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Nokia’s “Comes With Music” translated for the UK
Thanks to the ever-entertaining No Rock’n’Roll Fun: Comes Without Music But You Can Pay For Music If You Like. Just Not Too Many Tunes, Eh? Don’t Go Mad Or Anything. Two Songs A Week.
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Sage advice for astronauts
If you’re in the future, and you work on a spaceship, and you get a call telling you to go and check out some remote colony because contact has mysteriously been lost, do yourself a favour and call in sick that day. Skive for your life. The only reason space colonies, and the drifting spacecraft…
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A decade of deadlines
Please forgive the self-indulgence: I’m celebrating an anniversary. It’s ten years to the day since my first piece of published writing hit print. The article was about journalling, the precursor to blogging, and in it I claimed that the Hitler Diaries had been written by a small dog. I was working in Clydebank at the…
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Blackberry Storm: better than the iPhone?
If you do a lot of typing, it could well be. the BlackBerry Storm, Research In Motion’s first attempt at a touchscreen device, is a triumph. It’s a really powerful device with plenty of clever features, but let’s set that to one side for the moment and focus on the question people really want to…
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Childproofing your cupboards? These are brilliant
Baby Bigmouth has become rather keen on trying to find knives, bleach and matches for some kind of bleachy stabby burny game, so it’s time to childproof the kitchen. And what a pain in the arse that is. There are all kinds of cupboard locks, latches and catches, and all the ones I’ve looked at…
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Wi-fi, mobiles still don’t eat brains
Sense About Science has published Making Sense of Radiation for the tinfoil hat brigade and newspaper journalists to ignore. In summary it says: Speculative stories about health risks and RF radiation often go uncorrected, leaving a trail of confusion that prevents public discussion and policy from moving forward. To counter this they wanted to share…
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Silicon Alley Insider on *that* Steve Jobs rumour
SAI spots an uncorroborated, anonymous post that says Jobs has had a heart attack. Publishes it, causing an immediate drop in Apple share prices. O noes! Uncorroborated, anonymous bollocks turns out to be bollocks! Time for some retrospective justification: We viewed it as significant, however, both for those who care about Apple and Steve and…
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Girls Aloud horror porn – this case could be interesting
A civil servant is being prosecuted for writing horror porn about Girls Aloud. The 35-year-old’s 12-page blog, headlined ‘Girls (Scream) Aloud’, allegedly describes the kidnap, mutilation, rape and murder of band members Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. The case is significant because the man is being prosecuted under the…
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US VP debate rick-rolled
I know rickrolling is soooooo six months ago, but this still made me laugh (screengrab via Fark):
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How Apple can make iPhone developers love it again
John Gruber hits the nail on the head: Here is a complete list of what Apple must do to increase developers’ trust in the App Store system: State the rules. Follow the rules. That’s it.