Archive for the 'trivia' Category
Theres
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 17th Nov, 2006
There’s a photo story on Silicon.com about gadgets from Bond films here.
Nothing much, but looks like Casino
Royale, the latest Bond film doesn’t have as many gadgets as the previous Bond
films. What a pity Anwyay, I’ll still get round to watching it one of these days.
Anyone seen it yet ?
Ambient Water Video Aquarium DVD
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 8th Oct, 2006
How would you fancy an aquarium on your TV? You can now get an Ambient
Water Video Aquarium DVD. This basically gives you a number of aquariums to choose
from and is great as a background for a party or even just as a soothing background
after a hard day’s work. There’s a number of different scenes and [...]
Cash for old phones
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 17th May, 2006
Do you have a pile of old phones at home? Worried about the most environment-friendly way to get rid of them? Holding on to them in the hope that you can sell them as antiques on eBay? You can actually get cash for them in today, from envirofone.com. Here’s the blurb:
Throughout Europe, there is growing [...]
Very cool illusion
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 14th Mar, 2006
What colour is the rotating dot? If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will
only see one color, pink. Now, concentrate on the black cross in the
center of the picture. After a short period of time, you’ll notice that the rotating dot changes colour to green! Wierd huh?
Thanks to Toni for [...]
Monopoly Alternatives
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 11th Jan, 2006
Bored of Monopoly? Try some of these variants on the rules: Monopoly
Home Rules
Party like its … 2005
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 29th Dec, 2005
Looks like we get some extra time for our New Year Celebrations: 2005
extended by one second
What does caffeine do to you ?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 15th Nov, 2005
Here’s an interesting page I came across. It’s a discussion on the effect that caffeine has on individuals, and includes some interesting photos of NASA experiments with spiders and different substances:
Read all about caffeinism here
Uk Terrestrial TV Listings
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Sep, 2005
Looking for UK Terrestrial TV Listings? Try http://www.bleb.org/tv/,
where you can also downloading listings in XML format for use in your own applications.
ISBN .. where did it come from?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Sep, 2005
Yeah .. we all know it’s a standard numbering system for books, giving each book a unique machine readable ID (and people who did computer science probably know that the final digit is a mod 11 checksum digit), but did you know it’s only 35 years old and was originally started by WH Smith? More [...]
How to pour and drink the Perfect Guinness
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 23rd Apr, 2005
How to pour and drink the Perfect Guinness
LIVE FROM LONDON: It’s the beer that drinks like a meal — Guinness. But pouring the perfect Guinness is an art form, let alone drinking it. Advice on Guinness perfection from experts at a pub in London England. [How To Do Stuff]
Alias Transcripts
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 10th Feb, 2005
Are you an Alias fan? If so, here are the transcripts (and an episode guide) of Series 1-4 here.
There’s also a heap of information at TvTome.
Personally .. I love the show …
