A little bit early for Christmas, but a fun game anyway.

A very simple to understand webpage to produce something to boggle minds

www.revfad.com/flip.html

Here is somewhere to go on the web to kick back and relax:- The Corona Beach

Note: make sure you enter your D of B in the American way, ie month before date, and then watch the screen as you enter the year

and if the rain won’t go away then while away the hours with CubeCraft.

All you need is a computer, a printer, and a sharp knife!

Mad inventor meets internet finds peace, presents an online op art tool for your screen or to project at dances and on bands. Give it a go and see how many patterns resemble stuff projected onto the walls in the old Top of the Pops television show! Just run Opartica and click on shapes to add them to projects and you can spin them, move them, overlap them, and set colours.

A great website that allows you to be anybody or be doing anything. Much like the seaside novelties where you put your face in a hole - but updated for the web. Very versatile and great results. You could spend hours on here.

FaceInHole.com

First Apple brought us the Ipod, then came the Ipod Nano, followed by the Ipod Shuffle.
Each time the product got smaller. Now, Apple bring you something even smaller…

This was the first time our boys (8 and 4 yrs old) have been to see a major band - and then they get to see six in one go. They’ve seen live bands before at motorcycle events, and while they’ve been impressed with the acts before nothing could prepare them for the performance from the Levellers et al.

The rain held off - we even had bouts of sunshine.

Here is a short run-down of the acts:

3 Daft Monkeys - a three-piece acoustic band that played, amongst other instruments, the fiddle, and guitars. Their set was very good and they impressed the crowd enough to ask for an encore (or two).
Chumbawamba - you may remember their ‘TubThumping’ single from a few years ago but they’ve been around a lot longer than that and they’ve played at a quite number of events since then. Their act was thought provoking and funny, even though they had a semi-political agenda.
Nathan & Quinn were, apparently, brought in at short notice - but you’d have never guessed it from the performance they gave. There set can best be explained as a brilliant acoustic folk guitar playing duo.
Seth Lakeman & his band. Mr Lakeman is an accomplished musician: he played the guitar and violin, and he sang well. They were good songs, delivered well, but he didn’t spark me off as the other acts did.
Dreadzone - Awesome, electric, brilliant, fun, cool (man). This group brought the event to it’s feet. Nearly everyone danced to the sound generated by this band - a mixture of dub, reggae, techno, and trance. I was so impressed I’ve now bought their second album ‘Second Light’.
The Levellers - after a short interval, while they prepared the stage after Dreadzone, the Levellers appeared and the headline act got the crowd back on their feet. For those that haven’t heard of them they are a folk rock band that play tunes that you can’t help singing (and dancing along to). During their encore they were rejoined back on stage by 3 Daft Monkeys to perform the final number.

This was all followed by a spectacular fireworks display.

All-in-all a brilliant days entertainment -
definitely ‘A Beautiful Day Out’.

So, call me a big kid (and many do) but watching cartoons and animations still ranks high on my enjoyment list.
So imagine my eyes, the size of the moon, as the trailer for Pixar’s new film Wall.e appeared.

The basis for the story is about a lonely robot on earth, cleaning up all the mess humans had left behind after migrating to a new planet.

What makes this interesting (apart from the gorgeous animation) is the fact that for first 45mins of the film, there is no dialogue. The creators tried to capture human emotions and transfer that to Wall.e through sounds and gestures.

Did they manage to accomplish this, I hear you ask? Well, why not take a peek at the trailer below and judge for yourself.

As BDA are a bunch of soup connoisseur’s, whats the UK’s favorite soup? answers?