Archived posts for January, 2006

Robert!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Well you have to hand it to them. Type Bob into Google and you get the three enponymous heroes of Robert.

Mr Dylan of course.

Mr Marley naturally.

The Builder, doh!

And people want to change the internet, shame on you!

Coverflow - the iTunes albumartifier!

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Is this the best Mac app ever? Well, if you keep all your music on iTunes then it will may well be!

CoverFlow is a visual album browser, in other words it lets you flick through your albums, just like you used to do. If you’ve always hated the clinical lists in iTunes, then [...]

Well at least the thought was there…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Don’t you love it when some company or other rolls their shiny new website based on some big web content management app or other, but then doesn’t get anyone competent to sort out the details.

Thanks to napster, the best music service on the planet, no, really heh! Sundance festival – it’s all very [...]

Dick, dick, dick. Why are men so weak?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I forget how good it is to read the Amnesty site, we all need reminding about what’s really going on while we’re out shopping for shoes and CD’s.

The latest front page features womens rights and violence against women. It’s mind boggling really. How stupid, worthless and paranoid can men be? [...]

Kalashnikov!

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

There’s a good report on the BBC site about a new cinema ad run by Amnesty highlighting the shocking levels of gun running and just how easy it is to obtain weapons.

There’s also a dedicated website for the Control Arms Organisation where you can get informed and start to do something – like add yourself [...]

Fuck A Goose - why do they always choose the worst concept?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Earlier today I was reading a post on another blog along the lines of … why do clients hire you, pay you, listen, understand, agree and go through all this effort to get a decent web site designed and lauched, and then get some gimp with no idea to manage the content and fuck it [...]