I went to the Natural History Museum last week and came across this. An animatronic T.Rex being filmed by a whole load of schoolchildren – like multiple mini versions of Scoble, all with their phone out, video and taking pictures. I saw very few actual cameras, they all had the phone. How many of these […]
Jeremy and his new hat
Caught a drink with Jeremy Wright last night at the end of his rapid-fire trip to New York – he demonstrated his new cap bought on his recent trip to the UK, a flat cap in black corduroy. His trip seemed to be full of incidents and surprises, not going completely to plan, but you […]
Doing my bit to spread the meme of bacn
I did my bit for the spread of bacn this week, bumping into Caroline McCarthy at the Crunchgear party. Today the term has made BoingBoing, or at least the buzz about the buzz about the term has: as of today, Wednesday, according to Technorati, there are over 350 blog posts containing the word, and it’s […]
Hair Makeover
My hair got used as a model for a website – as part of a Hair Makeover tool for Sunsilk. So I took one of the original shots (on the left) and added my own hair back onto my face to see what the different colours look like. I do like the red!
Harry Potter vs the iPhone
Two great launches have taken place over the last few weeks, the Apple iPhone and the seventh and last Harry Potter book. So had did the launches compare? Facet Harry Potter iPhone What is it? A book A phone. With extras. Audience Ostensibly children 9-12. In reality all ages. Gadget freaks and Apple fans with […]
The Internet crashed
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash Via John Swords on Twitter. (although I went and got the original from The Onion. Typical government reaction – they forgot to back it up.
Do you speak kitteh?
The Globe and Mail, the Toronto paper, had a lovely piece on Thursday about the rise of kitteh, the ‘language’ found on the lolcatz images and the derivatives that have sprung up. Unfortunately I left the paper in the hotel and it’s behind a paywall on the site, although the article does appear to be […]
A tiring week
I whole week without blogging – I guess the parental visit left me a little tired, although I was posting on Behind the Buzz (which has been updated to the latest B5Media template and not looking too bad at all). Thursday afternoon, Robert Scoble invited people along to a small lunch at Katz’s deli; about […]
Half a virtual mouse
What good is half a virtual mouse? US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
World Record for Coconut Clopping
London claimed the world record back from New York today as 4382 people clopped their coconuts together to celebrate Spamalot’s first year in London. That’s more than 3000 more than New York managed. This was followed by a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, whic the website kindly reminds you has a 15 […]
Ultimate Frisbee
Eric’s being twittering about Saturday Frisbee for a few weeks now so on Saturday I decided to join in. About a dozen people turned up and had a great game before retiring for celebratory drinks. Bill has a great set which includes some in-action shots as well as just the drinking ones. Here’s on of […]
WordPress Meetup
Matt and Toni are in town at the moment and had proposed a meetup. After a bit of a mix up (they were late, the attendees all want to the pub, but the long way round) it all sorted itself out and 14 of us sat down at the Heartland Brewery (who gave us a […]
April Fools again
It’s that time of year again and the fools are popping up all over the web, with a good list over at Wikipedia. You can take your time looking through them, there’s bound to be something that took your fancy. Google again seems to take some of the most effort with 2 very nice ones. […]
Bluejacking is back
Well, according to the BBC anyway. The craze that never was is back in favour and is currently the most emailed story on the news site. Interestingly, the site links to stories from way back in 2003. The only time I got messages this way was in a W hotel in New York, just the […]
Pillow Fight NYC
Yesterday there was a moment of madness in the city, a Pillow Fight organised by newmindspace. An absolute blast, an urban maul in Union Square, where the cameras, both amateur and professional, nearly outnumbered the fighters.
Valentine Blues
If you hate the day, love the day but failed to have a good time, or just like random violence and things going bang, take a look at this wonderful My Black Valentine, (tip from YesButNoButYes). Choose your object of hate, click and watch as a bullet smashes through it, destroying the whole thing. Can […]
Robot Loving
Scott Adams has been asking if you would sleep with a robot. And the answers have been mainly in the positive, with some reservations. Many of you were concerned that the software in the robot would be provided by Microsoft. First of all, I think we can all agree that the name “Microsoft†is bad […]
Beer Goggles
I love this BBC article about the scientific explanation for Beer Goggles. The study, from University of Manchester, was sponsored by an eyeglass company Bausch and Lomb, I’d have thought that if they have a study released for PR, they may have at least put it on their site but nothing on the UK or […]
Walmart Video and the importance of cross-browser testing
Walmart launch a new video download service today. Apparently their development team is browser challenged as they only appear to have IE available to them. Under that app, their site looks, well, not beautiful but at least OK. However, on Firefox it looks like this: I know that sites sometimes launch without full testing…and that […]
Fainting Goats
From Charlie, I link to a video about fainting goats. I’m not sure what to make about this; it’s pretty funny seeing them fall over when startled but the fact of their owner going at them with umbrellas to demonstrate it for the camera is a little too much. This is a disease that could […]