Archived posts for November, 2006

A right nasty kick in the zunes!

Friday, November 24th, 2006

There’s a fucking ocean of terrible press and dire reviews for the Zune out there but this one pulls no punches.

To be honest it’s tough to quote the best (worst) bits of the review, I could easily just cut and paste the whole thing!

Quotes…

“Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful … the [...]

Home TV Shopping - And justice for all!

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

This clip is doing the rounds – it shows a spectacularly moronic home shopping presenter banging on and on about the latest crappy, overpriced, Dell PC, he’s keen on 128 as you may notice!

Watch this and learn…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXmPFxf2Jg&mode=related&search=

All done?

Have feelings of violence, maybe some pent up frustration and anger?

Well, in a rare move, justice can be [...]

tomkat lala

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I really couldn’t care less about tom and katie getting married – though I hope the’re happy, that would be nice.

However I couldn’t help but feel the irony of this advert on the tomkat wedding blog.

...after T/K’s magical evening, the newlyweds left the Odescalchi castle this morning at dawn,then flew out of Rome for a [...]

Palm laugh off Apple ‘iPhone’

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I liked this story in The Mercury News via MDN …

“Is Apple serious competition?: Palm CEO Ed Colligan seems downright nonchalant about rumors that Apple may introduce a mobile phone to market in the coming year,” Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi report for The San Jose Mercury News.

“Responding to questions from New York Times [...]

People ain’t no good…

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

classic album design - abba, the album

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Designed originally by Rune Söderqvist, for album accompanying Abba The Movie, the cover shown here is the doctored version from Epic UK – the superior original did not have the graduated sky.

Record label butchering aside, the strong graphical style, silhouettes, graduated fills and hard cut out edges looks like it could have been produced [...]