Countdown conundrum

For those puzzle fans out there, I've added a new one. This page shows you a jumbled 9 letter word which you have to solve in thirty seconds, just like in the final round of every Countdown on Channel 4.

Tags: Countdown, conundrum, puzzle, project

Take a virtual tour of 10 Downing Street

Have a look around Tony Blair's digs here.

Pimp my plane

Heathrow airport's been suffering with heavy fog this past week. So just how long does it take to churn out out a new plane and take on some extra passengers? Not too long by the looks of it. Here's another time lapse vid, this time of a jet getting the "pimp my ride" treatment.

Take long exposure photos with a webcam

Version 2 of Webcam Exposure is out! Improvements include support for high definition cameras and some minor bug fixes from version 1.

Tags: webcam, exposure, long exposure, photo

Mine's a Peroni. Chilled, not warm

It's almost time for that New Year's house party and if you're hosting, an important task is to chill the bottles of white wine and cans of beer that guests bring with them. So, how to chill drinks quickly? Don't put them in the fridge/freezer!

Get a bucket or tub
Put ice in the bucket
Add (cold) tap water so that the contents are submerged
(And this is the secret). Put salt in there too
Put in the bottles and cans as they arrive

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Related: hack, science, beer

Wii in Stock!

Another Update: Lots of visitors have been coming to Nimisis.com via the search engines so I've made my own little Wii stock checker.

Update: Even though I mentioned new stock notification services before as useful for getting your hands on a Wii, signing up now to their email list is too late. By the time you get an email they're all sold out. You're better off downloading URLy and checking the relevant Amazon page for significant changes (i.e. more than 60 individual changes) every couple of minutes.
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The Sheikh of Tweak

The Ashes are lost, thanks mainly to Shane Warne who was the leading wicket taker this morning at the Waca. England's latest capitulation means that they're now 3-0 down in the 5 match series, but I wonder if that's a fair reflection on the relative ability of the two sides...

What's contributed to such a poor performance? Take your pick from under-preparedness (Harmison's epic wide at the very start of the 1st Test Match at Brisbane hinted at that), Giles dropping Ponting before he became a centurian at the Adelaide Oval, not picking Panesar till the 3rd Test or key umpiring decisions that were poor (just ask Andrew Strauss what he thinks of his LBWs).
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Tags: Ashes, cricket, Shane Warne

Reno balloon race time lapse vid

And if anyone wants to make time lapse movies themselves using a webcam, check out Flix.

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