I got a big parcel through the post last week. Not having ordered anything, i was kinda curious as to what it was, only to open it up to find… A severed ear!.. Well okay… a plastic severed ear with some earbud headphones wrapped around them. Now, i loath earbud headphones, for the over-riding reason that they never stay in your flippin ears!
However, these headphones (from Coosh), are your standard earbud with the added extra of a soft bit made out of a rubbery type material that wraps around …

I picked this up from Scott Johnson’s Extralife blog, but i thought it deserved reposting here due to it’s awesomeness… An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon!..
See all the pics here
(Check out Scott’s ELR and Warcraft podcasts, which are also awesome, if less bacony.)

It’s been a while in writing, but we’ve finally got round to putting together the review for Age of Conan : Hyborian Adventures… The game that shall forever be know as the game that got us back onto the evil that is Warcraft…
HOW BIG?!
There are a couple of initial shocks with AoC. Firstly, the 30Gb is requires for installation. Secondly, the graphic requirement. I know AoC is a high end game, intended for new pcs with above average graphic cards, but I can say from playing this on both a …

Well, yesterday I rushed to the cinema to see the highly anticipated Wall-E, Pixars latest movie, starring the cutest robot since Johnny 5.  Once again Pixar has made a masterpiece of a movie, beautiful animation that really stuns the viewer, coupled with an immersive fast paced story that keeps you involved right until the end.  I won’t go into details of the story, as too many review sites give away plots, but I will say that his movie is worth the hype, and more.  As with all Pixar movies, a …

KITT voiced GPS unit
dual LED scanner lights like KITT’s dashboard
start-up message that says “Hello Michael, where do you want to go today?”

Not much more to say than… WANT!

Firefox 3 was officially released today by the Mozilla folk, and to help celebrate the occasion, the IE devs over at Microsoft sent Mozilla a cake as congratulations. A lovely gesture on their part i’m sure you’ll agree.
Although… I can’t help thinking, if they spent more time on sorting out the code in IE, and less time baking cakes I wouldn’t have had to spend most of this afternoon messing about with CSS trying to get a clients website to look the same in IE as it does in every …