Articles October 29, 2008

Picture : Rock Tombs

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Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Lycian rock tombs from Daylan, Turkey

Articles October 29, 2008

Picture : Let sleeping dogs

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Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

All the dogs in Turkey seem to be asleep most of the time.

Articles October 22, 2008

25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

Get more out of Twitter.
25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles October 14, 2008

Baumhauser : Amazing Prefab Treehouses by Baumraum

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I always wanted a tree house as a kid, this looks like an idea one :)

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Baumhauser : Amazing Prefab Treehouses by Baumraum

By Alex Ion on trees

Articles October 9, 2008

Opera 9.6 released

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My browser of choice for my aging home laptop and desktop computers.

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Opera 9.6 released

By Brad Linder on opera-browser

Articles October 8, 2008

MediaMonkey

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I found the intelligent tag editor really useful.

MediaMonkey 3.0.5.1187

MediaMonkey is a music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information…

Articles October 7, 2008

MagLev Toy Train

MagLev Toy Train, what you buy the geek who has everything for Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5el1A5B-h3Q

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles October 6, 2008

Gaming grub

“Gamer Grub is a great tasting snack that boosts your core gaming systems, such as visual input, cognitive processing, signal transmission and muscle reflexes for maximum gaming performance."

Basically a meal in a can, kinda like those weight loss drinks. So you can keep gaming all night long. In my day we had to make do with pizza, crisps, chocolate and fizz drinks!

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles October 6, 2008

[BBC] James May's Big Ideas: Man-Machine

What happened to all the robots?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dxdwl

Articles October 6, 2008

Tooth Tunes - get that song out of my head!

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Plays “Can’t Get You out of My Head” by Kylie perhaps?

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Tooth Tunes - get that song out of my head!

By Dan on hmm..interesting

Toy behemoth Hasbro hase released a music-playing toothbrush called Tooth Tunes. The idea being you keep brushing your teeth until the music runs out. The freaky part is the music is transmitted into your ears via bone conduction through your jaw so you can only hear the music if you’re […]