Pringles are a pretty awful thing. Basically they’re like eating deep fried instant potato with a nasty oniony after taste. All in all a million miles from snacks such as spicy peas or habas mujados. Anyway i digress. What bothers me most about this product are the adverts which claim “once you pop [the lid] you can’t stop”, as if they’re as addictive as crack-cocaine (drinking sea water, more like). If this really is the case, why do they need a resealable lid?

There’s quite a nice short stroll up Swing Gate Lane and along the A41.
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Via Joho, How to Fold a Shirt.

Via Boing Boing this Dragon illusion is fun and simple to make. Check out the cool video.

My older two kids have discovered Black and White big time. Zoë has decided to be a good god, which is working out OK. Jed OTOH says he’s a “silly” god, which basically involves smashing houses, throwing people into the sea and feeding villagers to his pet tiger. Seems like “silly” really means “evil”.

Via Joe, the C10K paper is a fantastic index into Unix techniques for supporting arrays of upto 10,000 concurrent clients. It’s amazing to read how far the world has moved on since i last wrote a for (;;) / select() loop in C.

Which File Extension are You?

Happy Bonfire Night.

i guess we’ve the hype for the latest Pixar film to thank for these figures popping up above our telly this morning ..

From tonight’s cracking HIGNFY “Congratulations to President Bush on winning his first election”. “They’d be better off with Bagpuss“. If you wondered how Americans could be so stupid as to vote for Bush, then don’t forget they also think Fraiser’s Daphnie and her family come from Manchester. Bush and Osama need each other, they’re like The Two Ronnies, “so it’s jihad from me and war on terrorism from him, goodnight”.