The View From Here

3/2/01 - Do New Yorkers need instructions on umbrella etiquette? It seems they do.

3/2/01 - Jane Goodall reads 'My Life With the Chimpanzees'.

3/2/01 - Eyewear I so want. But not the Serengeti Betty range.

3/2/01 - Sheffield Pop-a-Go-Go 2001.

A nice big flyer.

3/2/01 - Woo hoo, Soft Cell are back!

3/2/01 - It seems you can no longer get brewed sarsaparilla at Jack's Temperance Bar.

3/2/01 - Lancashire has Chorley and Eccles cakes, Yorkshire has Pontefract cakes. One up to the Red Rose this time, I'm afraid.

3/2/01 - Err, a Jewel weblog?

3/2/01 - View Santa Fe, NM, as it looked in 1885. There is also a similar view for Tallahassee. And from 1926 you can see where they built my old house.

3/2/01 - If you have too much time on your hands:

"The obvious solution to this problem [taping stuff off the radio!] is to use a computer to control both radio and tape deck, setting times and channel tunings through it. The ideal way to have this work would be to have a single device with a radio, a computer, and a tape deck all tied together inside, along with a clean, simple interface to control them all. In the real world, there's probably not enough crazed radio listeners to justify designing and manufacturing such a thing. But it's still possible to hook all these things together. With
Linux, an old PC, and a PC radio card, you can build a device to hang off your home network which will be simple to operate and let you listen to some Really Cool Stuff for less than $150."

3/2/01 - The NERDS, one of the teams on Scrapheap Challenge, have their own website. Among the many interesting bits is this specialist American English - British English dictionary: (via memepool)

"Crescent Wrench                                                   Shifting Spanner
Vise Grips                                                               Mole Grips
Epoxy                                                                     Araldite
2x4                                                                         4x2
drill rod                                                                   silver steel
Cold rolled                                                              BMS (?)
..."

One of the team members also has a hand in the Large Hot Pipe Organ:

"The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify your booty and make you realize what "Industrial Music" REALLY means!"

31/1/01 - From the departmental email at IMB:

"Hello People,
If you borrowed the MICROWAVE, please return it as soon as possible. Thank you."

That was yesterday. Today I got:

"As most of you know, there was recently the theft of a microwave from room 102."

31/1/01 - The Mountain Goats available at Spin.

31/1/01 - Nice galleryof public art in Sheffield.

31/1/01 - As Blue Ruin says, you must go to Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's gallery:

30/1/01 - Ohmygod! It's gaydar. (via Sore Eyes)

30/1/01 - Good looking redesign at kempa.com.

30/1/01 - I've been here: (via Pop Culture Junk Mail)

"Hour Lost Explaining Computer Terms to Mom"

30/1/01 - 10 per cent of people in South Yorkshire block their drains with goldfish?

"Of all the blockages tea tops the list with 23 per cent, followed by soup 21 per cent, sanitary items 17 per cent, toilet freshener blocks 15 per cent, goldfish 10 per cent, porridge five per cent and paint four per cent."

30/1/01 - What Battlestar Galactica's Daggit really was. (via memepool)

30/1/01 - More commercials - the Budweiser 'What Are You Doing?' ad. [warning: Quicktime] (via Planet Jon)

(This is the direct .mov file.)

USA Today has the Superbowl commercials online along with voting for your favourites. (via net.Headlines)

As TV Barn says:

"Budweiser. Storyline: The Whassaaaap Chronicles continue in two new ads. In one, three ridiculously unhip men drink imported beers and try to coin the catchphrase, "What are you doing?" In the other, a space alien returns to his home planet and teaches them to say "Whassaaaaaap?!" Message: Having a Bud, watching the game. Hidden message: We are going to beat this thing like a flea-infested rug."