Silliness:

Human behaviour explained: The Monkeysphere.

Everywhere should be green, not just Trafalgar Square.

Geekiness:

There's a new world of cool looking programs around the corner for those of us using Windows, here's a taster in the form of a "reference application" for genealogists.

Silliness:

Robert McLaws is getting just a tad worried about Google, and is wondering why other people aren't too.

Watch a water balloon not pop, it's quite hypnotic.

Improve how you look on your webcam, these tips are cool.

Foamy the squirrel (thanks to cinnkitty commenting on Mr Angry... Have I got enough links in there yet?) on women, weight gain, and clothing.

Geekiness:

Can't afford, or don't want to pay for a certain piece of software? Check with Open Source Alternative, to see if there's ... well, an open source alternative.

Here's a book I want, on development written by a Microsoft Researcher.

Silliness:

Quality Filipino telly, weng weng the midget detective.

Well, there are mixed reviews for Michael Moores new film, from it's really good through to brilliant and uplifting.

Learn new things! With free courses available to all.

The relationship has changed between advertisers and consumers, and MS have a nice video saying they know.

Silliness:

Be more careful with your state secrets, or don't use MS word by itself to publish them anyway.

Ever wondered about the poor ending of a film? Perhaps you should see how it should have ended.

Two weeks tomorrow!

Silliness:

Learning a foreign language? These podcasts may come in handy.

It seems an Internet at rest will settle on one of three things: Scientology, Impeaching George W Bush and Cats - in this fascinating little story it's rested on Scientology.

Naked car washes, what genius, what inspiration... It'd never work in the UK, too damn chilly (mores the pity).

Ellie's Link:

A village in Devon is planning on creating a special podium for Orange mobile customers as it will be the only place in the village to get reception.

Silliness:

Is it real, or is it computer generated?

All praise Saint Lindsay of Lohan, patron saint of the Church of Ass and Nipple Slips. (Actually, all hail the uncyclopedia and it's daftness.)

Silliness:

Wear your cycle helmet, seriously.

Sinister evil hackers still need a nice GUI you know.

What do presidents do when they're bored? Apparantly they make hilarious videos of how boring it is having nothing to do in the last days of their presidency. I miss Bill Clinton.

Clarkson doesn't like camping, no surprise... But he really hates doing it in tents.

All the news that someone didn't think fit to print - Project Censored find significant stories that are underreported, and well.. report them.

Silliness:

The classic "Tom Cruise in a closet" episode from south park... The part where they explain scientology at least.

It seems to be a trend for people to post adverts on YouTube, here are two, the first is clever, the second funny.

Inspired, set up as a joke, but still inspired - Darwin Dating, think a dating website merged with Hot or Not. You don't get in if you're not pretty.

Ellie's Link:

I've seen these books around I think, Manga Shakespeare makes the bard more accessible.

Silliness:

With thanks to Cybermagellan on Channel9 for pointing this out, the amazing quirkology website.

Before you buy an electric car, check the safety of the damn thing first. Many apparently are immune to car safety rules, and hence not particularly safe.

Where to begin, where to begin... Tania Derveaux is apparently offering the first 40,000 people who sign up a blowjob, in protest about Belgian electoral policy. I think... I got distracted by the semi-naked pictures.

Helpful hints from this comic, basic instructions for everything.

Genius:

Home fabbing is just about leaving the womb of technical research, and already it's hit sweet obsessed childhood.

Well, we went to see Spiderman 3 last night, and for anyone who hasn't yet seen it - and who's wondering whether they should - I have this advice.

Don't bother.

If you're not a devoted fan of Spiderman you'll spend two hours wondering why you went, and probably being distracted by Tobey Macquire's double chin (I know I was. Which is unfair, as he's in a lot better shape than me.)

If you are a devoted Spiderman fan, you'll be disappointed at the lack of character depth in all the characters. The film was too long, but needed another hour to do justice to the plot. Which would have made it interminably long. Characters were introduced in a hap-hazard fashion, and most of the plot elements lent nothing to their overall development. Most of the characters were either introduced as one dimensional stereotypes, or were reduced to them. On the other hand Parker's transition from Geek-Parker to Evil Emo-a-like-Parker was bizarre, and raised a few laughs from the audience.

The film lacked a pace, and tension. It never seemed to hit its stride, and the plot never seemed to flow. There were some brilliant moments, one of which almost had me jumping out of my seat, but that could be because I'd just woken up - sadly most of the film seemed to lack purpose.

In short, they chose the wrong plot, and didn't realise in time that it wasn't going to work out. To be honest, I'd have preferred it if they'd split the film into two parts.

All this leaves me with an impending sense of doom about Pirates of the Caribbean 3; and my only hope for decent blockbuster films this summer is now Transformers. Although the Fantastic Four may yet surprise me.

Silliness:

Bye bye Blairy, Blairy goodbye.

Simply the best headline I've seen all year.

Silliness:

Loving the adverts for the new hotmail, especially this one... I'm sure there are a few dads who would love this kind of help.

 
Video: Live Hotmail - Date

That's me that is...

Seeing as I have about 100 bad ideas a day, and maybe a good one every month or so, I thought I'd just start sticking them up here.

Most of these ideas will never see the light of day if left to me to implement, as I'm a: busy, b: lazy and c: not in a position to do a lot of them. So it's no skin off my nose if someone wants to do them for me - but it's nice to get credit.

Also, I like a challenge so if anyone has any "how would you improve X" type questions then I'll happily try to think of things for you.

