<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Members : pocksucket : Submitted Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime/"/><tagline>Members : pocksucket : Submitted Links : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-28T11:00:15+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[The Shining II]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/136039/1/" /><id>136039</id><summary><![CDATA[The Shining II]]></summary><issued>2009-11-26T04:20:38+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-26T04:20:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Son of Shining.  No.  Not really.  However, Stephen King has let slip that he's considering a sequel to The Shining, first published in 1977.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pier Jumping]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135758/1/" /><id>135758</id><summary><![CDATA[Pier Jumping]]></summary><issued>2009-11-16T18:02:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-16T18:02:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Either Worthing rocks so hard that people jump over piers as a matter of course or Worthing is so dull that people have to do stuff like this for thrills.  Whichever it is, it's where I live and these people jumped over a pier with a kite.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Edward Woodward - 1 June 1930 to 16 November 2009]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135747/1/" /><id>135747</id><summary><![CDATA[Edward Woodward - 1 June 1930 to 16 November 2009]]></summary><issued>2009-11-16T07:44:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-16T07:44:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Best known for his roles in The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, Edward Woodward has died in hospital, aged 79.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hollywood &amp; Vine]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135515/1/" /><id>135515</id><summary><![CDATA[Hollywood &amp; Vine]]></summary><issued>2009-11-08T13:13:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-08T13:13:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This photo was taken in 1906.  It would later become the intersection of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=hollywood&amp;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&amp;sspn=10.133322,27.993164&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Hollywood,+Los+Angeles,+California,+United+States&amp;ll=34.101595,-118.326675&amp;spn=0.000866,0.001709&amp;z=19&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=34.101629,-118.326656&amp;panoid=K8mfTC53unHCfnzm8HLSmg&amp;cbp=12,1.92,,0,5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hollywood and Vine</a>.<br/><br/>In 1913, when scouting for a location for the western The Squaw Man, Cecil B DeMille sent the following telegram:<br/><br/><i>FLAGSTAFF NO GOOD FOR OUR PURPOSE. HAVE PROCEEDED TO CALIFORNIA. WANT AUTHORITY TO RENT BARN IN PLACE CALLED HOLLYWOOD FOR $75 A MONTH.</i><br/><br/>He received the reply:<br/><br/><i>AUTHORIZE YOU TO RENT BARN BUT ON MONTH-TO-MONTH BASIS. DON&#8217;T MAKE ANY LONG COMMITMENT.</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's Oldest Dad]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135513/1/" /><id>135513</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's Oldest Dad]]></summary><issued>2009-11-08T12:53:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-08T12:53:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gerry Bursk is 75.  He is married to Dawn who is 40.  Dawn is pregnant and Gerry is the father.  When Dawn gives birth in March 2010 Gerry will hold the record for oldest father in Britain.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Translation Spectacles Give The World Subtitles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135512/1/" /><id>135512</id><summary><![CDATA[Translation Spectacles Give The World Subtitles]]></summary><issued>2009-11-08T12:18:17+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-08T12:18:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[NEC have revealed a headset worn like glasses that projects translated subtitles of the conversation you are having directly onto the retina.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Indecent Exposure?  No, Explosive Diarrhoea.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135511/1/" /><id>135511</id><summary><![CDATA[Indecent Exposure?  No, Explosive Diarrhoea.]]></summary><issued>2009-11-08T11:46:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-08T11:46:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[David Todd Napodano was accused of exposing himself to two women in a car park but he claims that wasn't the case.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Joss Whedon Bids For Terminator Franchise Rights]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135474/1/" /><id>135474</id><summary><![CDATA[Joss Whedon Bids For Terminator Franchise Rights]]></summary><issued>2009-11-07T13:22:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-07T13:22:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Joss published an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?://whedonesque.com/comments/22240" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">open letter</a> to make his bid.  EW phone him up and asked him what it was about.  What it is about is that Joss still believes that The Terminator is a very cool thing and would love to make it Joss-Cool.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Best Headline I've Seen In A Good While]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135051/1/" /><id>135051</id><summary><![CDATA[Best Headline I've Seen In A Good While]]></summary><issued>2009-10-24T16:12:06+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-24T16:12:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Feeling childish and want to laugh at something immature?  Then I have the link for you.  Go on.  Give it a click.  You know you want to.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Parisienne Walkways]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135050/1/" /><id>135050</id><summary><![CDATA[Parisienne Walkways]]></summary><issued>2009-10-24T16:05:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-24T16:05:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Why bother learning the guitar when you can sing the tricky parts?  Oh yeah, because that's damned impressive and probably only this guy can do it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Nokia To Sue Apple]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135049/1/" /><id>135049</id><summary><![CDATA[Nokia To Sue Apple]]></summary><issued>2009-10-24T15:41:24+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-24T15:41:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Nokia have launched a lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone breaches 10 of their patents.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Golden Age Of Video]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/134213/1/" /><id>134213</id><summary><![CDATA[Golden Age Of Video]]></summary><issued>2009-10-06T18:16:03+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-06T18:16:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We accept her.  One of us.<br/>Gooble gobble.<br/>Gooble gobble.