This animation is impressive. Remember all those old movies of horse robots trampling along, and falling over?
Bill Cullen: Golden Apples
I heard (the real) Bill Cullen on Ray D’arcy’s show yesterday. He’s very funny but wow, what energy! Ray said he had to lie down and rest after talking to him! At the ages of 63 he wants to be the first Irishman (disputed in two comments in this link) into space and has already paid a deposit on his ticket. I heard he hopes to raise at least 1 million Euro for charity by doing this!
Ian Dempsey’s show just played an excellent Gift Grub taking the piss this morning. Listen for the repeat tomorrow morning if you missed it!
If you’re wondering what all this is about, take a look about the Internet for more..
Breaking News – Risk-taking boys do not get the girls
Following on from my previous look at men, women and cars. Rebecca also pointed at this story: Risk-taking boys do not get the girls!
WHETHER it’s driving too fast, bungee-jumping or reckless skateboarding, young men will try almost anything to be noticed by the opposite sex. But a study of attitudes to risk suggests that the only people impressed by their stunts are other men.
But hey, if you want to impress the guys… 🙂
Charge your alkalines
This battery charger works with alkaline or non-rechargeable batteries!
I have plenty of NiMH batteries at this stage but hopefully these things will become more common! (via Rebecca)
WordPress Image Browser
Not sure if I played with IImage Browser yet but it looks useful and pretty! Something to import into WPMU maybe?
Shock as Bush snubs Irish candidate for Pope
As cardinals gather to elect a new pope, a shocking photo was released showing President Bush snubbing the Irish candidate for the Papacy!
(Thanks John!)
What Not to Do
Grandma Eats Cannabis
I just heard the tail end of an interview with a 66 year old grandmother who appeared in court on Friday week ago for making cannabis laced cookies as a treat for friends and neighbours.
She was using the drug to ease her aches and back pain, for medicinal purposes.
She’s now running for election in Wales.
Guess what? She has a website with recipes and ideas! It’s grandma-eats-cannabis.com!
DNS.. depend on 'em
In More ways malware damages internet infrastructure: DNS servers, Justin touches on the problems malware cause to local DNS servers and suggests people use the root servers directly. I had to do just that because the dns server on my dsl router is crap and would keep dying trying to talk to IOLBB’s server. I installed BIND as a cahing nameserver and everything worked fine.
Later I found 194.145.128.1 is an IOL dns server I can use but at least I know it’s easy to setup a DNS server on my machine.
God help us if a tool came out for every Windows owner to query the root servers easily. *gulp*