Month: February 2006
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Books You Find
No, I’m not talking about Bookcrossing. I mean those books you find when you stay in, say, a holiday cottage, or perhaps a guest house somewhere. There’ll be a shelf of select titles kicking around, and depending on what you’ve brought with you, and the offering available, you might read one or two of them.…
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PSP Trailers
If you want to see film trailers, the best place to visit is, of course, Apple’s Quicktime Trailer site. Indeed the main reason to continually upgrade your version of Quicktime is so that you can see things like the latest V for Vendetta trailer in all their glory. Unsurprisingly video iPod downloads are available for…
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Purity of Blood
Purity of Blood is the second in the Captain Alatriste series of novels by Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte – and there are plenty more still to come. These are slight novels; not a great deal happens. The story is being told from the point of view by Alatriste’s protege, Inigo, at some indeterminate time in…
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Contrived
Spot the story that’s been completely contrived for PR purposes on RAJAR day…
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Misc
Today’s Letter’s and blogs section of Technology Guardian’s worth reading!
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Smash Hits Is Dead
So Smash Hits is no more. What a shame. Where will be without Smash Hits editorial alumni like Neil Tennant, Mark Frith and, er, Kate Thornton. Ah, those happy days I spent memorising the lyrics to Baggy Trousers and Shuddupa Your Face from its hallowed pages. The free badges on the cover. But it does…
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Injured Journalists
Because I stay up far too late all too often, over the past few weeks, I’ve caught a few editions of ABC television’s World News Tonight when it’s shown on BBC News 24 at 1.30am every morning. It’s very easy to hear the words “World News” in the show’s title, and then see that the…
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21st Century Newspaper Features
There are a couple of things I’ve noticed that seem to have become obligatory in all newspapers these days which annoy me to lesser or greater extents. 1) Just about every newspaper album review these days ends with a “Download” suggestion. I know we live in a download culture, and to a lesser or greater…
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AOL Discuss
Has anyone else seen those AOL cinema ads voiced by John Hurt? They’re promoting their “discuss” section of their website. There’s an “bad thing” and a “good thing” one (the transcript of which I can’t find). Having been through all the Big Brother aspects of a net connected world, the “good thing” ad tells us,…
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75% Cut In Oil Imports By 2025
It’s suddenly struck me how Bush might be thinking that US can cut its oil imports so significantly by 2025. If Iran becomes the 51st state, then its oil won’t count as imported. Simple. Of course, by 2025 we’ll be so short of oil, that imports will be cut by the shear expediency of the…