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cevarix &quot;Victim&quot; Was Killed By A Tumour]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133930/1/" /><id>133930</id><summary><![CDATA[Cevarix &quot;Victim&quot; Was Killed By A Tumour]]></summary><issued>2009-10-01T07:32:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-01T07:32:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[School girl Natalie Morton <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/133780/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">died</a> less than two hours after being given a vaccination against HPV, a common cause of cervical cancer.<br/><br/>The results of her autopsy revealed that this was not related to the vaccination but that she had a malignant tumour affecting her heart and lungs so far advanced that her death was inevitable.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking Steps Down From His Chair]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133908/1/" /><id>133908</id><summary><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking Steps Down From His Chair]]></summary><issued>2009-09-30T18:36:48+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-30T18:36:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No.  Not like that, and you know it.  This is not a <i>take up thy bed and walk</i> style miracle but instead is leaving his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[In Australia, &quot;Tourist Trap&quot; Means Something Altogether Different]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133844/1/" /><id>133844</id><summary><![CDATA[In Australia, &quot;Tourist Trap&quot; Means Something Altogether Different]]></summary><issued>2009-09-29T19:58:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-29T19:58:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In South West Darwin, near the Finniss River it means a trap for catching tourists.  A spiky trap.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Drinking Bird]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133781/1/" /><id>133781</id><summary><![CDATA[Drinking Bird]]></summary><issued>2009-09-28T17:27:54+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-28T17:27:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[These things fascinated me as a child.  I remember sitting watching one of these for hours while the grown ups talked.<br/><br/>And now here's the exact mechanism.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[No Signal]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133750/1/" /><id>133750</id><summary><![CDATA[No Signal]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T19:46:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T19:46:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Something of a movie cliche, it seems.  It certainly crops up a lot.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Was Megrahi Framed?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133746/1/" /><id>133746</id><summary><![CDATA[Was Megrahi Framed?]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T18:25:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T18:25:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not the first place it's been suggested but this site pulls together a lot of the conjecture that the real reason Megrahi was released was to stop the release of the evidence that would have not only proved his innocence but also show the justice system that convicted him in a damning light.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[APB Character Customisation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133742/1/" /><id>133742</id><summary><![CDATA[APB Character Customisation]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T15:45:14+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T15:45:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Forthcoming game APB features some rather advanced character customisations.<br/><br/>Sure what will happen is everyone will make big-titty women to play with, but it's good to know that in theory you could look like yourself in a game.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mott The Hoople Set To Return]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133740/1/" /><id>133740</id><summary><![CDATA[Mott The Hoople Set To Return]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T15:28:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T15:28:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[After a 36 year absence from the stage, Mott The Hoople are all set to go on tour again.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Autumn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133739/1/" /><id>133739</id><summary><![CDATA[Autumn]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T15:17:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T15:17:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Autumn #3 is one of a collection of four images depicting autumnal scenes and is part of a larger body of work from Tim Simmons.  Click the pic to see more.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sydney Sand Storm]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133738/1/" /><id>133738</id><summary><![CDATA[Sydney Sand Storm]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T14:32:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T14:32:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On 23rd September Sydney woke up to a strange red light.  A <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/133502/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dust storm</a> had descended on the city.  This is what it looked like]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sonic Weapons Deployed In Pittsburgh]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133733/1/" /><id>133733</id><summary><![CDATA[Sonic Weapons Deployed In Pittsburgh]]></summary><issued>2009-09-27T09:51:23+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-27T09:51:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh were confronted by police using sonic cannons.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dear Lily,]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133695/1/" /><id>133695</id><summary><![CDATA[Dear Lily,]]></summary><issued>2009-09-26T11:07:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-26T11:07:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lily Allen started a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog</a> (now with all content deleted) slamming music piracy and claimed there was no future for her in music.  She has since then retracted her resignation but that doesn't stop the counterpoint being well worth a watch.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090924/0241556300.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This</a> is worth a read too.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Could Microsoft Pip Apple To The Post With A Tablet Device]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133568/1/" /><id>133568</id><summary><![CDATA[Could Microsoft Pip Apple To The Post With A Tablet Device]]></summary><issued>2009-09-23T19:58:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-23T19:58:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the longest time rumours have been rife about an tablet computer from Apple with nothing concrete confirmed.  It seems that all the while Microsoft have been quietly developing their own and now it's at an advanced prototype stage theyv'e started to share details.]]></content></entry></feed>