Bomb.org.uk
December, 2006
30.12.2006 links for 2006-12-30
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handy checklist of photos to ensure you get at the wedding.
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another checklist for wedding photos.
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useful hints and tips for wedding photograhpy
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29.12.2006 links for 2006-12-29
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handy tool to convert flash videos (such as those from youtube) into sensible usable formats.
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This is by far the easiest solution I’ve ever seen to getting alpha transparency right in IE6!
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27.12.2006 links for 2006-12-27
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Groovy gallery thingy that uses the mootools js framework
22.12.2006 links for 2006-12-22
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Interesting guide to photographers rights in the UK. Must read this at some point.
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19.12.2006 Merry Xmas!
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15.12.2006 My Personal Top Ten Coolest TV/Film Cars
Just recently, I’ve noticed a few top ten lists of the best cars from movies on the internet, and even witnessed a top 100 on TV a few weeks back. Usually I like quite a few of the vehicles that show up, but rarely agree with the whole list, which is why I’ve decided to create my very own list of the top ten coolest TV/movie cars.
To make it into this list, the vehicle in question can’t just have featured in a movie. It has to have something about it that makes it cool – a certain je ne sai quais, whether it’s a cool paint job or the ability to travel through time. These are my personal top ten cool movie cars (in reverse order). Enjoy!
10. Optimus Prime – The Transformers
While technically not a car, I couldn’t not include Optimus prime in my coolest cars list… I mean, it’s a freaking truck that turns into a robot AND it can fly? Seriously, if that doesn’t qualify a vehicle as cool… what does? Oh yeah, and the new version of Optimus Prime which is due to appear in the new movie has flames on it and is in my opinion, far cooler than the old one. 
09. Dodge Charger / General Lee – The Dukes of Hazzard
It jumps and flips and it’s bright orange! Plus the doors are welded shut meaning you have to jump in through the window. Seriously cool.
08. Lamborghini Countach – Cannonball Run II
Very few people that I’ve spoken to remember this, but at the start of Cannonball Run II the white Lambo changes colour after a quick spray down with water. Tell me you don’t want a colour changing car… go on. I dare ya! (video on youtube! – the colour change part is around 6 minutes in)
07. GMC van – The A Team
It’s big and black and transports the A-Team from one mission to the next. That makes it cool in it’s own right, but then they went and stuck a bright red spoiler on the back and red rims under the arches, that’s when this car became really cool.
06. Aston Martin Vanquish – Die Another Day
Ignoring the fact that it’s a top of the range Aston Martin Vanquish, what makes this car cool is a combination of bonnet mounted auto targetting shot guns, grill mounted rocket launchers and the ever popular ejector seat. Oh yeah… and it goes invisible at the touch of a switch. Seriously, what more could a secret agent want in a car?
05. Dodge Charger – The Fast and the Furious
Pure, unbridled power. That’s what makes this car cool. How many cars do you know that can pull wheelies from a standing start? Shame it got trashed at the end of the movie, but at least it went out in style!
04. DeLorean / Time Machine – Back to the Future Trilogy
The car that dared to be different! Forget the flux capacitor and Mr Fusion power generator – this car had gull wing doors and unpainted stainless steel bodywork, oh yeah, and following a hover conversion it could fly as well!
03. Batmobile – (aka the Keaton) Batman/Batman Returns
Not the one from the TV series, or the crappy tank like thing from Batman Begins – this is the jet turbine driven monster with machine guns, kick ass bullet proof armour plating and the ability to slim itself down to a road-going missile at the flick of a button. Oh yeah… and it was matt black from top to bottom. Sweet!
02. Pontiac Trans-Am / KITT – Knight Rider
Features including self drive, turbo boost, pursuit mode, a really handy built in AI system and a top speed of over 300mph! Oh yeah and a rather cool pulsing red light in the front bumper (so cool in fact, that I used to have a green version in the front bumper of my Peugeot 206!).
01. Shelby Mustang GT 500 / Eleanor – Gone in 60 Seconds
For me… this is the coolest movie car ever purely on looks alone. This car screams raw power and looks the dogs bollocks to boot. More than any other car in the world, this car calls out to me as an object of beauty and would be the one car I would love to own above all of the others in this list (of course… mine would have to be black!).
14.12.2006 links for 2006-12-14
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hmmm seems pretty interesting.
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interesting tool for displaying screnshots of sites you link to in a little pop up window. Could be handy…
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13.12.2006 links for 2006-12-13
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This is another strange game from the dude at eyezmaze.com – I can’t get enough of his stuff even though it is totally loopy!
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