A poor woman from Newcastle had a stroke last year, when she awoke first she had a few problems with her voice but when she returned home the real extent of the problem became aparent.
She is suffering from Foreign Accent syndrome, first encountered in World War 2, which changes her accent from a Geordie twang into a fairly strong Jamacian/French Canadian. Its an extrodinary condition and while its humorous to begin with, after a while im sure it’ll be a nightmare.

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Now, this is a funky application of a desktop environment. It only focuses its interface on the icons on the main desktop window, and doesnt indicate how real operations of the icons is implemented, i assume its a simple “double click” type thing thou.
The basic premise is of a desktop which is full 3D, with each icon behaving as a physics prop. Using the mouse u are able to drag icons around, select groups and pile them, view in grids, stacks etc. It has a very intuitive look, the demonstrator often performing a number of quick tasks with simple gestures.
The demostration video is avaliable here : BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype, and while it

Just a short one today (ben)

A clever combination of the Google Maps interface with a Wiki backend, ive added some cardiff spots including some of our department. Looks like a neat idea, hope they fix the functionality so u can rotate the blocks around areas and suchlike.

wikimapia.org

I dont know how many geeks around will have seen this, and ignoring bens continual rants about my posting lots of mini blogs about different things, heres a neat clip from a Windows 98 Conference, the guys talking about the wonderful new feature of Plug and Play avaliable to all the users of Windoze 98… Brilliant Simple, Opulent Beauty (or BSOD).

In other news, heres a funny clip set of G Bush bloopers

Mr Gates is set to build himself a dream factory, one that when running will produce 35m gallons of liquor annually.

The lucky folks of Boardman, on the Columbia river, will play host to Bill’s boozy dream factory when it opens its doors toward the end of this year.

Sadly, the factory will not be a kind of alcohol-themed Willy Wonka’s, complete with lumpy rivers of advocaat and private army of caterwauling drunken dwarves. But instead, will produce fuel-grade ethanol on an industrial scale. Gates owns a quarter stake in Pacific Ethanol, which is behind the plant. The firm aims at a land-grab in the burgeoning west coast market for renewables by fermenting sweetcorn. Makes me wonder what

Found this on my merry travels around the interweb, a rather superb example of innovative guitar styles. Just shows that the traditional methods of doing things are all well and good but sometimes a little creativty goes along way.

“Hannes Coetzee is an aloe tapper and self-taught musician from Herbertsdale in the Klein Karoo. He plays traditional and original compositions using a teaspoon in his mouth to slide the melody on his guitar. The only known practioner of this style, he is able to play the melody and the accompanying chords at the same time creating the sound of two guitars with one.”

Words cannot express my opinion of the US, however, this guy does a very good job of the whole thing, making “Hail to the Cheif”, a popular american style tune thing, into a series of Hand Farts The current government should listen to this and take it to heart.
You sir, are indeed the cheif.

3 seconds past the second minute of the first hour, on Thursday the 4th day of May, Two thousand and Six.
Doesnt look that good does it?
how about like this:
01:02:03 04/05/06
doesnt happen every day… well, not quite like that anyway

On eBay this week is the most sensational gift of all, the tools to Riches beyond the dreams of meer men. Avaliable from this auction is the Key to a box holding the numbers to the lottery, ‘the 99p Car Boot Sale Sunglasses of Protection. You will need these when opening the Lotto Box, to protect your eyes from the glare from the make-up of has-been celebrities, who will frolic around you, smelling the gold.’.. and so forth
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