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Destroying our environment
I posted a long rant last year about the evils of flyposting, and I pointed out that: It’s estimated that illegal music flyposting saves firms around £8 million per year in advertising, and the cost of removing the posters comes from people’s council tax. Doesn’t it give you a warm glow to think that your…
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Labels: downloads should be more expensive
The Financial Times reports that record labels are pushing for an increase in the cost of downloads. Some leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads in an attempt to capitalise on burgeoning demand for legal online music.
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Fan mail
This is a new one: hate mail as a result of slagging off a computer-generated, helium-voiced chicken. Over to you, “Ray”: YU FUKIN BASTRD SWEETY THE CHICK IS GREAT I HOPE YU BURN IN HELL TLK BOUT SET IM ON FYA ID RAVA SET YU ON FYA!!! WOT HARM IS IT DOIN 2 NE1?? FUK…
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Sperm theft
Love in the 21st Century: Boy meets girl. Boy gets jiggy with girl. Girl “steals” boy’s sperm. Girl uses said sperm to impregnate herself. Girl sues boy for maintenance. Boy sues girl for fraud and emotional distress. “She asserts that when plaintiff ‘delivered’ his sperm, it was a gift — an absolute and irrevocable transfer…
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Sony-BMG: “What matters to us is the consumer experience. So we’re going to make it worse.”
I wish I’d stayed in bed this morning – yet another news article has got me foaming at the mouth. This time it’s Reuters, who reports that Sony-BMG is getting serious about copy protection on CDs. Apparently it’s because customers are crying out for CDs that look like normal CDs, cost the same as normal…
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A wheely stupid idea: speed spies in every car
The Sunday Times reports that the European Union wants us all to have digital spies in our cars. Black box recorders could be installed in all new cars under a European Union ruling. The aircraft-style equipment would also act as a tracker, using global positioning satellites to record the location and route of a vehicle…
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The future’s bright. The future’s orange
Humour comes from unexpected places, such as Glasgow’s bowler-hatted, sash wearing community. According to The Evening Times: TOURISTS flock to Glasgow to watch Orange walks that cause no more trouble than the average football match, says the Grand Orange Lodge… the parades helped ease sectarian tensions. …The [Orange Order] official also said: “The council must…
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I may be small. I may be sweet. But baby, I know how to move my feet
If the headline doesn’t mean anything to you, you’ve been spared the horrors of UK satellite television, where mobile phone ringtone firm Jamster is attempting to drive the entire country insane. The headline comes from a song performed by Sweety The Chick, a cartoon character that’s designed to be cute: The song starts off quietly,…
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For god’s sake Microsoft, kill this ad campaign
“Your potential. Our passion. Our website isn’t working.” OK, I added the last bit, but if you enter the URL in Microsoft’s current print ads (www.microsoft.com/uk/potential) you get the reassuring message: The system cannot find the file specified. You’d have thought someone would check that the URL in the ads actually worked, wouldn’t you? Luckily…
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Why do men’s magazines suck?
Following on from yesterday’s post about Hunter S Thompson wannabes, I’ve been thinking about men’s magazines and wondering: why do they all suck? They really do, especially when you compare them to women’s magazines. Women’s mags are often derided for being formulaic, but it’s a formula that works: a bit of fashion, a bit of…