• January
  • 1st
    • Album new year
  • 5th
    • Post Waves!
    • Post What we gonna do, when the money runs out?
    • Post Reviews! Reviews!
    • Post The filmworks gallery
    • Post Careless design: lamp
  • 6th
    • Post Student life can be hazardous to your health
  • 7th
    • Post Americans queue for 8 hours in Brazil
    • Post The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • 8th
    • Album deh out window
  • 9th
    • Post Search test
    • Post Hot Pixels
    • Post This is the corporate dream
    • Post The Eye of Bushron turns to Mars
  • 11th
    • Post Dude, are you being sarcastic?
  • 13th
    • Post Berlusconi rolls deep on everyone
    • Post Zucker Brothers Mazingness
    • Post Quote of the month
  • 15th
    • Post Keep flags off Mars!
  • 16th
    • Post Adobe(R) Newspeak(R)
  • 19th
    • Post The value of comments
  • 20th
    • Post Block an exit, go to jail
  • 22nd
    • Post Labs in the news
  • 24th
    • Post Post 0x90 Spectacular
    • Post One-liners
    • 2:03 p.m. Hybrid song. The Amiga invented dance music, I'm telling you...
    • 1:57 p.m. Elwood scene mp3s! "Past and Present" is the best
    • 6:34 a.m. Final test...
    • 6:26 a.m. Excellent b3ta punnery
    • 6:20 a.m. This blog will now degenerate into an indiscriminate linkdump.
    • 6:09 a.m. 73Mbits of alien data! NTK was right!
    • 6:01 a.m. Second test. These should be archived here.
    • 5:45 a.m. Testing testing testing.
  • 25th
    • Post Gawd-dayam scienticians wid' deir edumacation
    • 8:37 a.m. Isn't Usenet lovely?
    • 8:33 a.m. 100 things to do instead of "it". Funny how "talk" is number 56... (via BoingBoing)
  • 27th
    • Album snow
  • 29th
    • Post Snowfight
    • 3:50 p.m. Sarah's favourite song turns out to be the worst song I've ever heard.
  • 31st
    • Post Daily Mail World
    • Album calculator experiments
• February
  • 1st
    • Post The Hitch-hikers guide to the Hutton Report
    • Post Property is theft
    • Post Iain M. Banks Culture megafanboi geekfest
    • Post Overexposure is great
  • 2nd
    • Post What does half a decade of email look like?
  • 3rd
    • 11:43 a.m. Did anybody else think the music in Pirates of the Caribbean was a mixture of the themes from The Rock, and The Settlers?
    • 10:28 a.m. I have a pencil sharpener made by RAPESCO. I tried to comply, but the site is being DDoS'd.
    • 6:34 a.m. Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden
  • 4th
    • Post Hair Monster found in Mathspace
    • Post Steel enlightenment
    • 12:50 p.m. All the Sim City 3000 music, apparently legally
  • 5th
    • Album Ashwood Drive
    • 1:25 p.m. Ultimate BTTF tie-in merchandise: flux capacitor y-fronts!
    • 1:03 p.m. "If you rely just on tabloids for your information, then perhaps you deserve to misunderstand"
    • 12:53 p.m. Ironic typo of the week comes from Coding Theory: 'Error-correcting cod'
  • 6th
    • 12:57 p.m. Is this week the first ever where NTK contains a non-sarcastic exclamation mark?
  • 7th
    • Post Barbarian hordes swarming M14
    • Post Computerless computing
    • 4:58 p.m. House full of eBay junk. A not-so-funny OCD tale (via BoingBoing)
  • 8th
    • Post Number Theory Tools
  • 9th
    • Post Landspeeder
    • Post Ministry of Scain
    • 12:58 p.m. An Eccles classic: "You see, the university has removed most of the blackboards, and the ones left are only two dimensional."
  • 10th
    • 1:59 p.m. Set phasers to meme
    • 1:29 p.m. CSS visited pages disclosure. Just thought this one up myself; glad to see it's known.
  • 12th
    • 4:39 p.m. World's first realistic flash animation. Its offensive start is thoroughly explained (via b3ta)
    • 4:41 a.m. MP to meet minister over cocklers. Why did I read "MP to meet minister of overclockers"?
