webcam hijinks

Currenty "broadcasting" the Waterford-Clare hurling match, should you care to observe such a thing. I'm off out for a walk myself.

from the UK branch of Fox

Choice viewing this evening on Sky One: "Bras Unpadded", an in-depth look at, er, bras, followed by "Prince Harry Laid Bare", an in-depth look at one of Prince Charles' sons.

And people wonder why I go to the pub.

...meanwhile, on BBC2...

A nun, in a monster truck.

No, seriously. She's just driven over 5 cars, with only a few hours training.

I'm still giggling. Go Top Gear!

more fun from Top Gear

The Chevy Escalade, described by the presenter as "it's like putting wing mirrors on a three-bedroom semidetached house". He says, "this dashboard? they just cut a wheely bin in half to make this. It's all one piece of plastic".

why Linux still can't cut it in the "real world"...

Poking through some games for Linux, I find frozen-bubble, which is described thusly:

Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 50 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.

Uh, nice, but, eh, what is the GAME, exactly?

(it's a "shoot a coloured ball to match other coloured balls" game, and it's very pretty and has really good sound, but the difficulty of the levels is completely random, and I gave up around level 67 or so)