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Sony: we dropped the ball
It seems that in the last few years, the only people who didn’t realise that Sony’s MP3 strategy was D-U-M dumb were the bosses of Sony. Now, it seems, they’ve seen the light. Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, told reporters that Sony blew it with their refusal to support MP3 and obsession with…
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I see dead people, at £30 a pop
Downmarket tabloid newspapers can be pretty depressing things at the best of times, but it’s when you turn to the advertising that things get really appalling. Easy loans with interest rates loan sharks would be ashamed of, cheap and nasty tat, and worst of all, psychic telephone lines. There’s a special circle of Hell reserved…
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£1? Yikes!
From today’s Evening Times web site:
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American Airlines wants to know everything about you
Another BoingBoing post, but much more serious than conceptual art: if Cory Doctorow’s experience is typical, then it seems American Airlines now expects passengers to provide the names and addresses of everybody they intend to stay with in the USA. They claimed that this was due to a TSA [Transport Security Administration] regulation, but refused…
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Your arse belongs to us
BoingBoing links to an interesting bit of art: a chair that shoves big spikes up your arse if you don’t have a Licence to Sit. As Cory Doctorow explains, “The piece makes a point about the rentware world we’re fast approaching, where individuals are stuck in a kind of feudal relationship with commercial entities.”
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Site spit and polish
I’ve made a few tweaks to the weblog design – nothing too serious, but I’ve gone for slightly different fonts to make the text more readable. I’ve tested it in Safari and Firefox and everything seems okay, but if users of other browsers spot any problems could you let me know please? Thanks.
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Aieeeee!
According to this report in The Inquirer, bird flu has spread to humans. I believe the medical term for this development is “oh, shit”.
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A message for Tom Dennis
Tom, I’ve tried again and again to mail the replies to your questions but the mails are still bouncing – your ISP’s convinced that there’s no space in your mailbox for incoming messages. Can you get in touch with an alternative email address, please?
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Happy Happy Joy Joy
From the Eels mailing list: Long time no see. Sorry about that. But it will all make sense to you now. The EELS have been missing all this time for a reason: they’ve been working on the new album, and it’s a doozy! A 33 track DOUBLE album! BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS will be…
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New comments
Rightio, that’s me added the Haloscan commenting and trackback system to the blog. It should be self-explanatory; unfortunately it does mean that while existing comments are still on the various blog entries, they won’t show up as “Comments [3]” or whatever. Sorry. One of the main advantages of Haloscan is that you can leave your…