http://www.twobraincells.com Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:52:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Players will receive a message informing them that if they weigh themselves while holding their pets, then weigh themselves again separately and subtract the two, the difference will tell them how much their pet weighs (Shigeru Miyamoto's translator Bill Trinen, speaking about Wii Fit) http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/04/25/this-is-why-nintentdo-is-brilliant/ Names altered to protect identities. 17:18 [a] ah [a] do you have a box spring bed? [b] I'm not sure, what's one of those? 17:19 [a] basically it doesn't have a frame [a] it has a springy thing as the base [a] basically [b] Oh, with big springs going across sideways? 17:20 [a] if you fill a sandwich bag with vaseline ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/04/21/little-pearls-of-wisdom/ See my handily annotated screenshot: Here's the original page. http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/03/13/how-to-confuse-people-with-upcomingorg/ An anecdote. I love a good tale of l'esprit d'escalier actually occurring before one hits the stairs. http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/02/29/an-anecdote/ I want some of these shelves, so that my home can look more like my Dock. http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/02/29/stacks-like-shelves/ Pixish is a new site which claims to use crowdsourcing and peer review to help businesses source custom photography and illustration. From the site, here's 'how it works': Create an Assignment. Ask for what you want. Get Submissions. People create and submit their work. Peer Review. Community voting helps find the best. Pick Winners. Select ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/02/10/pixish-bad-ethics/ I am loving The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. In this episode, she deals with lolcats. http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/01/12/the-non-adventures-of-wonderella/ http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/01/11/spot-who-didnt-read-the-instructions/ Drinking coffee before going to bed GOOD PLAN.07:28 PM January 26, 2007 Totally not eating Nutella straight from the jar.11:29 AM February 23, 2007 Mmm, egg chips and beans. More of a second dinner than a midnight snack, really. Wasn't my idea; I blame the other half.11:47 PM March 04, 2007 My problem ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/01/08/2007-a-year-in-summary-via-the-medium-of-food-and-drink-related-twitter-updates/ I'm seeing this kind of thing a lot lately: I seem to start writing a lot of stuff that I can't be bothered to finish. Or, equally, I write stuff that I decide is stupid, and so I decide not to post it. The latter, at least, is good, I think ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/01/07/no-follow-through/ ...but it is very difficult when the Clinique UK website tells me to use my Scruffing Lotion (3.5, for normal to oily skin) before shaving, while the Clinique USA website tells me to use it after shaving. What is a boy to do? Update: I have 'email[ed] an expert' at Clinique. I ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2008/01/06/i-am-trying-harder-to-look-after-my-skin/ On 13 November I mentioned that Rackspace's Texas datacenter had suffered a major power and service outage. Now their London datacenter has suffered a similar loss of power and service. Half the servers are down. Not a good couple of months for Rackspace. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/12/05/rackspace-fails-again/ From the article about MFI: For many years, MFI allowed customers to buy their items in the store and leave the store with their furniture . This was stopped in the mid-1990s due to cost and from then on all furniture was delivered from large warehouses. This has resulted in MFI ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/28/more-truth-from-wikipedia/ The Register reports that O2, Nokia and Transport for London are starting a trial of a technology which lets you use your mobile phone as an Oyster card. It's based on a new Nokia handset, the '6131-NFC', which has a specific new kind of wireless technology built in. So you'll need ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/27/oyster-card-on-your-phone/ http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/20/more-well-placed-advertising/ A. joined the chat room. chrismear: hey A.: hi there A. left the chat room. (Quit: anti-depression walkies) chrismear: Well, that's a ringing endorsement of my conversation skills. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/14/conversation-skills/ Forces you to do hand-stands, thus decreasing your risk of RSI. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/new-interface-feature-in-the-finder/ AppleInsider picks out the really important stuff in the upcoming Office 2008 for the Mac: However, Microsoft did finally get the floppy disk icon right. Previous versions of Office on both the Mac and Windows depicted the floppy disk with the metal shield backwards from how a real floppy looked, with ... http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/important-new-feature-in-office-2008/ http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/best-obviously-wrong-multiple-choice-answer-ever/ 37signals had some downtime recently because of a failure at Rackspace. Rackspace advertises on 37signals' site. So you get this: http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/obligatory-point-and-laugh-advertising-dissonance-post/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritter_sport David: God, whoever wrote this is way too into Ritter Sport. David: Also, "sport"? David: It's a fucking chocolate bar. Update: Something tells me that variety number 24, "Nutella with horse power", may not be an accurate reporting of the facts. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/sport/ Chris: oh god, i didn't realise this new beowulf movie was all 3D David: Holy shit, seriously? Chris: Yeah. David: Estimated time frame for naked 3d model of Angelina Jolie to appear on the internet? http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/13/estimated-time-frame/ "Met on the Tube is a missed connections site for people who ride London's transport system. Meet that cute guy or girl who you chatted with in the ride to work." 'Chatted with'? Clearly this person has never ridden the Tube. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/08/met-on-the-tube/ Scratchcard game cancelled because it requires punters to understand negative numbers. And they don't. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/11/08/scratchcard-game-cancelled-because-it-requires-punters-to-understand-negative-numbers/ The theme tune to the 30-year-old sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em spells "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" in Morse code, it has just been discovered. Genius. http://www.twobraincells.com/2007/10/04/morse-code-in-the-some-mothers-do-ave-em-theme-tune/