Several times while walking through Bath over the last few weeks, I've felt the skin on my face rippling like a flag in a stiff breeze. It has taken something of a mental effort to pull my expression back into something resembling human, but should I lose concentration I can feel it peeling back to reveal the whatever-it-is beneath ( Read more... )

It would seem that the wonky message-passing rig that I/we've been working on for a while is a bit of a hit with the Devops types. Which is nice.

Well I say 'nice'. I mean 'HA! GET IN! I WILL BE UNBEARABLE AT WORK COME MONDAY! ETC!'

Or, y'know, in bed because of being paged at silly-am by some shitbox website.

The Swansea demons want more money and a fresh picture, presumably so they can create more work, have more databases and sell off more bloody registration plates to more silly buggers who've not worked out that a personalised plate does not read '5exi' but 'I have no life and I am a crap shag all I can talk about is executive breakfast bars and ( Read more... )

Those of you with FaceAche and/or MySpac accounts should probably update your AV definition files el-pronto: http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575670Read more... )

My MP3 device contains too much scratty techno and not enough BoC, which is a bit careless. Neither can it manage offline scrobbling. Probably ( Read more... )

There's this alternate universe where personal transport runs by means of the Infernal Combustion Engine. They're mostly controlled by Hieronymus Bosch engine management systems: each flash of a spark-plug is the last emanation of a doomed soul, and the appropriate manual really is the Book of Lies.

(I blame sushidog. And indeed my own rubbish memory if I ( Read more... )

[Via Messrs. bOing & bOing]

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/IBM1401_Musical where you can and should follow the links to the main site and the composer's Myspace.

Woah, basically. With a side order of 'fucking hell that's good' and a note of ( Read more... )

Someone else's pictures for a change. Featuring a small part of the Holland Library at Washington State Uni.

For me, the particularly choice shot is this one of the lobby. It's incredibly atmospheric.

Although obviously not, since this isn't a private entry. So this is what, transparent grandstanding? If so, where's Frank Bough? Invisible, obv ( Read more... )