http://www.fruitlesslabour.co.uk/blog/ en-us Nucleus CMS v3.51 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.fruitlesslabour.co.uk/blog//nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://www.fruitlesslabour.co.uk/blog/ xml-rss2.php?itemid=41 cakeking.co.uk. So, if you're in Tameside, Manchester or Stockport and need a cake. Check him out. :-)]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=41 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:55:58 +0000 xml-rss2.php?itemid=36 justcurio.us. You go there and you get to ask a question, any question you like. The only condition is that you answer one of the questions someone else has asked first - you don't have to answer the first one you're given, you can keep clicking through and getting random questions until you get one you can answer. You answer, then you can ask your question...which gets thrown into the pot of random questions to be given to people who visit the site. Very cool idea. :-)

justcurio.us]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=36 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:13:00 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=39 the cause of earthquakes is actually women not dressing modestly, the experiment conducted today has actually destroyed the world and this post is going out to an even smaller audience than usual.

On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I'm sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn't rumble. And if we really get through to him, maybe it'll be one involving plate tectonics.

So, as they say, get your tits out. It's for science.

From blaghag]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=39 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:00:00 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=35 destroy the earth

A quote from the introduction...

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth is built to last.]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=35 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:25:02 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=30
Pay Day Loans

Just in case you've buried your head in the sand since this recession began (and, hey, I wouldn't blame you - it'd be a more effective strategy than the current government's approach) you might not have noticed the huge amount of exposure so called "pay day loans"; short-term, small-ish loans have gained lately.

Some of the interest-rates these companies advertised are OUTRAGEOUS. Quick Quid for example, advertise a MASSIVE typical 2356% APR. Frankly, I think it's disgusting, as do plenty of others. Join us on the Facebook group, or on Twitter.

...and for the love of GOD, if you're desperate enough for money that you're considering going to one of these places...think twice. You may actually get a better APR from your local, friendly loan shark.]]> News xml-rss2.php?itemid=30 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:57:12 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=29 LHC finally powered back up. :-) I was thinking about it - clearly, all this hub-hub about it creating a black-hole was bollocks...but it did CERN such a huge favour! Twitter was going absolutely mental at lunchtime when they were doing the experiment. If it wasn't for the stupid journalists and their sensationalism, how many people would really have cared or even known what happened today? A use for journalists after all? Has the world gone mad?]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=29 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:01:57 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=27 Pampers who came up with the strap-line "have a golden nights sleep" for their newest line of nappies? REALLY? Golden? GOLDEN? I refuse to believe that the double-meaning in that strap passed through (hehe) a whole marketing agency unnoticed.

Course, they're now getting free publicity from me but no-one's reading this anyway so it doesn't really matter. :-)]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=27 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:46:11 +0100 xml-rss2.php?itemid=25
If you haven't heard of this stuff before, it's basically a cross between a social networking site like facebook, a map/local search and a massive online game set in the real world. You visit places in real life, checking in with the website as you go (using an app on your mobile phone) - every place you check in gets you virtual points in the game, but as you check-in and earn your points you can leave behind tips and virtual items for others who follow you to pick up.

As the game "evolves" then, more and more people visit ever more local spots, leaving behind tips and slowly building up a user-generated map full of local knowledge. Very cool, and the next big thing for the web IMO.

Gowalla
Foursquare]]> General xml-rss2.php?itemid=25 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:54:45 +0000 xml-rss2.php?itemid=22 Dabs.com Gadget & Computer show at Old Trafford yesterday. Bit of a let down (though it was free!). However, I did get to get my first real life glimpse at a pico-projector from Optoma. Despite the lukewarm reviews on Amazon, I was quite impressed with this little piece of kit.



No bigger than a typical mobile phone, it projected a pretty decent image in the bright room to about the size of a reasonably sized TV. My gut instinct is that the poor amazon reviews are from people expecting this thing to project HD video at wall filling sizes and it not being up to the task. That is NOT what this thing is for. For me, I immediately saw two perfect applications - mobile Powerpoint presentations and movies on the go.

I set up Powerpoint presentations at work way too often and the projector setup is always a nightmare for the average person. OK, so, it's NOT that difficult to connect up a projector but people's brains turn to mush when they're stressed about giving a presentation and three fingered laptop keyboard combos to get the projector to work DO NOT help. This little thing has a small amount of built in memory and can natively run Powerpoint presentations, no computer required. Load up the presentation while they're in the office and send them off with just the little projector. Way less stress.

The other place I can see it being really cool is for movies in some dark, Sun funded, £9.50 caravan holiday in Bognor Regis! :-)]]> Gadgets xml-rss2.php?itemid=22 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:26:43 +0000 xml-rss2.php?itemid=19

I didn't see who left it, but there were a few others in addition to this one. It reads "Attention all male shoppers. Keep your wallet in your pocket. They love spending money. Thank you Ikea staff"]]> Spotted xml-rss2.php?itemid=19 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:23:27 +0000