  • 13th
    • Post Teengers: thieves, thieved
    • 1:12 p.m. Fortunately the next full moon on a Friday 13th won't be until June 2014
    • 1:11 p.m. "Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday 13th."
  • 14th
    • 5:23 p.m. Encyclopedia Mythica
    • 1:14 p.m. The Marmite FAQ. "The breweries pay Marmite to remove the yeast from their factories."
  • 15th
    • 3:56 a.m. Religious studies to cover atheism. Marvellous. We'll corner the beast sooner or later.
  • 18th
    • Post Coding vs. Gaming
    • 4:39 p.m. There are so many of us, but they are so rich.
  • 19th
    • Album drunken cavorting
    • Album old trafford
  • 20th
    • 1:11 p.m. How long will it be before Nestle get their chocolately hands on http://aero.aero?
  • 21st
    • Album the oxford
    • 5:47 a.m. Yahoo search now has a cache link. Will they beat Google to offering this as a paid remote backup service?
  • 22nd
    • Post Sony vs. You
    • Album parade in ipanema
  • 23rd
    • 3:53 p.m. "Choose an orthonormal basis"
    • 3:48 p.m. Number Theory Tools 1.1 for your number theorising pleasure. Lets you check whether you have an efficient number of fingers or not.
  • 24th
    • Post London == leftists?
    • Album pancakes at kelly's
  • 25th
    • Post TEH PASHION OF TEH CHRITS!!11!1
  • 26th
    • 9:32 a.m. Michael Howard tries to rid the Tory party of its racist scumbag image by sacking racist scumbag MP. Could be setting precedent for sacking the rest too.
  • 27th
    • 6:41 p.m. Mitch and Dane - Gloria.sid. So much tune in only 8Kb.
    • 6:37 p.m. "Anyone get the feeling that we're about 17 minutes in the future? And when the next three tick by, it ain't gonna be pretty?"
    • 7:52 a.m. All in the name of science, honest.
  • 28th
    • Post Size down, dumb down?
    • 7:58 a.m. Eek. I made a 'media' category.
• March
  • 2nd
    • Post Do you like scary rocks?
  • 5th
    • 11:02 a.m. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. This is excellent. (via Memepool)
  • 8th
    • Post LOTR DVD release timetable
  • 9th
    • 3:06 p.m. Amazon has tons of books but hardly any hardbacks.
  • 12th
    • Album model un
  • 16th
    • Post Amiga dies, again
    • 10:36 a.m. Performance related pay for teachers. "But what about the bad teachers?!"
  • 17th
    • 8:02 a.m. Tough on orcs, tough on the causes of orcs.
  • 19th
    • 12:43 p.m. Hoho. NTK. It so funny. But I can play too.
  • 20th
    • Post Starsky and Hutch and ants
  • 22nd
    • 1:02 p.m. Why is Wicca a compact religion? Because every open coven has a finite subcoven. BA-DAH-BOOM-CHEE!
  • 24th
    • Post When 12-year-olds attack
  • 25th
    • 1:10 p.m. Advert on bus: "Volunteers wanted for wound healing experiment"
  • 26th
    • Post Review: Dawn of the Dead
  • 30th
    • Album lightning in ipanema
  • 31st
    • Post Lightning
• April
  • 1st
    • Album apartment views, birthday
  • 3rd
    • Album driving to rosa dos ventos
  • 4th
    • Album horse riding at rosa dos ventos
    • Album rosa dos ventos and lake
  • 5th
    • Album leaving rosa dos ventos
  • 9th
    • Album ralph going to the kennel
  • 25th
    • Album university in spring
• May
  • 18th
    • Album new cf card
  • 22nd
    • Post True Wisdom
  • 24th
    • 8:55 a.m. Government-funded university project suggests subsistence hen-farming for doomed city dwellers. Aaaaargh!
  • 29th
    • Post Gimpshopping attempt #1
    • Post The Unabomber is a Mathematician
  • 31st
    • Album intervalometer
• June
  • 1st
    • Post Dell Inspiron 8000 long term review
    • Post BBC categories
    • Post $BlackadderJoke
    • 2:53 p.m. France celebrates 60 years of peace - "Surface-to-air missiles have already been installed along the coastline."
