Links for 2006-06-14
Posted June 14, 2006 1:17 AM.
- 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!
- According to the BBC, 24 and Buffy are the latest TV shows to be offered for download "Films and TV shows such as the first series of 24 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are to be offered for download."
- The BBC has a new 'most popular now' feature, complete with Flash maps and stats features It's all very shiny and everything, but I can't help thinking they're missing the point a bit. It's very pretty, but there aren't any addressable archives to speak of. A decent infotoy, but a toy rather than a resource. Disappointing...
- Apple has a trailer for Monster House and it looks pretty cool In a nutshell - It's a big scary house that eats people. Thanks to Kerry at mugwump.typepad.com for sending it to me, cos it's ace...
- George Nimeh has used his IA ninja skills to visualise Yahoo's complete network and turn it into a poster Click on the PDF for the full orgiastic infographic - just be prepared for your computer to run like a dog. I think we might get this printed out for the office...
- The Michael Jackson 45 degree tilt trick Apparently originally done with cables in the video, but accomplished in a completely different (and patented) way in stage shows...
- I have to say I'm impressed by Yahoo's Gay and Lesbian Pride portal It's really quite classy of the organisation to do something like this - and dragging in so many cool bits of the company too. Surprisingly happy about this.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
In re: Coca-Cola Blak: One of the many varieties of Pepsi available in Vietnam is coffee-flavoured- I highly reccomend it, if you can get your hands on it. Perhaps one of our more internet-savvy folks can find it online, but I can't remember exactly what it was called. Sorry. FWIW, the Coffee-Coke combination has got loads of precedent, and was one of the most popular "odd-combo" drinks at the coffee shop where I used to work.
→ Posted by: AM at June 14, 2006 5:49 AM
Coca-Cola BlaK: I had one of those when I was in Paris, recently. Absolutely nasty stuff. It's essentially coffee espresso-flavoured Coca-Cola.
→ Posted by: Greg at June 14, 2006 8:54 AM
Coca-cola Blak is really really good ... If you're a coffee drinker your going to like Blak.
→ Posted by: Jesse at June 14, 2006 10:26 AM
I had Coca-Cola Blak in Boston recently. It came in a traditional Coke shaped glass bottle, but with a plastic cap. I thought that was weird.
It was pretty gross. Perhaps exceptionally so. I do recall I finished it though, because I paid for it, and i'll be damned if i'm going to let junk food products go to waste.
You could try some Pepsi Max Cino which is available locally. It's sort of in the same ballpark as that.
If not, Cybercandy might have some for sale. They have a teeny tiny little shop in a side street near The Ivy. Regardless of the availability of Blak, it's a fun shop to visit.
→ Posted by: Jamie at June 14, 2006 1:07 PM
If BlaK tastes anything like Pepsi Max Cino, then it'll be nothing special.
→ Posted by: MacDara at June 14, 2006 1:32 PM
You don't think that Gay Pride represents all that is hateful and evil about our society? The cliquiness, the prejudice, the emphasis on "style" and monetary worth and the material. I was a part of the gay scene for a while and it seemed to me that many people there were shallow and - bizarrely - bigoted. And the music. Jesus fucking Christ - the diaboloical music.
Now, if Yahoo! were celebrating queer identity, that would be amazing.
→ Posted by: Polly Stark at June 14, 2006 2:28 PM
On Coca-Cola Blak: I know it sounds gross, and I wrinkled my nose at it when I first heard about it, but it's strangely... addictive. It's carbonated coffee, if that makes sense. It tastes like soda and then HEY! coffee? I actually quite like it...
→ Posted by: Amy at June 14, 2006 3:21 PM
To clarify: I'm the hunter, not the ninja.
I tracked it down and blogged it. I didn't create it.
H. Andrew Lynch, Frank Ramirez, Sarah Ramirez, James Young, John Boyd, Paul Kim, Matt Leacock, Erin Malone are the ninja.
I guess that makes me more Bjork than Bruce Lee. Fine by me.
→ Posted by: George Nimeh at June 14, 2006 6:18 PM
Coca-Cola Blak:
CyberCandy has it.
£1.10 per can. Available in cases etc.
They're at:
11 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
LONDON, WC2H 9JN
Great little shop. It's been a good source for those Australian sweets I can't find in London.
Enjoy!
→ Posted by: Greg at June 15, 2006 12:18 AM
In reply to Polly (I'm straight, but what the hell)... I think you take what space you can. If Yahoo! - or just about any business with the size and visibility of Yahoo! - were celebrating queer identity, either they'd blatantly get it wrong or they'd be denounced by queer theorists for subtly appropriating & distorting it. 'Pride' is sufficiently overground, mainstream, non-transgressive and unsubversive to make a good fit with Yahoo! - and, even if it's not your gay identity (I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be mine) it is a gay identity. And that in itself is an achievement; it's not so many years ago that Angus Deayton was getting away with 'shirtlifter' jokes on HIGNFY.
Put it this way, the more endorsement Pride gets, the less you have to fight for the visibility of an overground/mainstream/etc gay scene, and the more space you have to build gay-but-not-Gay-Pride-gay alternatives. Perhaps.
→ Posted by: Phil at June 16, 2006 10:07 AM
Monster House may look good, but we all know Snakes on a Plane will be the summer hit! :)
→ Posted by: Chris Korhonen at June 16, 2006 10:00 PM
I'll give this a whirl to try it tomorrow, Pepsi's Cino tastes smooth like vanilla coke. The thing I find out about Blak is the odd wrap on the bottle that looks like some sort of infernal camoflage pattern and then when you go to the web site you're greeted by some smooth jazz soundtrack. Its almost like Coke don't know what to make of it.
→ Posted by: Ged at June 17, 2006 3:20 AM
I think Coke is so far behind the times on this one... I recall years ago drinking a similar beverage, which tasted much better. My favorite was the Mocha Java Cola. A sad day when they went under...
→ Posted by: 6degrees at June 21, 2006 4:00 PM