February 2009
36 posts
“Brits will say ‘b******-naked’ while Americans will say...”
– BBC’s clearly amazing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy encyclopaedia.
For once, I say “Hail to the nerds!” What an amazing f—-ing piece.
BTW, I propose that Americans use the butt as a politically correct gender ambiguous term, either in the name of equal opportunity,...
Bono calls Coldplay's Chris Martin a wanker, live,... →
Justice, Public Consensus Style.
Britain is a nation of complainers, their fingers poised over the phone to dial in a complaint. That there were no complaints about calling Chris Martin a wanker is testament to Bono, the British, and Chris Martin being a wanker.
“I don’t think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair...”
– Michael O’Leary
Ryanair mulls charge for toilets
So many things wrong with this, it’s hard to know where to start:
Since the demise of the paper pound note, people will carry even more pound coins with them on the flight, increasing the weight further and reducing the fuel economy of...
WatchI guess I must have stepped away during the Ben Stiller impersonation of Joaquin Phoenix’s new reinvented confused and muddled scruffbag persona on Sunday night (video 2 above), but havng seen the video, I have to agree that the IFC Spirit Award impersonation by Steve Coogan (video 1) is much better, plus it integrates a Christian Bale rant!
The third video in the playlist above has the...
“Of those 53 percent who said the plan will work, 19 percent felt it will start...”
– Poll: Obama rating slips, but still high - CNN.com
What on earth is the point of that poll? Is this something that I’ve noticed on the rise, or (more likely) is it something that’s always been a part of these polls that I’m just noticing more these days? I mean, what a stupid...
The mystery of Ireland's worst driver and other... →
That BBC story about Ireland’s Worst Driver reminded me of a hilarious story of stereotyped tomfoolery from my childhood.
When I was still young and handsome (indeed still busily whippersnapping) we were stopped in the old Yugoslavia whilst driving our nearly-new British-made car, flagged down by a pair of young policemen eager to ticket a foreigner or two. We thought it likely in...
WatchThank you, Sherman Foundation, this just made my day.
It may be old. It may be new. Well, as they say, “If you haven’t seen it before, it’s new to you”. I think that was actually a tag line for Fox or ABC or CBS or NBC or some such nonsensical blandbrand TV station out here.
Love
DMC: [Lovingly] I don't think I'd ever meet anyone else like you.
Nixta: Of course not. I'm a unitard.
MobileMe Photo Syncing and iPhoto
Well, there appears to be something of a stupid bug/feature with iPhoto 09 and MobileMe Gallery syncing.
Let’s say I have a set of pictures in iPhoto that I use as desktop backgrounds. They’re in an album called Desktops.
Now let’s say I have two Macs. My MacBook Pro and my Mac Mini.
Now let’s say that I buy and install iPhoto 09 on each of those machines.
I create a...
WatchI’ve never been very good at getting my own back on people, but surely this should have touched on the fact that iPhone can’t do multimedia messaging, nor can it talk to Bluetooth devices other than a headset, or indeed send a VCard via SMS (or of course Bluetooth). I mean, why wouldn’t I want to share my contacts with people or send them a picture I’ve taken without...
What got cut from the stimulus bill →
I don’t often agree with the GOP. Then again, I’m often disappointed by the Democrats. It’s probably the same disapprobation filtered through different initial expectations. I should just wipe the slate clean and enter a world of zero expectation preconception.
People are quick to decry what was cut, but they don’t ask what made it in, nor indeed why these things that were...
WatchI missed most of the Superbowl this year. Sadly. It seems to have been a good one. I saw the last 4 minutes of play (20 minutes of real-world-time) and it was superb.
But there was one advert that I have seen which really stood out, and ties in with my tremendous fascination with 30 Rock and Alec Baldwin. It’s strange, but these sophisticated self-effacing moments are so special on American...
“So, Marissa ran an experiment where Google increased the number of search...”
– Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0
okay, it’s the broken record time again. site performance IS user experience 101. it’s the only time you get a chance to make an impression BEFORE the user has actually experienced anything yet. this is why it’s just so mind-numbingly frustrating when...
WatchIt’s not often you get to see people throwing themselves high into the air only a few blocks from home… I mean, it’s not like I live in Vail or something.
[ Note - the video above may not work. Snowboarders don’t build websites. Try the link. ]
“The government tells us that we are eating too many pies and dying of heart...”
– Assorted Viz letters
Some of these are too obvious. All of them are very British. Some of them are hilariously clever.
Thanks be to Tomsk.
“In his most recent writings, Ehman resists “drawing vast conclusions from...”
– Wow! signal (via Rufus)
Half-vast. Half-vast. Say it out loud. Haaaa ha haaa.
WatchGoogle Earth 5 was released today. Everyone’s talking about it. TUAW, Gizmodo, BBC, even Nixta Rolls. There’s a good write-up at Ogle Earth so I won’t bother duplicating that.
It covers the oceans, and Mars in addition to the great stuff it already did. We do indeed continue to live in the future. If ever anything good came from ridiculously inflated worth through the stock...