Telegraph Fantasy Football password
I reckon there’s going to be a stampede for the fantasy football password for this week (19th October onwards) now that Thierry Henry is back and looks to be in a goal-scoring mood. This week it’s HAMMER
Martial Arts Monkey
Few things can lay greater claim to ‘do exactly what they say on the tin’ than Martial Arts Monkey. (Except for the fact it’s a chimp, not a monkey, but who cares).
Leyton Orient 1-1 Lincoln
The O’s have had a particularly succesful run lately and were sitting just off the top of the table going into the game, with a win giving them every chance of sitting top going out of the weekend. Orient started well, and dominated the first half. They were rewarded with a goal from Gary Alexander …
Review of Souk Restaurant, London
I went to Souk last night, a north African restaurant near Covent Garden, and what a strange place it was. Lots of low seating, low tables, and general ‘aren’t we in a tent?’-ness. Except, it isn’t in a tent, and most of it’s in a basement. (A very Victorian feeling basement with brick arches and …
McAfee customer support
I’ve been having a fight with McAfee. Or rather, I’ve been having a fight and they’ve been waging a war of attrition. Starting with an automatic renewal that I didn’t want containing two e-mail addresses to contact customer services on, both of which bring back an autoresponder telling me to go to the website for …
Frankensteinway video online
The long-awaited Frankensteinway video is now online. It was shot in High Wycombe during 2004 by students there and features myself, Mark and Jason generally acting like idiots and pretending to play our song “Laugh as you cry”. There are two versions available for view, both as free downloads in mpeg format: Small video (7mb) …
Nestle launches fair trade coffee
So Nestle has eventually gotten in on the Fairtrade act. The following quote doesn’t seem particularly insightful, though: But the World Development Movement, a campaigning group which tackles the causes of poverty, said: “The launch of a Nestle Fairtrade coffee is more likely to be an attempt to cash in a growing market… than represent …
Windows empowerment
Like the way that if you don’t want to restart you can clear the checkbox, except you can’t? Isn’t that nice.
How fast is a penguin’s pooh?
The Ig Nobel prize is out and has produced amazing research on the pressure inside a penguin, artificial testicles for dogs, and whether people swim faster in water or syrup. Guardian Unlimited | Science | Penguins under pressure win Ig Nobel for physicists
Snake bursts after gobbling gator
Who would win in a fight between a 6 foot alligator and a 13 foot python? You can find out the answer here: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Snake bursts after gobbling gator. Interestingly, Googlefight predicts the python would win.