Alice on Acid

Check out this fantastic piece of electronica made by a 19-year-old Australian, Nick Bertke. It takes sound and video from Disney's Alice in Wonderland and creates an eerie and somewhat hypnotic work, which seems to lull you into a state of semi-consciousness filled with Cheshire cats and dancing flowers.

Amoebas Game

Simple, addictive and completely compulsive - I'm pretty sure if you start playing it will suck you in for a good 10-15min!

Thunder Cats - The Movie

Sorry folks, I'm sure you'd like to think it was real, but it turns out that someone out there really does have the time, skills and willingness to create a fake Thunder Cats movie trailer. Could this be the inspiration that Hollywood needs to take the constant rumours to the next level?

Zombies, they eat you

Damien posted this in fluffy links - funny stuff!

When contextual advertising placements go horribly wrong

There are many ways to target ad placements and one of the most popular is to use contextual based placing, so as to target your ads to relevant news stories, blog posts or web content.

It's usually a good system. Someone goes to a tech website and clicks on a link to an article about the latest mobile phone. When they go to the article the ads that are displayed are for a telecomms provider. Makes sense.

Unfortunately, sometimes things don't get lined up quite right. Sometimes ads are displayed with content that isn't really what the advertisers would have liked.