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Wednesday 23 July 2008

This is what real bruises are like

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. What I feel like I want to do is strap my right arm up close to my chest, so I'm not moving it around or rather, there is no opportunity for me to move it. IT HURTS. In retrospect,... Moolies

Unofficial Unity: I love this - it’s an unofficial olympic...

Unofficial Unity: I love this - it’s an unofficial olympic shirt, but highlighting the chinese focus on china, by making a shirt that just features the names of all the countrys competing.  It feels more like the vibe from 2012 than the lockdown of [...] Mostly This

The DeadSpace DVD collection

... is up for grabs. In the name of "research", the team watched over 100 sci-fi and horror movies, and now they're giving them all away. What a hard, terrible life game developers have. You can enter to win the... Wonderland

Virtual Worlds by segment

KZero - the virtual world consultants - have put out a lovely big diagram of virtual worlds and the segments they live in. What a list, eh? Interesting to see both Sports and Music slightly less-served. Also amusingly, the diagram... Wonderland

MTV's House

Sony has Home, and now MTV has House. Is this because teenagers are kept indoors these days? Seems this is UK-centric, too. But I don't know, it also seems like it's for little kids, which doesn't fit my idea of... Wonderland

Deleted: The Game

A new ARG, a new webshow... Tyler who is struggling to piece her life together after a traumatic incident caused her memory to start failing, Tyler keeps vlogs to record facts she uncovers as she goes through losing the love... Wonderland

WoW crochet scarf

I have about four Etsy crocheted scarfs now. Must. Resist. Wonderland

US telly irritated by online

The CW apparently pulled online streaming of Gossip Girl in an attempt to push viewers back to watching the show on the telly where, presumably, the advertising ratecard is supposedly more lucrative. I'm not sure viewers can be herded about... Wonderland

Super fancy Companion Cube necklace

Glitzy! I just got the Orange Box for the 360, cos running it on my laptop meant I never ran it. Portal overload here I come. Wonderland

Ted or Dead: The Ted Baker bodyware range has had a subtle...

Ted or Dead: The Ted Baker bodyware range has had a subtle update.  Gone are the ‘oh so last year’ flock swirls - and in their place is what initially looks the same, but look closer - it’s made up of boy toys - lovely.  More on it here. Mostly This

The Half Fat Diet: There is a reason why the ‘count on...

The Half Fat Diet: There is a reason why the ‘count on us’ range is lower calorie, there is considerably less of it. Compare a standard M&S wrap to the ‘count on us’ version. It’s about a third smaller, in both girth and length! Getting the exact [...] Mostly This

I’m not worthy: I can’t even get my arse in gear to...

I’m not worthy: I can’t even get my arse in gear to prototype asteroid table.  And someone has made this (well i presume its not just a render) its the awesome. lapsus: La table “Paint or die but love me” crée par john nouanesing -via Mostly This

Nike Hijack: nike don’t do major event sponsorship, they...

Nike Hijack: nike don’t do major event sponsorship, they do hijack marketing around the event. And boy they are good at it - so good most people assume they are a major sponsor - where in fact they are just a bunch of dodgy cheap knock off [...] Mostly This

organically-grown audiences

One of the funnier conversations I watched at BlogHer was between some big league blogger talk to a small crowd. The big leaguer was talking about how she’d built up traffic by creating a community around her, and linked to everyone else, and [...] Oblomovka

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Harry - 4 yrs old!

Mylovely little man - today you turned 4 years old! And what a lovely day you had - opening your presents this morning with total joy and abandon, enjoying your birthday party with all your little friends this... Babyblog

foto_decadent: Marie Claire - Linda Evangelista - Dec 1989

foto_decadent: Marie Claire - Linda Evangelista - Dec 1989: Blimey. Really early shots of Linda E by Paolo Roversi. Love the second and third big ones. Dangerous Precedent

Clod Computing

S&W, originally uploaded by blackbeltjones. Just a small public apology to anyone that I owe email / work / anything. I had a major hard-drive [...] Blackbeltjones/Work

Flying Ant Day 2008

As I’ve posited in these pages before, the main reason for having a blog and keeping it going for nearly nine years (!) is to be able to track the annual cavalcade of winged whimsy which is Flying Ant Day. As in previous years, the date seems [...] Meish

Now and Then

Last Friday was the final day of our two year course at LISPA. It’s strange to be finished, but more of that next time. First, I’ve been meaning to write about my final project which we performed last Wednesday. Read more... Phil Gyford

Carpentry in Dublin

http://thejoinerydivision.com/ - I recently designed and coded up a little site for a friend. If you're in need of a carpenter/joiner in the Dublin area then check it out. He's a great guy and very good at what he does! Malbec

New gloves

I have new gloves. They have a massive kevlar patch over all 4 knuckles. They were bloody expensive. In a sense, they are hopefully redundant, in which case they are overly expensive. If they do in fact prove to be... Moolies

All PR is good PR: I love the fact that symbian freak, currently...

