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The Writing on the Wall

Browser Ballot

Those of you not following the IT press may have missed that Microsoft and the EU have been scrapping for months about the supposed monopolistic practice of bundling Internet Explorer free with every copy of Windows. The argument “If you give it away for free you have a monopoly” doesn’t really make any sense to me – especially when you look at it in the light of the open source market – Presumably by this logic if Ubuntu becomes incredibly […]

Corporate Death Penalty

In some respects it’s shame that the death penalty has been taken off the statute books in the United Kingdom. Perhaps the law could be changed to allow us to finish off the global corporations that currently threaten our society.

Marketing Campaign

[blockquote]I’ve been on a brazen marketing campaign to promote brand awareness sticking my logo anywhere I can…[/blockquote] This involved variously a flight to New York, hanging out with Angelina Jollie,  a visit to a Lego factory, some guerilla poster placement on the London Underground and a trip into the future to meet the Transformers…

1984

I was just about to steal this book….then I looked inside the front cover..

Employment Policy

Political Hope?

Scroobius Pip and Dan La Sac

Camden Town, Koko for Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac. The youth has a political voice after all, good for them. {vimeo}7200622{/vimeo}

Teal and Orange

Suddenly everyone on the Internet has overcome their colour blindness and noticed that every Hollywood blockbuster made in that last few years is a funny colour. Or more specifically two funny colours. That’ll be that Teal and Orange look then. Never been one to buck a trend I’ve regraded one of my holiday photos to illustrate the point: Strangely, my photo doesn’t seem to have quite the same look as all those movies though. Perhaps I need the help of […]

Un-Boxing…

Anyone with half an eye on YouTube and too much time on their hands can’t have helped but notice the bizarre trend for un-boxing videos. Interestingly, this appears to be some form of basic regression back to childhood and at that level I almost wish I could share in the gleeful joy… that’s until I remember that I’m not a child and that the boxes being opened only contain a piece of electronic ephemera. This rather nasty fetishisation of an […]

Space Test

Here’s a test to see if I can get Joe floating in space. We couldn’t afford a zero gravity machine so I had to do it the hard way. {flv}Rocket-Space-Test{/flv}

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