February 2009
41 posts
This week I learnt that, in America, gravy can be white!
Gravy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CinéMoi Launches on Sky | Little White Lies |... →
Functionality I'd like to see in all email clients
1) That they automatically check the content of emails you forward, if they have already been forwarded more than once they show a warning “You do realise the email you’re forwarding is almost certainly a hoax, don’t you? Do you really want to forward it and look like an idiot?”.
2) When forwarding an email to more than two people, by entering addresses in the...
WatchAlt Text 21: Snarking Validation - Video - Wired
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Sorry for quoting the same article three times!
I try and only ever post one quote from an article or page I find interesting, but couldn’t resist three this time.
“The Conservatives were happy to misinform the world in order to back up their...”
– David Mitchell: Twitter ye not - I adore Wikipedia | Comment is free | The Observer
“First, Wikipedia’s level of accuracy is remarkable considering its...”
– David Mitchell: Twitter ye not - I adore Wikipedia | Comment is free | The Observer
“It’s a website where you express what you’re currently doing in 140...”
– David Mitchell: Twitter ye not - I adore Wikipedia | Comment is free | The Observer
The Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to... →
WatchCalibrate your HDTV on the cheap (via CrunchGear)
“First up, almost every paper got both the quantities and the substances wrong,...”
– Bad Science » A rock of crack as big as the Ritz
WatchLook! Eepybird’s Sticky Note Experiment (via Apartment Therapy Unplugged)
“Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and...”
– BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | The mystery of Ireland’s worst driver
“That’s what a free speech policy that recognizes the fundamental...”
– Shakesville: Phelpses Banned from Britain
“this stuff isn’t about this invented construct of PCness - does anyone...”
– Monday 16th February 2009 | Warming Up | RichardHerring.com
“Creationists, who argue that the world was created no more than 10,000 years...”
– Creationists are still denying Darwin. Stephen Moss asks why | Science | The Guardian
Thanks. No. →
a polite way to request no more pointless forwards!
Chávez wins Venezuela referendum | World news |... →
“Surely with so much money and drama, overpaid and violent young men, beautiful...”
– David Mitchell: You can tell a winner by how he loses | Comment is free | The Observer
“I wonder if a better punishment for Thatch Jr would have been for the One Show...”
– Friday 13th February 2009 | Warming Up | RichardHerring.com
BadMovieClub - 'The Happening' (a review)...
So, for those not in the loop, find out more about BadMovieClub.
Now, my feedback:
Firstly, I messed up. I rented it on my iMac from the iTunes store, then 5 minutes before the start, I went to get it ready on my AppleTV. Only it wasn’t there. After a bit of panicking and running from room to room I found out how you had to ‘Move’ a rental from iTunes to your AppleTV - it...
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A trip to bed would be nice this Valentine's Day
bed
Because I need some sleep (yeah, you dirty minded people, I was just going there for some sleep!!!).
When I started using the Internet
I started using the internet whilst in 6th Form College, which would have been around 1994-1996 kind of time. Back then I used to post on a discussion board called ‘The World Wide Wibble’ (or something like that) where there used to be a user on their called ‘Troll’ (apparently it was his real name) and for years afterwards I assumed the term ‘Trolling’ was...
What real life bad habits has programming given... →
I’m guilty of most of these!