Some people say educational standards have slipped, but I disagree.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Gmail Goggles Prevents Drunk Emails
New in Gmail Labs: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Thursday, 2 October 2008
The moral of the story is don't be such a fat bitch
This made me laugh today. Basically the story is a woman got fined £150 for breaching the 75 minute maximum stay in a KFC car park. The reason she overstayed was because she and a "pal" shared a bargain bucket.
FAST food fan Natalie Jackson was hit with a £150 fine at KFC — for staying too long gorging on a monster-sized “family bucket”.
The trainee nurse and a pal plumped for FOURTEEN chicken pieces, SIX bags of fries and large cokes after driving to their local branch.
They spent an hour and a half scoffing the 5,456-calorie feast. Days later regular customer Natalie got the fine in the post for breaking the restaurant car park’s 75-minute limit.
The 24-year-old fumed yesterday: “It’s disgusting. I spend a lot of money in there. Now I’m never going back.”
Hmm. Not sure I sympathise. Especially since she's sold her story to The Sun which probably more than covers the cost of the fine. The "I'm never going back" comment is classic. You eat there three times a week love, I'm betting you will.
£150 fine... for staying too long at the KFC
Monday, 22 September 2008
STAY AWAY FROM KINKOS!!
Fed EX Kinko's on Tottenham Court Road just charged me £11.99 to scan and email 2 pages.
That was my first and last time at Kinko's. Never been there before so had no idea of the prices and there's no obvious pricing anywhere within the store. However, never in a million years did it cross my mind that it would cost me the best part of twenty quid to scan and email two sheets of paper.
I asked if I could scan two pages of documents and email them to someone. The clerk said yes and scanned my forms. On returning after he'd scanned them he said, "By the way it's £10 for the first sheet and 20p for each additional sheet."
My first reaction was nearly "Fuck off", but I was in a time sensitive situation and this was my last hope. I had no choice. I grudgingly gave him the email address to send the PDF to. Adding insult to injury, after the job was complete I went to pay and he's like, "That's £11.99 please". WTF?? I kicked off, asking why he'd told me it was £10.20 just 3 minutes ago. "Nah mate; £10.20+VAT..."
I asked him them why he didn't tell me the price before and also why he quoted the price without VAT and he acknowledged that he should have told me these things beforehand.
I guess I should have asked what the cost would be before asking him to do it, but it never crossed my mind scanning and emailing 2 sheets of paper would cost £11.99.
For anyone going to Kinkos, my advice would be make sure you confirm the price first before doing anything. It may be WAY higher than you expect. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
The future of music distribution?
Hey readers (lol) I'm back after finishing my exams. I was going to pack this whole blogging thing in but had to reconsider after all the thousands of requests to get back into the saddle. "What will will do without you?", "Please never stop", and "The baby's yours" were the most common comments on the subject of my cessation of Oversaturated. Now that I have a lot more time on my hands you can expect more frequent updates (than once a month).
First on the agenda; The future of music distribution. Read an interesting article here about a company called Sellaband which uses the power of Crowdsourcing to launch new bands without the commercial and creative straitjacket of a record deal. The method is beautifully simple; Music fans on Sellaband invest 10 dollars in an artist they want to back. If the artist gets to 5,000 believers they get $50,000 and then Sellaband steps in to get the band to record an album in a real studio.
I think it's a really simple idea that while not perfect, could potentially be the basis for quite a good model for upcoming bands to kick off. Imagine a subsection of Itunes dedicated to a concept like Sellaband. Could change the music industry.
I also really like the idea I read here about Apple looking to charge say a $100 premium on an Ipod that would give you "all you can eat" music downloading service. I doubt it will ever come to fruition; there's a million legal/technical hurdles not least the slice of the pie the record companies get and whether the downloads are DRMed and how long you're able to keep them. But the idea that for one-off payment of an extra $100 strikes me as genius and one that I would definitely subscribe to.
SellaBand wins $5 million in Series A
Warner Music seeks to offer 'all you can eat' digital music
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
The new i
They've done it again. Apple, in their infinite wisdom and imperious majesty have created a product that revolutionises the paradigm shift of existance and reality. I give you - the i:
The Apple "i"
Monday, 14 April 2008
MONROE SEX FLICK SOLD FOR $1.5M
An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Rick Astley goes on tour!!
The Rickroll is coming live to a stage near you. That's right, Rick Astley is part of the Here and Now Tour 2008, a nostaglic nationwide tour featuring some of the "biggest" acts of the 80s. The line up? Rick Astley, Bananarama, Paul Young, ABC, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Johnny Hates Jazz, Cutting Crew. Only 26 days to go!!
Get your tickets here!!
Saturday, 12 April 2008
US Bosses want Estelle to fix her teeth
Top of the UK charts with her first solo hit American Boy featuring Kanye West, and about to go on tour with Wyclef Jean, you might think everything was going great for UK soul sensation Estelle. You'd be wrong;
Her bosses also want her to ditch the boyish haircut she has in her “American Boy” video and would like to give her image a complete overhaul, according to The Sun. The American executives are adamant she makes a lot of significant changes,” said a source. “They want rid of her tomboy hair and want her to get her teeth fixed. Estelle is not happy. She feels her teeth and the rest of her look are a big part of her character.”
