<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:52:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>randomness</category><category>Pics</category><category>parody holidays</category><category>animals</category><category>video</category><category>film</category><category>society</category><category>geeky stuff</category><category>internet</category><category>photographs</category><category>raffes</category><category>F1</category><category>android</category><category>Body image</category><category>Sunday Sevens</category><category>world cinema</category><category>comics</category><category>graphics tablet</category><category>circus skills</category><category>electronics</category><category>feminism</category><category>games</category><category>music</category><title>Time Flies When You&#39;re Made of Sponge</title><description></description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>107</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-6207354211344087395</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-07T09:00:03.095+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">electronics</category><title>Super Super Super Flat Screen</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtFBDOjoI/AAAAAAAAAQI/hm8BwEzfhqA/s1600/4952694124_9fd4c5afea_b.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtFBDOjoI/AAAAAAAAAQI/hm8BwEzfhqA/s400/4952694124_9fd4c5afea_b.jpg&quot; width=&quot;266&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;I saw this tv whilst in Selfridges on the weekend and my jaw just hit the floor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you even see this tv!? Side-on it is almost invisible, that is how flat the screen is. As far as I&#39;m concerned all the other so called &#39;flat screen tvs&#39; need to be renamed. Reasonably slim screen tvs will do nicely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the plugs holes and usb ports are in the base, because the rest of it is just too thin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tv is thinner than the remote......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtHhHHKZI/AAAAAAAAAQM/CdETMCwteQc/s1600/4952692928_0d86a7b53d_b.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtHhHHKZI/AAAAAAAAAQM/CdETMCwteQc/s320/4952692928_0d86a7b53d_b.jpg&quot; width=&quot;212&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtJiFSj3I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/gMjd_y2_DOA/s1600/4952695060_4f858e42f4_b.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtJiFSj3I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/gMjd_y2_DOA/s320/4952695060_4f858e42f4_b.jpg&quot; width=&quot;213&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtHhHHKZI/AAAAAAAAAQM/CdETMCwteQc/s1600/4952692928_0d86a7b53d_b.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/09/super-super-super-flat-screen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TIAtFBDOjoI/AAAAAAAAAQI/hm8BwEzfhqA/s72-c/4952694124_9fd4c5afea_b.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-7841336895836429393</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-06T09:50:00.485+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Googlicious</title><description>A couple months ago Google held a contest in which various Google offices from across the world created Art Walls based around the Google name. Here are some of the seriously cool entries:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;315&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/i0kcuRiu7y4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/i0kcuRiu7y4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;315&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see pictures of more Google Art Walls, head over to the Google blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/23-walls-of-googley.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/09/googlicious.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-1259931465344376880</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-04T09:32:00.313+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">animals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Christian the Lion</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;So back in 1969 when, apparently, people could do pretty much whatever they wanted, two guys bought a lion cub from Harrods in London. I have no idea why they were selling lions in Harrods, or why these two guys thought it was a good idea to get one, but hey, everyone was on drugs back then.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Anyway, these guys bought this lion cub and named it Christian. They looked after it for well over a year until it was just too big and had to be reintroduced into the wild.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: block; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;A year after Christian left, his old owners got off drugs long enough to take a trip into the wild to visit their old friend. 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This guy is pretty ..... interesting?</title><description>I&#39;d like to introduce you to Chris Young, a mayoral candidate of Providence, Rhode Island. The first video shows him giving a tv interview, the second video is a clip from a debate. There are no words to describe this man, you just have to witness it for yourself. Oh and just a bit of advice.... you might want to skip the middle section of his tv interview... you will find out why....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;405&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/KK34q5zDZG8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/KK34q5zDZG8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;405&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;405&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/u0aYw4Vddps?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/u0aYw4Vddps?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;405&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-this-guy-is-pretty-interesting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-9108123104039943222</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-30T10:18:00.504+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">internet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>Facebook, Like or Dislike?</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.walyou.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/facebook-like-button-stamp-design.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;http://www.walyou.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/facebook-like-button-stamp-design.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Like it? Make it known!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_R0Rc6mb8H6E/TCMcDryHHZI/AAAAAAAAFj0/m9FBGXoWBtc/s1600/design-fetish-facebook-dislike-stamp.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;237&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_R0Rc6mb8H6E/TCMcDryHHZI/AAAAAAAAFj0/m9FBGXoWBtc/s320/design-fetish-facebook-dislike-stamp.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Not so keen? Then stamp it with this badboy. I so badly want to get one and attack Justin Bieber&#39;s forehead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facebook Like and Dislike stamps, buy them&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.wearenation.co.uk/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/facebook-like-or-dislike.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_R0Rc6mb8H6E/TCMcDryHHZI/AAAAAAAAFj0/m9FBGXoWBtc/s72-c/design-fetish-facebook-dislike-stamp.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-2778152464863713669</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-29T16:25:43.300+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">android</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunday Sevens</category><title>7 Reasons Why Android Phones Are Better Than iPhones</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/android.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;160&quot; src=&quot;http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/android.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a million reasons why Android walks all over the iphone, then goes back and tap dances on it...... then puts it in a choke hold for a while...... But here are 7 really big ones:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Being in &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Google&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s good book&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the most important reason to have an Android phone. When Google take over the world, which could be any day now, do you really want to be stood there trying to make a call on your iphone? (but failing because your hand is blocking the signal) No. You don&#39;t. You want to be using your Android phone to simultaneously update your twitter and facebook status to tell everyone how much you love Google.