Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Stephen Fry has begun podcasting! Fantastic! The greatest living Englishman delivering pontifications and observations in those velvety smooth tones will lift the bleakest of afternoons.
–c.
This is… it’s… it’s just…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvUZWd09yc
Wow.
–c.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome!
Awesome?
–awesome.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
What’s the most played and most common soundbite of classical music?
What, that you say? The intro to Beethoven’s 5th? Computer says no.
It’s from a piece called “Gran Valse” by Francisco Tárrega, and it’s the tune that comes as the standard ringtone on Nokia phones. Yep, that one.
Bit dull, though, n’est-ce pas? Well not any more! [...]
Step 1: Take some digital photos. Put them on Flickr if you like.
Step 2: Go to moo.com and use your photos (imported from Flickr or uploaded or whatever) to design a box of 100 Minicards. I did 10 designs x 10 cards each, but you can have 100 different ones or all the same or [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2007
(No, not the TV series.)
In 1989 I started playing electric guitar, having finally convinced my parents that I was serious about it and having received my first guitar (a Maya strat copy) for Christmas 1988. When asked I always say that I started playing because of Mark Knopfler. I was a huge Dire Straits fan [...]
I have an awesome for you. Would you like an awesome? Go on, have an awesome. They’re low-fat!
Forget pirates - peep Time Traveler Day!
I told you I had an awesome for you.
–c.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
…or in fact, anyone who knows anyone who’s going to be in the USA this coming weekend - specifically Boston.
First of all read this edition of that fantastic webcomic, XKCD.
Right - as I posted a while back, the numbers featured in the panel of that comic do indeed correlate to an exact geographical location and [...]
