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- Stig säljer en lägenhet på Upplandsgatan 17 i Stockholm via blogg. Smart. |
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- Thu 3rd Feb, 7:00 pm: The Culture Show "Mariella Frostrup discovers the power of graphic novels" hmmm... that doesn't sound promising on the surface of it - but if it does feature Epileptic, interviews with Paul G, David B, Marjane Satrapi, Posy Simmonds, and Andy Roberts - then it should hopefully be worth tuning in for! |
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- The Times catches up with the collected Epileptic, by David B. "...but Epileptic, the astonishing, autobiographical graphic novel with which he has made his name, is anything but restrained." |
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- Interview has been transcribed at comic book resources, or is available at the BBC until this Thursday, whereupon Alan Moore interviews Brian Eno. Radio 4: Thursday 27th Jan: 18:30 - 19: |
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- Everyone who has a blog has experienced problems with comment spam. Some have completely turned off commenting to keep from having to deal with the deluge of fake comments. The Register has an interview online with someone in London who does comment spamming, or link spamming as some call it, and actually makes a pretty good living at it apparently. A very interesting look in to who could be behind all those Texas Hold'em comments on your blog.Visit Site |
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parrots! (Jan 31 2005 18:59 GMT) - links from cherrfying: wild parrots of telegraph hill there are several of these flocks around here. there is one in palo alto. they used to hang out on top of the church accross the street from R.L. |
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- S&P hebt Mexikos Langfrist-Fremdwährungsrating auf "BBB" an NEW YORK (Dow Jones-VWD)--Standard & Poors (S&P) hat die Einstufung der auf Fremdwährung lautenden langfristigen Verbindlichkeiten Mexikos ... |
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- It's about effing time someone had the cojones to tell Joe Lieberman ( Senator Joe Lieberman: Home Page ) he's a tool of the Republican Party. As much as I hate the FCC, who is he to say what indecency is? By whose standards is he going to define... |
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- [JURIST] The Vietnamese government has announced plans to release 8,000 prisoners, including religious activists and political dissidents, as part of its annual amnesty accompanying Tet, the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 9. The government releas |
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- That famed UK pop-gossip/tittle-tattle site Holy Moly talks to MediaGuardian. And reveals throughout that rather than being some kind of seedy teenager trapped in the toilets of Media Whorehouse Central, he is in fact a married 30-something Northerner who wants to "turn the site into a successful business model". Any donations you make to the site, goes to him to buy more fashionable clothes. Call me insane and hippy-esque, but it's disgraceful. I do wish people would stop seeing the Internet through nothing but green-paper-tinted glasses. |
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- One of the highlights of attending SXSW 2004 was going to a very entertaining blogging panel. Amongst the panellists was a very funny Justin Hall, who struck me as being a unique blend of someone who could be entertaining, funny, *and* knowledgable at the same time. In other words, someone I could aspire to liking, if I had heard of him before that day. Then amongst the morass of weblinks that get thrown at everyone all the time, I forgot to check out his website. (This is before I discovered Bloglines and the point of RSS feeds - to help you catch up on your web reading! |
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- On the Chris Moyles radio show this morning, the "gang" riffed on that classic early-90s two-albums-wonder Martika, and played a Japanese version of Love ... Thy Will Be Done. And howled at Martika singing Japanese lyrics with an English chorus, as if this was typical of the oddity of Japan. Except ... I'm pretty much certain that outside of English-speaking countries, an awful lot of the native pop does incorporate English and other multiple languages into songs. |
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- Oh for heavens' sake. BBC NEWS | Blogging 'a paedophile's dream' says a forensic psychologist adviser to the Scottish parliament. What next? Banning pens and paper on the grounds that if children write things, it might find its way over to that nasty child catcher? How on earth did paedophiles become such a bogeyman in today's society? |
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- It's the end of the world ... so it's time for Snow Patrol to do the video to that rather fabby song, Chocolate. They say it's all about madness, but I beg to differ. Certainly, it's much better than Ultravox's video on the same theme, with the added poignancy of some 9/11-esque imagery. Also pays "homage" (ie it rips off) to Don McKellar's great film Last Night. |
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- "If you want a working definition of a producer's job, it is persuading people to do things they don't want to do. And which are not in their own best interests." - Jeremy Paxman. So right. |
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- Since I spent 14 hours yesterday mostly monitoring/watching the Tsunami Relief Concert to provide on-demand broadband video clips (with my colleagues of course), I thought I might as well give my knee-jerk reactions of the artistes involved. Although of course I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE INSTEAD, if it wasn't for my cursed multi-skilling abilities. Rant to come. Katharine Jenkins - nice voice, but the songs seemed a bit too bland and were too anthemic at this early stage in the proceedings. Of course, at one point I shouted across the office: |
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- Well, it was a 14-hour workday producing on-demand broadband video clips from the Tsunami Relief Concert - and aside from the fact I've still got a glowing wristband on that would have allowed me backstage access throughout the entire gig and I had to babysit a video encoder instead - it was good fulfilling fun. Pumping out 8 hours of video content, checking it for swearing gives one a huge sense of achievement. Although not being able to spot when Badly Drawn Boy repeats a song twice is not one of my music appreciation highlights. |