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;2. &lt;u&gt;The wide range of handsets&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets pretend that you are ridiculous and have decided to get an iphone. How could you possibly choose between all of the available handsets?!?! There&#39;s the iphone.... another iphone.... and another iphone. Great. How unique. Basically it comes down to whether you can afford the latest version which is supposedly an improvement on the previous one (despite the latest one losing all signal whenever you try to make a phone call, unless you hold the phone like a 3-toed sloth).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a respectable human being and want to get an Android phone, then I have bad news. You are going to have to spend some time looking at all of the available phones from all the different manufacturers, and narrow it down to one that is perfectly suited to you in every way. Don&#39;t you just hate individuality?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;3. &lt;u&gt;The home screen&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one really blows my mind. The idea of not having a customisable home screen actually hurts me. My HTC Hero has 7 home screens, each one set-up exactly how I want it with a background image, widgets and app shortcuts. With Android, its so great to have my calender, my favourite contacts and most recent text right there for me to see. Its so easy and quick to change the layout and style to suit my mood........ seriously apple, &amp;nbsp;I&#39;m actually embarrassed for you on this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;4. &lt;u&gt;The Android guy&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the Android mascot. He is just so cool. I love seeing his little face appear in a message in place of a smiley, incorporated into app icons, and as the default contact image. He is awesome, and be serious, who cares about an apple?! No one&amp;nbsp;that&#39;s&amp;nbsp;who. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;5. &lt;u&gt;Google aren&#39;t app Nazis&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Android phones come with lots of standard default apps such as a browser, a clock/timer/stopwatch, a music player and a text messaging&amp;nbsp;application. They are all pretty good but if you don&#39;t like one of them, or feel like it could do more.... just get a new one from the market! There are lots of different browser apps, or music player apps available for you to download and you are sure to find one that you love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;IPhone&quot;&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt; comes with lots of standard default apps....... but if you don&#39;t like them, that&#39;s tough. &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Apple Inc.&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; have decided that they have to approve every app on the market place (and can take them down whenever they want) and don&#39;t allow duplicates of built in applications. Epic fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;6. &lt;u&gt;Integration with Google.....ie. EVERYTHING&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google search, Google calender, Google reader, Google mail, Google maps, Google docs, Google sky map....... the list just goes on and on. Obviously Android is designed to seamlessly integrate with all of these things, iPhone... not so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One example of this is Google maps. On Android, Google maps is free and comes with sat nav and latitude. Its seriously swish and seriously useful. The iPhone version is yet to get the super awesome free sat nav part of Google maps, if it ever gets it at all. There is no&amp;nbsp;guarantee&amp;nbsp;iPhone will get Google-created apps, but with Android you know the little Android man will serve it up as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;7. &lt;u&gt;Because I said so&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the second most important reason to have an Android phone, to appease me when I take over the Sun, because Google will already have the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;&quot;&gt;                Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/5559357/iphone-vs-android-showdown-which-phone-is-best-for-power-users&quot;&gt;iPhone vs. Android Showdown: Which Phone Is Best for Power Users? [Showdown]&lt;/a&gt; (lifehacker.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/5623969/apples-app-store-dominated-by-pay-apps-googles-by-free-apps&quot;&gt;Apple&#39;s App Store Dominated By Pay Apps, Google&#39;s By Free Apps [Data]&lt;/a&gt; (gizmodo.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=5b7faad1-626d-48bf-8c8d-b4aeba1134f0&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/7-reasons-why-android-phones-are-better.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-7648295752955428792</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-28T08:38:00.134+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Its not the final countdown!</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_The_Final_Countdown_2000.JPG&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Final Countdown (song)&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Europe_The_Final_Countdown_2000.JPG/300px-Europe_The_Final_Countdown_2000.JPG&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Times, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_The_Final_Countdown_2000.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Times, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now everyone knows the song &#39;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Final-Countdown-Europe/dp/B00005NNMK%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00005NNMK&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;The Final Countdown&quot;&gt;The Final Countdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#39;, right? If you&amp;nbsp;don&#39;t, you should slap yourself about a bit then go and look it up. Anyway, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_%28band%29&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Europe (band)&quot;&gt;Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; are the Swedish &#39;one hit wonder&#39; rock band that made this song. Here are two little known facts about &lt;b&gt;Europe&lt;/b&gt; for you:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Their name can be spelt using only the top line of the keyboard (just discovered by my easily excitable housemate)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. They are actually AWESOME!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a video for their song, &#39;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Last-Look-incl-bonus-tracks/dp/B002E9HACG%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB002E9HACG&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;Last Look at Eden (incl. 2 bonus tracks)&quot;&gt;Last look at Eden&lt;/a&gt;&#39;&lt;/i&gt;, which is also the title of their latest album. Its just so damn good, its an awesome song and I can&#39;t believe it&amp;nbsp;isn&#39;t&amp;nbsp;more popular here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You should also check out their songs &lt;i&gt;&#39;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Night-Very-Best-Europe/dp/B0001MLIOE%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0001MLIOE&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;Rock the Night: Very Best of Europe&quot;&gt;Rock the night&lt;/a&gt;&#39;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&#39;Ninja&#39;&lt;/i&gt; ... yeah&amp;nbsp;that&#39;s&amp;nbsp;right, they have a song called ninja....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;315&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/IIspcDAbVk4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;                 &lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;                 &lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;                 &lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/IIspcDAbVk4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;315&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=86902500-039d-40d5-8bf2-255f02d3fa58&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-not-final-countdown.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-1477902662036536893</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-27T10:16:00.316+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><title>Stayne, Knave of Hearts</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice-In-Wonderland-Theatrical-Poster.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Alice-In-Wonderland-Theatrical-Poster.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;216&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 216px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice-In-Wonderland-Theatrical-Poster.