Archive for January, 2008

Directed Shuffle

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The iPod, or any media player, really, could use a feature in its shuffle mode to allow you to tag a song as always being followed by a specific song of your choosing.
Most adjacent songs on albums don’t flow together so much that you’d notice or care, but when they do it’s horribly jarring when [...]

Internet Dissonance

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Dear Internet,
Please tell me, is this a spoof or not?
I honestly can’t tell any more. I think the web has finally broken my credulity gene.

Hema Robinson

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Hema’s online catalogue frontpage is a marvellous Heath Robinson-y affair.
(Well, it might be rubbish if all you want is to check a price of something quickly, but Hema is so ubiquitous in the Netherlands that I doubt it makes much difference to their profit margins.)

Fundamentalist Nutjobbery

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Are you feeling overly happy right now? Slightly too optimistic about the general state of the human race? Then you’ll want to go and read “The 100 greatest quotes from fundamentalist Christian chat rooms”
You’ll laugh:
“I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in [...]

Animal Lovers

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

PR Newswire - 10/01/2008

An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency’s deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the [...]

Resolutions

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Under normal circumstances, I never make New Years resolutions, but this time I’m going to make an exception: In 2008, if I happen to meet Jackie Ballard, I will punch her in the face. Possibly repeatedly.
The Times Online - 23/12/2007
DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf [...]