From CamWorld, an impressive NASA MPEG zooming in from outer space into San Francisco.

Infiltration diaries and details "urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage." Here it has a tale of the Parisian catacombs, a network of tunnels and galleries running under the city of Paris covering hundreds of kilometres.

Wow! This is in Flash and takes a while to download, but its definitely worth it - its kinda like a cross between Jet Set Willy and Jackie Chan.
Wow!

A Sega MegaDrive (Genesis) in the palm of your hand.

Whoops, vulnerability in Netscape's SmartDownload.

Basingstoke is a dump, and its all thanks to Jane Austen.

Which kind of Brit are you? - covers British stereotypes, worth a few chuckles - stole from The Nutlog.

And with that I feel I really should at least try to make a token effort to get some sleep tonight, so bye.

Great, lay in bed for an hour to no avail, body refuses to go to sleep. So I got up and wasted my time on this and that.

I was trying to find out how to register P.O. boxes earlier but completely failed, so I tried thinking laterally and tried searching for stuff on establishing false identities (hoping that at some stage this might involve obtaining a PO box). No luck so far though I did come across this truly terrifying web page.

Mmm, I could repost stuff from people's web log archives all day. This one comes from wherever you are. Its a flash app, but doesn't take too long to load up - reconstruct the night before.

Anatidaephobia: Fear that somehow or somewhere a duck is watching you.

I remember getting told about this phobia years ago by a chap at uni and it popped into my head apropos of nothing. Obvious evidence of a higher power (how else could this phobia have arisen?), in similar vein to the babel fish.
Thanks goodness for E4, I can never sleep the night after the night before.

I got sent the UK version of this, can't find it on net, so here's the US one - hangover ratings.

I was in the loo, and came up with the cracking idea of a lazy man's Google. Basically, whenever anyone enters a query, you spew back a random collection of links with an extract from the site for each one, and whichever one gets picked, you strengthen the association between the link and the query. Kind of like amisearchengineornot? Course, it would require a lot of users who enjoyed pain.

Dynamic Prophet. Apparently.

Hmm. Hangovers. Not too much fun. There's some advice on them here which, while not being of mixed quality, are a bit of a laugh.
The following might help:

• White chocolate Frijj - couldn't find a web site but did find this - I like the approach on this PDF, basically good guy/wank.
• Water, obviously
• Milk
• Those twister ice lollies. This came out top when searching on Google, though the bit mentioning Twister is quite good - "The people will enjoy their revenge when the truth is out." I might use that as a sidebar for this site.
• And last but not least, Irn Bru.

Thank goodness for the likes of Mr. Echlin who discovered the Y2K time dilation bug, which was a new one on me. Coincidentally this is the second story on Ottawa Citizen I've linked to today, both chanced upon in complete isolation to each other, both stories inducing a fair bit of scepticism.
Its the first time I've ever read Ottawa Citizen, I can see I'm going to have to make their site one to visit daily.

Impressive but wrong.

Great! Nipped down to the local B&Q to find they have started stocking nuts and bolts in resealable bags, just like pasta.
All this is in aid of me trying out a recommended method of cooling your graphic card. I have a GeForce, which are known to lock up the display while the sound keeps playing - I snapped today and finally decided to try extra cooling, after fiddling with drivers and BIOS settings to no avail. Hopes it works or my graphics card may well end up flying out my flat window.

Flitting through weblogs on the run up to Friday home time, found orbyn.com's collection of bad haiku. Which are quite funny.

Hmm, another dead [chicken|rat|dog]'s [body|head|tail] found in [burger|sausage|chocolate bar] story - though this one is entitled "Dead slug was no treat for horrified snackers" which is quite good, as if on some occasions "Dead slug was a treat for delighted snackers" would be a more fitting title.

Whaddya know, elephants never forget.

Jumped off from GBLogs to an acerbic, clever blog called dumb things i gotta do today. This had a link to the silly page of Borgisms, of which my favourite was "I am Drunk of Borg. Resistance is floor tile."

I'm planning a trip abroad and came across this site containing ten essential phrases in a multitude of European languages. I like that the author felt it was neccessary to make two of these phrases "What kind of meat is this?" and "I'm sorry, officer"

British Ministry of Defence plans to combat intelligence officer stupidity with $1,500 exploding briefcases.

Sorry, this will be the last of the Black and White links - Brunching Shuttlecocks argue that Black and White has reverse engineered religion

An amusing but very small snippet on a lost server.

From C'est Need To Know, a pretty interesting read from the International Space Station crew log.

Spent all weekend playing Black and White, so not much to log, other than this cool link I got sent - Film invisibles

From The Vintage Gaming Network, interpretations of what not to do to your Gameboy Advance - images apparently taken from the Gameboy Advance manual.

I think its fair to say that this reviewer liked Lionhead's new Black and White.

Uploaded a pile more stuff to bebabo, that's the site almost up to speed though I've still got some information on current projects I'm working on that I want to put up here too.

Nice...How to dance properly.

Whoops, last log didn't come out, should be fixed now.

No doubt being linked to by logs across the net as I type this, I'll join in too - Intel are hosting a distributed program like SETI, its "a drug optimization program developed to find improved drug treatments and possibly a cure for leukemia" - you can get it here. It'll be interesting to see which project wins out ultimately in the hearts and minds of computer users.

Personally, I've been working on a lot more material for bebabo, I hope to get it uploaded soon.

With any luck, this should be the first post on bebabo in donkeys. Have redesigned site, knocked up a suite of tools to manage web site in Perl - these allow generation of pages on site to common format.