PM
Kofi Annan has issued his recommendations for tackling poverty and promoting security and human rights, incorporating the greatest alterations to the UN and Security Council in history.
posted on Mar-21-05 at 5:31 AM
Bridge the gap
posted on Mar-15-05 at 5:18 AM
Africa. Lol.
posted on Mar-13-05 at 4:01 AM
Todd Solondz + Childrens Television Workshop [Flash; Not Safe For Anyone]
posted on Mar-8-05 at 2:25 PM
Intermittently hilarious soundboard-based prank calls
posted on Mar-5-05 at 7:09 AM
Yahoo! wants to buy you an ice cream [today only, in USA, Puerto Rico, Canada, UK, Australia and South Korea (apologies to North Korean Baskin-Robbins afficionados)]
posted on Mar-2-05 at 9:20 AM
Some good news! The greatest problem Africa faces is bad government. When the President of Togo died earlier this month, the constitution dictated that power should go to the head of Parliament, until democratic elections could take place. The army expressed their regret that this couldn't happen, since the head of Parliament was out of the country. This was due to the army closing all the borders. They instead gave power to the ex-President's son, and altered the constitution to remove any reference to presidential elections. Now, it looks like progress is being made through protest and peer-pressure.
posted on Feb-22-05 at 10:19 AM
Straight outta Belgium, it's "The Matrix: The Beginning". This is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion. [20m WMV; Trailer for those with a lower tolerance for this sort of nonsense; Main site]
posted on Feb-20-05 at 7:10 PM
The Viral Chart tracks British viral marketing videos.
posted on Feb-18-05 at 12:48 PM