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m not going to write a review on &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Wonderland-Johnny-Depp/dp/B001HN694K%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001HN694K&quot; rel=&quot;amazon&quot; title=&quot;Alice in Wonderland&quot;&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt; because to be honest I still don&#39;t know what I think of it. I so badly want to love it because it is a &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;Tim Burton&quot;&gt;Tim Burton&lt;/a&gt; movie, but when I look at it critically,&amp;nbsp;there&#39;s&amp;nbsp;just something missing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;What I am going to say though, is that someone very unexpected appears in it. I didn&#39;t recognise him upon first watching the film but after just seeing it again, its so obvious who it is!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thaipr.net/dsppic/dsppic.aspx?filesid=0F79A6DDD85D23C89734B53F20B64072&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;178&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thaipr.net/dsppic/dsppic.aspx?filesid=0F79A6DDD85D23C89734B53F20B64072&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fellow here, is Stayne - Knave of hearts, a lanky servant of the Red Queen. Does he look familiar?&lt;br /&gt;He should.......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stylecaster.com/files/size/486x/news/88444_1266522551.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;215&quot; src=&quot;http://www.stylecaster.com/files/size/486x/news/88444_1266522551.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McFly&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;George McFly&quot;&gt;George McFly&lt;/a&gt;!! Marty&#39;s dad in back to the future!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now when you watch Alice in Wonderland, all you will see is George McFly parading around in a heart shaped eyepatch and looking rather stretched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=tiflwhyoremao-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=B001HN694K&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=tiflwhyoremao-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=B00335EQ0E&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/stayne-knave-of-hearts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-6322572248575945020</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-26T10:03:00.516+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">animals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parody holidays</category><title>Dog Day</title><description>Every dog has his day, and apparently its this one! Today is Dog Day!&lt;br /&gt;I love dogs, they make such great pets and never fail to make you smile. Heres a little video to do just that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dog on a trampoline, yeh!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;405&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/dhpAvGvkpec?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/dhpAvGvkpec?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;405&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/dog-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-4516124640687622080</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-24T10:03:00.634+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">android</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><title>Android Pacman</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;This is quite possibly the best t-shirt ever... &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thmeremp.462786494#&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;go and buy it&amp;nbsp;here now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thmeremp.462786494#&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;It comes in a couple of different styles, for men and women. You know, i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;t was my birthday not that long ago..... belated present?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGajHf4tXrI/AAAAAAAAAP0/uHwF0aujUyo/s1600/andd.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGajHf4tXrI/AAAAAAAAAP0/uHwF0aujUyo/s400/andd.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/android-pacman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGajHf4tXrI/AAAAAAAAAP0/uHwF0aujUyo/s72-c/andd.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-227022485296638341</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-23T10:38:00.236+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">android</category><title>30 Awesome Android Apps - Part 2</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Other Cool Apps&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;module textmodule&quot; id=&quot;module109688521&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;imageDiv109688521&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_logo.gif&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;the android logo&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Android_logo.gif/300px-Android_logo.gif&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;272&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_logo.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;All apps are free unless stated otherwise&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Astrid&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a well known &#39;to do list&#39; type app. It looks good and is really easy to use. You can just make a simple to do list, or you can add extra info like tags, goal dates and expected duration. It also comes with an attractive home page widget&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Facebook Event Finder&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is a paid app&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This app is very useful for the facebook addict, and well worth the $0.99.&lt;br /&gt;Not only does it show you all the events you have responded to and all upcoming birthdays, but it also allows you to choose a couple of friends as &#39;Event guides&#39;. It then shows you events you may like based on what these event guides are attending. You can integrate all the events with your google calender for extra convenience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Morsel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a nice little random app that gives you daily health tips. Just little things that are easy for everyone to do and allows you to record the ones you have done and collect points. It has a nice UI and even allows you to share the tips with your friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Movies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a fantastic app for cinema times. When you are out and about you can look up what films are showing in cinemas near you, and when. You can look up the films on imdb, watch trailers and check their rating on rotten tomatoes. On top of all of this you can see upcoming films, new DVD releases, and keep track of your favourite movies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Opera Mini&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This browser&#39;s main advantage over the default one is its speed. It loads the pages zoomed out so it doesn&#39;t take as long. You can then zoom in and move around the page as you please. Its great for loading webpages on the go when using mobile internet, and also has a very nice start page and UI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Password Vault&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am useless at remembering passwords. Useless.&lt;br /&gt;I have so many different accounts online and I just can&#39;t keep track. This app allows you to keep track of all your passwords in one place, and you can secure &#39;the vault&#39; with just one singular password, or none at all, its up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sms Wishes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This nifty little app lets you set up text messages in advance. Say you want to ask your friend a question, but its pretty late and they&#39;ve probably gone to bed.....Normally you would just wait until the morning and totally forget to ask. But Sms wishes lets you write the text and set the time you want it sent. Job done.&lt;br /&gt;You can choose multiple recipients and save the message to be sent daily or weekly. You also have the option to check or uncheck saved texts whenever you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thinking Space&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a mind-mapping application. Its very simple and intuitive to use and allows you to create an attractive and useful thought cloud. You can make as many as you want and edit them at any time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;break&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://draft.