October 2007

Wednesday 31 October

  • Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK (17:00) - Trent Reznor was a member of the now defunct private bittorrent tracker OiNK. The driving force behind the Nine Inch Nails isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too,... | 1 Comments
  • The Lonesome Crowded West (14:33) - Quite possibly Modest Mouse's greatest album, The Lonesome Crowded West, turns 10 years old in a couple of weeks. I've compiled as much as I could of the album from Seeqpod (a little more than half the album) to give... | 1 Comments

Monday 29 October

  • 250,000 iPhones purchased yet remain unactivated (16:05) - Not mentioned in the spectacular quarterly sales results Apple released Monday was a stunning fact: Nearly 18 percent of iPhones sold in the past four months can't be accounted for.... | 1 Comments

Saturday 27 October


Monday 22 October

  • Stuff like this you can't make up (00:01) - The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.... | 8 Comments

Wednesday 17 October

  • New York to LA in 31 Hours... By Car! (10:33) - The message came across the police scanner in October 2006 as Alexander Roy was driving his 2000 BMW M5 west on Interstate 44 in Oklahoma: “I have a report of a blue BMW speeding, weaving in and out of traffic... | 1 Comments

Saturday 13 October

  • Death Wish (23:30) - These guys have a death wish. Base jumping with wing suits, flying within arms reach of the mountain surface. ... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 10 October


Monday 8 October

  • Asia's Richest Person Graduated from Ohio State in 2003 (14:42) - A 26-year-old woman worth $16.2 billion is mainland China's richest person, the business magazine Forbes said Monday, topping a list of tycoons whose wealth has soared amid a boom in stock and property prices. The fortune of Yang Huiyan -... | 0 Comments

Sunday 7 October


Wednesday 3 October

  • Minesweeper: The Movie (15:31) - | 0 Comments
  • Advice for twentysomethings from a fiftysomething (14:58) - #5 - The index of male physical pleasure can be plotted by two lines on a chart. One of these lines, which begins very high in one's younger years, represents the pleasures of the bedroom. The other, which begins quite... | 0 Comments
  • 20 Most Amazing Coincidences (00:17) - #10 Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 2 October

  • Halo 3 is slowly taking over the world (23:16) - I'm not really a Halo fan, but you can't spend any time on the internet and not be affected by the new release. Here is what the folks over at MIT have done: ... | 3 Comments
  • Rich F$*%ing Douchebags (10:45) - I must be doing something wrong in life if I can't afford indispensable items... “Today, a megayacht is indispensable,” said Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING. “It’s not like 15 years ago, when a yacht... | 2 Comments

Monday 1 October