Random Pluggage.

Service Announcement | Web | trench @ 18:01, July 30th, 2008.

Just a brief, timely reminder of the existance of my Google Reader feed. You can view my picks of the megatubes in three places:

The last five items are at the bottom of the right-hand menu bar. Go on, have a look now, I’m not lying.
Google Reader auto generates a ninja-themed webpage for my last dozen [...]

Age = Age + 1

Linkage | SF | Service Announcement | penge @ 18:00, July 30th, 2008.

A little bit of coding geekery there for our computer-savvy readers. For our normal readers, that means ‘birthday’. And who’s birthday is it today? It’s Mr Trench’s birthday of course!
Happy Birthday Mr Trench. You’re very spritely for an old chap. Bravo for not dying.
In honour of this special day, myself and the slaves, sorry, the [...]

Bargain ALERT

Food | Money | penge @ 18:48, July 29th, 2008.

Quickly! Observe the bargain ALERT! If I had the knowledge to make a red light that flashed on and off in that urgent way that only red lights can do, I’d make one, but I don’t, so I can’t. Still, there is exciting news afoot.
Our big proper Tesco store, not the little Tesco Express, is [...]

Eranu…

Comedy | Insanity | Television | penge @ 15:00, July 29th, 2008.

In a small snippet of news that certainly surprised me, it’s been confirmed that Shooting Stars, the ‘madcap’ and ‘wacky’ gameshow featuring Vic and Bob, will return for a Christmas special.
And there was much rejoicing!
Vic, Bob and Matt Lucas are all going to be there, so let’s hope they can get Ulrika-ka-ka-ka and Mark Lamarr [...]

Affirmative Master!

Television | penge @ 20:33, July 28th, 2008.

There are good ideas and there are bad ideas. Somewhere in the middle is the ‘unsure’ idea, which could swing either way given the slightest nudge. I think I have found an unsure idea, waiting to be judged.
K-9, the TV series.
Doctor Who’s faithful robotic companion, K-9, is being given his own series. Partly computer animated, [...]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

Gaming | Wii | penge @ 14:46, July 25th, 2008.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is brilliant. Properly brilliant. So brilliant that I’m finding it hard to draw myself away from my Wii console to write this.
So bye!
But seriously, this game is just great fun. The standard ‘Brawl’ mode is just a bit of a violence-fest, where your chosen character has to beat the merry hell [...]

Bishido.

Current Affairs | Television | trench @ 22:01, July 21st, 2008.

Dissappointment readers. Not, strangely enough, in my own aneamic posting schedule. Not, puzzling, in Mr Penge’s refusal to post candid photography of himself to increase our female readership. Dissapointment readers of the very worst kind.
Auntie Beeb has let the side down massively.
Because when we see a program listed with the title “Battle Of The Bishops”, [...]

I’ll have ten of everything please

Gaming | Linkage | penge @ 20:00, July 20th, 2008.

The website www.games.net has an excellent feature called Net Ten Features. The concept is simple; list 10 things related to gaming in general. Topics are varied, ranging from the Top Ten Hugely Overrated Games to the The Ten Best Apocalypses in Gaming. Good stuff. Here’s the main list.
In a lazy sort of way, I thought [...]

Say cheese! You murderous law-breaking bastard.

Bodily Harm | Linkage | penge @ 19:00, July 19th, 2008.

Criminals are bad folk. They’re naughty people who have broken the law and are generally rather unpleasant. But when they get caught, they have to have their mugshots taken and the interweb can bring us some of the finest comedy mugshots! Gawd bless the intertubes magical data delivery gnomes.
This is Mugshot Du Jour, a website [...]

The Swindon Grand Prix

Gaming | Linkage | penge @ 06:00, July 16th, 2008.

Hi there readers. I’ve just been racing around Swindon. I won the Northampton Grand Prix, and the Leicester Town Centre Sprint Race, but alas in the Swindon Grand Prix I was beaten to the line.
No, I haven’t gone mad, I’m simply wasting my precious Earth time playing Real World Racer, a google maps racing game.
It’s [...]

Behold, scientists doing useful stuff!

Bodily Harm | Science / Technology | penge @ 20:01, July 14th, 2008.

After many, many years of waiting for impressive science stuff from the scientists of the world, and being disappointed by their repeated nonsense (such as the DNA profile of a duck-billed platypus and the fact that wormholes might be ‘too queer’ to understand), I am at last able to report that something useful and impressive [...]

Bray’s 20 Words or Less Film Reviews : Kung Fu Panda

Brays 20 Words or Less Film Reviews | penge @ 07:00, July 11th, 2008.

The Film : Kung Fu Panda
The Bray Review : See title for plot.

Biiiiiiii-cycle, bbbiiiiiiiiii-cycle

Bodily Harm | Linkage | Money | penge @ 05:00, July 9th, 2008.

Hi readers. I was of course singing the chorus from Queen’s ‘Bicycle Race’ there, which is a jolly old song, but it also mentions bikes, today’s topic of choice.
If I were to lose my mind and go mad, I’d suggest a bike ride from London to, say, Brighton. That’s quite a long way. Any further [...]

Competition Time : The Winnerz!

Competitions | penge @ 19:13, July 7th, 2008.

At long last! The marginally anticipated but probably long forgotten about results of the ‘Win a DVD’ competition! Possibly the results could have been revealed a week or so earlier, but never mind, better late than never.
As you’ll remember, for the chance to win a free DVD called ‘A Tale of Two Continents’ which was all [...]

Bray’s 20 Words or Less Film Reviews : The Incredible Hulk

Brays 20 Words or Less Film Reviews | penge @ 15:46, July 4th, 2008.

The Film : The Incredible Hulk
The Bray Review : CGI Jolly Green Giant acts like a chav.