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9160544422745750424&quot; name=&quot;module109674981&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;module textmodule&quot; id=&quot;module109674981&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;h2 class=&quot;module_title &quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 1.71em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;      &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;8 Fantasmic Free Games&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;imageDiv109674981&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;2 player reactor&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is the free version of the game, a paid version called &#39;4 player reactor&#39; can be purchased from the android market for more features.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compete against a friend in a series of mini games that involve quick reactions. Fastest player wins! This is an awesome 2 player game which only needs one phone. Its great fun if you and a friend have time to kill, or if you simply want to beat them at a game then gloat unbearably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chain react&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This simple little game is just so addictive. Make the bubbles explode and set of a chain reaction, try and hit the bonus bubbles for extra time and points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gem miner&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is another game with a paid version. For more features, search for &#39;gem miner dig deeper&#39;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This game is different to many other free games on the android market in that it isn&#39;t one off arcade style play. It&#39;s an on going challenge to get through the mine. Collect more gems, buy better equipment and avoid getting squished!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mastermind&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the phone version of the original and well known game, Mastermind. Try and guess the sequence correctly in the fewest tries possible. A simple concept, but an awesome classic game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number game&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever seen Countdown? Well this game is just the numbers round! Awesome right? Try and reach the given total as many times as possible in the time limit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summing cells&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good brain game, especially if you are bored of sudokus. Cells disappear when the sum of the surrounding squares is equal to the middle square. Clear the grid of numbers in as few moves as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trap!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try and trap all of the bouncing balls by drawing lines to create walls. But don&#39;t let the balls hit your walls before they are complete or you&#39;ll lose a life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zombie run&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got somewhere to go? Why not liven up the trip by playing Zombie Run. Simply set your destination on google maps, choose the speed of the zombies, and the level of infestation, then try and reach your destination without the Zombies eating your brains!! Now with a multi player option.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;&quot;&gt; Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/its-android-day-with-droid-2-voice-actions-and-chrome-to-phone/4463&quot;&gt;It&#39;s Android day with Droid 2, Voice Actions, and Chrome to Phone&lt;/a&gt; (zdnet.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20013481-265.html?part=rss&amp;amp;subj=RelevantResults&quot;&gt;Google unveils Android apps for voice, desktop sync&lt;/a&gt; (news.cnet.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=dbdd92f8-8847-4527-8914-6de7ce04551b&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/30-awesome-android-apps-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-4269565698909203810</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-22T10:26:00.293+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">android</category><title>30 Awesome Android Apps - Part 1</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Here is the first of 2 posts all about great android apps. All of these apps can be found by searching on the android market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Make the most of your android phone&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;module textmodule&quot; id=&quot;module109680661&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;module_subtitle&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 1.29em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;             Apps to sort your apps and enhance the default apps&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;imageDiv109680661&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Apps organizer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a really simple way to sort all of your apps. You can create categories for them, select your favourites, and decide which categories/apps you want as small, customizable icons on your home screen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/96941606@N00/4083009098&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_Market.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Android Market&quot; height=&quot;256&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Android_Market.png&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 256px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android_Market.png&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;AppAware&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you like discovering new apps then you should install AppAware. It tells you what apps are being installed and updated across the android world. You can narrow it down by your area, your type of android phone and the most popular ones in recent times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Handcent sms&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great step up from the default messages app. Highly customizable, with a useful pop up screen for your home page when you receive a new text.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shuffletone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This app randomizes your message tone and ring tone. You can select as many as you want, and how often you want your tone to be randomized (either by time or number of texts/calls) and it does the rest for you. You never have to get bored of your ringtone again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall switch&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is very similar to the previous app, but for your phone background. Give it a selection of images and tell you how often you want it to be changed, and you&#39;re all set! This is something that Locale used to do before it became a paid app,so here is a good free replacement for that particular feature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Apps to transform your phone&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #999999; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;Turn it into a remote, a scanner, an alarm clock......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #999999; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;all of these apps are free unless stated otherwise&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;module textmodule&quot; id=&quot;module109680671&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;write_module&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Barcode Scanner&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This app has a multitude of uses and works in conjunction with lots of other apps. Use it to check prices of products while you are out shopping, and find info on various things. A very handy app.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Geobeagle&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an app for people that enjoy geocaching. There are other geocaching apps out there but this one is free and does everything you need it to. You can download new caches, follow the gps directions and record your find. Simples. It also allows you to create a log file that can be uploaded to your geocaching.com account, to record your find online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gmote&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turn your phone into a remote for your laptop or computer. It&#39;s easy to set up and even easier to use. It comes with media controls such as pause, play, fast forward, and also a touch screen&amp;nbsp;mouse pad and keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Google Sky Maps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An awesome free app from google. Just start it up and point it at the night&amp;nbsp;sky to start exploring. It shows you the constellations and any planets within sight. Amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;National Rail&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is a paid app&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally I find this app incredibly useful as I travel by train a lot. Its quick and shows you all the info you could need in a very simple and clear way, with an attractive UI. Definitely worth spending £3 if you use trains often.