Year: 2006

  • The Cream of Manchester

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    For Molly (if you’re reading this).

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    Warning, Lost spoilers below! This is probably old news to most of you, but I’ve been getting into the TV series Lost recently. If you’ve watched it you’ll know that it’s not just a series about people stranded on a desert island, but that it’s about a bunch of people stranded on a very, very…

  • Women prefer Barry White

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    This is a great study published in Hormones & Behaviour: when looking for a mate, women are more likely to go for deep, gravelly voiced men like Barry White. But we all new Barry White was the man, right? Deep, masculine, dominant voices have long been thought linked to high levels of testosterone, higher reproductive…

  • Phil’s Hungry

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    Time to get to the pub for lunch then.

  • NABAZTAG Communicating Rabbit

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    I’d be tempted if it wasn’t £65… This gizmo sits there, hooked into your WiFi network. He (she?) will do weird things like waggle his ears, flash different colours, talk to you or play you music. The really fun thing, however, is that your friends can send the rabbit SMS messages or emails and take…

  • 3 Cliffs Bay

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    Mum and Dad popped down today, so we went to Three Cliffs Bay for a stroll (Jack getting very wet as usual, but doing lots of walking). More photos, but a boring grey sky today.

  • Beach photos

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    I took some snaps at the beach today: Jack on a bench on the Gower coastal path. Ele on the sand.

  • Hot Dust

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    My main PC was crashing an hour or so into some CPU intensive tasks (i.e. DivX), so I cracked open the case to check out the cooling. Eurgh, I’ve got a dead hamster in my radiator (water-cooled). Hoover…. Aha, the CPU’s now running 15C cooler. And no hamsters. I can happily encode stuff to DivX…

  • My Own Personal Experiment

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    I’m always using myself as my own personal experiment. It’s hard not to if you’re at all interested in anatomy, physiology or biology in general. So recently I’ve had a bit of a cold. It’s my second in about 2-3 weeks (like buses you don’t see one for ages and then two come along at…

  • Battlefield 2 patch

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    Hey, the new Battlefield 2 patch is out! If you’re a player you’d better get it. It fixes the thing that pisses me off the most: people jumping around like tits and shooting me in the head. Now if they’ll just stop people firing anti-tank weapons into my chest from 3 feet away like we’re…