Friday, December 12, 2003

Who's in charge of the Internet?
Interesting essay on the control and management (or lack of) of the internet.
Very funny "alternative" London Tube Map tubemap.jpg. I love the stream of conciousness naming of the stations as you follow a tube line along.
Two nice MS Word parodies...
BBspot - Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature
"Microsoft announced a revolutionary new feature will appear in Word 2004 called AutoUnsummarize. The technology works by taking short, concise sections of text and expanding them to any specified length."

Northern Word
"All the usual Word menu option are there, but in a language your Northern England employees can understand"

Thursday, December 11, 2003

Thunderbirds are Go!
I loved thunderbirds as a wee lad, and I suppose I still do !
I noticed this Thunderbirds trailer is go! at BoingBoing (a blog worth regular visits). The trailer is pretty big, but the thunderbird craft (the stars of the show) look pretty authentic.
It prompted me to check here: comingsoon.net which has some stills and blurb, and then here: IMDb Forum: Thunderbirds which contains some worrying stories about a butchered screenplay... :-( lets just hopw they're wrong.
St Trevor of Brooking tells it like it really ought to be !
Trevor's opinion piece in the Guardian Our good health is refrershingly spot on.
"The relationship between sport and alcohol does not have to be a disaster for the nation's wellbeing"
The World's best looking bands
Another to add to the "Worster Album Covers Ever" collections.
[see See earlier item]

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

David Byrne turns PowerPoint into art.
Wired News: Turning Heads With PowerPoint