Just nipping to the loooooaaarrrggghhhhh… THUD

Food | Insanity | Linkage | penge @ 16:14, February 29th, 2008.

Do you fit all of the following criteria?

Hungry
A fan of fine food and wines
Rich
Mentally unstable 

Excellent! Then you and up to 21 other guests can have dinner in a most unusual restaurant! That’s right, visit dinnerinthesky.com , book your places and experience food eaten from a table suspended up to 50 metres in the air! Er… no [...]

Earthquake UK 2008 : The Devastation

Current Affairs | Horror | penge @ 10:21, February 27th, 2008.

At almost 01:00 hours this morning, Great Britain was struck by an earthquake. Measuring a mighty, almost implausibly horrific 5.3 on the Richter Scale, Earthquake UK 2008 has caused untold devastation across our fair land. A Police spokesperson for Lincolnshire, the epicentre of this nightmarish creation of Mother Nature, said “There is slight structural damage, cracks [...]

FOUND: Trench and Penge

Service Announcement | Web | penge @ 16:00, February 26th, 2008.

Being the popular mega-celebrities we are, given Randomlinkage’s fame and success all around the interweb’s magical tubes of information, Mr Trench and I find it difficult to take holidays away without getting surrounded by adoring fans. There was once a time when we would leave Randomlinkage HQ and travel to our secret hideouts. Mr Trench [...]

Space Pirates meet Ghostbusters

Music | Television | penge @ 18:55, February 25th, 2008.

Everyone on Earth, even those in untouched jungle civilisations, know and love the Ghostbusters theme tune (theme tune, film soundtrack, you know the one I mean, the one by Ray Parker Jr). Many people, though not as many as those who love the Ghostbusters theme tune, are really quite fond of the theme to the [...]

Marmalade? Er, no thanks, I’ll just have butter

Food | Insanity | Money | penge @ 17:45, February 23rd, 2008.

What do you have on your toast in the mornings? Some people have butter, others have jam, a few enjoy a bit of marmite and some people choose to have marmalade.
I doubt many people would have this marmalade however, given that it’s £5000 a jar.
To cover a standard piece of toast with this marmalade of [...]

Oddbox : 23 February

Oddbox | penge @ 09:30, February 23rd, 2008.

In what I’ll try to make a regular feature but instead will end up as something I tend to forget about until it’s too late, let’s hear it for the BBC website’s Oddbox. I have linked to this a few times before so hopefully some of you will be aware of it. It’s a collection [...]

Vain man loses his mind : A Case Study

F1 | Insanity | Linkage | Money | penge @ 18:23, February 22nd, 2008.

The Subject : Mr Afzal Khan, owner of Khan Design, a specialist car design company.
The Charge : That Mr Khan has clearly lost his mind, has lost sense of reality and is clearly making up for massive deficiencies in the manhood department.
The Evidence : The main evidence is that he spent £440,625 on a number [...]

On the edge… with £10

Money | Observations of Life | penge @ 18:12, February 21st, 2008.

Here at Randomlinkage HQ we like to take risks. We live by the skin of our teeth, fearless of ourcomes, not caring about the consequences of our reckless actions. Yesterday, I took it to a new level.
Firstly, I’d spent a single pound Sterling on a lottery ticket. See? Risking my own personal wealth there. My [...]

Mario Kart Wii looks jolly splendid too

Gaming | Wii | penge @ 19:40, February 20th, 2008.

In other Nintendo classic multiplayer game news, the Wii version if Mario Kart is to be released on April 25th.
But instead of me telling you all about it, read the sultry words of GeekBoy over on TeamTeaBag as he casts his eye over the latest mushroom kingdom race-fest.
If you can’t be bothered, massively edited highlights include [...]

Smash Bros Brawl looks jolly splendid

Gaming | Wii | penge @ 18:19, February 20th, 2008.

Most fans of Nintendo and all of their numerous franchises and characters will no doubt be aware of the ’smash-em-up’ game Smash Brothers, one of the now obligatory titles for a Nintendo console. The Wii is soon to be blessed with the latest incarnation of Smash Brothers, this one called Brawl, and it looks excellent.
Eurogamer [...]

Hat + Whip + Ford = Excitement

Movies | Trailers | penge @ 18:00, February 19th, 2008.

If you live underneath a bridge or perhaps a rock then you won’t have heard that there is a new instalment of the Indiana Jones saga on it’s way to our cinematic screens in the near future. For the rest of us, the excitement has been building for a while and the anticipation to see [...]

Compare and contrast of the week.

Retro | Television | trench @ 18:37, February 18th, 2008.

Exhibit A: Intro to new Knight Rider pilot. ‘Rawk’-ified music, retro wireframe graphics, black & white muscle car advert footage:

Exhibit B: Knight Rider 2000 intro. Amzingly shoddy infomercial style music, quasi-futuristic ’swishing’ 2000 text.

Bonus exhibit: The original.
Note to self: Resist temptation to buy original series on dvd. Was not as awesome as intro suggests. Apart [...]

Bag bother

Observations of Life | penge @ 20:26, February 14th, 2008.

Sorry everyone, it’s another rant. Just to forewarn you, if you don’t want to read my rant about supermarkets then go away and do something more constructive. There we go, just the 2 readers now. Thanks Mum and Dad.
My anger was recently bought to the surface whilst on a shopping trip to my local Tesco. [...]

Roy of the dead.

Movies | Respect | trench @ 23:50, February 11th, 2008.

As you may have heard readers, beloved actor Roy Scheider passed away recently. Accordingly, I think it only fitting that I publish this sixteen page eulogy I had written for just such an eventuality. True enough I had predicted that old Roy would have died at the hands of Mr Penge, specifically the business end [...]

Hhhiiiyyyyy-panda!

Movies | Trailers | penge @ 09:20, February 10th, 2008.

It’s not very often that I scoop Mr Trench in matters of film and movie, so let’s enjoy this moment as I highlight a surefire martial arts hit that Mr Trench hasn’t seen on his ninja radar. That’s right, me and all the martial arts experts around the world are talking about…
Kung Fu Panda.
After hearing [...]