Spot The Ball

Americans don't know the delights of the ancient game of spot the ball, but if they did, surely this image from Saturday's paper would be a contender:

Federal Theater Project

I've managed to secure a whopping 55mb of free webspace, but I'm told that I need FTP to get access to it, and I'm afraid I'm stumped. As with most computery things, I'm sure it's fairly simple, but I'd appreciate it if someone could walk me through what I'm supposed to do. Thanks!

Big In Japan

Does anyone know how or where I can get imported Japanese CDs in the US? I'm particularly interested in soundtracks from games and anime. Any ideas?

Liberal Bias In The Media

Now, I know that the Grauniad is a left-wing paper, but even I didn't expect this of them, from Saturday's front page:

That's not to say I don't approve, however...

For Rad

I don't want to be left open to the nasty fondlings of spambots, so here's a screenshot of my Gmail address.





Quite why electronic communications seem to have completely broken down over this thing, I don't know. Clearly the fates have decided that I am to be denied a copy of my own Ben Bigby: Space Ace...

Lost In Time (or the King of Geek)

I'm still alive here, but all available bandwidth is being put toward dowloading the "leaked" Doctor Who episode. So, you see, everyone benefits...

Is it because the award itself looks like a yellow T-1000?

Does anyone know why the theme music to the Oscars this year was a Mexican cantina version of the Terminator theme? I certainly didn't see any malevolent cyborgs from the future...

it's snow problem

Anyone know how to get past this screen in Creatures 2: Torture Trouble?

I can move that rock back and forth by shooting it, and my guess is that I need to somehow get it into the snow machine so it falls on the pink snowball chucker. Because, you see, he's chucking snowballs into the water and raising the water level, so that green thingie can bite my mate (hanging from the rope) in half. I'm the pink and grey thing by the rock at the top of the screen by the way. But how do I get the rock across the gap and into the snow machine? And what's the ramp on the left for? Occasionally, I've managed to slide down it and land on that flying bat thing, but then he collapses under my weight and we both fall into the flames. Gah!

In all the video rental shops in all the world...

Given that I'm about 4000 miles away from the country it was broadcast in, the last thing I expected to see in my local Blockbuster was a dvd of Stella Street. Now I understand that they did a full-length film of it last year, and that's what's on the shelves rather than the original shorts that BBC2 used to put on, but still...

Blimey. I'll be on the lookout for a Glam Metal Detectives boxed set then.

Marathon Man

Apparently, I am some natural anomaly, an abomination, an abberation. It seems that it's impossible to anaesthetise me. Ouch.