Americans trying to gain some vinicular "Prestige"?

A winery owner argues against lowering the minimum requirement for a vintage date, and
Americans propose to retain the 95 percent requirement for an “American viticultural area (or its foreign equivalent) as an appellation of origin.



Erm...

Ok, if you say so...

Read all about it...

BFG

Did you remember seeing him as the Demon in constantine? (No? well... he wasn't given credit for it)
What about Big Fish? Karl the giant?

Matthew McGrory passed away on the 9th of August.

He held records for being the tallest actor, and having the largest feet. (Size 63, European)

Komplete Kubrick

Cambridge's (Read: Cambridge, MA) only Independant "Cinema-théque" is going all out on Kubricks movies in September.

Full Listing


Although not many of can actually go and watch this, you could use it as a handy list, to check up on any films you may have missed...

Hot Hot XXX Pictures....

Well... not XXX... More like Xbox360...

Anyway... here they are...

Three Xbox360 Dev Versions, plus controller

The DVD Drive

The SIS Southbridge

Motherboard, showing the PowerPC and ATI Xenos GPU chips

Weird Power Connector

SPECIAL ports... only available on Dev machines

The PowerPC chip in all it's glory

Or, if you want the full set of pics... get them HERE...

Comment Spam

Yep.... got about 100 comments spammed to my blog this weekend.... I think I have manged to remove all of it...

Unfortunately, because of this, I have activated the "word verification" feature for anyone (or anything) that wants to comment

Lock Bumping

Whoah...

Lock Bumping can bypass 90% of all locks.
I'd be amazed if it could get through the legendary ASSA Twin 6000

And apparently, the more expensive the lock, the easier to"Bump"

Read the whitepaper (PDF) here

Or get the (EXTREMELY HUUUGE - +- 860MB) video here

UPDATE: Whoah... I just read up on my private bookmarks.... It does work for the ASSA Twin... you just need to cut a bumper from a region 4 Blank... sweet!!!

Proxies - Part 2

Remeber the Proxy list I posted about?

well... forget them....

Here... make your own...


And i was just joking about forgetting the other proxies...:P

"Paste" anything to anything

Sweet n simple...

http://www.thistothat.com/

All they need now is to add an option to glue bank accounts

Recycling Body Waste

Ok... just something I picked up off the net.
Curiosity got to me, and I was interested to find out if my "disbelief" in a "medical practice" was justified, just like homeopathy etc etc.

Dunno if I think that it's scientifically... needed, and there is not much proof to back it up.
Take itwith a pinch of salt.... know that there are a lot of quacks out there

Anyway, if you are squeamish, or are under 18, dont click here

Google talk.... Part 2

Whoah...

Google Talk Secrets...

=D

Shhhh....

Instant slide scanning

A project I'm trying to get off the ground...

I have a bunch of old slides, and want to digitalize them...




Click HERE to see a project already in development.

This is just too cute...

Cats...

Lotz of thems.... right here

Hulk-like

Did I say a moderately sized aircraft carrier?

What I meant to say is a cool slice of lemon, wrapped round a Giga-Quol cluster....

Some people can be such frikin imbeciles....

And others can really let that get to them...

ahem... Zen...


Ohhmmmm...


Ohhhmmm....


Ohmacdonald had a farm...

Second Impressions

I am extremely irritable. Just today, I have had the urge to shoot two people in the kneecaps, and brutally club another over the head with a moderately sized aircraft carrier. Grrr...
Getting slight stomach cramps.
Only slept 3 hours last night.
I have no apetite whatsoever. None. (Which, incidently, is only slightly worse than my normal apetite) I have to force myself to eat anything.
Mouth still tastes like an ashtray.
blechgh... the fun never stops...

Recycle Everything

Go here to check out how you can recycle bits from old equipment...

Nice read, and something I have to apply to the 500Kg of old equipment I have lying around at home.

=D

Hidden (Useful) Utilities by Micro$oft

I use ISO images.
It is a pain to install/read/open stuff from an ISO image.
As you either need to burn the ISO onto a CD, or mount it in a Virtual CD application.

I have access to the MSDN thingy.

They mention (VERY obscurely...) the existance of a Micro$oft tool, that does just that...
it's the "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP".

The thing is, it isn't even searchable from the Micro$oft download centre...