I'm only really commenting because I really like her track American Boy. To be fair, her teeth are pretty bad. But it says a lot about the state of the american music industry when you can't do well unless you look perfect. Meanwhile over here we've got Amy Winehouse running things...
Source: Necole Bitchie.com
Friday, 11 April 2008
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Slapstick
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Preciously unique amusing cartoon whale in an ocean of second hand bong water
More Zero Punctuation. This time in the firing line: No More Heroes on Nintendo Wii:
The Escapist: Zero Punctuation: No More Heroes
The Escapist: Zero Punctuation: No More Heroes
The Odds of Dying
This really cool pic showing the probabilities of dying in various ways. Dying from a lightning strike is more probable than dying in a flood? Doesn't sound right to me.
The odds of dying
The odds of dying
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Obama is cool
Turns out Barack Obama is commited to not accepting any donations from lobbyists, no matter how small. Long story short, a well meaning man registered as a lobbyist sent Barack $100 and had the cheque returned to him. Full story here.
Speaking on behalf of the rest of the world, as I often do, I have a few words for any Americans reading this page. AMERICA, PLEASE VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA!! I will honestly lose what little faith I had for the US if someone as amazing as Obama comes along and is passed over. I wish people like Barack were politicians in Britain.
Obama Didn't Want My Money
Tags: Barack Obama | US Presidential Election
Monday, 7 April 2008
Video Games Versus Violence
Saw this interesting image on Digg today. Not sure about the credibility of the source, but a good way of seeing how you can make statistics show whatever you want.
Video Games Versus Violence
For the record, blaming video games for violence is like blaming Islam for terrorism.
Video Games Versus Violence
For the record, blaming video games for violence is like blaming Islam for terrorism.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
New style MacBook and MacBook Pros coming "soon"
According to AppleInsider the current incarnation of Macbooks and Macbook Pros will be the last before a major design realignment towards current iMac and Macbook Air styling. The new notebooks are rumoured to hit after June of this year. With the new 3G iphone rumoured to be coming in the next 60 days and iMac upgrades on the horizon, 2008 is looking like an exciting year for Apple.
Wasn't sure to tag this under cool or not seeing as I bought my MacBook in October 2007 and it was already obselete by the time I got it home in the car. An entirely new version hitting less than 12 months after my hefty purchase isn't what I'd describe as cool. This despite the "internal refresh" that occured when Leopard released about a week after I got mine. Oh well, that's what the Macrumors buyer's guide is for. Go my AAPL stock!
Apple notebook lines to see major design changes, sources say
Saturday, 5 April 2008
COOLEST. SHIT. EVER.
Maybe once a year, the internet throws up something that is so cool, so incredibly amazing, that you sit back in silent awe. As a young child working out that I would turn 13 in The Year 2000, I wondered what kind of futuristic madness might be available by the end of the first decade. I could never have imagined this.
Behold:
Unlike a standard speaker that uses magnets/paper/plastic etc, this plasma speaker uses the non-gas, non-liquid, non-solid, "fourth state of matter" plasma to create compression waves. The pitch is altered by the constantly shifting intensity of the plasma arc at a frequency response range at 200Hz to 12kHz.
When asked if he ever considered selling his device the creator replied, "A lot of work to do before I could consider selling - the safety aspect for starters..." Fair enough, considering that the universe will be destroyed if two of the plasma speaker beams cross. Yes. Ghostbusters was scientific fact.
Plasma Speaker / Singing Arc - FM Modulated Prototype
Behold:
Unlike a standard speaker that uses magnets/paper/plastic etc, this plasma speaker uses the non-gas, non-liquid, non-solid, "fourth state of matter" plasma to create compression waves. The pitch is altered by the constantly shifting intensity of the plasma arc at a frequency response range at 200Hz to 12kHz.
When asked if he ever considered selling his device the creator replied, "A lot of work to do before I could consider selling - the safety aspect for starters..." Fair enough, considering that the universe will be destroyed if two of the plasma speaker beams cross. Yes. Ghostbusters was scientific fact.
Plasma Speaker / Singing Arc - FM Modulated Prototype
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Steve Jobs wants music subscriptions
Read an interesting article from Valleywag explaining why Steve Jobs wants to change the model for music downloads. He wants to offer ipod users/buyers unlimited downloads for an extra $20-$100. I think this is a genius idea and if implemented could really give Apple complete dominance over the music download market as well as locking people into buying ipods. Bit worried about how much power this gives Apple though...Check out the article here.
Also read on Coed Magazine that Facebook is going to introduce Facebook chat. This could be a masterstroke if they do pull it off, but for some reason this makes me less inclined to use Facebook. It's bad enough logging in and having to deal with a million messages when you shouldn't really be wasting time on it in the first place. Add the extra layer of annoyance when someone pops up trying to chat with you. I hope they offer it as an application that you can opt out of. The reliability of this is in question though since the article claimed this would happen in the next two weeks and two weeks later there's been nothing. Read the article here.
Saturday, 22 March 2008
When Viral Videos Go Bad
Updates are likely to be few and far between seeing as I am locking myself away in preparation for Finals. Here's more Human Giant goodness:
MTV - Human Giant - Viral Videos
MTV - Human Giant - Viral Videos
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Sunday Afternoon
This site has basically become a funny video posts site since they're the only post I have time to do these days. Enjoy more Jon La Joie:
Sunday Afternoon on FunnyOrDie.com
Sunday Afternoon on FunnyOrDie.com
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