2008-10-06UTC07:13:41Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmailDug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a... 2008-03-04UTC09:42:33Spoof storiesNoticed a lot more people recently turning up here having looked for spoof stories or spoof story, mostly as a result of this spoof story about Dickens World. Wonder if it's just coincidence that people are trawling for spoof stories around the time ... 2008-02-14UTC05:21:00Nepotism at the GuardianExpect this one to show up in Private Eye next week. The comments do seem to have been pretty brutal right from the off.It could be a spoof, but probably it's genuine and there to appeal to the child market.Via popbitch message board.... 2007-11-16UTC07:16:32Hmm, some code copied from the Wagamama website:Some code copied from www.wagamama.com, this is the voucher on their site for Canterbury: enjoy a free side dish to share on us(when you purchase 2 main meals)exclusively to wagamama online members valid at wagamama canterbury *voucher valid from 12/... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10680/Hmm%2C+some+code+copied+from+the+Wagamama+website%3A">Rated 7.77/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-07-17UTC03:53:11Big ass tableVia Nic P, a spoof of Microsoft's surface technology:... 2007-05-29UTC07:52:36My sides!Ho ho, just read this spoof story about Dickens World.A new £62 million theme park is being built in Chatham Maritime in Kent on a Dickensian theme in the hope of attracting foreign visitors in the same way that Fawlty Towers drew tourists into the T... 2007-02-22UTC09:30:53Sleep easy families of South LondonThis gun crime problem among your children is surely close to resolution - BBC Breakfast today had the UK's least famous man Richard Blackwood in to give his point of view. I can only assume they had a real guest lined up who pulled out at the last m... 2006-07-18UTC02:36:44This video is greatGot this from geekzine (via del.icio.us) where they seem to be under the impression it was a real pilot of a real show, it's an excellent spoof of all the best shows of my youth... I bring you HEAT VISION AND JACK!Too hot for much thinking today, and... 2006-06-23UTC01:16:10Web 2.0Thinking about myspace again today, as I looked at it yesterday, there was some piece in the guardian today about how Q Magazine "hilariously" made up a band and generated a buzz about them using myspace. I am a bit out of touch with modern pop music... 2006-02-02UTC09:15:00The IT CrowdNo time to write anything yesterday, not much to report except our train in the morning was short a few carriages, so we all had to squeeze up, and our carriage was then full of chattering bastards. Also there was no heating, so it was freezing and n... 2005-10-27UTC02:54:20RE: Yes, that's a spoof article...well that's why i use the term de facto standards...their product is so superior (for a number of reasons) that they are setting the standards in a number of areas - which is fine at the moment, but what happens when google become horrid money orks -... 2005-10-27UTC02:33:23Yes, that's a spoof article...The wacky thing is Google aren't enforcing any standards, they're just coming up with better products than everyone else. With things like google mail, they've not tried to force the product on anyone in any way, they went out of their way to restric... 2005-10-27UTC08:53:52RE: Googlebasethat article in the onion is a spoof isnt it?i'm personally starting to get a bit worried by google - they're becoming the microsoft of the internet and they're setting de facto standards with little viable competition. people need to start thinking ... 2005-08-01UTC07:04:14Double Lone Star ComedyHello all, In an attempt to get everything sorted before the Edinburgh Festival gets underway this weekend, here is all the information for the beginning of our Autumn season at the Lone Star Comedy Club. We kick things off in style in September wit... 2005-05-02UTC06:43:37Shane RecordLocal artist Shane Record (whose paintings we quite like) has launched a rival to The Quarter, a spoof publication called The Other Three Quarters, because they've been critical of him, hmm... got some raffle tickets anyway, hoping to win the chance ... 2004-10-01UTC07:59:04Internet Bollocks ExplorerThat browser checking nonsense is soooooo 1990s... vote with your mouse and don't go there. DON'T install the Firefox user agent spoofer - be proud that you're using Firefox and make it appear in their webserver access log and make them change...2004-09-20UTC04:26:54Titanic ConspiracyWell, the theory of a plot to switch the Titanic with it's sister ship, the badly damaged Olympic was news to me... Saw a programme on it on Sky the other night, but I should have guessed, this is a very old story... See also The Ship That Never Sank... 2001-06-25UTC12:05:05Want to be on TV?Adam and Joe want YOU for their new series... well, they want your videos anyway..."Adam and Joe's Takeover TV" is a new series to be shown later this year, and they want you to send in videos... Not humourous snaps of children falling of swings etc,...