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- tsunami concert goers start arriving Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Like ants to a sugar cube on a picnic. And just when it gets interesting, and the music starts pumping out the stadium speakers, I have to go to the office to pump out 8 hours of broadband-quality on-demand video. Which will be fun, but not as fun as working backstage. |
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- an empty millennium stadium Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Up from the sixth floor, just waiting... and waiting... |
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- Watch that Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert online in broadband. and guess which muggins is having to produce the on-demand broadband video clips, instead of using his backstage pass? Boy will there be a rant about that later... |
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- My sister popped round briefly in the post-Christmas haze of festivities. Having spent a couple of days in her suburban house stuffed full of toys, cute crabs, pillows and other girly things, I thought it was a bit rich of her to turn around in my penthouse suite overlooking the river and announce imperiously: "You're still living like a student!" I'm still not sure by which she reached this statement - probably because I still live with flatmates, rent the flat and don't own my own house. (Although of course, I do - it's just not the one I live in). |
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- Damn, Suw beat me to the first Welsh-language podcast. I think. I'm just thankful that this achievement in the Welsh language was not achieved by a remote geek somewhere in Welshpool extolling the virtues of php over perl. Although I guess for added obscurity, said podcast should have been done in a North walian accent. Now I'm waiting for complaints from ardent Welsh nationalist fascists that Suw not actually being Welsh, it doesn't count... |
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- Not knowing who every single band is on the setlist at Cardiff's forthcoming Tsunami Relief benefit concert, I thought I'd better try and update myself as to what the cool kids of today are listening to. And iTunes has a handy sample of all music bands in the UK. Or so I thought. A search on Embrace or Feeder on iTunes UK comes up with lots of bands, but none of them being the actual Embrace or Feeder. At least, as far as I know. |
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- There was always something about the "seminal" Call on Me: Eric Prydz music video that seemed distinctly Eurotrash/Europop about it. The complete disassociation from anything else, the lack of outdoor shots, the Euro-friendly look of the dancers. It just looked like something that was shot by the geniuses behind the Menthos adverts, or Cillit-Bang, for that matter... However, it turns out that the only thing European about it was Mr. |
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- [JURIST] The Vietnamese government has announced plans to release 8,000 prisoners, including religious activists and political dissidents, as part of its annual amnesty accompanying the Lunar New Year. Every year, the government releases a number of priso |
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- A 30-year-old woman was killed when her car plunged hundreds of feet down a Malibu hillside. Another woman in the car was seriously injured. |
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- Modification de WikiNi --- par JeanRoure le 2005 01 31 - 19:56 |
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- The Social Security system will take in more money annually than it pays out in benefits until 2020, two years later than earlier estimated, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday in a modest change unlikely to alter the growing political debate over the program. |
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- Mobile Plus Entertainment Doesn't Always Equal Mobile Entertainment: "That isn't to say there isn't a market for mobile entertainment. In fact, it's likely to be a huge market -- it's just that it has to be built on the foundation of communication and interaction, rather than broadcast."... |
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- An ultimate video and audio format converter which supports large numbers of file formats such as DVD, VCD, SVCD, VOB, AVI, DV, MOV, animated GIF, MPEG4, RM, WMV, ASF, WAV, WMA, MP3, 3GP, m4a, mp4, h264, raw YUV, MP2, Ogg, m4v, AAC etc. It supports batch conversion even if the files in the list use various settings or have different target formats. The program allows users to convert any segment. All settings can be easily set in the interface. |
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- Hvordan kan jeg sætte min outlook op, så at email til en konti (en email adresse) bliver lagt i en indbakke og til en anden bliver lagt i en anden indbakke. Jeg bruger outlook 2000. Mvh |
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- To those who were opposed to the war in Iraq but are currently engaged in praising the elections and calling them the "first step" toward Democracy, please remember why we were able to hold free elections in that country yesterday. Those elections are to be credited to the vision of a ... |
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- Para ver el eje del mal NO HAY QUE IRSE A IRAK |
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- the owner of a company located in michigan forbids smoking at work and home, and imposes a drug test to verify so. smokers have the choice: quit smoking or lose your job. brave new world, here we come! |
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- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began the second phase of the Hazmat Threat Assessment Program today with the fingerprinting of commercial truck drivers applying to obtain a hazardous materials endorsement (HME) on their state-issued commercial ... |
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- hej hvordan kan jeg lave et playstation 2 spil om til et pc spil jeg vil gerne have hjælp har nemlig mange playstation spil men har solgt mit playstation |
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- A frightening story from USA today: U.S. Students Say Press Freedoms Go Too Far. Evidently, you can get "too much freedom. |
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- Jeremy McWilliams is to change from MotoGP to World Superbikes. |
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- Creating passionate users: "Brains love play. Find a way to bring more play (or at least a sense of playfulness) into someone's life, and you might just end up with a fan. Brains evolved to play, and apparently the bigger the brain, the more likely it is to play. Play turns the brain on. |
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