Posts by Jims

Heidemarie 'Toolbag' Piper set for second spacewalk

Missing Toolbag

My girlfriend is constantly misplacing her handbag, but luckily her phone is usually inside it, all I have to do is phone it and we play hunt the ring tone. It's a shame that ring tones don't work in space.

And don't get me started on the movie potential of a female astronaut lubricating the Canadarm2

Terror in orbit: ISS piss recycler in fire alarm mishap

Send in the Space Mechanics

I can pitcure the scene, space mechanic scratching his backside whilst looking at the wee-cycler.

"Yeah, I see your problem, you've got orb spider webbing all over the heat-exchanger. It's gonna cost you about £300 plus labour for me to clean it."

House key copied from photo

Google streetview

I wonder if google streetview are going to blur peoples keys that appear in the photos

Carmack's rocket wins $350,000 in mock moon mission

I'm just waiting for

The Sun to reedit this video and use it in their series of stories of UFO sightings over the UK

California train smash driver sent text seconds before disaster

Lets hope he wasn't...

Using his phone to text a status update to twitter or facebook, saying something along the lines of "oh sh*t I just passed a signal at danger, my supervisor is going to have my nuts when I get back to the depot."

Symbian: Linux unfit for mobile phones

@Charles

"the big reason cars replaced horses was that it eliminated three onerous requirements: shovels, air freshener, and a daily supply of perishable feed."

and replaced them with ice-scrapers,fluffy dice and a daily supply of flammable liquid.

OMFG, what have you done?

Overall I like it but...

It's harder to see the link to the comments when you are quickly scanning the page. In the older style you had a few of the comments titles at the bottom of the article, but now you just have a tiny comments link.

Paris because I like to scan quickly down to her bottom

Literacy leads to happiness and luuurv

No title

I might be wrong but;

Illiterate people have sh*te jobs that demand alot of time and yield little money

Literate people have better jobs that demand less time and yield more money.

I think if you are in the latter situation you would have more chance of nurturing a relationship

Mythbusters RFID episode axed after 'pressure' from credit card firms

@Pete

>To paraphrase Ian Dury "Sometimes you have to bend with the wind. Sometimes you have to break with it, and sometimes you just have to break wind."

I think you missed the point of the last part of that quote, it means sometimes you have to break the wind, ie put your RFID cards in a bag and smash them with a hammer and stick two fingers up at the establishment

Finnish blogger amputates Google from Google

What we really need is...

Google minus experts-exchange

Prime Minister's email takes month off

@Chris Mallinson

"Amusingly enough - The Prime Ministers twitter had this to say:

"Twitter is currently down for maintenance.""

I hope you are aware that it's not just the PM's tweeter feed that's offline, it is infact the whole twitter service.

I'll get my coat because the twitter withdrawal symptons are giving me a the chills

Whitehall orders green paint for IT dept

It would be better if....

It would be better if they did this the other way round, and turned the PCs off during the day. This would lower the chances of goverment workers downloading confidential records on to their laptops and leaving them on trains.

Jacqui Smith kick-starts yoof ID debate site, site kick stops

twat-o-tron

I just found this comment from a fellow el reg fan, comment http://www.mylifemyid.org/node/263

Apple takes the operator's shilling

Logic?

"The company has had some success, but not as much as it would have liked. After all, you have to be a lot better than the competition when it has a price label marked "free"."

Windows must be the mutts nuts then.