Some stuff I was too bussy to mention last week:
• diamond geezer gained its own favicon last week. That's the tiny 16x16 pixel playing card icon you might be able to see in the URL bar above, or if you bookmark this site. Or you might not. I've uncovered a few other blogs with favicons, including burnt toast, meish, blue witch, warming up, linkmachinego, oddverse, my ace life, planarchy and imperial doughnut. If you'd like to join the ten of us and get an icon, you could try out this site - it's nearly (but not quite) simple to do.
• The cynically festive 'Tis The Season has returned, for one month only. Catch it while you can.
• Less than a week after I mentioned the largest prime number so far discovered (213466917-1), some student only goes and discover a prime number that's even larger. The new record breaker is 220,996,011-1, which at over 6 million digits long is more than 50% longer than the previous largest. Full geeknews here, here and here.
• Less than a fortnight after my computer commited suicide, now it seems my microwave has decided to go the same way. It lights up, it turns, it buzzes, it pings, but nothing actually gets hot. Can anyone remind me how saucepans work again?
• So, what happened in the second week of All New Top Of The Pops? It was back to the normal half hour, kicking off with another cover version from Big Brovaz, then a soulless duet featuring Sting (who first had a hit before the presenter was born), two videos from Vicky Becks (alas the ensuing phone vote didn't allow us the option of neither song appearing on next week's show), two completely pointless Osbournes (nul points), and lighter-waving blandness from both Gareth and Will. Alas, Bottom Of The Pops.
• The government is considering giving 16 year olds the vote. According to ITV viewers, the Record Of The Year 2003 is Mandy by Westlife. I think the latter is all the evidence needed to stop the former.
tiny 16x16 pixel playing card icon you might be able to see in the URL bar above, or if you bookmark this site. Or you might not. I've uncovered a few other blogs with favicons, including burnt toast, meish, blue witch, warming up, linkmachinego, oddverse, my ace life, planarchy and imperial doughnut. If you'd like to join the ten of us and get an icon, you could try out this site - it's nearly (but not quite) simple to do.
