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