  • 3rd
    • Post Pound World
    • 12:45 p.m. Babylon 5 Series 2 is UKP30 cheaper at WH Smiths than HMV.
  • 6th
    • Album harry potter and manchester and pool
  • 13th
    • Album olympic torch
  • 14th
    • Album lucy
  • 15th
    • Album jardim botanico
  • 16th
    • Post Michael Schumacher is the greatest environmentalist of all time
  • 20th
    • Album corcovado
  • 26th
    • Album chinese circus
• July
  • 6th
    • Album pousada tankamana
  • 10th
    • Album tankamana, santarem and return journey
  • 31st
    • Album sugarloaf climbing
    • Album various living room pics
• August
  • 6th
    • Album centro and harbour tour
  • 12th
    • Album me
  • 18th
    • Album rio quente
  • 21st
    • Album rio quente midweek and tennis
    • Album rio quente mountain climbing
  • 23rd
    • Post Demoscene tunes
    • Post The Man in the High Castle
  • 25th
    • Post Scooter racing
    • 9:27 a.m. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64638,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 The nature of the gaming timesink becomes clear
  • 29th
    • Post Oil prices versus geek superheroes
  • 31st
    • Album return from rio quente and experiments
• September
  • 2nd
    • Album sitio burle marx
  • 3rd
    • Album centro, church, cafeteria colombo
    • 5:04 p.m. Alien vs. Predator was much better than I expected!
  • 5th
    • Album rio zoo
  • 6th
    • 11:24 a.m. http://james.lab6.com/2004/zoo/ Horrifying zoo sign
  • 9th
    • Album copacabana fort
    • 8:48 a.m. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941187/ There's something about autonomous flesh digesting robots that seems like a bad idea...
  • 12th
    • Post World's greatest phone number
  • 13th
    • Album test
  • 14th
    • 9:12 a.m. Remind anyone of the eternal, unwinnable wars against abstract concepts from Brazil, the film?
    • 9:09 a.m. Remind anyone of the love-the-State stuff from Brazil, the film?
    • 9:07 a.m. Remind anyone of the big trucks from Brazil, the film?
  • 20th
    • Album new camera
  • 21st
    • Post Outdoor Window
    • Post "Blair's a Fool"
    • Post Middle-Rusholme
    • Post Not Wanted
    • Post I love vodka
    • Post HHGttG: Tertiary Phase
    • Album freshers fair day
  • 24th
    • Album umist, quiz, manchester
    • 11:17 a.m. If all stories were written like science fiction stories
  • 26th
    • Album keswick hike
  • 28th
    • Album royal exchange theatre
    • 1:26 p.m. Punch-up at tomb of Jesus
  • 29th
    • 11:51 a.m. The trouble with the internet is that you *very* quickly come to the point where you've heard it all before.
    • 9:17 a.m. Player of the century? Only 96 years until we find out...
• October
  • 2nd
    • 10:22 a.m. Heard: "Anchorman? Some kind of superhero?"
  • 3rd
    • Album me reflected
    • 10:03 a.m. Nice to see Kind Hearts and Coronets not being ignored for once
    • 10:02 a.m. The 1980s were worth it for this photo
    • 10:01 a.m. First peek at A380
  • 4th
    • Post Kes at the theatre
    • Post Get the hell outta my car, old man!
  • 5th
    • Post Screen Select
  • 6th
    • Post Drugs
  • 9th
    • 4:57 a.m. Opposition candidates arrested in USA. Go, two party dictatorship, go!
  • 11th
    • 4:33 a.m. One of science's greatest spokesmen dies
  • 15th
    • Post Cottage Cheese and Beetroot Sandwich Recipe
    • Album sandwich
  • 16th
    • Post More fear mongering
    • Post Brain Implants!
