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Archive for September, 2008

Elect Oven Chips

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Pretty limited audience for this one but I had to do it.

ELECT OVEN CHIPS for US President

To get this you’ll need to have been exposed to both the delicious convenience of McCain oven chips and payattention.org’s attempts to improve voter registration amongst the under-represented binge-drinking 21-35 year old urinal user demographic.

Physically Emotionally

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

This is Usher’s “Love in the Club” played by the mighty Rock-Afire Explosion.

The insane genius behind this has a number of other performances on YouTube but he’s really hit his stride with this one.  Wikipedia, as always, has more.

HopStop in Chicago

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Web app HopStop (via LifeHacker) allows you to access public transport directions directly from your phone.  It’s currently available for some of the major metropolitan areas in the US and based on my tests in Chicago it works pretty well.

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Chicago Cards and Oysters don’t mix

Monday, September 15th, 2008

My CTA card has been playing silly buggers for the last couple of weeks. My rather uninformed theory is that it has been locked in an unending radio-frequency conversation with my Oyster card about the correct pronunciation of the word ‘tomato’ and finally stopped talking altogether as matter of principle.

My other pet theory is that while I’ve been fumbling around at the card reader with an increasingly agitated line of commuters building behind me, it has been randomly deducting credit from other people’s accounts. It’s the little moments of Schadenfreude that keep me going.

How the Tories could have prevented the rise of yob culture

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The Tories missed a trick back in 1991. With ecstasy use on the rise and alcohol consumption by young people dropping, they could have embraced the love drug and created a youth culture of docile, friendly ravers. Instead we got the Criminal Justice Act and alcopops for the Jilted Generation. Ah well, at least the music survived. Hardcore people never die and all that.

IDrive beats Mozy for avoiding the Francis Ford Coppolla effect

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

The idea of online backup is to avoid losing all your digital media when your house burns down, or more realistically someone breaks in and nicks your beloved puter. I’m going to go against the herd and say that IDrive is a better solution than Mozy for keeping your precious photos and stolen music safe.

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