So here's my idea that I had this morning to improve online mapping services (like google maps, or live local):

Let webmasters / bloggers et al. embed the map viewer in their pages, in the style of the YouTube viewer. A fully featured map embedded in a blog post, or even perhaps an e-mail (can you spell killer feature?) would rock, and naturally, drive traffic and users to your service.

Anyway, it would be something like this: (but hopefully better)

Silliness:

Lifehacker have a list of cool little "body hacks" I'm going to have to learn the two-finger whistle.

The thing about War, is that it's awfully expensive - just look what else could have been bought instead of bloodshed in Iraq.

You too can own an integer, apparently... I was going to keep trying until I got 1 - but I realised that would take a long long time: instead I own: 2B 1C 9E 6C D2 CA 4D 50 74 0F DF 7F E4 81 97 EA

Which for those of you unfamiliar with hex is: 3,106,532,033,208,929,616

Now you can't use it, it's mine.

Yet another example of why you shouldn't trust anything you read, if this article really is written by BF Skinner's daughter that is.

Genetic Algorithms are cool, but genetically designing circuit boards sounds crazy to me.

Here's one for Mr. Mullier if he hasn't already seen it: Marine Biologists wanted to star in rock video.

On a side note, with 28 days to go before I'm a married man this is all getting a bit alarming.

Anyway, back to your advertised Silly Link(s).

Silliness:

So this comic I only discovered today, unfortunately after the author got in trouble for mentioning guns... Sigh...

You ever wonder how far people will go for no good reason? Wonder no more, as the jet-powered toilet shows they'll go a long long way.

Speaking of new comics, here's another one.

Screw the environment! Use aerosols for no good reason!

I like the Bad Science blog, (and the recently rediscovered Bad Analysis blog isn't bad either.) and this story was quite alarming. I especially like the comment by someone that if the nurse involved was a serial killer she was also an exceptional nurse.

Pseudo-philosophical rambling:

Interesting question then: If you're a serial killer, and you kill one person a year - but you're also a really good doctor and you save two more people a year than the average - what should the authorities do when they discover you? Allow you to kill people, or lock you up and allow people to die?

Geekiness:

This is a seminal programming book, reproduced in full on t'Internet.

Just what everyone needs, a mini DIY DNA replicator.

Silliness:

Ever wondered how the mouse cursor works? It's nothing like this.

I'd never even wondered why wet things look darker than dry things, but now I have a clue it makes perfect sense.

If any single one of these quotes is representative of a real human being, then I'm beyond afraid for the future of our civilisation - it's already too late.

Awww... Tweak your fantasy VW to your hearts content... Bless. Sadly you can't share them.

What with all the top ten, or top five, or (heaven forbid!) top seven lists on blogs around the world - I thought I'd add my own noise to really drown out that signal.

You should never take what you read at face value, especially not on a complete strangers unregulated blog - but here are my five specific reasons you shouldn't accept what you read on most blogs.

1 - You have no idea how old the blogger is

Face it, you only trust old people. As long as they're not too old. But you'll never listen to a kid's opinions on anything. Why take the chance that you'll end up listening to the opinion of someone you'd never listen to in real life.

Blogs are relatively anonymous, even if they have a bearded picture that simply emanates "reliable information" you have to remember it's probably a spotty teenager in their bedroom who's just pretending to be more important than they really are.

2 - You don't trust nerdy people

Would you take advice on politics from a bespectacled weed with acne in real life? Then why are you taking it from them on the Internet? Next time you're reading some blog, try to visualise that it's all being spoken to you by some whiney irritating twerp who bears a passing resemblance to Bill Gates, but without the sex appeal.

3 - They may disagree with you later

Why risk the chance that you align yourself with someone's opinions only to disagree with them later? How could you live with the regret of having to admit they just got lucky the last time you agreed with them; but that now they're so wrong it just hurts.

Disagree on principle, it's much safer that way.

4 - They probably can't spell

Or punctuate properly, never trust poorly spelled documents.

5 - They don't care about your opinions

They've never even met you - why should they care if you agree with them or not? And if they don't care that you agree, why should they say anything you agree with?

If they're not going to pander to you, then damn them! They aren't worth reading in the first place. You know that newspapers have a vested interest in agreeing with your opinions, if you don't agree with them you may never buy another paper. But how can you trust some random blogger is going to help you re-enforce your opinions? You're just a web-hit to them! You're worth nothing!

In conclusion: don't trust anything you read on a blog, not even this one. Why you probably shouldn't trust anything you read anywhere, ever.

Especially if it claims to be true, or if it's part of some sort of numbered list. The only true top 10 list is the 10 commandments!

Silliness:

Hoorah for the BBC, watch any program up to seven days after it was played, at any time via the internet! Woo!

Cookie monster eats a computer, Hmmm… they preceded internet cookies by quite some way here.

Keith Olbermann, he's no Jeremy Paxman, but he's certainly angry.

Dammit! This sort of thing never happened when I was at school, although it was a boys school back then, so perhaps that's a good thing.

Geekiness:

Digg's in serious trouble at the moment, but they've finally got a clue.

Silliness:

The personal injury lawyer blog, sounds dodgy – but this article was amusing.

Finally flash has a rival for interweb media thingys, and let us all rejoice for it is fast, free and made by Microsoft – hoorah for Silverlight. (Seriously folks, hoorah, it's awesomeness is … well… awesome I suppose, check channel9 for video proof if you're a developer type.)