    • Album squirrels and breakfast
  • 19th
    • 1:23 p.m. I know what I want for Christmas
  • 20th
    • 3:18 p.m. I've always said it: Gattaca is the best SF film of all time
  • 21st
    • Post Geometry renamed
    • Album sky captain, DEH sky
  • 24th
    • 6:40 a.m. More of this please
  • 26th
    • Post Legends dropping at alarming rate
  • 27th
    • Post Presenting your new reality
    • 5:56 a.m. I would just like to say that Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is every bit as great as people say.
  • 28th
    • Post Mini-reviews of recent watchings
  • 29th
    • Post An evening with Iain M. Banks
    • 9:07 a.m. Halloween Costumes
  • 30th
    • Post See it before the americans!
• November
  • 1st
    • Post US Election 2004
  • 2nd
    • Post Reason
  • 3rd
    • Post NHS + Microsoft = You're feeling safer already!
    • Post Windows XP is no longer viable
    • 2:09 p.m. I imagine I'm late to the party, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the book, is quite good.
  • 4th
    • Post China being clever again
  • 5th
    • Album manchester and hall miscellany
  • 7th
    • Post Slackers
    • 1:36 p.m. Nuclear waste kills
    • 12:40 p.m. Bush opponents literally killing themselves. Maybe Bush won in 2004 because too many Democrats killed themselves after 2000
  • 9th
    • Post Geography for Chefs
  • 10th
    • Post Must... protect... children!
    • Post Sim City: The C is for Communist!
  • 11th
    • Post Death by Logic
  • 12th
    • Post Intravenous gaming
  • 13th
    • 8:47 a.m. Fractal Cabbage!
  • 14th
    • Post The evil of borders
  • 15th
    • Post *-bomber
    • 2:52 p.m. Today I had the lecture on which Greg Egan's Diaspora seems to be based!
  • 16th
    • Post Mini-reviews of recent watchings
    • Post My lungs! The smoking ban - it does nothing!
    • Album random manchester and hall
    • 3:44 a.m. Soon they will build a casino so big it will destroy them all.
  • 17th
    • Post Mathematics Defined
  • 18th
    • Post Tesco spam
  • 19th
    • Post The one you've all been waiting for: Reality TV
  • 21st
    • Post UK zombie panic 2004
  • 24th
    • 4:16 p.m. In the future, all photos will be haunted, as seen in The Ring.
  • 25th
    • Album quiz, cinema, german market
  • 26th
    • 1:28 p.m. Matti, who openly tells Nazi jokes in front of Germans, dissects Manchester.
    • 7:42 a.m. Computer disaster at the benefits office. Centralisation strikes again.
  • 29th
    • Album ferris wheel in city centre
• December
  • 3rd
    • 11:53 a.m. Oops
  • 4th
    • 4:44 a.m. "I hate manure."
  • 5th
    • Post Delisting
  • 8th
    • Post Blunkett vs. The Church
  • 9th
    • Album hall miscellany
    • 1:55 p.m. Classic lecturer quote: It's unfair to use the word simple for simple groups, because in fact they are extraordinarily complicated.
    • 1:43 p.m. 253 - The Novel. I love the fact that there are other people around who do this kind of thing so I don't have to.
  • 10th
    • 12:05 p.m. A remix of my why-24-hours-in-a-day post, thanks to Creative Commons.
  • 11th
    • 1:23 p.m. The theory behind why all pop music sounds the same.
    • 5:36 a.m. There's a Fight Club game. And it's a beat'em'up. The horror.
  • 14th
    • 3:47 p.m. Rapist on the loose. An interesting new way to deal with pedophiles. Let them loose, publicise their picture, and see who gets them first. You humans are psychotic.
    • 2:47 p.m. The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
  • 17th
    • 4:02 p.m. The bus driver said it was a bomb scare.
    • 9:48 a.m. I love that there is an international French-speaking society whose name rhymes with cacophony.
  • 18th
    • Post Immigrants vs. chemistry
  • 19th
    • Album testing
  • 21st
    • Album journey to cambridge, rio
  • 26th
    • 8:45 a.m. Amidst the horror, it's cool to see that the second link on the BBC News main page is to write-in reports from non-journalists.
  • 28th
    • Album lucy, ralph, christmas
  • 30th
    • Album catacumba park, copacabana fort