Month: February 2008

Drunk people + slippery footpaths + strong wind = hilarity.

(from Twitter, by txt)

Why do McDonalds career ads say they should be eaten as part of a balanced diet?

(from Twitter, by txt)

Guns n Roses’ Right Next Door to Hell sounds like, "rednecks go to Hell."

(from Twitter, by txt)

iPhone in Ireland at last. Massive price premium, limited data, no visual voicemail. Must try harder, O2.

(from Twitter, by txt)

Has Roland Emmerich ever made a film whose title isn’t a date? Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 BC, and soon (or at least sooner than it sounds) 2012.

Some links don’t need commentary. Here, pushing the edges of Youtube’s ten minute video limit, is a collection of outtakes from the Crystal Maze:

When I got to work at 1.30 I didn’t expect to work an 8 hour day.

(from Twitter, by txt)

@Padraig: It’s worse when the CC balance is higher than the CC number.

(from Twitter, by txt)

Edit: Reminder to self: update my Twitter-fetching script to discard @replies.

This poster (actually a collection of A4 printouts—clearly someone didn’t manage to find one of the larger printers) is a couple of floors below where I work. I spotted it on the way to a meeting.

What does it say about me when I’m being made the victim of an Internet prank by a machine learning algorithm? I was recently rickrolled by iTunes.