Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Ryan Bingham’s Guide to Love
Friday, January 8th, 2010Lets face it we all need a bit of love!
How To Sell Honey
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
A wonderful guide how to sell honey by Sesame St.
BBC Natural History Comes to LIFE
Friday, October 16th, 2009Each week, incredible clips from the BBC “Life” programme will be available online. I would like to share with you my favorite. The unsinkable pygmy gecko, it looks fantastic filmed in HD the geckos have hydrophobic skin which repels water just like a waterproof jacket.
Life is aired on Mondays at Nine on BBC1
All these awesome clips are to help promote their new Wild Life Finder. Launched in 2009, this BBC site features short video and audio clips from the past thirty years of wildlife film making.
Gas and Cowboys
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Protect yourself from the dangerous work of illegal gas workers by making sure you always use a Gas Safe registered engineer.
Araldite Fusion Lab
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Quickfire game with flatscreen TV prize. Shoot glue at falling prizes, be careful they fly out quick, you may need to Araldite your fingers to the Mouse!! Play Here
Dangerous Biscuits – How to Avoid Biscuit Injuries 101
Friday, September 11th, 2009Can’t believe I’m posting about this, but the guys over at Fox’s Rocky Biscuits have recently commissioned a study into which biscuit is the most dangerous. We here at Rubber Towers love our biscuits – particularly chocolate digestives, if the more recent purchases are to be believed, and find it hard to accept that our beloved snacks could be harmful. Apparently people have actually been visiting their doctors because of biscuit-related injuries. And which is the most dangerous of them all?: the deadly Custard Cream (although how they worked this out, I do not know).
Here is a bit more about their finding
‘Mike Driver, Marketing Director for Rocky said: “We commissioned this study after learning how many biscuit related injuries are treated by doctors each year.
Accidents have included people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit, falling off a chair while reaching for the tin, sustaining burns after dunking a biscuit in scalding tea, and being hit by fragments flying through the air.
Other people have reported choking on crumbs and damaging a tooth or filling on a particularly hard biscuit. One unlucky person ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.’
So how can you avoid such nasty accidents? Well for one, if your biscuit falls into freshly poured concrete, don’t go after it. Not only will you get stuck – as apparantly one person already has – but the biscuit itself will probably be inedible, due to being covered in concrete. Seems like common sense, no?
Ha! Common sense doesn’t seem to be quite so common these days (I have come to refer to such things as having ‘good’ sense, rather than it’s more well known moniker), but that’s for another post. Even so, visiting your GP because of being hit by ’stray biscuit shrapnel’ would seem a tad extreme.
If you’re munching away on your Hobnobs, please make sure not to spray crumbs, drop it in your tea, or put it too near to your eye, lest you do yourself a mischief.
And with that, I shall leave you with the full results of the inquest:
‘According to Mindlab’s calculations, here is the full list of the UK’s riskiest biscuits, together with their ‘danger’ rating:
Custard Cream 5.64
Cookie 4.34
Chocolate Biscuit Bar 4.12
Wafer 3.74
Rich Tea 3.45
Bourbon 3.44
Oat Biscuit 3.31
Digestive 3.14
Ginger Nut 2.99
Shortbread 2.90
Caramel Shortcake 2.76
Nice Biscuit 2.27
Iced Biscuits/Party Rings 2.16
Chocolate Finger 1.38
Jaffa Cakes 1.16′
(via MSN News)
Sour: Omokage No Saki (面影の先) & Hibi No Neiro (日々の音色)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009I’m a bit of a J-pop/J-rock fan (that’s Japanese pop/rock to those who are out of the loop. Where have you been?!). This was probably influenced by the copious amounts of Japanese cinema and Anime that I like to watch, and the fact that if I lived in Japan, I would probably be considered an Otaku ^_^ (sugoii!). So I thought I’d share this with you:
Not only are Sour a very interesting and uplifting band, they’re also purvayors of fine stop-motion and cinematic techniques, as demonstrated by the above video, and this one:
Whether or not you’d really class them as J-pop, I don’t know. I’m not sure how far separated into genres Japanese music goes. But they have a pretty big fan base worldwide, and I have to say, they’re very much worth a listen.
What a way to spend your lunch break: the great Slam dance
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Some late afternoon hijinks for you 
Somehow I don’t think this would work if it was anyone else dancing…
Giant Waterslide Jump
Monday, August 10th, 2009We’d like to pretend we made this viral video, but despite it having a similar concept to our GI Joe Skate stunt, we didn’t.
It looks pretty realistic, even though it most certainly isn’t real…
