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Homeless man with the golden voice

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Just came across this online and for once I am focusing on something heartfelt and moving instead of how shit the world can be.


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Mother Nature strikes again

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East Coast USA has been getting absolutely pummled by mother nature this past week, and while some people are miserably stuck in their houses or airports (Such as I was connecting through Minneapolis the other week en route to make great decisions *sarcasm*), others have taken the opportunity to get arty with photography, deliquency and time lapse photography as seen below.

December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

Skype blackout naturally coincides with Christmas

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I find it somewhat ironic that the first time Skype has had a major outage since 2007 is right around the holidays when everyone and their mother (literally) is making calls to their loved ones or people they feel obligated to stay in touch with if the end result is gifts, and when business is most certainly on the rise.

Over 20 millions calls are made per day and Skype says it’s been running at about half that volume due to a software malfunction… A very expensive one.

You can follow their blog for updates that states they’re slowly getting more people back online, which I’ve not experience so I’m convinced they’re a bunch of big fat liars. But in the meantime if you’re in desperate need to make that phone call check out other programs like Oovoo, or even AIM video chat.

Also to be noted: If you look at the word “Skype” long enough it begins to become an unintelligble mash of letters…

End of the World… and so it Begins.

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Hope you’re done building your nuclear fallout shelter or some sort of underground cryogenic chamber because North Korea just started bombing the shit out of South Korea. Who, in kind, have returned fire. Oh, great. Basically… a summation of everything I could say (but wont waste my breath) is in the video below.

Earth as seen by the jaded/realists

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I’m probably trailing painfully far behind the bandwagon on this, but that doesnt matter, it’s still a classic.


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Phones, they’re not waterproof… Sometimes

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I learned an interesting fact over the past 24 hours, maybe a few come to think of it. iPhones, they’re definitely not waterproof. But for some reason my £10 piece of shit mobile has no issue withstanding a brief dunk in the toilet. Peeing is dangerous, for electronics; because they seem to have a penchant for ending up in the bowl (luckily in both cases it was post flush). The bright side of that, I’m now the proud owner of an iPhone4 that will, if my track record is any indication, end up in the toilet in the near future. I’m inventing a bungee for my phone, you know… the like the kind parents put their kids on so they don’t run off into the toilet? Yeah, those…

HAPPY CAPS LOCK DAY!

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TODAY IS, FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON OR ANOTHER, CAPS LOCK DAY. WHY? I HAVEN’T A FUCKING CLUE, BUT I WILL PARTICIPATE IN HOPES OF IRRITATING THE EVERLIVING CHRIST OUT OF AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. HOORAY FOR MORE INTERNET N3RDISM GONE COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL.

Skydive Love Triangle of Doom

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I always thought of Belguim as a nice place full of massive waffles, delicious chocolates and beer that flows like water. However it has come to my attention that it might also be full of parachute sabatoging, jealousy driven, love crazed shebanshee’s such as Els Clottemans who sent her love rival plummetting to her death in 2006 by cutting the lines on her parachute.

Apparently, she was made to spent the night on the couch in the living room whilst the other woman got the luxury (or probably hindsight now, unfortunate moment of bad decision making skills) of sleeping in some guy’s bed – I can almost guarentee the sex was not worth it. Leaving their chute packs unattended in the living room for conniving, jealous troll to sabatoge, and later watch her nemesis become nothing more than a small splat in someones garden on the ground below.

Note to self: There are other (hopefully safer) countries to be bombing out of a perfectly good airplane in.

God damn French

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Yup, you’re turning your country into a shitshow.

While half of you are striking about the pension age being raised from 60 to 62, the other half of the country is going out of business. Well done. Some people would be happy to work for longer earning a decent wage, and escape the monotony of domestic engineering, than to be pensioned off into aging oblivion and therefore stuck alongside their formerly attractive and tolerable significant other… Enjoy your fags & stinky cheeses. Hurumphf!

Fix yourself come spring time so I can come back with a more uplifting attitude and consume your wonderful croissants and aforementioned stinky cheese.

The Image? Completely unrelated. I googled ‘French’ and this was in the mix.

Segway company owner dies in Segway accident

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Segway company owner, James Heselden, was pulled from a river in Northern England Sunday morning with a segway device shortly in tow. I never trusted those fucking things. Sweet, sweet irony.

Segway:
when walking is just too fucking difficult.

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