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Printershare&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This app allows you to send all kinds of files straight to your computer for printing. You can also purchase the paid version for extra features, such as being able to send files straight to a wireless printer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scan2PDFmobile&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is a paid app&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scan2PDFmobile allows you to take pictures on your phone, and upload them to your laptop via email, in the form of a PDF. You can add multiple images together to create many pages in one large PDF file. Can be extremely useful but may not be worth paying for, for many people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shazam&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very popular free app on android, and if you haven&#39;t got it already..... where have you been???&lt;br /&gt;So there is a song playing on the radio that you don&#39;t know, and you cant be bothered to wait in vain to see if the DJ will tell you the title.... Just start up Shazam, let it have a listen, and it will tell you what the song it. Genius right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Smart Alarm Clock&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very clever app...... when it works. Unfortunately, the way the HTC hero is set up, stops this app from working properly, but hopefully this issue will be fixed soon.&lt;br /&gt;This isn&#39;t your basic alarm clock; it monitors your movement during&amp;nbsp;the night&amp;nbsp;so that it can wake you at the most appropriate time. If you wake up at the right time in your sleep cycle you will feel much more awake and refreshed for the day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;&quot;&gt; Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/24921/how-to-install-android-apps-and-share-contacts-using-qr-codes/&quot;&gt;How to Install Android Apps and Share Contacts Using QR Codes&lt;/a&gt; (howtogeek.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/82128.aspx&quot;&gt;Android Apps for Translating Speech to Text&lt;/a&gt; (brighthub.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=11c845d0-460d-4863-8922-ca0a014559ea&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/30-awesome-android-apps-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-2076340612747718003</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-22T12:58:33.347+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">android</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><title>New Phone?</title><description>Are you due a phone upgrade? Well if you can wait about a month, then you can have this &lt;a href=&quot;http://android.techhours.com/r2-d2-edition-droid-2-launching-september-30th/&quot;&gt;badboy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Thats right, an R2D2 edition phone!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/andyconnell/dxsXkTozkczv1tUbEWBQLrkf4b7mfi00Y2psyVXDUoXisqFxKv45rTQsZArj/3059363abcf41b06f57a0b3ccd8f7f.jpeg?AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&amp;amp;Expires=1282478505&amp;amp;Signature=GY89xXEjFJVHMqSfqL30nIoGWlM%3D&quot; width=&quot;158&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;x&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://android.marvinlee.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/motorola-android-leaked.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;166&quot; src=&quot;http://android.marvinlee.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/motorola-android-leaked.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;= &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;176&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.gsmarena.com/pics/10/08/r2-d2/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-phone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-479842002158518572</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-20T16:16:57.083+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">animals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>Sometimes Towel drying doesn&#39;t cut it</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;So Buster got soaking wet by attacking the garden hose, but decided that being towel dried wasn&#39;t enough. He had to take extra measures of his own to get nice and dry again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; class=&quot;BLOG_video_class&quot; id=&quot;BLOG_video-54a40e94dd8f45f&quot; classid=&quot;clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;//www.youtube.com/get_player&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;bgcolor&quot; value=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;flashvars&quot; value=&quot;flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D054a40e94dd8f45f%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dblogger%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1409492294%26sparams%3Dip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source%26signature%3D6F439118664641F6B386E24C7E8D4BC3839C0F7C.68FCBF36B28758DC4EABE726BFA243DB72911E44%26key%3Dck2&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D054a40e94dd8f45f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DQHGffBGyF5rarscjJUhM85vMlkk&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;//www.youtube.com/get_player&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot; flashvars=&quot;flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D054a40e94dd8f45f%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dblogger%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1409492294%26sparams%3Dip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source%26signature%3D6F439118664641F6B386E24C7E8D4BC3839C0F7C.68FCBF36B28758DC4EABE726BFA243DB72911E44%26key%3Dck2&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D054a40e94dd8f45f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DQHGffBGyF5rarscjJUhM85vMlkk&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger&quot; allowFullScreen=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Yes, my dog is this ridiculous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record (Yeti-hands-Liz): That is my mum with the farmer accent, calling Buster demented. It is NOT me!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/sometimes-towel-drying-doesnt-cut-it.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-1097989857020835665</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-19T10:05:00.871+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photographs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>Dirt Art</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/12/2009/11/500x_Peugeot_Fight.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;265&quot; src=&quot;http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/12/2009/11/500x_Peugeot_Fight.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;This is genius, so much more creative than &quot;clean me&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/dirt-art.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-8656365468043799421</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-18T10:36:00.395+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Body image</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>Who is Salt?</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/salt_jolie.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;230&quot; src=&quot;http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/salt_jolie.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Thats a very good question, who is salt?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;The first time I saw this poster, it took me a while to figure out&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;exactly who the star of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/&quot;&gt;Salt&lt;/a&gt; is....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;It looks like a strange &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000139/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;Cameron Diaz&quot;&gt;Cameron Diaz&lt;/a&gt; - Angry Lion&amp;nbsp;hybrid. This poster has blatantly been airbrushed beyond recognition. The whole point of the movie poster is to make people go &lt;i&gt;&#39;ooo Angelina Jolie is cool/hot/sensible with her career decisions. I will go and see that film!