Your future’s orange
My god, this is brilliant. And by brilliant, I mean rubbish.
The Hirer: If you only watch one shoddy online Apprentice rip-off today…
Fake Bake is at an exciting stage on the cusp of development into Niche Markets worldwide so the job isn’t for the faint hearted. Jim is looking forward to seeing the talent coming through and listening to pitches to see if there really is raw hunger, eager to succeed individuals out there to join us and be a part of this growing global organisation.
According to the Herald:
Where Sir Alan offers the winner of each series £100,000 to work for him for a year, the Fake Bake hiree can expect “a competitive five-figure salary and comprehensive benefits package”.
Ten grand and all the fake tan you can eat?
[Thanks, Heather]
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
[Via MetaFilter]
Fan hits the shit
You might think I’m only linking to the YouTube clip of Noel Gallagher being attacked on stage so I can use that headline.
You’re right.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I’m thinking about iPods
Later today the boffins at CERN will switch on the Large Hadron Collider, which will - depending on who you believe - usher in a brave new era in physics, turn the planet into Swiss cheese, or open a portal for Satan to come and enslave us all. Which may well overshadow the latest iPod.
iPod Nano 4G
It’s a really nice upgrade, I reckon, but I do wonder where the iPod can possibly go from here. Pico-projectors that enable you to show video on nearby walls or bald people’s heads? Integrated kazoos?
Tangent: during the keynote Steve Jobs made it clear that he wasn’t too happy with third-party accessory firms leaking supposedly secret products, as happened with the nano. I wonder if pre-release access to Apple’s plans is going to be more restricted now. Why help add-on manufacturers get to market quickly if they’re going to blow your big reveal?
Got a Sony Vaio? Don’t like fires? You should probably read this, then
Sony’s recalling a whole bunch of Vaio TZ laptops because of an unfortunate “burny burny” feature that’s slipped into some of them. The recall includes these models:
- All model numbers beginning “VGN TZ1″ (e.g. VGN-TZ11XN/B)
- All model numbers beginning “VGN TZ2″ (e.g. VGN-TZ21WN/B)
- Certain model numbers beginning “VGN TZ3″ (e.g. VGN-TZ31VN/R)
Full UK details here. [Via Engadget]
What your taste in music says about you
Pointless but amusing survey via the BBC:
Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle
Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease
Jazz: appalling taste in music, ugly shoes
I may have made one of those up.
Thoughts on using Apple’s Time Machine as a remote wireless hard disk
Nope - at least, nope for iPhoto and iTunes libraries. This is a job for Captain Ethernet.
Google Chrome: that’s no moon
Google’s much-anticipated operating system turns out to be real - but it’s built into a browser.
“Like those yucky strings of poo sometimes seen dangling from goldfish”
A nice contrast to blog evangelism: PC Pro’s Dick Pountain on why he doesn’t blog, and why he thinks blogs are bad for writing.
Publishers, being straightforward capitalists, have a duty to maximise their profits, and one way to do this is to pay writers less or pay fewer writers. To them, the blogosphere is starting to look like a huge open-cast mine of free copy, and the fact that it’s neither researched nor necessarily true is beside the point: that just means they can fire the research department too…
Lacking any quality control mechanism, blogs easily sink into a Hobbesian state of nature - rule by the loudest and the nastiest.
You can’t leave that lion there
A police operation launched following reports that a lion was loose in north Belfast has been called off after the animal turned out to be a stray dog.