Many of us loving playing games, and if you are one of them, online games are the only solution to satisfy this urge of playing games at your workplace. We have already talked about several games and related stuff, I recently found this cool online game, named as Die Fail Whale, the concept of this game [...]
The Fail Whale, signalling TwitterTwitter downtime, is a source of frustration for many Twitter users; now you can take out your rage in a fun Flash game called Die Fail Whale . Andrew Conn , a 26 year old designer and developer based in Seattle, claims the game took 60 hours to create. He writes: Die Fail Whale is a first person shooter that integrates Twitter. The game is only 25 seconds long, and...
london rescuers battling friday to save a 10metrelong whale stranded on a mudflat off the south coast of england said the sixton mammal had suffered kidney failure and would probably die if itswam out to seathe northern bottlenose whale was stranded for 12 hours in langstone harbour in the southern county of hampshire before efforts succeeded to refloat it in shallow watersrescuers said blood test...
A bit rushed these last few days - the juxtapositions of things become ever more interesting. You may be interested in this interview which I did with my blogging friend, Mad Priest. The end of the week brought two events which I always think of as 'end of term' around here. ...
Noah and the Whale Today's free MP3 is the title track from English folk popsters Noah and the Whale with the track http://www.box.net/shared/static/9v6ou4ei22.mp3"> The First Days of Spring . The album's out on August 31st. A post on their site gives an update: I'm very pleased to announce that the first screening of the film and album 'The First Days of Spring' will be at Latitude Festival....
The other day I was looking for something in our library, hunting through shelves, when I came across "Song of the Humpback Whale" by Jodi Picoult. This puzzled me at first - I liked some of her other books, so I bought this one when I was in the states last April, but it turned out to be much worse than the other ones I'd read and I didn't even bother to finish it. So why was it still taking...
This year's Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction has gone to a book about whales , Philip Hoare's Leviathan which has been described as : ... part natural history, part literary criticism, part economics and part memoir but at its heart is the author's lifelong obsession for all things whale. Hoare apparently fell in love with whales after reading Moby Dick and first encountered the mammal when he...
1887 Annette Kellerman (born at Marrickville, NSW; d. November 5 , 1975), Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star, women's rights advocate and writer, portrayed on the silver screen by Esther Williams . Billed as 'The Diving Venus' and 'The Australian Mermaid', Kellerman was famous (or notorious) in her day for wearing a one-piece bathing suit instead of the old pantaloons costume,...
Roger Federer wins his 15th grand slam title at Wimbledon. First, let me congratulate Andy Roddick. He played a whale of a match. In the past, he seemed to have some mental problems. He would make a couple of bad shots, he would get down on himself, he would over hit and beat himself. That [...] ShareThis
This week's Rule 5 post contains not only a nude photo of Khloe Kardashian, but also a serious point, written below by Paul A. Ibbetson , author of Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World , an excellent book which I am reading for review right now. “Save the whales, save the snails!” Comedian...
WARNING: The following review contains very explicit images of animal viscera. If you are not comfortable with this STOP NOW. If you are scroll down for the article. You could be very much forgiven for thinking that this show is the latest in a long line of channel 4’s exploitation programming, we have had sex, gore and human dissection, where do we go from here? Well you are wrong. The show...
Schwervon! Make diner … I always expect them to post a recipe on the ‘spill Pony Up! Discuss baseball.. yeah right. Buddy Wakefield gets into the idea of flockprinting (this means a lot to me and touched my Ms. when it started her last birthday compilation.. getting the right peach skin feal to my t-shirts bores her to death –this out pouring makes up for it – almost. Glasvegas...
12 Favourite Books Meme , originally uploaded by kcm76 . This week's Flickr meme is to share 12 of your favourite books. This is hard; I love books and to have to choose just 12 is a real challenge. Anyway here's a selection that would at least get in the frame. 1. Anthony Powell; The Military Philosophers . I figured I wouldn't choose the 12 volumes of Dance as a single item for once! 2. Lewis Carroll;...
Mauritius is a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean . Mauritius has carved its name on the list of the top holiday places around the world. Many tourists come to Mauritius all year round to enjoy their well earned vacations. This said, Mauritius has all that it takes for an enjoyable stay. All year round, tourists come and go to and from Mauritius . As such, there are a number of activities tourists...