Archive for July, 2007

Network Rail Axe Fairtrade Company

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Londonist: Trouble Brewing: Network Rail Axe Fairtrade Company?
AMT, which only serves 100% Fairtrade coffee to its punters, appears to have lost the contract from Network Rail for their outlets at ten of London’s major railway stations. The company that has won the franchise in AMT’s place does not… offer any Fairtrade products.

Popularity: 7% [?]

HREF considered harmful

Monday, July 30th, 2007

O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 • July 23-27, 2007 • Portland, Oregon
HREF is the modern GOTO

Popularity: 7% [?]

Mike Reid, EastEnders’ Frank Butcher, dies

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Mike Reid, EastEnders’ Frank Butcher, dies - Telegraph
Mike Reid, the actor and comedian most famous for his role as EastEnders’ Frank Butcher, has died aged 67.

Buying the above CD should be considered a tribute, they are stocked in corner shops and independent petrol stations.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Indiana at OpenSolaris.org

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Indiana at OpenSolaris.org

Project Indiana is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. This distribution will focus on providing a single CD install with the basic core operating system and desktop environment, with the opportunity of installing additional software off network repositories.

The distribution will showcase much of the work continuing in the OpenSolaris community and the best of breed open source software available within other open source communities. Moverover, the distribution will include work that closes the familiarity gap with existing GNU/Linux users eg. install and packaging.

I may give this an install when it’s complete…

Popularity: 7% [?]

The best 5 second clip on the internet: dramatic chipmunk

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Popularity: 7% [?]

Want to listen to Bloc Party’s last.fm Radio Station?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Well now you can:

And in other Last.fm news, they now have music videos.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Probe over wheelchair ‘car fraud’

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

BBC NEWS | UK | Probe over wheelchair ‘car fraud’
Six disabled people have been arrested in connection with what is believed to be the widespread abuse of a scheme to help wheelchair-users buy cars.

A specific group of wheelchair users is now under investigation over allegations that, using their disabled status, they bought up to 60 new high specification Range Rovers each over the last two years.

They allegedly removed the adaptations and sold them as new immediately to a dealer for a profit.
Bentleys, Maseratis, Porches and Lamborghinis are also understood to have been traded in this way.

How do you adapt a Lamborghini to make it wheelchair friendly? 

Popularity: 7% [?]

Adding Firefox mycroft search plugin to your Mediawiki install

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Create a file in your wiki home like so

wikisearch.xml

<SearchPlugin xmlns=”http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/” xmlns:os=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
<os:ShortName>Your Wiki</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>Your Wiki</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Url type=”text/html” method=”GET”
template=”http://wiki.yourcompany.com/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Search?search={searchTerms}”>
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

Ensure the os:Url matches your install.

in your mediawiki/skins/ directory add

<link title=”Your Wiki” type=”application/opensearchdescription+xml” rel=”search” href=”http://wiki.yourcompany.com/wikisearch.xml” />

into MonoBook.tpl & Monobook.php inside the <head> element.

Popularity: 7% [?]

“Everyone knows a bloke like Mickey”

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Awight geezers! Lager, birds, metrosexual stylings innit! “Everyone knows a bloke like Mickey”
For “bloke” read “****”.
I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE THIS ******* ADVERT AND THE ******* **** WHO PLAYS “Mickey the gimp”.
ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!1111111

I totally agree with the above comments made by this man regarding this putrid Head and Shoulders advert. Click the above ****’s face to watch it if you are consumed with self-hate.

Popularity: 35% [?]

“Dougal, we must lose that sax solo”

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Father Ted - My Lovely Horse

Popularity: 7% [?]


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