Archives for June 2006
Links for 2006-06-27 (June 27, 2006) A rogue gang of transvestite shoplifters is terrorising New Orleans I have to say, I sort of love this story - mainly because the imagery that it conjures in my heads is so glorious, bright and melodramatic...
On drinking Coca-Cola Blak... (June 26, 2006) Aha! Finally I've got my hands on some Coca-Cola Blak from Covent Garden's amazing Cybercandy (along with some rather disturbing minty Malteser wannabes, three sugar mice and some chocolate Band Aids) and I have come to some initial conclusions. It...
The RCA Summer Show 2006... (June 26, 2006) Once a year the RCA Summer Show opens its doors - showing over six weeks off all the incredible creative work that its students have created across all their disciplines. The show comes in four main parts, three of which...
People-watching at the RCA Summer Show... (June 26, 2006) Spotted at the RCA Summer Show (which I will be writing up more fully in a bit) a rather stroppy looking woman with an accent wandering around between each product on display demanding to know how much each of them...
My Wikipedia Contrail (after Webb)... (June 24, 2006) Following on from Mr Webb's experiment, here are the pages on Wikipedia that autocomplete when I type in en.wikipedia.org/wiki into my browser, complete with a brief bit of context: Anthropology - It's a page I keep coming back to for...
A Casual Report from Overwhelmington... (June 24, 2006) Another funny few weeks, another quiet weblog. Various things are going on - friends' weddings and stag parties, projects at Yahoo reaching an end, trying to work out when to take holiday, planning multiple trips to the US, getting in...
Links for 2006-06-23 (June 23, 2006) MOG is a new attention-tracking site for music It's a bit strange. It's got some attention because it was linked to from BoingBoing, but I have to be honest, at first glance it looks a lot like a crappy...
Links for 2006-06-16 (June 16, 2006) Empty plinth sidelines sculpture "An artist's sculpture has been rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts which has instead opted to display the wooden support it was put on."...
Links for 2006-06-15 (June 15, 2006) The Lyrebird can impersonate other birds, car alarms, camera shutters and chainsaws... It's almost impossible to believe this video is real, it's so extraordinary....
Links for 2006-06-14 (June 14, 2006) I'm completely obsessed with Coca-Cola BlaK I have no idea what it is, I have no idea what it tastes like, it's almost certainly revolting. But I must try it. It sounds extraordinary, and the branding is so... weird!...
Twelve steps to give up World of Warcraft? (June 13, 2006) Spotted in Wired Magazine and consequently making me laugh - represented in part here because it was neat (and directing your attention in particular to the bottom and third books from the bottom on the left). In addition recommending that...
On Robert Scoble and the BBC... (June 13, 2006) Let me be clear - I've met Robert Scoble and he's a decent man, and I think the impact of his weblog on the public perception of Microsoft has been significant, surprising and actually pretty important. But this front-page of...
Links for 2006-06-12 (June 12, 2006) The Simpson's parody / homage to Factors of Ten, as spotted by Kottke Lovely piece of work - really solid and clueful and probably one of the most expensive bits of the whole episode. Another bit of classy video...
Links for 2006-06-11 (June 11, 2006) Coca-Cola in China is doing a joint promotion with World of Warcraft, and Google Video has a no-doubt illicit copy of it... It's a bloody entertaining thirty seconds. I always wonder about the UK and why they don't seem...
Why Post Office Boxes are a waste of time... (June 10, 2006) Barbelith has had a long-term troll. I say long-term, when I mean seven years or so of aggravation. This aggravation has included sending things to my home address, determined through registration logs for my domain names. It has also included...
Links for 2006-06-09 (June 9, 2006) Vote Zod in 2008! "Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote." Adrian Holovaty talks about programming and computer-assisted journalism "If...
Links for 2006-06-07 (June 7, 2006) Kris Krug mounts the Great Wall You can almost see all the Chinese people standing around him, looking horrified, quietly thinking, "Soon we shall destroy America and their foolish naked geeks..."...
Answering your Odeo questions... (June 6, 2006) About six weeks ago, I asked a bunch of you to record little voicemail messages for me using the little Odeo Voicemail-a-like feature. You can still send me these things if you want to: Send me an Odeo. Specifically I...
By way of an apology... (June 1, 2006) Some of you have probably noticed how quiet it's got around here over the last week or two. I'm running up to a deadline at work and am pretty much thinking about nothing else right now. The weblog's gone a...
Links for 2006-06-01 (June 1, 2006) If you've been wondering why your Exposé needs to be manually reset sometimes after playing World of Warcraft, then you should download Expose Fix 1.0 It's ridiculous but awesome - and particularly funny since it does the whole thing...
