Look at this big pit in Russia! I’ve also located it on Google Earth (kmz file).

Here’s some links to some music mixes and podcasts available to download for your listening pleasure. Most of these are mp3s so just download them to your computer and transfer them to your phone/mp3 player, or burn them onto CD. As always, if you like the music then try buying some of the tracks yourself. There should be something for everyone here.

First we have this Brazilian music mix by Vibe. It’s a 62 minute mp3 full of some interesting funky Brazilian tunes both new and old.

And from the amazing South African Horizon Deep blog, which showcases the best in Deep House or Mzansi as they call it, I’ve chosen two mixes that really give you something different. The Somewhere In Circle Two mix contains some early deep minimal house from Dessous, Prescription and Large labels with not a vocal to be heard at all (well maybe just one). Lower down there is the Dark Horizon mix featuring some more tech-based house. You can stream the mixes here before you decide to download them so you’ll probably hear something you like.

Over at Grooveland.com.br you have access to some of EdGround’s superb deep house mixes.

And finally, also from South Africa, we have deeper.co.za. This has some varied mixes, from deep house to techno and all are brilliant.

If you’d just prefer to listen straight from the interent then please try out House Afrika Radio. Live music straight out of Johannesburg.

There you have it. Free downloadable summer music. You have no excuses.

Sergio Garcia is currently 25/1 to win the open. Very good odds. If you fancy a flutter then click the Ladbrokes image on the top right of just click here. I’ve put £4 on which will give me a return of over £100 if lucky.

UPDATE: Sergio Garcia is now 8/1 - thats 15 minutes after my post. I could be on to a winner. As long as Tiger and Ernie don’t have amazing rounds that is.

And for people who don’t gamble you can take a look at this page showing the relative sizes of planets in our solar system.

Tipping and educating for over a year.

Here’s some videos to keep you entertained on the hot Friday afternoon.

First we have this great toilet roll advert from Charmin. Very clever.

And this is the Japanese home version of those great domino rallies we use to watch on Record Breakers.

Watch the Evolution of Dance. Good enough for Opportunity Knocks?

The Vader Sessions. A brilliant Star Wars remix featuring James Earl Jones as a badass Darth Vader.

It was pretty hot outside today and pretty hot indoors too.

Notice the 29C at the bottom. And when I’m in bed tonight I doubt whether it will drop below 28C. I wonder what it’s like in London? Feel free to post your office and home temperatures in the comments below.

But if you do have some free time during the day then perhaps you should go along to the Scented Gardens at St Anne’s Well Park and check out the rehearsals for this year’s play in the park. No idea what play it was but I managed to catch five minutes before the heat got too much. This was around 11:00AM.

Check out the extremely creative Blog of Beau Bo d’Or. Great stuff.

My PC is now up and running properly at the correct temperature, idling away at 46C in a 25C room. I didn’t need a new heat sink or fan, a new CPU or indeed a whole new PC. Just a fivers worth of heat conducting gel.

This little laboratory setup consists of some Isopropyl Alcohol (thanks Kerry), my Athlon Barton 2800XP+ CPU (the bit that was getting too hot), some Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound in a little injection tube and a big heat sink with a copper bottom. Believe it or not, but by adding these ingredients together in the correct fashion and then putting a the heat sink fan back on top I no longer need to keep my computer up high with it’s side panels removed.

The job took about 20 minutes which isn’t bad as it’s the first time I’ve ever removed a CPU from it’s socket. I do offer a resonable hardware fixing service so give us a shout next time your PC plays up!

Gah! £100 slipped through my fingers just like the Italian penalty kicks through Bartez’s. I came close a couple of times to making some money this tournament. I had Luca Toni to be the top scorer but he just wasn’t on fire, even if his team did just win the World Cup. The £8 on France to win at 12-1 was a close one too. Notice how I didn’t put any money on Brazil or Argentina to win, not that it helped.

So congratulazioni to Italy! Winners of the 2006 World Cup!

With my PC problems taking up most of the time I have neglected to write any entries for a while so here’s some fun links to look at in the meantime:

For your cute animal needs: www.thingsthatmakeyougoaahh.com

Stupid Online Comic: Filth Hole

Was the 2004 US Election Stolen?: Great article in Rolling Stone Magazine

I’m thinking of getting myself a digital camera. Digital Camera Review and Digital Photography Review are the places to check out.

Check out a whole range of optical illusions: www.michaelbach.de

An explaination of everything: www.plaxo.be

Are you with AOL? Try cancelling your account

Think you’re brainy? Do this great online IQ test. I got 140, what a smart arse!

It’s been 28.5C in my flat for the last two days (and nights) and my poor PC just couldn’t take the strain. First in started turning itself off while I was using intense applications such as Photoshop and then it was happening every five minutes. The problem was overheating.

Running some tests I worked out that the CPU temperature was 64C everytime it shutdown. It must have been triggering the PC’s safety mechanism. What I really need is a better CPU heatsink and fan. My one just isn’t powerful enough. But I have temporarily solved the problem as you can see.

I’m now running at 49C - and my room feels much cooler.