How to have meat with your veg // 28.02.2007
'If you are going to discuss the ins and outs of being vegetarian, there are some traps you should avoid falling into. The most boring question in the world is: "But don't you miss bacon butties?"'
Al Gore's $30k-a-year inconvenient truth // 28.02.2007
Smartly written article in the Guardian about Al Gore's excessive energy consumption. I've yet to see An Inconvenient Truth, but judging from the reactions of others it's pretty powerful - I hope this news doesn't undermine its message and intent.
Geek | Manager // 23.02.2007
Productivity and efficiency are at the heart of the first few posts in this new weblog by Meri Williams.
Oh flip! // 20.02.2007
It's pancake day. I will be mostly stuffing my face and feeling grim.
Egg on your face // 10.02.2007
Well, head actually. Some guy has a full English breakfast tattooed on his head. Silly sausage.
Magazines vs. The Web: End of an Era // 07.02.2007
Slightly one-sided but sensible article comparing print magazines with their online counterparts. {via}
I Hate Macs, by Charlie Brooker // 07.02.2007
Vitriol much? "The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye." I can't imagine his reaction to the fact that as the Guardian ran the story, their website was covered with Mitchell & Webb mac ads (screenshot at linkmonkeys)...
When the sea level rises... // 04.02.2007
Google maps mashup showing potential flooding due to global warming - I've linked to a map of London with the sea level 14m higher (slightly ridiculous). Great if you like messing around in boats.
A history of pop music in 4 chords // 03.02.2007
Hilarious mashup of tunes with a I-V-VI-IV structure.
Satellite // 03.02.2007
Tool to mirror Flickr on your own site... {via}
How to increase search engine traffic by 455% in one month // 02.02.2007
It's really not rocket science, despite what ad people think...
Swimming the Amazon? Cross your legs... // 28.01.2007
Don't take a leak around the Candirú - "Attracted to the smell, Vandellia cirrhosa will follow the urine's path, swim into the penis, and, with its umbrella-like spines, lodge itself inside the urethra. Removal is grim."
Bill Gates sounds the death knell of TV // 28.01.2007
How clever of him. "What's stopping this all from happening immediately? Two things, monetization of content and a simple and ubiquitous TV/internet convergence device. For certain, any company who manages to solve either of those problems and catch the wave of public acceptance is headed for a big payday."
CSS galleries // 28.01.2007
A round up of the sites which round up good CSS practice. How very meta.
BBC to launch a second life for kids // 28.01.2007
"Encouraging our children to spend more time online might seem irresponsible when child obesity is such a problem, but if CBBC World could somehow be integrated with a Wii controller then children could exercise in the safety of their own virtual world. The government would then be free to sell off school playing fields, and paedophiles reduced to lurking behind every virtual tree."
Run away! Run away! Run away! // 24.01.2007
Is all I have to say about this one... {via}
Feltron's 2006 // 23.01.2007
If you're a statistics freak like me, this meticulous breakdown of one man's 2006 will leave you in awe. As will the the garish but stylish design...
See the Thames whale // 21.01.2007
You must take along a copy of the guardian front page though, because presumably only lefties are rational enough to see dead things...
Hillary's in it to win it // 21.01.2007
Thankfully this is referring to the US presidential election, not ever-orange Dale Winton's crap game show.
iPhone: hard-to-use cell phone // 20.01.2007
All singing, all dancing - but can you talk to people on it? Naaaah... {via}
eCoupling aims to do away with chargers // 20.01.2007
Just put stuff on your desk and it'll juice itself up magnetically. Nice.
Farm Hustle // 19.01.2007
Join up the cute things and make splurgy noises! Yay! Bit pink, mind.
Mr T. in 80s pop horror // 18.01.2007
He might be a bad mutha', but he treats his mother right (thanks Tom!)
Retro video games in stop motion // 18.01.2007
Almost as good as the IT crowd DVD menus...
Sasha's response to This Life: 10 years on // 15.01.2007
Very much on the money, with good insight into how Egg's life mirrors the screenwriter's.
Hold your wee for a Wii // 15.01.2007
Terrible story of a gimmicky competition which backfired after Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from California, died from water poisoning. {via}
I'm a friend in an e-place // 15.01.2007
Over at Arbitrary Constant this week. Check it out for some navel gazing and lowbrow opinions on the world.
Lance worries about fat-fingering the iPhone // 14.01.2007
"One problem I foresee is Apple's bad history with v1 hardware. Scratched screens, overheating, weird cat noise and any number of other faults means that the first generation of something this potentially delicate and complicated could be a lot more trouble than it's worth."
Caffeination of various food and drinks // 13.01.2007
Red Bull tops the list in the bottled drinks category, but there are a few surprises in there too. {via}
Hoho in Noho // 13.01.2007
As fneh.net is now defunct, I'm in the process of uploading a bunch of old photos to Flickr. This is a set from a gathering of bloggers in London at the end of 2001.