Author: Carrie

  • A picture speaks a thousand words, most of them creepy

    This is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen: a site that offers to retouch your kids’ photos to make them look better. And by better, I mean “like creepy undead animatronic spookmonsters from the planet Eek”. [Via Something Awful, whose forum goons have upset the site owner]

  • Funny Flickr

    This is brilliant: Michael Hughes travels around the world, holding cheesy souvenirs in front of the camera as he takes photos of the real landmarks. [Via Fark]

  • Grazia magazine. Oops!

    This week’s Grazia comes with a supplement featuring celebs saying the funniest things, including this quote from Mariah Carey: “When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean, I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death…

  • Comment spam

    I get a lot of spam – today’s been relatively quiet so far, but in two hours I’ve still zapped 134 offers of penis pills, fake pharmaceuticals, disturbing sex sites and financial frauds. As you’d expect, I’ve got filters that automatically detect and delete them, but unfortunately every technology is imperfect and I still have…

  • Chaccaron

    Pop music today, you can’t make out the words, blah blah blah (Google video). I know I’m late to this, but other than the obvious – it’s miles better than anything 50 Cent or Sean Paul have done or will ever do – I’ve no idea of the backstory. I’m assuming it’s a big joke.…

  • iPods on a plane

    Update, 16 Nov: as David points out, some of the airlines named in the Think Secret story are denying everything…  I mentioned this story – Apple signs a deal to put iPods in planes – in the Zune comments thread, but I reckon it deserves a post in its own right. It’s a vivid illustration…

  • Progress, of sorts

    From digg: One of the awesome details mentioned was that while most shooting games has players and enemies heads with two or three critical points on the head, Call of Duty 4 has 16, which will let gamers be able to blow off pieces of the enemy’s face one at a time.

  • Quick game review: F.E.A.R. (Xbox 360)

    [Alternative review title: “That’s me in the corner, filling my pants”] Gears of War comes out later this week (here in the UK at least; it’s already out elsewhere) and Xbox 360 owners are getting very excited about it, with good reason – the reviews have been overwhelmingly good. However, it’d be a shame if…

  • Zune: are we looking in the right place?

    I’ve been spending a lot of time with Windows Vista recently and I’m eating a large slice of humble pie: like many people, I was looking in the wrong place. Yes, it borrows a lot of ideas from OS X; sure, in some respects it’s Windows XP with nicer trousers; absolutely, the User Account Control…

  • Sugababes are touring

    Yes! March and April 2007, which means that by then they’ll have had so many line-up changes that there’s every chance the band will be three obese Yorkshiremen in pencil skirts and flat caps. Sadly (for us) they’ve moved up a league, so this time they’re playing big soulless sheds instead of the more intimate…