Tuborg + Music Festivals = Stan + Big Ears!

Those crazy scientists love coming up with experiments, so whilst everyone is enjoying the summer weather Dr Maruice Van Winkleton takes a voyage through the ears...



See how well your ears have developed and take the Tuborg Beat The Intro Challenge, take on Stan for a chance to win some music festival tickets!! I only got a few of those tracks.. see how you do :)

On a side note, there was some great editing in that video. No, really. Awesome stuff.

ID Badge Photos

Why is it an ID badge that allows access to one of the greatest toy shops in the world has a stupidly close photo of me on it?!

If I lose it, its £10 out my wages. If I want to change photo, its also £10.

Looks like I'm stuck with an out of proportioned head then...
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'Crackdown 2' on Xbox 360

If I were not just about to enter my final year at university with a huge dissertation to do, I would probably be going out right now to buy an Xbox 360 and subscribe to Xbox Live.. just for this game.



Looks like a right royal bloodbath. Oh I miss being young and in front of the television for hours with mind-numbing violence...

'Crackdown 2' is out 9th July!

'The Collector' Awesome New Trailer/Game For Upcoming Film!

A new thriller film called 'The Collector' will be coming out later this month, and a great interactive game/trailer internet app has been released for everyone to play!

The trailer puts a nice twist on the 'breaking and entering' theme that is so often in films of today, where the thief realises he is being stalked in someone else's house. The interactive game allows you to try and escape too with dire consequences if you go wrong, nice graphic sequences :)

"You're a thief who's just broken into an empty house... But you are not alone. Someone is wreaking terror on the people who live there and is now after you. He is The Collector and has transformed the house into a maze of lethal traps.
Choose a route through the maze and unlock and EXCLUSIVE clip. Beware though, a wrong turn will lead to a grisly end!"

It's from the director of the latest 'Saw' films, so its well worth a go!

Things You Know You Should Throw Out... But Can't

There are probably loads of things in your house that you have collected over the years, bought or given to you, that just cannot be thrown out - regardless of age or condition.

Today I found one such item in our garage, gathering dust right at the top of a lot of other stuff we have stored up on the rafters. It is a Mitsubishi television that we have owned for roughly 20 years, used by my grandma when she lived with us, by my parents and by myself in various bedrooms/rooms. It has a cool feature of the remote slotting into the front of the frame for storage, and it still gets excellent picture when and aerial is plugged into it. It even takes quite well to having a PlayStation or N64 (yes I found that too!!) connected up to it.

It is now set up in our garage for now - watching some daytime television whilst clearing out other rubbish is actually quite enjoyable. I'll probably move it back into my room soon, after a few years lapse :)

Excellent Pot Noodle Advert/Tune!

Pot Noodle brings out yet another annoyingly great advert. Tune!!!!



Rib It Up!

Viral Video Chart - The Best Viral Videos On The Internet!

Went to the re-launch party of the new Viral Video Chart last night from Unruly Media, where the new design of their chart was revealed along with a screening of some of the greatest Internet videos ever!! We have all spent hours clicking from one YouTube video to the next... don't pretend you haven't :)

The past 10 years has really opened the Internet up to social media, with Facebook and blogs allowing shared content over many other platforms. A nice presentation was given by someone from Contagious Magazine, as well as other interesting Internet statistics ( it was something silly like it would take 912 years to watch all content on YouTube!?!?!?!)

Here is the link to the chart if you fancy spending some quality time over the nets greatest virals. It has different categories and other stats about the videos on there too! A great time killer, as well as a useful trend viewer.

http://viralvideochart.unrulymedia.com/

Just try not to get rickroll'd!! Enjoy :)

Spinning Streak - Addictive new iPhone game!!

I still check out iPhone apps and games now and again for a bit of fun, even though I predominantly use my Blackberry as my method of communication, but this one has caught my eye as an addictive (and of course, time-wasting) game.

It's called Spinning Streak, by Mad Media Labs. The main aim is hone your skills and balance to keep the spinners up as long as possible to become the best in the world!! Have a local competition between you and your friends to see who can be the best spinner, all from a bit of pocket sized fun :)

It features a storyline, as well as high-scores against other people playing on their phones around the world so you can compete globally. With great, colourful illustrations this game cannot get better. Wait.. yes it can... it's free!! yep, can't get better value than that! :D

You can find out more info, as well as download the app for iPhone right here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/spinningstreak/id371286642



Perhaps this might be an insight into your own life about balancing things out to make it to the top.. either way, Happy Spinning!!

Tango!

A bit of a weird advert from Tango, as always! Gotta love that Colin, the main character, is a redhead :) Nice bit of D'n'B in there too!



Film yourself dancing through your inner spirit to the track and win music festival tickets!

Download the "Praise" by Lomax track for free and more info @ Tango

Rage Against The Machine @ Finsbury Park

To celebrate their win over the X-Factor xmas number 1, RATM promised their fans a free gig, to which I was lucky enough to win tickets! :D

With my mini camera I got a bit of footage of the gig, but was mainly just enoying myself. It got a bit crazy at one point where I found myself in the middle of a moshpit that had just opened up around me. Not cool!







The bass (as you can hear) was a bit intense due to being so close!! But oh so worth it :)

All The Mobile Phones I Have Ever Owned

Back in the beginning of the new millennium, I was starting secondary school, with the right of passage being marked in the purchase of a mobile phone.. *ta daaaaaa*

They were the beginning of the communicative era for us, the Gen-Y youth growing up in a developing (very fast) technological world to further social practices. Text messaging during class, prank phone calls to companies at break time wasting all your credit. I'm sure you will remember Snake. I'm so glad that people have stopped using TMB at the end of a message, it was very pressuring!

The phones themselves have gone from being used for calls and texts to emails, facebook alerts, calendars, mp3 players, cameras and even platforms for viewing pornographic.. err I mean high resolution Hollywood films.

And who can forget those classic nokia ringtones? Oh the days... Well here is my reminiscent timeline of all the phones I have owned, to this present day. I do love a bit of technology.

I'm not going to review every single one... some were good, some bad, but mostly good. Who knows what's next!?

Beautiful Summer Weather

It is at this point of the year that every man and his dog becomes a cyclist/moped rider/motobiker.

The vast majority cannot ride due to being stuck in a car the rest of the year. I have seen more crash scenes by the side of the road in the past few weeks than I did in a year of commuting 40 miles a day.

I do love being around more bikers on the road, don't get me wrong... Although I look forward to being a lone ranger again in the cold winter days :)
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Israel + Flotilla = International Mess

In no way do I pretend to be an expert on any international laws or such-like.. but why can't the world see that the so called 'aid' was just a ploy to play up to the media.

If 'aid' and 'humanitarianism' was wanted, there wouldn't be suicide bombings now, would there?

Israel ftw.

Bad Drivers

Being a driver in four wheels and a rider on two - I trust in my observational skills that keep me alive when I am out on the road...

but how responsible can you be for other drivers!?



Just one of the many people in the world who are a danger to themselves and to others around them. The way I see it, is that if you cannot control your car for a basic parking manouver then I would not want to be around when a high-pressure automotive situation occurs.

Having said that, it is frustratingly comical (I found myself almost shouting at the screen with the correct wheel turning instructions!)

Diesel - Be Stupid!

Diesel have decided that when someone says 'Don't be stupid', what they really mean is 'Dont have fun!!!'

Get a stupid photo of a friend and be a star of Picadilly Circus :)