An Indonesian man dubbed the "tree man" because of the gnarled warts all over his body has said his condition had worsened again, although he still hopes to recover and find a job.

An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad on Sunday.



The daughter, Amal Saad Gumaa, said she agreed with the idea. 'This is something that would honour me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero,' she told Reuters by telephone.

Her father, Saad Gumaa, said he had called Dergham, Zaidi's brother, to tell him of the offer. 'I find nothing more valuable than my daughter to offer to him, and I am prepared to provide her with everything needed for marriage,' he added.

So I guess the Top dating tip is: if you throw shoes at the President of the United States, people will start offering you their daughters.

If you're still not sure what to get the geek in your life, might we suggest a chorus line of dancing, singing R2D2 robots, as demonstrated in this rather excellent video?

15 years If im not mistaken. Anyway have a blast. I know you read this blog.

It's not a proper year until everyone's made a list. As such, here's the first five entires in our round-up of the ten best people, sites, services, memes, videos and general stuff on the internet in 2008:

Twitter
For a while, it looked like 2008 might be the year Twitter died prematurely, collapsing under its own success. But by the end, it had confirmed its status as the online hangout of choice - a perfect hybrid of social networking, instant messenger, texting and blogging.

RoboCop
Whether pictured happily astride a unicorn, or being rapped about by a hip-hop crew from Hereford, the cyborg lawman previously known as Alex J. Murphy was all over the place this year.



Warren Ellis
Top British comics writer and novelist, Warren Ellis is one of the most inimitable voices online - from the excellent web comic FreakAngels, to the mindbleach-requiring pictures* on his blog, or his habit of prowling around Twitter demanding Red Bull and 'human bacon'.

Literal video
The re-dubbed 'literal video' version of A-ha's 'Take On Me' that simply described what happened in the classic video ('Pipe wrench fight!') was a slice of pure comedy perfection. Later iterations took on Tears For Fears and (naturally) Rick Astley, but the first remains the best.

Barack Obama
The newly elected President of the Internet didn't just have the most innovative online campaign ever - he also launched a thousand web memes. Including, naturally, the Barackroll.



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I've been playing this game like a billion times trying to get the highscore but I never seem to make it.

It was only a matter of time – the infamous George Bushshoe-throwing incident has inspired an internet game where the playerthrows a brown shoe at a moving target of the President. Sock and Awe – a pun on the US military strategy of "shock and awe" – gives players 30 seconds to try to hit Bush as many times as possible.

The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, can be seen peeping over a lectern next to Bush in the mock-up of the now-infamous joint news briefing on Sunday when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at the US president. The game gives a running total of shoes to have hit Bush in the face – there were 6,722,892 successful hits at the time of writing. The Guardian's best effort was 12 in one go.

Thursday, 18 December 2008

Bought a new phone! :D

Nokia E90 Communicator

• The Nokia E90 does not support fax as fax services are not included in the 3G Specifications. It does however support fax through Content Beamer application.
• Supports Microsoft Exchange email via the Nokia "Mail for Exchange" software application. This program does not support folders or native HTML mail.
• Since Nokia E90's web browser shares similar code-base as iPhone's Safari browser, most iPhone Web Applications are accessible through Nokia E90's browser as well.

My favourite YouTube Channel 'ForrestFire101' has a new featured video in YouTube.



Check out their other creative stop motion episodes ;D

This video actually got me to blog today. Can you believe it.




But I've got to give President Bush credit for this, because he's taking it all pretty well. He says that he's actually happy about the shoe-throwing episode, because he says it proves finally that Iraq does, in fact, possess foot wear of mass destruction. Have you watched this tape? Some people are criticizing the Secret Service, because the shoe thrower caught them off guard. The man was able to throw a second shoe. A spokesman for the Secret Service said, 'Sorry, but we were laughing our asses off.


The shoe thrower is indentified as an Iraqi correspondant, Muntadhar Al Zaidi

Here's a video of it again



I guess he's been playing that Wii Dodgeball game

Wednesday, 17 December 2008


I haven't been able to update lately. My whole family members are here and my cousins and uncle keep on using the internet cable.

Very disappointing

Jeff Hardy wins the WWE Title *boring*

Well, folks, looks like we finally found something President Bush is good at. Dodgeball! You got to admit, whatever you think of the guy, he's got good reflexes. Even Bill Clinton was impressed. You know, Clinton's an expert at ducking shoes, ashtrays, lamps. Everything. Now, here's my question, and no offense here, but where was the Secret Service? I mean, shouldn't they at least have jumped in front of the second shoe? I mean, you know what I'm saying? Come on. Seriously. Aren't these guys supposed to take a bullet for the president?

Dolphin Stampede (..right..)

Ever wondered what a dolphin stampede looks like? This video will show you. Seriously, there’s really an awful lot of dolphins in this video, all going bonkers. Wait until the end, when it takes a step up from 'that's a lot of dolphins' to 'OMG THAT'S MORE DOLPHINS THAN I EVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE'.






A Geek Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas

This Christmas, take some time to think of those less fortunate than yourselves, slaving away moderating forums, wrapping up presents for their wireless router, and sighing forlornly because everyone else in their World of Warcraft guild is enjoying Christmas dinner and there's no-one to form a raiding party with.




Alternatively, take a bold stand and start protesting at the unfair pigeonholing of geeks, many of whom HAVE PERFECTLY GOOD SOCIAL LIVES, ARE ENTERTAINING COMPANY AND HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF INTERESTS THAT LIE FAR OUTSIDE THOSE IMAGINED BY THESE CRUDELY REDUCTIVE STEREOTYPES.

Russian Offices

Russia seems to be the source of all the viraliest videos featuring people doing weird things in their office right now, following on from the omnipresence of the'guy going mad in his office' clip As such, we present without comment the following: Russian Office Synchronised Swimming.