Everyone at work is like “did you see this on TV?” There was some running gag from Rove they mentioned and I was like huh? but everyone else knew it. And I enjoy Rove. I just forget to watch things I like. There’s so much I want to be doing, I never [...]

When we were kids we used to play house rules for Uno, which allowed for stacking of draw cards – ie player 1 puts down a wild draw four. Player 2 is lucky enough to have a draw four as well, he plays that on top of the draw four and player three gets [...]

I’ve been spending less time lagging about on the internet the last few weeks and it’s doing me good. Getting some early nights, playing my guitar, even mucking about in Photoshop is using parts of my brain that have become all but dormant over the last few years, as I have obsessed on mailing [...]

According to the BBC (and they should be the authority on this the BBC are doing) there are plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives online
The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to everyone, as long as they were not intending to use the material [...]

This site is an example of professional photoshopping. You know how you never see a real woman look quite as good as the ones in Inside Sport or Cosmo (my wife excluded of course)? Here’s an extreme example from the site.
Edit :
Now Pete-at-work-who-continues-not-to-have-his-own-blog, reckons the before shots have also been touched up to look [...]

The Creative Commons organisation helps you to create licencing for your works (eg music, design, literature) that will allow you to make it free to the public but still maintain the integrity of your work, and your copyright. You can auto generate licenses out of a few options to give more or less freedom [...]

Next time I’m at Jaycar I’m going to start buying parts to build a cluebot, so that when some user needs the attention of a cluebat I don’t have to leave the comfort of my office to apply it.
The Cluebot doesn’t replace the cluebat, but is rather a part of a Total Clue Solution ™

Young people today don’t even remember the Doug Anthony All Stars. Meanwhile I just noted to Mon that I seem to remember Big Gig episodes better than most of the rest of my teenage years. Monique said that was sad, which I have chosen to understand as sympathy from her for how pathetic [...]

A bunch of amateur (as opposed to backyard) filmmakers from Melbourne have started work on the first officially sanctioned Discworld live action film Troll Bridge There’s no release date as it is privately funded by the director, and they are intending a lot of CG post production work, but since they aren’t getting paid [...]

Got this in an email :
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?”
Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there… I’m gonna eat
the next thing that comes outta it’s bum.”
Why do toasters always have [...]