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Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
On Goggles.
It's late.
I'm home from my book club, happy, and slightly under the influence, having drunk several glasses of excellent red wine.
Google just know that am in no fit state to be allowed to send anyone an email.
Google Goggles will take control.
Before I can Gmail anyone on and Friday or a Saturday night I will be required to answer a few simple maths questions.
Get them wrong, the email doesn't get sent!
Maths was never my strongest subject.
So in future if you don't get an email from me, don't blame me, blame the Goggles.
Do you suppose the Goggles should be applied to my blog too?
I'm home from my book club, happy, and slightly under the influence, having drunk several glasses of excellent red wine.
Google just know that am in no fit state to be allowed to send anyone an email.
Google Goggles will take control.
Before I can Gmail anyone on and Friday or a Saturday night I will be required to answer a few simple maths questions.
Get them wrong, the email doesn't get sent!
Maths was never my strongest subject.
So in future if you don't get an email from me, don't blame me, blame the Goggles.
Do you suppose the Goggles should be applied to my blog too?
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Monday, September 22, 2008
On Listening to a Song about Twitter
I'm really not sure how (it might have been via Fimoculous) but I stumbled across this little song about Twitter.
Watch the video.
Buy the T shirt
Read the lyrics and meditate upon the History of Web 2.0 technology.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Watch the video.
Buy the T shirt
Read the lyrics and meditate upon the History of Web 2.0 technology.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Apparently "LLoyds Is Pants"
Reading the news today I came across this story.
As someone who often struggles with creating and remembering passwords, how I wish I had Mr Jetley's imagination.
As someone who often struggles with creating and remembering passwords, how I wish I had Mr Jetley's imagination.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
On Facebook libel.
Interesting story.
A reminder to take care before creating false maicious profiles.
This story reminded me of the Fake Steve Jobs who alas is no longer with us.
A reminder to take care before creating false maicious profiles.
This story reminded me of the Fake Steve Jobs who alas is no longer with us.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
On Baby's Bums, Asda and a Birthday Cake
It has been reported here and here (nsfw), that a mother who attempted to purchase a birthday cake from Asda for her twenty one year old son, featuring a nude photograph of him taken when he was five months old; was told tht the photograph would have to be censored as it showed him nude.
Asda deny thinking that the photograph was pornographic, it's just that their "policy across the board" is that they "don't do nudity of any sort at any age".
In the end staff solved the problem by covering baby David's bum with a star!
Is this the sign of a healthy society?
I wonder do they have a policy about selling cigarettes, or cheap alcohol?
Asda deny thinking that the photograph was pornographic, it's just that their "policy across the board" is that they "don't do nudity of any sort at any age".
In the end staff solved the problem by covering baby David's bum with a star!
Is this the sign of a healthy society?
I wonder do they have a policy about selling cigarettes, or cheap alcohol?
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
On the Biggest Hoax Drawing in the World
On the sublimely wonderful Strange Maps I came across this story.
A Swedish artist drew a self portrait on the map of the world, by using a GPS device, a suitcase, an airline and as it has since been revealed a sense of humour.
Writing on the project website the artist states
“My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around
the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the
strokes of the drawing.” The resulting drawing’s dimensions are
40,076,592 by 40,009,153 meters – which are about the dimensions of the
Earth’s surface, if it could be rolled out as a canvas."
The website carries a mass of information, the finished drawing, youtube videos of the design process, pictures of the suitcase, travel instructions, delivery notes and finally four words written in red "This is a fictional work"
I'll own up, for a while I was fooled, and I should have known better!
Remember, not everything you read on the Internet is true, no matter how much we wish it was.
A Swedish artist drew a self portrait on the map of the world, by using a GPS device, a suitcase, an airline and as it has since been revealed a sense of humour.
Writing on the project website the artist states
“My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around
the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the
strokes of the drawing.” The resulting drawing’s dimensions are
40,076,592 by 40,009,153 meters – which are about the dimensions of the
Earth’s surface, if it could be rolled out as a canvas."
The website carries a mass of information, the finished drawing, youtube videos of the design process, pictures of the suitcase, travel instructions, delivery notes and finally four words written in red "This is a fictional work"
I'll own up, for a while I was fooled, and I should have known better!
Remember, not everything you read on the Internet is true, no matter how much we wish it was.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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