Weird...

When Ice makes fire

Well, if you ever get lost in the wilderness...
and there's lots of snow around,
erm...
and you need a fire to cook a bear...
(Or a cauliflower, if you're a vegetarian)

Try this over Here...

Decode your Drivers' License

If you live in the States, you probably know that about 39 states have a 2D barcode on their drivers licenses.


Wanna see what yours says?

Scan it, then go here

List of browsing proxies

Check them out Here...
Nice little list of secure and non-secure proxies

(Use them to browse the web anonymously)

Zippo de doo daa....

While I'm on the subject of cutting down smoking... I might as well cut down on my lighter too...

Erm... yeah...

Check it Out...

One of the best Ideas I have seen

These guys make backpacks with solar cells in them, and a lithium battery.

Personal power... anywhere...

So, unless you're a mole, go and check their SITE out....

When fire makes Ice

So I'm reading around, and I come up on a website that shows you how to cool beer, using a jet engine...

Bloody kiwis...

ISYN...

I know... I know... you have a burning question....

What beer do they use?

Heres a hint...

Check the rest of the story here

First Impressions

The first and second day of "Nicotine Abstinance" wasn't noticeable, seeing as I can go through a weekend without smoking. I have smoked for about 10 years, so lets see how this goes.

I have noticed that on the second day, early afternoon, my mouth tastes like an ashtray. Interesting, it wasn't this bad when I smoked.

HIghlights from today - Part 1

1 Wondered if my beard is gonna get me labeled as unkempt.
2 Got 2 pics from my Mom. Sigh... I sure miss her
3 Only thought about putting in the Euro Millions ticket at 19:30
4 Stayed a little later at work, so I could get some emails written
5 My Grandads brother called me and said his heart surgery went fine
6 Thought about the concerts next week
7 Had lunch with the gang
8 Decided to post some highlights of my day

Easy flash Pic and Vid albums

zphoto is a flash-based photo album generator.
You can create a flash-based on-line album from photos or videos taken by a digital camera.

---

Check it out HERE

Webdesign... How To... or How NOT To...

Some great tips for you budding webdesign freaks out there...

Ahem...

"According to preliminary information from the survey, obtained by the E-Commerce Times, respondents' major peeves about commercial Web sites were pop-up advertising (34.9 percent), registration log-on pages (16.7 percent), software installation (15.7 percent) and slow-loading pages (9.1 percent)."

Read it all Here

Gimme gimme gimmeeee....

Ok...

My birthday is on the 24th of September...

Got that?

Marvel at the beast right HERE

Touring Spain...

at over 240Km/h...

Chekkit:

Woooommm....

Vrrreeeaaaauuu....

Zoooommmshitilostmyfekinmirroooorrr....

Life of Brian

Life Of Brian: Scene 8

[scary music]

CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

BRIAN: Aah!

CENTURION: Come on!

BRIAN: 'R-- Romanus'?

CENTURION: Goes like...?

BRIAN: 'Annus'?

CENTURION: Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?

BRIAN: Eh. 'Anni'?

CENTURION: 'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?

BRIAN: 'Go'. Let--

CENTURION: Conjugate the verb 'to go'.

BRIAN: Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.

CENTURION: So 'eunt' is...?

BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.

CENTURION: But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?

BRIAN: The... imperative!

CENTURION: Which is...?

BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!

CENTURION: How many Romans?

BRIAN: Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.

CENTURION: 'Ite'.

BRIAN: Ah. Eh.

CENTURION: 'Domus'?

BRIAN: Eh.

CENTURION: Nominative?

BRIAN: Oh.

CENTURION: 'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?

BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!

CENTURION: Except that 'domus' takes the...?

BRIAN: The locative, sir!

CENTURION: Which is...?!

BRIAN: 'Domum'.

CENTURION: 'Domum'.

BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.

CENTURION: 'Um'. Understand?

BRIAN: Yes, sir.

CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.

BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.

CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

BRIAN: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm! Finished!

ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don't do it again.

[CENTURIONS chase BRIAN]

MAN: Hey! Bloody Romans.


Read the full SCRIPT

Suicide Bunnies

This has to be the funniest collection of online "comic" pics that I have seen...

(Probably copyrighted... you might want to grab a copy just in case it gets taken down)

The whole collection HERE...