wake up and smell the copy
Posted in internet, technology on Mar 25th, 2010
Conventional wisdom has it that digital doesn’t degrade gracefully. That unlike, say, the random fuzz introduced into a conventional analogue TV picture by interference, you get the blocky, stalled or jittery breakdown more familiar to digital viewers. It’s generally true, but not always, as I think the image above – produced when a network fault [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 23rd, 2010
By now, surely the only person who hasn’t seen this Renault Clio being shunted sideways down the A1 (M) is the truck driver responsible, so just in case he’s reading: While the Mail has since tracked down the unhurt 31-year-old Clio driver, details were thin on the ground on Thursday last week as the surely-it-can’t-be-real [...]
Posted in digression on Jan 23rd, 2010
via youtube.com Thanks to Alan C for pointing to this, hadn’t seen it until a few days ago – Stewart Lee calling out the nonsense of corporate values. Posted via web from Charlie’s posterous
Posted in digression on Dec 28th, 2008
Proper post coming, but thought I’d share this – the Shanghai Pudong Airport maglev train hitting 261mph. I want a go. I want one from Brighton to various exciting and far-flung places.
Posted in digression on Sep 30th, 2008
(via Lutum!) Don’t worry; there’s a proper post on the way soon.
Posted in digression, journalism on Sep 1st, 2008
Happy one indeed, and big thanks to Handolio for doing all the hard work. He’s the Hackbash behemoth. I’m just the, um, moth. Personally I think we’ve done a good job of focussing on the original topic; working through the possibilities for real online journalism in a marketing environment. Now here’s a video of two [...]
Posted in digression, politics on Jul 10th, 2008
Kestrel rescue at Downing Street! Cute, but not quite what I was expecting. Where’s the rescue then?
Posted in digression on May 31st, 2008
Noticed this the other day – somebody in BBC Online has a sense of humour: Incidentally, I was trying to get a screen grab of Brown doing his trademark goldfish gulp, but now I look it’s more like somebody’s licking his love pump. I’ll never know how they did that with a straight face.
Posted in digression on May 15th, 2008
Posted in digression on Mar 6th, 2008
A while ago Simon wrote about the media attention on bike sex man, the case of a guy getting sprung whilst getting it on with a two-wheeled friend. A lot of the fuss was presumably incomprehension – but I reckon most people hadn’t seen this video. Within a few seconds it had changed my opinion [...]
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