tux mania

Get your children to work (or your inner child) and head over to this site.
After first admiring the wonderful history of Tux, you can find a DIY cut out version here.

Download, print, cut out and start getting messy with the glue.

for the more advanced crafts(wo)men among us, there is also the Free Penguin Project, complete with downloadable Tux sewing patterns.

update : forgot to check the links, it seems http://www.premiumink.com/penguin/ no longer exists so you' ll have to do with the more advanced sewing version.

no good deed

Following the outrage these last days when some bloggers announced microsoft gave them a shiny new laptop (apparently the new Acer Ferrari is the only machine apt to run vista at a decent speed) pre-packed with vista, it seems it's now time for a big 180.

After Laughing Squid announced they would auction of the laptop and send the money over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Marshall Kirkpatrick, one of those lucky being on the receiving end of one of these "demo-models", mentioned he got a follow-up message from microsoft telling him - contrary to the original letter joining the laptop gift - to either give it away or send it back.

After all ... "I strongly recommend you disclose that we sent you this machine for review, and I hope you give your honest opinions."


(via slashdot)

the hamster still speaks

After his spectacular crash earlier this year Richard Hammond gives his first TV interview.
The interview appear tonight on Jonathan Ross' show ('Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' on BBC One).

Apart from two weeks missing from his memory, the clash seemed to have caused no severe results.
On the contrary, Richard recovered in a few weeks in stead of the predicted 15 months.


(via news.bbc.co.uk)

christmas song

The Knife has a christmas version of their Reindeer song duly titled " Christmas Reindeer" which you can download from their site.


or direct link (unzip & mp3)