Scrambled Channel

You gentle readers may not get eurosport and will be blissfully unaware of the unreliability of their cycling coverage. Tonight though, when I switched on looking for Paris Nice, I was greeted by the great Eddy Merckx, billiards player. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx_(billiards_player) The irony was completely lost on the announcers.

I don't know exactly what it is but I'm now hooked on the Tour of California 2009. Before even scanning the line up, the wonderful irony company selling EPO continuing to sponsor a professional cycling race, made me smile. But it's some line up for what Henk Vogels bizarrely calls 'the fourth biggest race in the world'.

Paul Barman employs an aggressive words/second ratio over the Hitchhikers tune.

Rejoice for it is Sunday and you aint got nothin' to do. Except if you I suppose.

I was punching twee domains like com.com and uk.co.uk into my browser and came across org.org and it's before and after shots of a wrecked Citroen DS. No explanation, no back story. You can invent your own....

In a frenzy of Instructables exploration, I discovered self styled chip hoppers, 8BITches (cool site design by the way). They've produced several cool videos that I hereby pimp for your pleasure. Check out their gear.

Iceweasel is making me feel stupid! I simply cannot work out how to add google.co.uk to the list of available search engines. Well not in an easy way anyway. Google UK isn't one of the engines I can choose from the drop down but I do get the option to 'manage search engines'. This lets me order the existing engines sends me here to add new engines. This lists a handful but not what I want.

Lance Armstrong somewhat famously started using Twitter recently which seems to qualify him to give speeches at Web 2.0 conferences. Say what you will about Armstrong (and people say a lot, not all of it nice) he does know how to work the media.

I stumbled across Chore Wars this weekend via The Avante Game blog. Chore Wars resembles an old school RPG. The idea is simple, create a character and invite your housemates or family to join your party. Then claim in game experience points and gold for completing real life tasks like cleaning the bathroom.

It's been a while since I've visited Beflix's excellent gallery of visual glitches. Nestled within the 'slick site for the consumer generation, replete with their dreadful always-plugged-in ipod ear corks' remains a touching nod to the past.