Poll: Welcome to 2012!

[Poll #1808070]

Okay, so my trip to work lasted about three minutes

I live on a side-street off a side-street. And it's _still_ noisy as hell from the wind out there. But, hey, you gotta go to work.

Until I wandered out onto the main road, a piece of metal blew past me at about 30 miles an hour, I had to struggle to stay upright from a constant stream of high-speed air, and then struggle back to my turning when I decided "Fuck this" and headed home again.

So I'm now using remote desktop to connect to the office so that I can find a phone number for a manager that I can tell I'm taking the day off.

Ok, so it looks like both my manager and my lead developer have the day off anyway. I shall take an impromptu one and get stuff done around the flat instead!

Aaaand, the Met Office have a Red warning over my flat:

Interesting Links for 03-01-2012

• Combining images from Disney movies with drunken text messages for sheer internet awesomeness!
  (tags: disney alcohol text funny )
• WebGL Water. Nice demo.
  I remember when this kind of thing would take up the complete CPU of my computer, while running as native code.
  (tags: webgl javascript html5 3d graphics water )
• This is what it looks like when the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere bans advertising
  (tags: brazil advertising saopaulo )
• Belarus makes it illegal to use non-Belarusian websites.
  (tags: belarus internet censorship law )
• A fascinating piece on the lead hacker behind the world's busiest spam botnet
  (tags: spam hacking )
• Invisible Undersea Monster Makes Marine Biologist Scream
  (tags: octopus video biology camouflage )

This is why I didn't go to work today

That's the bus stop I get home from work:


And I'd be crossing this road on the way to/from work:

The former via puzzle_, the latter via snarlish

How Indiana Jones came to be

via joho.

Quantum Locking - now for racing purposes!

Remember this awesome demo of what you can do with some liquid nitrogen, quantum superconductors and a handy magnetic field?

Now, imagine you spent your Christmas break setting up the lab so that you could use that effect to play classic Playstation game WipeOut?

Magnets, how do _they_ work, eh?

(via my brother Mike. Who really should make it his New Year resolution to post more.)