Author Archives: Leefe
Continuing the superhero theme…
You Are Cyclops Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause.You are a commanding leader – after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them.Power: force beams from your eyes Which of the X-Men Are … Continue reading
Holy foreskin batman…
The weird things you came across when randomly browsing through Wikipedia. This can go in the list of Wikipedia pages that you probably don’t need to read: Holy_Foreskin – Wikipedia
N, nolonger just a letter
Having a bit of a read/edit of wikipedia today and found N. More than just a letter, ‘N’ is a Load Runner esk game written in Flash. With 3 keys you control a ninja, running, jumping and climbing your way … Continue reading
Google gobble and domains are flushed down utube
Articles of interest about Google buying YouTube. The lawsuits expected. And the problems it has caused the holder of a similar domain, utube.com. Articles: Google hedges against YouTube lawsuits (SMH, 16 Nov 2006) Policeman’s YouTube email goes to utube (SMH, … Continue reading
Terrorists interupt ABC broadcast
I was watching the ABC news last night. And the bulletin reporter crossed to a reporter outside the Lakemba Mosque who starts giving a report about the meeting over Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly. Then the camera changes to showing … Continue reading
A shower rose by any other name
Had the head fall off my shower today. How useful do you think the internet would be for finding the cost of a replacement? Not very. I tried looking up prices on Hardware retailers web sites. No prices, not even … Continue reading
Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk email?
Hormel Foods, the producer of the canned pork product Spam is trying to stop the dilution of its product name. It doesn’t mind too much that “spam” has become a colloquial term referring to junk email. What it objects to … Continue reading
web sites as graphs
Do you ever wonder what a computer thinks of your web site? How does it perceive the relationship between tags? Probably not the sort of thing you do every day. I found a Java Applet online that creates coloured graphs … Continue reading
Beam up all the ‘tarnas
I know a baby that has recently discovered sultanas, or ‘tanats‘ as they are called. It seems Sunbeam has found bits of metal in some of its dried foods recently and is doing a product recall. Guess which company packages … Continue reading
Pluto can go to hell…
Change all the text books. My Very Elderly Mother Just Sat Upon Nine ? Astronomers can only count to eight. At a recent meeting of International Astronomical Union (IAU) it was decided to redefine what constitutes a planet. As a … Continue reading