Does Google make finding a map of somewhere too easy? What you need is AsciiMaps.com.

Yesterday representatives from AUT and Natfhe unions met with the The Universities and Colleges Employers' Association to negotiate a deal to end the marking strike. The unions rejected an offer which consisted of a 12.6% rise in pay spread over three years. 12.6%! That's a huge increase and well above inflation. I hope the National NUS council ( Read more... )

The folks over at TheDailyWTF.com often poke fun at a the overuse of buzzwords, Enterprise being an common example. Today's example really does take the biscuit though...

Do you reckon I could get away with using 'Enterprisey' in my thesis? I has a Wikipedia entry so it must be real!

Half-naked bricklayer on a bender lunged at police with 4ft didgeridoo

Make him suffer!

Although the page doesn't have instructions it's quite simple - just left click and drag the mouse to throw George W. Bush around.

I like looking at the 'in pictures' section of the BBC News website. Sometimes they're pretty, sometimes they're though provoking. Today though, they're funny. It's a collection of amusing signs that were designed to look official and left up at various locations. They include a sign marked 'Click heels three times before pressing this button' ( Read more... )

With The Movies being released in America today The Movies Online has launched. The site is dissappointingly small at the moment, although I highly recommend you watch 'The Pony Express' - even if it doesn't make any sense.

Fingers crossed it'll arrive on my doorstep on Friday morning...

Anyone who isn't literally dribbling at the prospect of The Movies being released very soon needs to pop over to Yahoo VideoGames and watch the new walk-through movie that they've posted - [Link] (95.4MB)

I've just come across a rather interesting website, it's a collection atmospheric black and white photographs... taken from within computer games. The games featured are Quake III, Enemy Territory and the ubiquitous Counter Strike.

Following on from the thirteen year old girl banned for drink driving an eleven year old boy has been banned from driving for a year (what about the six years until he's legally allowed?) and has had nine penalty points imposed - including three penalty points for driving without a licence. How can you have penalty points imposed if you don't have ( Read more... )