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How not to deploy a safety car
17 May 2009From today’s WTCC race 2 at Pau. The officials decided to put out the safety car, but didn’t warn the drivers in time. Luckily everyone involved was okay. This is what followed:
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- Tags: accident, crash, motor sport, motor-racing, pau, safety car, sport, touring cars, wtcc
8-bit Daft Punk
4 Feb 2009Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger as 8-bit music. Few things I could enjoy more than this.
Metronomy – Radio Ladio
21 Jan 2009Saw this for the first time on 120 minutes on MTV2 at the weekend. Great place to discover good music you’ve missed and should know about in general.
Great band I’m glad to have heard, love the lo-fi sound. Worth looking through their other videos, they’ve done some interesting stuff. The Smiling Assassin should particularly have [...]
Mum’s been dead a while…
In: youtube
21 Jan 2009Words pretty much fail me here.
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- Tags: commercial, just for men, youtube
Super Mario Live
11 Jan 2009This clip of Super Mario was brought to my attention by gaming blog Kotaku.
The style may be familiar, especially if you remember the clip from a few years ago of a table-tennis game as if it was filmed in the style of The Matrix. Both came from a Japanese TV show called Kinchan no Kasoh [...]
MC Chris – Reece’s Pieces
In: youtube
7 Jan 2009I mentioned in my last post about having enjoyed an MC Chris video. Well I dug a little more, and found this gem, a tribute to one of the world’s truely great sweets, Reece’s Pieces:
Best top ten list of 2009
6 Jan 2009violet blue ® :: open source sex | top ten sexy geeks 2009
(Article is safe for work, however the ads and links in the sidebar really aren’t)
I think I was robbed. Also do watch the MC Chris – Nrrrd Grrrl video at the end of the article, kudos for being the first rap track I’ve [...]
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- Tags: animal crossing, geek, mc chris, top ten
Racing Little Cars
5 Jan 2009Another day, another diversion. Since I was a kid, I’ve always wanted a Scalextric layout set up in a loft. I was very kindly bought a set for my last birthday, so I’ve taken the first step towards this (the loft will have to come at a later date). This evening I was idly [...]
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- Tags: cars, diary, models, scalextric
Today brought some great news, a new series of Flight of the Conchords will be on HBO in January. This is the trailer:
I don’t yet know when it will be on the BBC, hopefully not too long afterwards. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is shown on BBC4 every so often, or you could [...]
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flotsky is 38, and ambles through life at a gentle pace, surrounded by gadgets, books and televisions. Sloth is his vice, but it leads to some interesting distractions along the way. He is the world’s leading investigator into P.Wyndham Little, takes a great interest in the works of Kurt Vonnegut, and gets all excited about gaming.
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- graemehunter: There are, that was working as one before, but I think google changed something a while back, and I [...]
- Pierre Marshall: I tried getting to that wave ID through this: [...]
- flotsky: True, actually getting my hands on one may make me more interested. However I'm prepared to try [...]
- anthonyhibbert: I'm the same though I dare say I'll cave in before you. I have a feeling playing with one wi [...]
- daveyboy98: Received a mailing from Mr Little today 25/01/10 Neatly folded , stapled letters to Tony Blair, Hous [...]