The BBC have a series of user-submitted photos of the recent foggy weather we’ve been having in the UK. I really like number 3.
[...]Tags: fog, photography, uk, weather
The BBC have a series of user-submitted photos of the recent foggy weather we’ve been having in the UK. I really like number 3.
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And so it is, that I’ve added Google AdSense ads to both this page and Peterborough in Winter. How much difference it will make I don’t know, but here’s hoping as little as possible to the user experience, and maybe a little to my wallet. We shall see.
Tags: advertising, web
More strange stuff that people have posted on del.icio.us: 56 users have bookmarked “localhost”, and plenty of others have created similar bookmarks.
I did find a couple of other amusing entries in there though, including locahost.com, a service for those who frequently misspell localhost as locahost, and end up there…
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Four narrators, all with linked lives, all trying, and largely failing, to achieve something, or even to make sense of the world around them. Coupland manages to tackle tough issues - religion and it’s relevance in the modern world, especially how it relates to the horrors described in the first part of the book; deception; exploitation; faith; and how all these things manage to mingle with more personal issues, such as being part of a family unit or forming relationships. This makes everything seem petty, as if you could view these situations with utter objectivity.
Comparisons with Generation X are inevitable, but I think this book is more affecting, even though is cannot match the atmosphere of the authors debut.
Tags: books, Douglas Coupland
This Renault Clio ad was popular (well it was popular with me) over the summer. It’s kinda cool/quirky, but it’s best feature is surely the stunningly beautiful Annelise Hesme.
Hesme was also in a film called “Hors de Prix” this summer with Audrey Tautou but I couldn’t find an English copy after a quick search - my French is definitely not good enough for the native language version.
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Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel to be adapted for film is 300. The trailer looks great, a cross between Spartan: Total Warrior, God of War, and this new-school comicbook/animation style. What’s more interesting is that the whole thing was filmed against coloured backgrounds, then CGI-ified to make it purdy, and it certainly looks that.
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I opened up Arena to find this! A light sensor controlled, winter-wonderland of flashing blue LEDs! Brilliant marketing.
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WiiLi is a site with the long-term goal of running Linux on the Nintendo Wii. Of course, this is an inevitability, Linux will eventually be run on everything, but I think WiiLi is notable for it’s humble approach:
They’re building a live cd for the pc allowing users to use the peripherals, then aiming to port the whole thing to the Wii. This seems like a much more sane method than just jumping in there and trying to run code on the hardware. |
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A series of videos which appear to have been made by Nike, and which show objects being hit at 200mph with a Golf-ball, and then the resulting impact/explosion in slow-motion.
Not sure if this is educational at all, but it’s amusing enough.
I’ve just finished setting up Peterborough in Winter, a new photoblog, check it out now…
Tags: Peterborough, photography
I like this creative design - using the familiar* O’Reilly format for his homepage, then using a contents page to literally, list the contents. To have just listed the site pages straight off would have otherwise looked amateurish, whereas this looks cool.
* to his audience at least 
The first thing to strike me about this novel is that it is so thin, at just over 100 pages, I read it in an afternoon. The story is touching, though the characters are not as life-like as I had been led to believe. Very little happens in the plot, and though some of the descriptions are (deliberately) ambiguous, there is similarly little intrigue. Nonetheless, I found the story engaging due to it’s setting - this is a time of simplicity and innocence which is long lost, especially in it’s American setting. Given that the text was first published in 1958, and Capote’s next work was the 1965 In Cold Blood, which deals with murders committed in 1959, this novel seems to represent the end of the authors innocence, and also mark the end of this gentler time in the world.
The value of the Penguin edition is enhanced somewhat by the inclusion of three short stories (House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory), all of which have their merits, and are perhaps even greater examples of literature than the main event, it being little more than a short story itself.
Tags: books, Truman Capote
In the new year I plan to take my CBT, and buy a motorcycle, possibly a Honda-CG125-type thing. Normally I’m not swayed by macho Americana, but next year’s Harley-Davidson prototype, the 2007 XR1200, looks like a mighty fine machine.
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Since I’m fairly proficient with juggling balls (with three anyway), the obvious thing I thought was to just keep increasing the number of balls. But then last month I found a set of juggling clubs in a shop, and discovered I couldn’t even manage one! Thus, I now plan to learn to juggle with clubs. Since they’re more expensive than you’d think (site linked quotes $90US for a good set), I’ve been looking at alternatives - this site has a guide to making your own juggling clubs.
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Christmas is coming, one of the things that reminds me of this season as much as anything is The Snowmanw. This Irn-Bru advert is a brilliant variation - supposedly it’s only due to be shown in Scotland, hopefully they’ll reconsider and show it in England also.
Tags: advertising, animation, Christmas, humour