&#39;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Angelina_Jolie_at_Davos_crop.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 29JAN05 - Angelina Jolie, G...&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Angelina_Jolie_at_Davos_crop.jpg/300px-Angelina_Jolie_at_Davos_crop.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;174&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Angelina_Jolie_at_Davos_crop.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;But instead you either walk past the poster without a second glance because you didn&#39;t recognise the actress, or you look at it for 5 minutes and realise how warped the image is and realise how pathetic it is.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Angelina Jolie is a gorgeous woman! If photos of her are getting airbrushed beyond recognition, then what chance do the rest of us have???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-is-salt.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-183417172920216796</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-17T10:46:00.532+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">internet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>MLIN</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Triforce.svg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Three yellow triangles, forming the first subd...&quot; height=&quot;276&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Triforce.svg/300px-Triforce.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Triforce.svg&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You&#39;ve probably heard of FML. Its a site where people post about the crappy things that have happened to them and you get to let the evil child inside of you (99% of me) laugh at others&#39; misfortunes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But have you heard of MLIN? It stands for my life is nerdy, and my god...... their lives are nerdy.&lt;br /&gt;Its amazing, you should really go check it out, and to tempt you a bit more, here are a few MLIN posts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Today I wrote the general form of the Lorentz Transformation on a note card, and put it in my wallet to mess with anyone looking there. MLIN.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;The other day me and some friends were playing pictionary. I got the word &quot;lie&quot;, I drew a cake. My friend got it immediately. Both my life and his are nerdy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;My teacher told us to write an essay on how decision making can affect your life. I chose to write mine on how it is crucial when deciding what starter pokémon to use in order to succeed as a pokémon master. I think she liked it. MLIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Today I woke up from a dream where I was in a big white room with nothing but a computer. On it was the source code, in C++, to my body. Since I was sick, I had a great idea to delete the is_sick() function and compiled. Instead, I deleted sleep(), and the moment I realized that I woke up from my dream, and started to panic thinking I would never sleep again. Took me a good two minutes to realize it was just a dream. MLIN&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;This next one made me smile.... especially when I realised that its my text-tone too.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Today (two months ago) I set my ringtone for texts messages as the sound that plays when you open a treasure chest in the orginal Legend of Zelda games, my friends found this awesome. OLAN&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-related&quot;&gt;&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;&quot;&gt;  Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gonintendo.com/?p=123042&quot;&gt;Pokémon Black and White: What we know&lt;/a&gt; (gonintendo.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gonintendo.com/?p=132297&quot;&gt;The Pokémon Company International Introduces All-New Play! Pokémon Program&lt;/a&gt; (gonintendo.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=b823b0a1-c806-43d8-9430-d176eb8b70c6&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/mlin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-3656054078036206945</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-16T09:58:00.392+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parody holidays</category><title>My Birthday!!</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Today is my birthday!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s kind of all I have to say.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, seeing as I&#39;m feeling generous, you can have some little facts about August 16th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birthday.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Birthday&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Birthday.jpg/300px-Birthday.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birthday.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Famous people born on August 16th:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Madonna, 1958&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136797/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;Steve Carell&quot;&gt;Steve Carell&lt;/a&gt;, 1962&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;James Cameron&quot;&gt;James Cameron&lt;/a&gt;, 1954&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;Anna of Austria, Queen of Poland (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;But not queen of Austria apparently)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif;&quot;&gt;1573&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Famous people that died on August 16th:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Elvis Presley&quot;&gt;Elvis Presley&lt;/a&gt;, 1977&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;Jakob Bernoulli, 1705 (&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Bernoulli trials? &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_number&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Bernoulli number&quot;&gt;Bernoulli numbers&lt;/a&gt;? no? go and math up!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Babe Ruth&quot;&gt;Babe Ruth&lt;/a&gt;, 1948&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Idi Amin&quot;&gt;Idi Amin&lt;/a&gt;, 2003...... &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;way to bring down the mood&lt;/span&gt;....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;Today is also Roller Coaster Day! Which is pretty apt, as I freaking love&amp;nbsp;roller coasters. I think someone should buy me one for my birthday.... I&#39;ll just wait here....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=d6304b7c-22bd-4504-9990-c5798cea7d12&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-birthday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-6469597920516900201</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-15T13:57:16.088+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunday Sevens</category><title>7 Seriously messed up &#39;kids&#39; films</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moomin_characters.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The Moomins, from Japanese–Finnish television-...&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Moomin_characters.png/300px-Moomin_characters.png&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moomin_characters.png&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;Here are 7 kids movies that are both awesome and just plain &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;..... and I mean really really wrong. I watched them all when I was growing up (with the exception of number 3 which I watched as an adult) and I&#39;m fairly confident that they are 83% responsible for how messed up I am today. The other 17% is down to my parents and, of course, the moomins.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;So here we go, in no particular order, 7 messed up kids films:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100944/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;The Witches (1990 film)&quot;&gt;The Witches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thetorchonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/witches2-15-09.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://thetorchonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/witches2-15-09.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Now try telling me that isn&#39;t scary! This image has been burnt into my retina since childhood. The whole film is just sinister and creepy and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;wrong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;However, at the same time, this film is a great adaptation of the book, &#39;The Witches&#39; by Roald Dahl, so its hard not to love it. I guess it comes down to whether your love for Roald Dahl over comes your love for your child&#39;s sanity........