Author: Carrie

  • Booze hooligan announces government crackdown on himself

    If only. CHEAP booze deals in shops and supermarkets are to be outlawed, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill warned today. That’s Kenny “detained in 2000 for being drunk and disorderly at a football match” MacAskill. MacAskill says that the government “isn’t anti-alcohol”, and I think he’s telling the truth. After all, in June – in a…

  • Insanely great?

    I have absolutely nothing to base this upon, but my gut feeling is that today’s Apple announcement is going to be a good ‘un.

  • Odds and sods

    David Peace really is the British James Ellroy. Tokyo Year Zero is amazing and thoroughly disturbing. Check your Facebook privacy settings if you don’t want your stuff to end up on Google. Girls Aloud’s new single is, of course, ace. The production team are pop geniuses. Nadine looks more and more like a scary robot…

  • How to make an audiobook for iTunes

    Fancy making an audiobook to sell on iTunes? Here’s what you will need. A script A microphone A filing cabinet A chair Two buckets (ideally metal ones) A sound editing program And here’s how to do it: Plug the microphone into your sound editing program. Move the filing cabinet to the farthest corner of the…

  • Jaguaaaaargh

    I like cars, and I particularly like good-looking cars. So when Jaguar showed off its XF concept, saying that the finished car would look very much like it, I promptly added it to my “probably won’t ever be able to afford one, but want one want one want one” list – something I’d never do…

  • Richard Cobbett on BioShock

    I think he likes it… In a nutshell, if Bioshock isn’t Game of the Year, odds are good that we atheists are going to look a little silly at having to explain God showing up to make a new Monkey Island. It’s the best FPS since Half-Life 2. It’s the closest thing to System Shock…

  • Quick review: Samson C01U Podcast Pak (USB condenser mic)

    (This is a review of a product I bought with my own cash money, and still use – Gary) I’ve been talking about this in the comments of another post but I figured it’d be a good idea to post a quick review (not least ’cause it makes the information easier to find if you’re…

  • Sometimes I wonder if I’ve woken up inside a bad dystopian novel

    This can’t be true… can it? People who even think about going for a drink face being banned from their town centre for up to two days under wideranging new police powers. Potential trouble-makers can be asked to move on and stay away – even if they have not touched a drop of alcohol. Well-behaved…

  • Shop “to open” shocker

    Glasgow’s Apple Store opens on Saturday morning. T-shirts, competitions, people with too much time on their hands blogging to say “I’m queuing outside the Apple Store!”, neds getting free MacBook Pros from said people with too much time on their hands… you know the drill.

  • Wii Fit sounds like a hoot

    The next Wii Sports (ie. a top laugh for pissed people)? It certainly sounds like it.