Nevermind the results for Cobol (which I obviously don’t really care for); it just seems like an incomplete, barely out of beta kinda search. The start page is nice and slick (which the Google chaps could really steal from) but otherwise, it’s just hype. Maybe they just wanted to be out there early so Microsoft would be enticed to buy them.

We worry about our children getting in with the wrong crowd, taking drugs, drinking, teenage knife crime. Anutans worry about their kids playing homemade ukuleles.

›› Sounds like a great place to live, no?

This quite slick looking device from Belkin connects to your high-definition video sources (like Blu-ray players, HD set-top boxes, Wii, PS3 or Xbox consoles) and wirelessly transmits the video and audio around your house. Thanks to the FlyWire, you can hide away all your devices and cables and have your HD TV hang grandly on your wall.

The only reason why I ever picked up my first Kitsuné Maison compilation was because of the Beatles-esque cover art. The only reason why I keep buying the compilations is that they never disappoint with the quite careful selection of excellent electronic rock ‘n’ dance acts from the Kitsuné stable of artists. Edition number 5 does not disappoint with some great tracks and remixes from Fischerspooner, Late of the Pier, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and the Cazals.

And no, I haven’t figured out why the heck Britney Spears made it to the cover…

Super retro presentation slides from 1975 — you should check out some of the awesome 70s graphic work in there. Actually, these slides look better than some Powerpoint slides I have seen.

An awesome video made purely in 3D for Radiohead… processing anyone?

Possibly the most anticipated mainstream movie event of the year, The Dark Knight is also the first Batman movie without the word ‘Batman’ in the movie title. This new installment is also a lot more challenging and complex than even Batman Begins, so it goes without saying that your 10 year old niece or nephew might struggle to keep up with it. (Try explaining the ending!)

While everyone is gushing over Heath Ledger’s portrayal of The Joker, I actually thought Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two Face was just superb.

The Wife and I just got back from a good five-day holiday at Koh Lanta. It’s a quaint, unspoilt and sparsely populated island in the south of Thailand. There are some great beaches and clear waters in Lanta which we had heard about but didn’t experience.

Because when we were there, it was raining most of the bloody time.

Although it was the ‘green season’, it rained in the day and through the night, which was a lot more than we had expected. We caught a couple of hours in sunshine on the beach, but otherwise most of the time was, rather unbelievably, spent watching television.

We caught Hot Fuzz for the first time–I thought it was hysterically brilliant! I also caught the very entertaining 1972 French classic Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire and the somewhat disappointing US vs John Lennon. We also watched (not for the first time) Gladiator, Jerry Maguire, Mambo Kings, Herbie and Frequency, although I would rather have been out on the beach. I also had the misfortune of watching the Black Storm, Basilisk and Underfunded, only because there was nothing else to watch on the television. Oh, I also watched a lot of Ben 10, a bunch of classic Liverpool matches and Discovery Channel documentaries.

So, after travelling two hours by air, three hours on land and another hour on sea, covering close to 900 kilometres from Singapore to get to our island destination in southern Thailand where we had a room in a spiffy boutique hotel, we ended up spending most of our beach holiday watching TV.

Now that we’re back, I can’t wait to catch The Dark Knight…

Interactive agency Razorfish’s new site is great — the live image feed background thing is just absolutely stunning.

1. Keep your windows closed at high speeds—drag from open windows can reduce a car’s fuel efficiency by 10 percent.
2. Cleaning 100 pounds of junk from your car will get you up to 2 percent more miles per gallon.
3. Tighten your gas cap—a leaking or missing cap can release 30 gallons of fuel per year into the atmosphere.

(Blatantly reproduced from Discover Magazine.)

This T-shirt is just superbad, isn’t it?

The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds is actually the second official greatest hits album from Liverpudlian band The Lightning Seeds. Before they released their last album Tilt, there was their first greatest hits compilation Like You Do… Best of the Lightning Seeds. The fans and purists will always bicker over what tracks should have been included and what tracks were left out. I say just get either of the damn compilations and enjoy some of the best music that came out during the 90s. (Except Three Lions, which is crap unless you’re a drunk English football fan or something.)

Robert Downey Jr’s all the rage now, though I hope Will Farrell’s role won’t reduce the movie to slapstick comedy.

“Is the internet down for everyone or just me?”

You put a piece of scotch tape on top of the bite.

How come no one in real life ever told me this? How come I had to find out about this on the interweb? It’s quite disturbing when you find simple, plausible fixes to everyday things online.

What made this song so awesome in 1990? The mullets? The high cut shoes? The awful freestyle dancing?

It’s all so gross now that I look at it again.

I am a big fan of Apparat’s minimal, melancholic and minutely detailed music. Ellen Allien does some nice dance floor-oriented techno/electronic thing that generally seems unclassifiable. And when you put the two of them together, you get an awesome and immersive album. Lots of dreamy bass lines, smooth melodies and attention to detail make this a very infectious record. A must-have for those into progressive (and even futuristic) electronic music; make sure you get the 13 track version of the album, not the 11 track one.

First there is the pillage which will be followed by the burning of the land.

It seems now Google will crawl Flash content really soon.

Let’s just sit back and watch the spammers and scammers try and bust out new ways to con Googlebot.

Keep getting “ActionScript 2.0 class scripts may only define class or interface constructs” errors in Flash?

Here’s how you fix the damn problem!