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;2. &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095489/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;The Land Before Time&quot;&gt;Land Before Time&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media.photobucket.com/image/the%20land%20before%20time%20dies/inkandpixelclub/Land%20Before%20Time/lbt06.jpg?o=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu18/inkandpixelclub/Land%20Before%20Time/lbt06.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;They made 18 of these badboys. 18!! I&#39;ve only seen the first few so I can&#39;t really pass judgement on them as a series (maybe I can after the inevitable land before time movie marathon!!!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;All I know is I rewatched the first one not that long ago, and my world was shattered. For the past 15 or so years, I had been convinced that Littlefoot merely got separated from his mother whilst on the way to the &#39;Great Valley&#39; and that mother and son were reunited at the end.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Wrong!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The truth is..... she dies. She dies trying to defend him from a T-Rex, and thats that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;She dies and he doesn&#39;t understand. Theres even a heart wrenching moment where he thinks she has returned to him..... but it turns out to just be his oversized shadow on a rock.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Excuse me while I go and cuddle my mother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;3. &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/&quot; rel=&quot;imdb&quot; title=&quot;The Dark Crystal&quot;&gt;Dark Crystal&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://biloxxxi.com/biloxxxi/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/skeksis.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;310&quot; src=&quot;http://biloxxxi.com/biloxxxi/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/skeksis.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim Henson is a deeply disturbed man, and he seems to&amp;nbsp;thoroughly&amp;nbsp;enjoy passing his problems on to young children via the media of film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;His Dark Crystal puppets are terrifying, especially the Skeksis. This sexy fella in the picture is one of the skeksis. Hot, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.henson.com/images/fantasy/darkcrystal/dc_char-jen.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://www.henson.com/images/fantasy/darkcrystal/dc_char-jen.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But the thing that made me feel most uncomfortable about Dark Crystal was in fact, Jen.&amp;nbsp;Jen is a gelfling and the protagonist of the story, and as you can see from the picture, he (yes, he) is not scary, right? &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wrong!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;He is just too sweet looking. I always felt like he was pretending to be all naive and gentle but in reality he was a terrifying and disturbed little man. Its kind of similar to the way I felt whenever I looked at Michael Jackson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/&quot;&gt;Pom Poko&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xopl.com/blog/embedded/pompokoballs2.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;227&quot; src=&quot;http://www.xopl.com/blog/embedded/pompokoballs2.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I am aware that pretty much all of the Studio Ghibli films are weird, and an odd mix of kids stuff and adult content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take this image on the left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Kids stuff:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;Flying racoons yeh!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Adult content:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;Those suspiciously furry parachutes they are using? Yeh... that would be their ball sacks. I wish I was kidding, I honestly do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in short this film is about transforming racoons that can do nifty tricks with various body parts and love to party. Really really love to party. At one point, they have a party to celebrate successfully causing multiple human deaths on the nearby construction site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/&quot;&gt;The NeverEnding Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.granateseed.com/futilepodcast/wp-content/uploads/artax.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;207&quot; src=&quot;http://www.granateseed.com/futilepodcast/wp-content/uploads/artax.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;There are 3 things to say about this movie, 3 reasons why it has scarred me for life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Firstly&lt;/span&gt;, its NEVERENDING! The idea of being trapped in a story forever, trapped in a nightmare!! Not Cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Secondly&lt;/span&gt;, the fantasy land of Fantasia is being consumed by &lt;i&gt;the nothing&lt;/i&gt;, how sinister is that? A deadly force that you can&#39;t see, how are you meant to stop that??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Finally&lt;/span&gt;, I&#39;m not sure how to put this .....&lt;br /&gt;Artax dies in the swamp of sadness. He is overcome by sadness and dies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;6. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/&quot;&gt;Labyrinth&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.planetperplex.com/img/labyrinth_movie.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;202&quot; src=&quot;http://www.planetperplex.com/img/labyrinth_movie.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim Henson&#39;s creepy puppets strike again!! Weird but awesome fantasy characters combined with David Bowie, as the baby-stealing Goblin King, what more could a child want? Other than parents that aren&#39;t hell bent on destroying their mental well being, of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is one particularly disturbing thing in this movie, that far out-creeps any part of any other movie on this list. ....... David Bowie&#39;s Crotch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is wearing some seriously inappropriately clingy trousers for a kids movie. They are uber-crotch-hugging leggings! Plus I dont think its a coincidence that the puppet, Hoggle, is crotch height... and has a lot of &#39;&lt;i&gt;close but not close enough to cut out Bowie&#39;s crotch&lt;/i&gt;&#39; shots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;7. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089908/&quot;&gt;Return to Oz&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have two words for you ... &lt;b&gt;The Wheelers!!!!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;260&quot; width=&quot;480&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/2MLVfQOknYM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot;&gt;           &lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;           &lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;           &lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/2MLVfQOknYM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;border=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;260&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I honestly spent 10 years thinking that return to oz was some big nightmare that I had as a child. I honestly just thought that the wheelers were some vile,&amp;nbsp;disturbing&amp;nbsp;figment of my imagination. If only it were true, then all those other children wouldnt have suffered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On top of the wheelers, theres the Nome King, and Mombi; the witch that steals other peoples heads and swaps them for hers on a regular basis. How delightful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=5123b43b-0b91-4e69-8af9-b5ed54632d0d&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/7-seriously-messed-up-kids-films.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu18/inkandpixelclub/Land%20Before%20Time/th_lbt06.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-9070480449805367643</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-15T10:20:00.573+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parody holidays</category><title>Hello Day</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Graham_Bell_in_colors.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Alexander Graham Bell&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Alexander_Graham_Bell_in_colors.jpg/300px-Alexander_Graham_Bell_in_colors.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Graham_Bell_in_colors.