Monthly Archives July 2007

A Kick at the Jews.

An Extract from Vladimir Putin’s blog: Harry is stealthy but doesn’t have killer instinct.

It seems I am very much like this Harry Potter. One difference: In all the stories Harry finds a mystery, then he gathers clues that lead him toward the villain and to uncovering a fiendish plot.
Instead of that whole process, I just immediately […]

The Floods In Hull

Talking about the floods in Hull Michael costing £30 worth of damages you are very wrong. The local MP has just spoken on Radio 5 Live and he has insisted that the flood damage has caused over million pounds worth of improvements. So there you go every cloud does have a silver lining!

Just to […]

Rowdy students’ Facebook search

 

Again Facebook is in the news, this time its the Dons at Oxford University who want evidence on students who have committed unruly post-exam pranks. 
Yet again its the whole privacy issue
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-Kyle 
Technorati tags: Facebook, Privacy, Oxford University

Girl Knits Herself a Farrari

Over on Ananova they are reporting that an Art graduate Lauren Porter knitted herself a Ferrari for her honors degree at Bath Spa University

The classic red bodywork consists of 250 squares of garter stitch made by Lauren and 20 family members and friends. The windows are V-shaped stocking stitch, while the details are crochet […]

For The Love of God, Exactly

Before reading this post I would recommend you read the BBC Article about “For The Love of God”;

This Prank skull was placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night (8th July) in response to the Damien Hirst’s “For The Love of God” diamond skull exhibition.

The “For […]

Back in the Groove

The format that was supposed to have been killed off with the introduction of CDs, put to the grave by the ipod-music download generation now seems to be having a revival.
This my good friends is the comeback of the vinyl, in today’s Guardian they are reporting that the sales in 7 inch singles has […]

Swedes do an English Breakfast?

I need to come clean, for being a heterosexual man I do love going to IKEA especially when you have somebody else’s money to spend. Currently the chest of draws in my room is falling apart, I have two smaller draws at the top, one for socks and the other for underpants. These are also […]

DVLA BAN SNOT

You need to find this amusing, well just a little. The Licensing officials at the DVLA changed the registration plates to TN07 from SN07 to avoid it being similar to the word “snot”.
Car licence plates which bear the sequence SN07 were banned from the streets of Edinburgh because they are “offensive”, it has announced on the BBC […]

Springsteen News

Things are looking good, nothing official yet.
-Kyle

Some facts about Facebook

I found this quite scary;

65% have checked up on an ex boyfriend or girlfriend using Facebook.
15.5% of men and 1.6% of women have “gratified themselves” to Facebook.
Zuckerberg helped 19.9% of men and 11.4% of women hookup.
68.2% of women judged others while on Facebook. 61.9% of men cast stones.
36.9% of women and 36% of men have […]

A Poor Student

I am now a poor student, well take that with a pinch of salt. I’m only poor because I purchased a laptop today from Dell which set me back £1140.
After spending an hour and ten minutes on the phone to a Dell operator doing some wheeling and dealing I have a very good laptop at […]

Chess.com

Darn you Techcrunch, pointing out Chess.com, I’m signing up now…
-Kyle
Technorati tags: Chess, Techcrunch