All PR is good PR: I love the fact that symbian freak, currently the main source for nokia S60 touch/5th edition leaks, has advertising from nokia all over it.  Can you imaging apple adverting on macrumours or thinksecret, no they are too busy [...] Mostly This

I’d buy that for a dollar (or five): I got this neat link...

I’d buy that for a dollar (or five): I got this neat link from megp, It’s a really nice idea from nokia. (see I’m all ying and yang with my nokia posts!) It’s a global idea to see what five dollars buys you. Highlighing communicataion and [...] Mostly This

Setting Postcodes Free (one small step at a time)

I love postcodes. Nearly everyone knows theirs, they cover most locations of interest, and their dozen-household level of granularity is a geographic sweet spot. They should be seen as a massive global competitive advantage for UK PLC. So I'm [...] Tomski

I am we:

arrgh - I’m really trying to fall in love with my N95 all over again, But I’ve run into a case of nokia multiple personality disorder. I have the following username/password combos: nokia account ovi account share online account - ok this is [...] Mostly This

A cycling accident

I was trying for something heavy and meaningful for a post title. So this is how I go. Not a good day to die, as it turns out Ouch, my knuckles hurt But, but, where's my panier? Hmmm. I came... Moolies

UK BlackBerry Bold to come with Skype

At least it does on 3: "3 Mobile will be preloading their BlackBerry Bolds with a Skype client to make use of the integrated WiFi for cheap VoIP calling." I suspect that this will be the same deal as the... Technovia

Guild Dinner Party

A couple of weeks ago, just as I was finally getting sucked into World of Warcraft, I received this mysterious invitation. Now, this guild is actually a bunch of real-life friends who use Warcraft to hang out together. Members who have outed [...] Roo Reynolds

Try out RememberTheMilk - coming (soon!) to iPhone

Since getting the new iPhone, I've been using OmniFocus for to manage all the things that I have to do. But the only downside with OmniFocus is that it's Mac only - so if you're using Windows or Linux you're... Technovia

surprise packages, benevolent dictatorships

I got two surprise packages today. One turned was a pile of Jazz disks and semi-ancient copies of Analog from my past, which my old flatmate Gavin was relaying back through time to me. The other was a completely mysterious consignment of dalek [...] Oblomovka

Roly Keating appointed as Director of Archive Content

Roly Keating has been appointed as Director of Archive Content at the BBC: "Within Vision, Roly will have editorial responsibility for the release and management of BBC Vision's catch-up and archive content on all platforms, including the BBC [...] Technovia

Well now this is interesting

WordPress app for iPhone: "Robust but simple to use, the WordPress for iPhone Open Source application allows you to create and edit content on your WordPress blog(s) with support for offline use." Can an application that comes wrapped in a... Technovia

Monday 21 July 2008

The Guild Dinner Party

We wore tuxes. We ate rat kabobs and drank moonglow. We got naked in the pool at Thunder Bluff... ... and danced very hard. Must do it IRL soon. UPDATE: Roo took a whole set of pics - here -... Wonderland

A timelapse video of the erection of the Serpentine Gallery...

A timelapse video of the erection of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry Dangerous Precedent

Le Pocky: Here’s real pocky and a the official french...

Le Pocky: Here’s real pocky and a the official french version thats about quarter the price. Three boxes for €3.50. Mostly This

Nike Air Stab: Apparently withdrawn, after a spate of stabbings...

Nike Air Stab: Apparently withdrawn, after a spate of stabbings in london - including one incident in their flagship store. But they are still for sale a few yards from nike town in footlocker.  Positive or Negative PR depending on which side of [...] Mostly This

Breaking the news

Dear Twitter Friend, There’s no easy way to say this, no sugar coating that can make this pill easier to swallow: It’s over. I’m breaking up with you. When we got together, it was fun. The medium was young and we were playful; [...] Meish

"Mr Turner gets steamed up!"

I was glad to have stumbled across Robert Poulter's New Model Theatre on the Harbour Arm this weekend. I hadn't realised it was on. We caught the showing of "Mr Turner gets steamed up!" which was a jaunty piece about Margate's most famous visiting [...] Margate Architecture

Here Comes The Dark Knight: v.excited. Much preparations going...

Here Comes The Dark Knight: v.excited. Much preparations going on in leicester square - including removing the white sticky back plastic that was covering the odeon, and generally gothaming it all up. For the premier tonight. You can view a live [...] Mostly This

Here Comes The Dark Knight: v.excited. Much preparations going...

Here Comes The Dark Knight: v.excited. Much preparations going on in leicester square - including removing the white sticky back plastic that was covering the odeon, and generally gothaming it all up. For the premier tonight. You can view a live [...] Mostly This