Crazee Foo'

This is the mutt's nuts. It's awesome. It's stupendous! It fucking RULES! It's uber! It really is rather good. It's Mr. T... in your pocket no less! And if you're a tightwad, go here to download some .wavs of the man himself.
"Hey Suck-ah! You goan' PAAAAAY!"

Chasing Bush

I know it's a bit liberal of me but what the hell. Hound the dullard and hope he gets the message! Do you know the IQ of the man in control of the largest nuclear arsenal on this planet? 80!

(The campaign's name makes me laugh too)

I'm on the Front Page at Tattyworld!

"Professor Moriarty... we meet again but this time, the advantage is mine!"

Wow! I'm on a roll! Those nice people at Tattyworld have put this image on their front page! This site is quite different from b3ta because, on average, the quality of the pictures there are a hell of a lot better. Colour me chuffed!

I also posted it on b3ta, naturally. See if you can spot my piccy in this post. I am now officially source material :)

A nice person on b3ta told me that if an image looks too rough, flatten it, add 3% monochrome noise, and gaussian blur it by a fraction of a pixel. It hides a multitude of sins. And use the extract tool instead of the select tools because it's way quicker and the results are a lot more polished. Again, this info is more for my benefit...

Weekend linkys

::Some web space for you to all sign up to.
::In the immortal words of Sir Henry of Rollins, "Yeah, I am a liar! Yeah, I like it! I feel good!"
::Fancy a spot of Squirrel Fishing?
::I'm feeling all christmassy so go here and design your own snowflake.
::Dissect Britney! Yay!

I MADE THE FRONT PAGE OF B3TA!

Woo! Yay! Houpla! Panowie! Go here!!!!

Potato Swap Stuff

::This is mainly for my own benefit but this is Jay Arraich’s Photoshop Tips. Very useful.
::This a pile of cool free photoshop filters.
::A few good tutorials and digital art at dubtastic.
::304 tips and more tutorials at here.

My latest creation for b3ta. Hope you like it.

If you ever think you've had enough of the interweb, go here for a couple of minutes peace. I saw this first about 5 years ago and I'm happy to report that it is still here and exactly as I remember it.

"Don't get yourself hurt out there in that crazy modern, javascript, animated-gif-laced, slow loading world. Whenever you need a couple of minutes of peace, just come back and see us."

Googolplex

Googolplex is a silly word and for absolutely no reason, I wanted to find out what a it actually was. I ended up here and quickly came to the conclusion that it's mind blowingly/numbingly big. That'll teach me.

Do not read if your are mathematically and astronomically faint hearted.

Total Eclipse of the Moon

A total lunar eclipse is a celestial event of great majesty and grace. Among early civilizations, the eclipse was feared as an ominous sign of disaster, death, war and famine. Today, we recognize the eclipse as a simple consequence of the Moon's orbital motion around Earth.

A lunar eclipse has no great importance astronomically but can be enjoyed by many people without special equipment.

Skywatchers should train their eyes on the Moon from 2215 GMT, when it enters the outer edges of our planet's shadow.

Mid-eclipse takes place between 0106 and 0131 GMT Sunday as the Moon transits the southern edge of the Earth's shadow. Totality is quite short this time because the Moon only passes just inside the full shadow of the Earth, and the Moon's southern edge, in particular, should remain fairly bright.

As the show progresses, the Moon will get dimmer and, possibly, turn reddish during mid-eclipse, when the only light that can reach the lunar surface is red light refracted through the Earth's atmosphere.

The Moon leaves the last bit of shadow at 0422 GMT.

Let's hope it's not cloudy...

Links:
BBCi - Red Moon set to dive behind Earth
RAS - Lunar Eclipse Visible On 8/9 November

Everything..... EVER!

:: Blimey, look at this! It's a Picture of Everything. Well nearly. I spent far to long clicking around this place.
:: I have also found a Fountain of Knowledge. I have always wondered why dogs don't burp...
:: Next is the Theory of Everything.
:: And finally, how it will all end.

I have no idea why but my host is playing up. I'm looking into it at the moment but it means that all my images are knackered. Normal servoce will be resumed as soon as I know what is going on.

EDIT: Up and running again... Yay!

Uma Thurman

Uma is the new-age Vamp.

She was born in 1970. Her father, Robert, is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University School of Religion. He was the first westerner to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Uma was named for a Hindu goddess. Her mother is a Swedish model-turned-psychotherapist Nena, who was discovered at 16 in Stockholm by photographer Norman Parkinson. A nude statue of Nena's mother, Brigit Holmquist, a famous beauty and later baroness, stands in the port town of Trelleborg. Salvador Dali, introduced Nena to her first husband, Timothy Leary. She is the granddaughter of Baron Karl von Schlebrugg. Uma's middle name, Karuna, is one of the four sublime abodes in Buddhism. It means "compassion." The other 3 sublime abodes are Metta (Loving kindness), Mudita (Sympathetic joy), and Upekkha (Equanimity). She has size 11 shoes! (big socks then...)

I first noticed her in Dangerous Liaisons in 1988 which was her first of many critically acclaimed films. Unfortunately (for her that is...) she is mostly remembered for the fact that she got them out and the fact the she had to play opposite the grossly miscast Keanu Reeves. But she pulled it off with the grace and elegance that only Uma has.

Her next big part was as Mia Wallace in one of the best films of the 90s, possibly ever, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. She was the face on all the posters and was in the most memorable scenes in the movie. The first is the dance with John Travolta in Jack Rabbit Slim's which will undoubtedly stay in everyone mind for a long time to come. The other is the overdose scene which is truly disturbing and completely crazy. She got and Oscar nomination.

She has done some dodgy stuff too. The Avengers was absolute shite but she did have that leather catsuit thing. In Batman and Robin, she played Poison Ivy and was the only decent thing in the whole film.

She has a habit of disappearing off the face of the planet for ages and then reappearing in a blaze of publicity as if she had never been away. She also has the ability to act in the smallest arthouse movies and the biggest Hollywood blockbuster.

Most recently she played The Bride in Kill Bill Volume One. She basically kicked everyone's arse all over the screen for an hour and a half with a very sharp Japanese sword in a yellow jumpsuit. Of course, she is sublimely cool in this movies as well. (and for a bit of the old ultra-geek, someone has created an RPG character for The Bride.)

She describes herself as a "Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal." I'd still do her and yes, I'll admit it, I fantasize about getting beaten up by her :)

I'll be posting the third of my current top five ladies soon.

Scary Badgers!

Weebl who did the badgers-repeat-until-funny thing had this video sent to him in the post. It said on the label that he shouldn't watch it. He did and then stuck it on the web.

Yay for this sort of thing!

Amazing pictures of the fires that have engulfed Southern California.