April 29, 2004
Timmy Mallet's Paintings...?
Timmy Mallett - Interests - Painting - The Cookham Jubilee Collection
April 28, 2004
pretentiousname.com
I used to access this geezer's Amiga BBS in the 90s
SmartEar gAIM plugin
SmartEar gAIM plugin "Tired of rushing to the computer when you hear an IM noise, expecting an urgent message, only to find out it's your jerk cousin with news about his driveway basketball game victory? Sick of being interrupted by people you don't want to talk to? You need this plugin. With it, you can assign different sounds to play for different buddies or whole groups of buddies. SmartEar allows you to opt to play sounds when a buddy sends you an IM, signs on, returns from away or idle, or any combination of these, so you'll know by the sound what the important people are doing. You'll never have to talk to your relatives-in-law again. "
Desktop Sidebar
Nice looking freeware tool: Desktop Sidebar
April 27, 2004
Do up your car for 30 quid
This bloke has made 30 quid go a long way doing up his motor
Before the iPod or minidiscs
Before the ipod or minidiscs there were boomboxes [link from Boing Boing]
April 22, 2004
The unofficial K7S5A motherboard guide
The unofficial K7S5A motherboard guide - www.ezboard.com
April 20, 2004
Linksys Wireless MP3
Wireless-B Music System - now linksys are offering a squeezebox / mp101 alternative...
April 19, 2004
RSS on iPod
Reading RSS Feeds on your iPod [from engadget] using iPod Agent
Audioscrobbler
My quest for "an mp3 player (or more practically a plugin for popular mp3 players like winamp, xmms & quintessential that looked at what's in your playlist, uploaded it to a server and compared it against other people's playlists and recommended songs/artists for you to try" may have ended. AudioScrobbler can do this:
Audioscrobbler is a computer system that builds up a detailed profile of your musical taste. After installing an Audioscrobbler Plugin, your computer sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler Server.
With this information, the Audioscrobbler server builds you a 'Musical Profile'. Statistics from your Musical Profile are shown on your Audioscrobbler User Page, available for everyone to view.
There are lots of people using Audioscrobbler, but usually only the people who like the same sort of music to you are interesting. The Audioscrobbler Server calculates which people are most similar to you, based on shared musical taste, so you can take a look at what your peers are listening to.
With this information, Audioscrobbler is able to automatically generate suggestions for new songs/artists you might like. These suggestions are based on the same principals as Amazon's "People who bought this also bought X,Y,Z", but because the Audioscrobbler data is what people are actually listening to, the suggestions tend to make more sense than Amazon.
April 17, 2004
Retro Gamer
"Retro Gamer is the UK's first regular retro magazine. Published bi-monthly, each issue delves into the glorious, ever-growing retro scene and covers all the classic games, computers and consoles from your misspent youth."
April 16, 2004
my boyfriend can totally beat up your boyfriend
A cool t-shirt for young ladies: glarkware :: my boyfriend can totally beat up your boyfriend
Lets Make T-shirts
Lets Make T-shirts by Rude - interactive t-shirt ordering
April 15, 2004
...but Emily loved him
Simply the greatest children's TV show of all time: Bagpuss
April 14, 2004
Launchy 2.3.0 released (mozilla)
Launchy is an Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird extension (Windows only) and will enable you to open links and mailto's with external applications like Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Outlook, BSPlayer, Windows Media Player and others. Launchy will auto detect all applications. For at full list of supported applications please read the Launchy page.
April 13, 2004
Football t-shirts from "The World Chico"
The World Chico has some nice football-related t-shirts.
I like futebol the best...
April 12, 2004
Writings on the Stall
The Writings on the Stall - toilet graffiti
April 08, 2004
April 07, 2004
Classic Gamer Magazine
Classic Gamer Magazine is a downloadable PDF zine (6MB compressed) devoted to news and reviews of obsolete arcade games. [from boing boing]
April 06, 2004
Play ASF / ASX streams under linux
You can play Microsoft Media Player streams under linux withavifile
scponly
"scponly" is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the "tried and true" ssh suite of applications.
BBC World Football
BBC SPORT | Football | World Football - excellent BBC News mini-site, particularly Tim Vickery's columns
April 05, 2004
Worst Faked Abduction Ever
Wray cited inconsistencies in the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin honor student's story that led police to question her claim.
For example, Seiler told police that after taking her at knifepoint, her captor used duct tape, rope, cold medicine, a gun and a knife to keep her under his control.
Although those items were found in the marsh where she was found, buttressing her account, police obtained videotape Thursday that showed Seiler entering a store in Madison and buying those items, he said.
April 04, 2004
superb news website
newsmap - a great visual method of representing the news