friday diversions Archive

Ever have a tune running around your head?


I have thanks to 4Music but thanks to bing and youtube… Shazam strangely couldn’t tag it – first time in ages that’s happened.
Anyway it’s The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

bad joke alert


Alfie Patten has joined Fathers4Justice. A spokesman
said, he may not understand politics yet, but he
already owns his own spiderman costume.

A great onion youtube parody


YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video
The youtube asks for some decent content parody! Like google care when they are raking in that many ad impressions.

Take That – The Circus only £3


I love the internet and just when you think it can’t get any better Amazon launch a new MP3 download service to compete with Apple iTunes store and sell albums from only £3 including Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns, Kings of Leon – Only By The Night, Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack, Will [...]

FNN – Facebook News Network


If I had the money to start a TV channel this would be the channel I would fund. Really funny parody of Facebook newsfeeds in a news bulletin format. Very funny from the collegehumor folks

If you had a name like this…


You would have to change it! Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr Randy Person

Scientists at work


Shame they spent all that money and then they just stand around all day. LHC webcams

social networking sites


okay so here is a list of sites I know of – feel free to add in any others.
aimpages.com – soon to be a big player
yahoo 360
msn spaces
my space
imeem
43 Things (amazon?)
tribe
bookcrossing – a community who exchange books with each other at public places
Linkedin – is a professional social networking website
XING – is a networking [...]

useless!


Robert Peston on why Vista is evil


Dear Bill Gates
Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop – and that’s when the trouble began.
My dislike of your new user interface you can put down to the conservatism that comes with advancing years. However having loyally stuck by the galumphing, unaesthetic functionality of your operating systems over the past [...]