A link to the
official film site over at
milk & cookies reminded me that I really had to say something about
Shaun Of the Dead. It's the best film I've seen in a long time - I watched it on the long-haul return flight on my holiday and almost went into fits trying not to laugh out loud as I viewed it on the personal video player and most of the rest of the flight was asleep.
As far as stories go it's your normal run-of-the-mill Rom Zom Com (Romantic Zombie Comedy)... You know; boy meets girl, falls in love, loses girl, country gets taken over by zombies, gets back with girl, etc... The sound track is top notch too - scroll over to the right of the pub on the flash site to play the jukebox and hear some of the tracks. And while you're there make sure you watch the trailer and have a go at the zombie killing mini-game.
The only negative thing I would say about the film is perhaps the humour is a bit too British. I'm not totally sure what I mean by that myself, but of the 3 of us who saw the film, while I thought it was excellent, the other 2, both South African, didn't rate it at all. I think they're mad. Likewise they don't get where I'm coming from on this one. It still won't stop me getting the thing on DVD when it's out next month though.
This groovy interactive icon-esque map of
Washington DC is fun, but really makes me want to see one of London more than anything else. If you find one let me know [
via ritilan].
I don't normally post stuff from my inbox (as most of it's Russian spam - why I don't know), but this 'vocabulary of the office' from
TIJ tickled me. I put my hand up to being a confirmed
mouse potato, do you recognise any of these?
BLAMESTORMING Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and deciding who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM An office filled with cubicles.
MEERKATTING When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion, because there may be cake.)
MOUSE POTATO The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
TESTICULATING Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
SITCOMs Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
XEROX SUBSIDY Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.
404 Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not
Found" - meaning that the requested document could not be located.
OHNOSECOND That minuscule fraction of time during which you realise that
you've just made a BIG mistake (e. g. you've hit "reply all").
WOOFies Well Off Older Folk.
PS. Sorry if you're looking at these and saying they are soooo old. I think I recognise at least some of them too, but they still gave me a Sunday afternoon chuckle.
PPS. As I didn't have a link for this post I've linked to a picture of the IBM X40 I've just ordered - just 'cause I can, and I'm all excited about it. More on this later (it arrives next weekend) I'm sure.
Time for some quick
Strong Bad FAQs before getting back to another game of
Duck Guardian 2 [
via op-pop].
Update: play the original duck guardian here! No news on a release date for version 2 yet.
I've been helping out a friend who is visiting London soon by supplying them with some suggestions of sights that must be seen, restaurants that must be eaten at, and bars that must be imbibed in.You don't realise how little you take advantage of what's on your doorstep until you start thinking about it. Anyway while I was coming up with ideas my friend Preeti came up with the excellent
toptable which features some great London restauarants, with reviews, let's you book on-line and also has some great special offers. With their points reward scheme I already have enough points for half a chip at McDonalds ;o)
The simple search options are especially useful letting you restrict your restaurant hunt on place, price, cuisine and the like. Searching around the area I work in (SE1) produces quite a tasty list of places straight-off, many of which I wasn't even aware of. This is a site I'll be visiting again and again.
Do something cheery and fun this Friday lunchtime - build your own
online tombstone. The perfect past-time to alleviate the office blues.
__ __
/ / ____ _____ __ __/ /___ _________ _____
/ / / __ `/_ / / / / / / __ `/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / /_/ /_/ / / /_/ / /__/ __(__ )
/_____/\__,_/ /___/\__, /_/\__,_/\___/\___/____/
/____/
Despite the attempts of my dodgy cutting'n'pasting even my output from the
figlet server looks pretty cool (Nb. I had to look it up too - FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text).
Having had a few incoming visits from
singingfish I went and checked it out - it's quite a nice specialist search engine designed for finding audio and video files. From some quick tinkering I managed to retrieve not only some streaming real audio of current tracks I'm interested in, but also some full length MP3s of older tracks. Naughty I'm sure, but nice none-the-less.
During Euro 2004 my football apathy
dropped for a while, but I think
FC Fabulous might be what gets me watching football all the time.
Once again I'm not sure if this is just a stange flash world or a game, but
blue suburbia is worth a visit for some point'n'clickery - note it turns your mouse pointer into a light sprite which I found a little confusing at first [
ta incog neato].
Just for
phillydad (er...and
me) a gratuitous
link to a
picture of Drew Barrymore naked in a bath with flowers strategically (
drat) placed on her [
via sexiest 100].
