a message from george bush

 

This gave me a bit of a chuckle. Bush is such a tool, it’s not hard to take the piss out of him.

(via Funny or Die)

han solo cake

More cake goodness. This time it’s han solo frozen in carbonite, ala Star Wars Episode 5. Looks pretty cool, but I don’t know how good it would be to taste.

Actually this cake reminds me of another picture I saw recently…

This was a George Lucus full size carbonite model that was being used at a Star Wars appreciation event in Japan. Great take on an old theme…

(via BoingBoing, Kotaku)

disappearing licence plate

This simple modification to this truck is rather inventive. Imagine being able to make your license plate disappear with the pull of a chord. Absolute genius.

(via Core77)

the space cube

PC Pro have this awsome looking cube, that contains a 300Mhz x86 PC inside of it. Sure it’s slow, but it’s a whole damn PC. How friggin cool. Aparently it has all the most common inputs and outputs, including a Space Wire port, a universal port used to connect to ESA, NASA and JAXA space equipment. It runs a lightweight linux distro that caters for the minimal specs.

It is selling at £1,500, so it’s not something I’d be picking up at any time soon. But it is a sight of beauty.

The juicy details about it can be seen by clicking here…

(via PCPro)

damn scientists

Threadless have a great print available at the moment, attacking the scientists of the world. I couldn’t agree more. Although it should include “where is my flying car”. Flying cars sure could reduce the time it takes to get to work. I could sleep in even more.

(via bb-blog)

yay! more damn christian rock

It shits me how every time there is a good idea, the Christians take it, distort it and make it completly fucked. Yes, it pisses me off that much. This time they have ripped off Guitar Hero, replacing all the songs with Jesus centric pop crap. You might say, they’ve taken the fun out of the game, and you’d probably be right. Way to go bright sparks.

(via BoingBoing)

picture of the day: fail!

How appropriate. Taken at the emergency hearing to the US Senate Banking Committee, picturing Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Yes, your country is in the shit.

fish tank toilet

This is soooo totally wrong. I don’t know where to begin, as I’m still in shock from seeing it. If you think that making your toilet into a fish tank is a good idea, then click the link and buy one you crazy bloody fruitcake.

(via BoingBoing)

death star over san francisco

Awsome. Why wasn’t I at this event. If Ewoks landed on Earth and dropped in for Fleet Week, I’d love to be there.

(via current_)

firing back at mccain

I stumbled upon these two videos today which have a common thread. The first, Obama’s new advertisement that criticises again how McCain has helped get the US into a most compromising situation.

The next, a further response from Obama about how McCain has the world completely upside down.

These two videos just highlight how scary the race for the US Presidency is. Imagine another four years in a world where one of the most influential countries has a semi retarded grandpa as president. It used to be funny, afterall it didn’t affect us on te other side of the world. But increasingly it’s more serious, financially we’re at the mercy of the US, much like the rest of the world. What affects them affects us all.

So lets just hope the world corrects itself before we’re all hurt too much.

the first sensible thought from the usa

It isn’t often that you hear something smart come out of the mouth of our friends in the USA. Watching Real Time with Bill Maher yesterday threw up something that made complete sense. How strange.

god save the queen

Ooh… Now this is something a little different. Ever want to see a band of 80 year women rehearse the 1977 sex pistol’s hit ‘God Save the Queen’. See, all that smoking does come in handy when you need to sound like you have a gritty punk voice. Oh yeah, and they are Australian, so there…

(via BoingBoing)

well that didn’t take long

From DailyKos, John McCain’s Vice President Candidate, Sarah Palin’s favorability and unfavorability ratings. From superstar back nothing rather quickly.

Watching Real Time with Bill Maher today, I get the idea that it makes sense that she’s dropping so quickly. “Totally f&%$ing useless” are the words that come to mind.

(via The Daily Background)

muppets cake

This would have to be the most brilliant cake I have ever stumbled upon. It is so good that I wouldn’t be able to cut it to eat it. Actually I don’t like cake so it wouldn’t be too much of an issue. There is a great set of photos of this cake on Flickr, so click here to check them out.

(via Flickr)

the stylish world of ibm

In the days where IBM was a major power in computing, they also were way ahead in revolutionising the world of design. Slick clean lines, white clean machinery with black trim. Stylish men in suits with thick rimmed glasses. If i only glanced at it, I would have assumed that this was designed yesterday.

IBM were so ahead of their time.

(via SwissMiss)

going up?

During my hiatus, this brilliant design was posted on BoingBoing. It’s a sign that is printed on the wall, which only appears to be something when you are looking at it from the right position. From anywhere else, it’s just a bunch of lines, but drive past the ramp and you suddenly know where it leads. Genius.

(via BoingBoing)

creating a new form of life

For all you religious zealots who read this blog, best skip this post.

From one of the highly evolved fifth monkey to the rest, I’ve been following up on the scientific progress in the lab to create another form of life from scratch. It seems that they are making great progress, and no doubt will eventually complete their mission. After all, it’s happened before on Earth, so there is little reason to believe it won’t happen again.

After much research, the experimental process is providing positive results to confirm that this process is able to occur based on simple enzymes in the wild.

“We’re now pretty much convinced that growth and division could occur under perfectly reasonable prebiotic conditions in a way that is not some artificial laboratory construction,” –Jack Szostak

So one more gap in our understanding of the universe has been filled. Looks like the God of the gaps is truly disappearing one gap at a time. Ironically, the people who don’t believe any of this also tend to benefit from the science behind it. If we can generate new customised life forms that benefit the planet, the religious will be helped too. But nothing really changes, those who don’t believe in evolution still benefit from DNA technologies even though that proves the process occurred.

Click here to view the complete article.

(via Wired)

another hollowman-esc moment

Another Hollowman-esc moment in the office today…

“Lets postpone this discussion. Ben and I will get together to set up a process to manage everyone’s thoughts and ideas about the product development. In this we’ll include meetings to discuss the items that everyone comes up with.” — The boss in my office.

In other words, let’s not do what we came here to do, let’s bullshit more until you forgot you ever came here to get some productive done.

hello to the unevolved

Charles Darwin and Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury

Did anyone notice the news headline yeserday about how the The Church of England officially apologised to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution?

Well welcome to the real world our God loving freaky friends. It only took you 126 years to come to the party, but I must admit, this is significantly shorter than when you thought the Earth was flat, balancing on the back of a turtle.

I’d usually throw in some line about the demented USA fundamentalist religious right, but i’ve lost all hope for them, so why bother.

(via DailyMail.co.uk)

how html 5 is already changing the web

Just finished reading a really good article about the state of play of HTML. One day, on a planet far far away, in a universe will never have visited, HTML will be ratified… and EVERYONE will build a browser that works to the standard…

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/How_HTML_5_Is_Already_Changing_the_Web

Oops… Caught myself dreaming again.

(via Web Monkey)