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Dug and H by Jed
Jed sent me this drawing a while back. Just came across it again and thought I would post a shot. For those that haven’t met Jed, he draws. He sketches constantly.
Family,
More things I don’t understand
So OK, what’s with the Numa thing? Could someone explain why hundreds of youtubers were lipsyncing to Numa numa and what is it about this gang that the comments are particularly bitchy?
Beware of Methodologies
Just came across a fabulous post by Joel Spolsky from back in 2001.
Techno-bollocks,
Gum that lasts and lasts
Just came across a fantastic video on youtube. Matt, the guy responsible writes about the adventure on his blog: Where the Hell is Matt? New York, NY It’s Done
A constructive waste of time.
Always partial to a good shaving story me, well, here’s Alex B’s first encounter with the MP3Power shaver thingy…
PSP vs. DS
There appears to be some debate about the relative superiority of the Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP. Unusually for this kind of online debate, the quality of the language is very high.
So exactly how useful are peer-reviews?
I was gonna get this sexy-looking piece of kit but darn, look at those reviews, one guy is saying it’s great, the next it sucks… Anyone had a go out there wants to point me in the right direction?
The language of co-creation;-)
With all those “experiences of one” going on out there it gets ever more difficult to know what people are talking about. Check out this comment on a psp-tagged page
FMCG Blogging
Good piece on FMCG blogging over at Positive Impact (one of Hill & Knowlton’s Collective Conversation channels)
Tags playing nice with taxonomy
University of Pennsylvania are introducing a tagging system to complement their library’s traditional structure:
British advertising
When Daniel and I were very young junior art directors pounding Manhattan pavement armed with our absurdly large black boxes in search of our first job in advertising, all we could talk about was British ads. It w...
Riding with Robots
Browsing the Apple website in search of support details and came across this
Picture stuff,
Doing something useful with the N70…
Just uploading the sys file to my N70…alebic.net � flash, flash lite, multimedia and all related… ;-)
Techno-bollocks,
BBC mobile news
Been playing with the Flash client for BBC News. It’s another example of a technology maturing and converging to the point where it just works. I think this longtime Flash-avoider may have found a new friend in Fl...
Techno-bollocks,
Holiday (at last)
Mucking about in the Pyrenees. On holiday and offline (largely). Back on Monday:-)
Family,
So is it still a meme the second (or third) time it comes around?
Remember the old corporate anthem, Our vision of global strategy by good old KPMG? It established the corporate anthems meme (it was Chris Raettig who started the meme proper…) which ran and ran with contributions...
KG800 chocolate phone
Hey, I finally figured out what to do with the KG800 chocolate phone the lovely people at Hill and Knowlton sent me a few weeks ago. I think I’m going to shoot some videos on the theme of objects of desire and see...
Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
Playing with etsy.com Check out the “shop by colour” interface, just lovely…
Techno-bollocks,
Traceroute + Google local -- -)
Another fine 2.0 app:http://www.codefromthe70s.org/traceroute.asp
Techno-bollocks,
The French
Bloody French street theatre… I was merrily on my way to an event at the ICA this morning when this large wooden spaceship crashed out of the sky and gouged its way deep into the tarmac of Regent Street.
Google AdSense Account Disabled (4)
Billy just sent me a link to a great piece on Google’s total unaccountability.
Cadbury creme egg cake
Mainly I'm telling you this because it permits me to use the word "viscosity" and I never get to do that.
Creationist bollocks
So somebody tell me how the creationist mafia is managing to skew Google’s video search results? It seems like whatever you search for on video.google the results are at least 60% creationist films. Weird.
Techno-bollocks,
Tuesday morning ponderings
When did IT become IS?The bad guy from Goldfinger apears as the prince of Vulgaria in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-BangI interviewed a guy who worked in a bottling plant the other day and he keeps a blog, uses a Symbian cam...