I must get some work done

Here's my last Googlewhack for the next five minutes or so. Tiny tubes and mythical creatures. Looking at the number of whacks I've recorded today, I guess Googlewhacks must be like buses...

... grimy, irregular and covered in piss.

One day I'll stop whacking my Google...

... but until that day comes, enjoy this one, which combines gentlemen's parts with getting rid of things.

Yet another whack

Another whack at Google. Removing sticky stuff whilst wrestling a cow to the ground. Bizarrely, this came about due to what we've been talking about in work!

John Peel, 1939-2004

This post is dedicated to the memory of John Peel, not that he'd have cared for Blogging. He had such a gorgeously mellow voice and was so effortlessly cool, an inspiration to how everybody should be when they're in their 60s.

"I think I'm going to have to look up these Lego Street Preachers." Never again has anything I've done been spoken of by such a legend.

Security Report: Windows vs Linux

According to this report in The Register, Linux is more secure than Windows. Fancy that - if Microsoft isn't paying for a report, the results tend not to go their way.

Japanese Horror Aceness

You can keep your J Arthur Rank gong-bashing muscleman. 20th Century Fox's searchlights just serve as a reminder of WWII. Warner Bros? Pur-lease. The presence of the acronym "AOL" to "Time Warner" resulted in such poor feedback that they dropped it again as soon as they could. If you want to find a super-cool studio logo, look to Japan.

We've become utterly obsessed with Japanese horror. It started with Ringu and Battle Royale and has escallated to include a variety of Region 0 and Region 3 DVDs and a broadband-pummeling for some that just aren't available to buy. And at the start of the films, you tend to see significantly more dramatic logos. Maybe it's just our foreign eyes looking at them as if there's an air of Oriental mystery in them, when in fact they're common as muck, but there we go - without relocating to Japan and emersing myself in the culture for years, I'll never know.

Anyway, this is my favourite one. It's on Kairo and Dark Water and a couple of others we've got, and it's lovely to look at. I've ripped it to use as a start-up ident on DVDs that I author myself, but I ran at through Flash to get it down to a size that even 56k modem numpties could appreciate it at.

Isn't it lush? No idea what any of it says, naturally, but... well... whatever. For the picky, I should mention that it should be displayed at 16:9 so that the circular elements are, you know, circular. But I've never done video in Flash before, so tell it to someone who cares - I'm just basking in that burst of sunshine!

Whack my Google upside the head

Another quick one. My advice for Googlewhack n00bs is to head to dictionary.com and type in something not spelt quite right, and then look at the list of suggestions for the most bizarre looking word it tries to match you with. Then use this in conjunction with other less obscure words, until you get the mythical "1-1 of 1". Be sure to follow the Googlewhack rules, though, otherwise it doesn't count.