I'd Buy It!
So earlier on today Alan and I had an idea to start up a new blog, just for fun. It’s called I’d Buy It, and its all about supermarkets and websites trying to make people think they are getting a bargain by putting big coloured stickers on things or deceiving prices that people cant be bothered to work out.
We need people to sign up and help get it going, so if you see any snap a picture with your camera and shoot us a quick email to idbuyit@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Post Me!’ , include your name and where you found it.
We’ll try to get it up as quick as we can.
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From 20 – 40 in 12 seconds
Over the weekend i made the jump and bought a new TV, after months if not the last year or so moaning about my TV being so bad for playing my XBox on, and just in general.
I blame Dixons, I went in there and they were all shiny, new and bright. So i decided then and there that one was going to be all mine.
The 50″ ones drew me straight into them, so nice and crisp in all the HD goodness, it was like i could have jumped right in and joined Jack Sheppard on the Dharma island in Lost, or hid behind a rock with David Attenborough and spied on animals humping in Planet Earth.
I went home and with a little help from Alan, reading reviews and searching for the best price i settled on a Samsung LE40A436T1D 40″. It would be mine after i handed over my commission money from work, and waited by the front door like a dog waiting for the postman.
I had been looking at the 32″ and 50″ TV’s, I didnt bother looking at the 40′s as i didnt think I’d go for one, so it was a shock when i got home to see it in its gigantic box waiting to get out.
I unboxed it and made some room for it, set it all up and i must say its amazing and im so happy.
Made this small video
My new TV on 12seconds.tv
Take a trip down Memory Lane
Gizmodo have been blogging about a lego trip recently.
Excerpt:
Maybe that’s why visiting Lego’s Memory Lane—the secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured—touched me in a way I didn’t expect. This wasn’t amazement or simple awe. I was already astonished to no end by the tour of the Lego factory. No, this was something else, something bigger than the impressive view of the 4,720 Lego sets inside this lair. These weren’t just simple boxes full of bricks. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten
Read the full article here including pics and videos.
Get the new Firefox!
Go get it kids, Firefox 3.0 has just been released. We’re out of beta and looking at web page loads 3- to 4-times faster than Firefox 2.0 and more than 7x faster than IE, according to its makers.
Have to wait till 6pm (UK time) to be included in the world record…
10am PDT translated into local times
FF 3.0 all versions [Warning: FTP, will not be counted in world record attempt]
FF 3.0 to be counted in world record attempt (active at 10am PDT)
I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm
That’s the subject line of a cover letter sent by a job applicant to I Can Has Cheezburger, one of the premier sites for so-called Lolcat pictures.
Don’t think the letter will be rejected out of hand — bad spelling is no obstacle to a job in Lolcat world. It may even be an asset.
Lolcats became an Internet craze last year. A typical example shows a picture of a fat and hopeful cat accompanied by a caption in a baby-talk-like dialect known as Lolspeak: “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?”
Apparently, looking at Lolcats all day is an appealing job. Ben Huh, founder of the site and chief executive of Seattle-based Pet Holdings Inc., has received 250 applications since the job was posted on Monday under the headline “Kittehs Want Moar Workerhumans.”
“I got a stack of resumes that I can’t even go through,” Huh said. “You know how they say, ‘Spell everything correctly because the people reading your resume will toss it out otherwise?’ Well, we can’t even do that. We won’t knock you out for spelling…. The traditional resume screening methods don’t apply here.”
The winning applicant will join three other people who moderate ICHC and a few related Pet Holdings sites (think dogs with funny captions). A big part of the job will be selecting from the 7,000 submissions the company receives every day of captioned photos, plus 2,000 uncaptioned ones.
Cat ownership is not required, just “a great sense of humor, a deep understanding and love of the Internets and a strong work ethic.”
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