Went to the Bill Hicks 11th Anniversary Tribute at Jongleurs in Camden last night. The evening featured stand-up sets from Mark Steel, Glen Wool, Brendon Burns, and a funny Irish comedian whose name I can’t remember for the life of me, interspersed with lots of footage of the great man performing (some well-known, some rare [...]
As has been pointed out to me, the Make Poverty History link at top left of the page doen’t actually work. Don’t blame me, I only do this stuff for a living – accordingly, usability and accessibility go out the window so long as it looks cool. (If you must know, the original markup supplied [...]
Sad news: Hunter S Thompson has died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
If you’re accustomed to arriving at this page to be met with a burning sensation in your eyes, you’ll probably have noticed that I’ve changed the default page style to Green Chunk. If you preferred the more lurid colour scheme, you can change back to Original using the switcher on the right (your selection will [...]
So we’re going to get a new version of IE before Longhorn - IE6 SP3 IE7. To misappropriate a Bill Hicks line, great, now there’s another version of IE I won’t be using.
I can just imagine the scenes at Redmond -
Steve: Loads of home users are ditching Explorer ‘cos it’s so buggy and insecure, and [...]
With my purchase of an iBook looking imminent, I’ve started thinking about Mac equivalents for some of the software I use on a regular basis. There’s no problem as far as PHP is concerned, as Zend IDE is available for the Mac too, as are the usual suspects from Macromedia and Adobe. However for MySQL [...]
What to do with those original high quality Royal Wedding mugs now Charles is set to re-marry? The ThroneOut Mint Charles & Diana Mug Conversion Kit could be the answer:
Featuring a sticker specially designed to fit over the face of the mad, deceased ex-wife, you can turn those embarrassing old collectables into something to be [...]
This is quite cool – download a legit copy of Grand Theft Auto 2 free of charge from Rockstar Games. It’s the full version, not time-limited, updated to make use of current graphics cards. All you have to do is fill in a bit of personal info and subscribe to their mailing list (temporarily). It’s [...]
In a long article entitled Propaganda And The BBC, Alex Doherty writes about the findings of studies showing the Beeb’s pro-government bias, and looks at the possible causes using Herman and Chomsky’s “propaganda model”.
I was having a bit of a clearout of my bookmarks today, hence the fairly random nature of these web design/development links:
Panic Goods has got a lovely little drag and drop shopping cart interface — I particularly like the puff of smoke when you drag an item out of the basket. Sadly it doesn’t work [...]
Clearly a person would have to be a complete mentalist to even consider sailing around the world solo, but to manage to do it in record-breaking time is pretty amazing. Cue thousands of head teachers doing school assemblies about “what you can achieve if you put your mind to it” in the morning…
For that special Simpsons fan in your life: print your own “I Choo Choo Choose You” Valentine card (as given to Ralph by Lisa) or “Let’s Bee Friends” card, courtesy of Geoff Stearns. They’re in eps format, so you’ll need something like Illustrator or Freehand to open them. Sadly I don’t have a special someone [...]
The Vatican is denying claims that the Pope’s blessing was prerecorded. Wow, all credit to the guy then, loitering at death’s door (or Peter’s gate) and still able to find the strength to “think of the children”:
The message contained a new condemnation of abortion, urging people to “trust in the life that children who are [...]
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