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;On August 15th 1877, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Thomas Edison&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Thomas Edison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt; wrote a letter stating that we should answer the phone by saying &#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Hello&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Hello&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&#39; instead of &#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahoy_%28greeting%29&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Ahoy (greeting)&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Ahoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&#39;, as previously suggested by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Alexander Graham Bell&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Alexander Graham Bell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Now I&#39;m sorry Mr Edison, but you made the world a much more boring place by writing that letter. I know my day would be made just that little bit brighter if someone answered my call with Ahoy!!! I would feel like I had just started a conversation with a whimsical old seadog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;So lets make Hello Day a real holiday by only answering a call with &#39;Hello&#39; on this one day every year. Every other day...... Ahoy there!!! Alexander style!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;How badass does Alexander look.....that is one mighty beard.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=3dea3e16-313e-46d0-bd78-eded2d00c519&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/hello-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-326755032208405520</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-14T10:37:00.418+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>Marilyn Monroe</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGND1Pj8z5I/AAAAAAAAAPw/m-SiZ7dxEYU/s1600/proof.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGND1Pj8z5I/AAAAAAAAAPw/m-SiZ7dxEYU/s640/proof.jpg&quot; width=&quot;532&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/marilyn-monroe.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7oBSHsyRTgI/TGND1Pj8z5I/AAAAAAAAAPw/m-SiZ7dxEYU/s72-c/proof.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-4971057845239982350</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-14T15:12:50.184+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photographs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><title>Glorious Geek Attire</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/QWERTY-Shoes.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/NotesShop/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/QWERTY-Shoes.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Qwerty Shoes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Pause for a while and let that sink in........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/glorious-geek-attire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-5262544840249818622</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-12T10:43:00.122+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><title>35 Films</title><description>This is a very stylish video, containing little homages to 35 different movies. Can you guess them all?&lt;div&gt;Tell me what they are! I can&#39;t get anywhere near 35.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes I am hanging my head in shame.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;281&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13334581&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13334581&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=1&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;loop=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;281&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/13334581&quot;&gt;35mm&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/felixmeyer&quot;&gt;Felix Meyer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/35-films.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-3527089780250028576</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-15T21:25:47.142+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">geeky stuff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">internet</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunday Sevens</category><title>7 Awesome Web Comics</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanide_and_hapiness.svg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;a figure that we can see in Cyanide and Happin...&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Cyanide_and_hapiness.svg/300px-Cyanide_and_hapiness.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanide_and_hapiness.svg&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Another Sunday Seven!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;7 Seriously Awesome Webcomics&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;They are all a bit geeky, a bit weird, and really really funny. Why not kill an entire Sunday afternoon just going through all of the comic archives? Don&#39;t act like you&#39;ve got anything better to do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://abstrusegoose.com/&quot;&gt;Abstruse goose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.robotswithfeelings.com/&quot;&gt;Robots With Feelings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/&quot;&gt;The Oatmeal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.explosm.net/comics/2122/&quot;&gt;Cyanide and Happiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1317&quot;&gt;The Doghouse Diaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smbc-comics.com/#comic&quot;&gt;Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s an SMBC for you:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&amp;amp;id=1873&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&amp;amp;id=1873&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100506.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=215b219e-fe90-49e5-8edb-0be48d206e8b&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/7-awesome-web-comics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9160544422745750424.post-4789849362270552873</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-08T10:37:00.317+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parody holidays</category><title>Sneak some Zucchini onto your neighbours porch day!</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-img separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Courgettes_primeur_artlibre_jnl.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Zucchini/Courgettes&quot; height=&quot;612&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Courgettes_primeur_artlibre_jnl.jpg/300px-Courgettes_primeur_artlibre_jnl.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: none; font-size: 0.8em;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zemanta-img-attribution&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;Image via &lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Courgettes_primeur_artlibre_jnl.jpg&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;..... or as we sensible Brits call them, Courgettes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This holiday is supposedly about having too many &#39;Zucchinis&#39;, hence sharing them with your neighbours or something sensible and generous like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I&#39;m fairly sure that if you put some courgettes on your neighbours&#39; doorstep they would find it pretty weird. So lets do it!! The weirdness factor makes this holiday much more interesting and fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some ideas for courgette-neighbour related&amp;nbsp;activity:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Carve a courgette into a statuette of your neighbour before putting it in their garden..... not too close to the front door or they might stand on it when they leave the house.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use lots of courgettes to spell something out on their front lawn. eg. Spell &#39;HELP&#39;, that&#39;d be a pretty bizarre thing to wake up to.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fashion yourself lots of hand-carved courgette jewellery, then go next door and say hello neighbour!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Give the courgettes various facial expressions, then hide them amongst your neighbours flowers and see how long it takes them to notice their presence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_a.png?x-id=a0351db7-930b-40e6-a613-14fd802185fc&quot; style=&quot;border: none; float: right;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://madeofsponge.blogspot.com/2010/08/sneak-some-zucchini-onto-your.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Me-and-I)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>