Top Gear new season

The boys are back in town!
From next week sunday again on BBC 2 at 9PM CET.

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sunday breakfast tunes – Shocking Blue

Seventies pop/rockband Shocking Blue from The Hague (Netherlands) is mostly known from their hit single “Venus”. However, what few people know is that they have a host of other songs like for example “Love Buzz” famous from Nirvana’s cover on their “Bleach” album.
Another one is “Send Me A Postcard Darling” (Later also covered by Ladytron) [...]

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IT Crowd – Season 2- Episode 6

Same as last week. IT Crowd, Season2, Episode 6.
Delivered to you in 3 parts, grab them while they’re hot and laugh yourself silly.
Part1

Part2

Part3

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(w)hacked

Following the leaking of 700mb of internal mails of the Media Defender company, the people at the Pirate Bay started to sift through them. They found out that MD was actively sabotaging their trackers and filed complaint with the Swedish police against pretty much every music label registered in Sweden.
Here is what they have to [...]

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IT Crowd – Season 2- Episode 5

Quick, grab ‘em while they’re still up :
IT Crowd – Season 2 – Episode 5 “Smoke & Mirrors”, this time in 3 parts :
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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no crowd

No more IT Crowd fun on Youtube. Too bad. Although it are only the full episodes that have been removed, not the excerpts and small clips.

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arrr matey

Today is “International Talk Like A Pirate Day“
And now all sing along :
Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun’s pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey’s [...]

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again liquids on airplanes in EU ?

A reader of BoingBoing in this post reacted with possible good news.
A request is raised in the European parliament to lift the ban on liquids on airplanes.
Finally some common sense?
The House adopted a resolution with 464 votes in favour, 158 against and 70 abstentions on the restrictions imposed by the EU on liquids that passengers [...]

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Familjen – Det snurrar i min skalle

Cool clip made by Johan Söderberg with 50-ties reli-nutjob footage over an electro track by Familjen (Det snurrar i min skalle).

(via BoingBoing)

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nick em all

As it is all over the net by now: big fuzz over the fact that Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails or NIN) encourages his fans to “steal it”.
What actually happened is that he is stuck with his record company for one more year or album and as long as that is the case NIN is [...]

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sunday zoo visit

This weekend we visited the Planckendael Zoo with my nearly 3 year old nephew.
Off course I couldn’t withstand bringing my camera and shoot some pictures. I admit, most of them are more about getting the (or at least some) animal in the frame.
At least the last day of the summer weather ( or what had [...]

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IT Crowd – Season 2 – Episode 4

And another episode in this hilarious series

update : no doubt the invaluable DMCA helped a hand in getting this offline, see also here

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a little less alone

Seems that the number of left handed people is increasing. A study (although a little doubtful and quite unscientific in it’s execution) shows a significant increase of left handed people over the last 100 years.

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w00t

I finally have it!
The folks in Cupertino (or more actually China) can’t run up to the speed their merchandise is rolling out of the stores. The new iMac and related peripherals seem to be largely out of stock.
But now finally I have the new, all shiny, brushed metal looking, ultra thin, uber sexy keyboard is [...]

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dumb

You have stupid and stupid.
This one is the latter.
Update : and they seem to breed : here is another bright light.

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