The BBC iPlayer has now been relaunched with a new Flash based website although without much fanfare it has to be said.
This service allows you to watch a selection of BBC programmes from the last 7 days much like the BBC Radio Listen Again service which has been around for some time.
I signed up for [...]
Time to get addicted to something other than crack!
Picross or Nonograms are logic puzzles based on a grid in a similar way to Sudoku. The squares of the grid are either filled in or left blank and you decide which squares to fill in or leave blank by using the number clues provided for you. [...]
Following on from the last post, here is the video for Okkervil River’s track ‘For Real’, enjoy.
Okkervil River are probably my favourite musical find of the last few years. An Indie band from Austin, Texas whose album Black Sheep Boy just made me an instant fan.
They have recorded a bunch of covers from their 2006-2007 tour and released them as a free to download album on their website.
It’s not a bad [...]
LOL still loving this fella’s reviews.
I joined up with LibraryThing ages ago and then promptly forgot about it, just the other day I rediscovered it whilst browsing for something else.
The basic idea is that you build an online catalogue of all the books you own and then glued onto this are a load of social networking ideas. So you can [...]
Quick plug for my latest blog how.weateallthepies.com, it should gradually contain some useful information for other people who want to make some money online.
I’ll also be documenting my own successes and more likely failures but either way its one more thing to keep my brain working after a long day’s childcare.
I just found a link I saved for this free online book which I’d completely forgotten about so I’m digging it back out to add to my immense to-read list.
I don’t know much about it but it looks quite interesting, something the author thought he might have trouble publishing conventionally so that could be either [...]
I’ve just got round to listening to this Librivox reading of ‘Plague Ship’ by Andre Norton. The book is very well read by Mark Nelson, the quality of some of the Librivox readings now easily match that of commercial audiobook releases.
The story is very much of its time but that’s no bad thing. It’s cracking, [...]
This is utterly pointless yet strangely compelling…create your favourite Star Wars characters and ships using the medium of origami.
As the site says:
Why combine Star Wars and paperfolding? Why not? I like ‘em both, and let’s face it, so do you. That’s why you clicked that link.
Having looked at some of the instructions however [...]