alecm
alecm
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  • I got to see a Triumph Rocket III yesterday

    The new King of the British bike industry is also the largest production motorcycle in the world – the 2.3ltr Triumph Rocket III. There’s not much point in me reviewing what is comprehensively written-up (or pointed-at) elsewhere [www.motorcycle-blog.com] but I will note that: it is smaller/shorter than I expected most of the chassis, is engine…

  • audio bizzareness

    In searching for a sample of Chris Langham’s voice ([www.castaway.org.uk] – a tour-de-force of his style) I took a look at the larger website. http://www.castaway.org.uk Castaway can provide any voice you want. We have the widest range of carefully selected professional voice talent. Our traditional voices have got all the awards. Our young voices aren’t…

  • non-virtual birds seeking privacy…

    I was always vexed by these being in birdbooks of British Birds but actually being extinct; it was not until I read Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book back in 1979-ish (yes, he really is a bona-fide birder, as-am I but less so nowadays) that I understood the motivation for putting them in books howeverso…

  • Apple wins 2 out of 3 on advetising claims…

    In the UK, we have a quango which receives complaints about advertising and issues judgements upon those complaints, with some powers of censure to boot. Apple got done-over regarding their G5 World’s Fastest PC claim a few months ago, but won two out of three… [www.asa.org.uk] ( link c/o [www.csamuel.org] )

  • More and Interesting Transit Pictures

    Some superb stuff at [science.nasa.gov] including the one showing both Venus and the International Space Station in transit.

  • AT&T Privacy Bird

    I almost wish I had a Microsoft Windows system, so that I could try this out: [privacybird.com] AT&T invites you to download the new AT&T Privacy Bird software for free. This software will help Internet users stay informed about how information they provide to Web sites could be used. The AT&T Privacy Bird automatically searches…

  • Series Three – New **RADIO** Series of HHGTTG

    I have absolutely no idea how this stayed under my radar for so long – in retrospect I may have read it somewhere and missed it, mashing it all in with the new film production – however on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm London time, there is a strong chance that the BBC’s streaming…

  • the barmaid down my local is a buffy clone…

    No, honestly, I mean it. Really. The apparent physiological differences between her and SMG number in the low, possibly single-digit, percentages. Yes indeed, to come up with an observation like that, I have been down the pub. Two of them in fact, one local, and the other almost-as-local. A short step from each other. A…

  • fahrenheit 9/11 trailer

    [www.fahrenheit911.com]

  • enterprise-class audio entertainment…

    [www.dme.org] an E450 as a in-car MP3 player

  • motorcycle forum saves lives

    from [blogs.motorbiker.org] Odd, but true … a woman on a remote ranch in Nevada, USA was very sick. Their only way of communicating was via a satellite – equipped computer. The person who did the communicating was not from the ranch, and all he knew was the ThumperTalk.com motorcycle discussion forum. So he called them…

  • remember the “i got chris rock’s cellphone number” story?

    well, there’s a happy-ending update: [www.laurasnyctales.com]