Author: Carrie

  • An early Xmas present for Flickr users

    Photo sharing site Flickr has upped its storage limits, so pro users now have unlimited storage and unlimited transfers while free users get a storage boost from 20MB to 100MB. Nice.

  • I’m in ur blog, killing ur tragic attempt at viral marketing. D00dz.

    [Alternative title: “We don’t work for Sony,” say people working for Sony] This is brilliant: a marketing firm sets up a PSP blog to do the viral thing for Sony’s PSP, and promptly gets pwn3d (as I believe internet kids say). But the creators won’t admit it: YO stop SPammin my BLOG… da psp is…

  • Apple’s unhappy with iBuzz ads

    Apple’s upset with UK adult novelty site Lovehoney, which comes from the frankly terrifying brain of .net launch editor turned pornmonger (and friend of mine) Rich Longhurst. Lovehoney’s iBuzz site [not safe for work] parodies the iconic iPod silhouettes to flog vibrating iPod attachments, and Apple’s lawyers are on the case. This bit amused me:…

  • Yikes!

    I’m always amused by tribute bands’ names – take a bow, Gwen Ste-phoney! – but I’m even more amused by their promo pics. This particularly scary one is from the same site as Ste-phoney, and it’s the cleverly named Girls R Aloud: [photopress:girls_aloud.jpg,full,pp_image] I mean, bloody hell, if you put me in waders, flippers and…

  • Bono and Cliff: turkeys voting for Christmas

    In today’s Guardian Marina Hyde does a nifty skewering of rich rock stars’ attempts to increase the lifespan of copyright: The four record giants – Warners, EMI, Sony-BMG and Universal – own the vast majority of the recording copyrights in question, and it is they who will reap almost all the royalties. It’s really important…

  • Popjustice are flogging t-shirts

    [photopress:PJ0116m.jpg,full,pp_image] That one made me laugh. More here.

  • Tabloids in “making stuff up” shocker

    Whenever you see the phrase “political correctness gone mad” in newspapers, it’s usually a sign that you’re being lied to: a few years ago, tabloid newspapers regularly printed stories about PC madness – replacing black bin bags with green ones, that sort of thing – that they’d simply made up. It seems that the tradition…

  • The loneliness of the cow-themed calendar creator

    From time to time, journalists encounter a big problem: you pitch a daft idea, the editor loves it, you get commissioned to do it… and you realise with a sinking feeling that it was a really rubbish idea that isn’t anywhere near as funny as it seemed when you first thought of it, but now…

  • The UK’s proposed new piracy laws: the good news and the bad news

    The good news: changing the format of legal music – eg ripping your CDs to MP3 – will become legal. The bad news: under existing copyright legislation, it’s illegal to bypass “technical protection measures”, ie. copy protection. I’ve seen nothing suggesting the “go ahead, rip your CDs” changes will address that at all, or that…

  • Plane makes emergency landing due to… flatulence

    Seriously. An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said. The Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Nashville after several passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from the matches