The ride


My fight to get my bank charges back - and later those of my family & friends...
I'm obviously not the only one.

Like the star wars films but can't be arsed to sit through 10 hours of Lucasvision?... your prayers are answered:

Dude Wars Ep1 - The Phantom Dude

Dude Wars Ep4 - A New Dude

Dude Wars Ep5 - The Bad Dudes Strike Back

Dude Wars Ep6 - Return Of The Dude


A while back, a game called 'Zero Wing' was available for Sega game systems... it wasn't a wonderful game but what gripped the community was the pigin English translations from Japanese... these in themselves were hilarious (along with the dreadful speech synthesis)... phrases like 'Someone set up us the bomb'.

It has now become a nerd-underworld thing to secrete these phrases in full view of Joe-Public knowing they will be largely un-noticed and even then mostly ignored or mis-understood. Pictures have appeared in local papers where some wag has done something funny but insidiously there will be 'All your base are belong to us' on the bottom of it.

The following flash-show is a montage of the start up of the game (demonstrating the dreadful translation superbly) and the clips of the phrases written up in places. Most of them are photo-shopped (but well done) but look out for the 'Anal exams' which got into the local paper because someone had moved the I onto the F to make an A... look at the bottom of the sign - this embodies the spirit of AYB posters - sneak it in where no-one notices except the initiated... top fun. I, myself, have been doing this in code I write for several years and I have a web application in full view getting 1.5M hits a year with AYB in full view but un-noticed :o)

One particulary good story (true? I don't know) relates to two german brothers who ran an office cleaning company, and in the night they would run around the office blocks turning the lights on in patterns so the whole side of an office block would have "All your base" displayed in lights... again, in full public view but largely un-noticed... well done boys! Keep up the good work!

Anyway, enough blabbering - here's the clip. Zero-wing


Had a bad ebay experience? Snap! What a nutter!


Excellent parody of the US presidential election


Top ebay gag... why do they pull stuff like this?

Interesting stuff

Brian - a Great Tit chick orphan
A Visit to the Battle Of Britain museum at RAF Uxbridge
Willen Lake Ouzal flood Balancing installation
Stanton Low - Abandonned village in Milton Keynes
Dinosaur footprints on the Isle Of Wight