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March 23, 2008

Obama vs Clinton

I’ll say it now: I would prefer Barack Obama to win.

But here’s an interesting article. It turns out Hillary has been claiming that she landed in Bosnia under sniper fire.

According to this video though, she didn’t.

Not sure it’ll bring her campaign down entirely, but damaging nonetheless.

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March 14, 2008

Ker-Boom

I’m having problems seeing the main site banner for cunningtitle in Firefox. Is anyone else having difficulties? Safari seems to be fine, but the Firefox 3 beta seems to be getting stroppy about it.

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Catching the Terrorists, Orwell-Style

Dom kindly sent me a link to a Met page with posters. Have a look at the one about photography. Here’s the quote:

Thousands of people take photos every day.

What if one of them seems odd?

Metropolitan Police Service - Counter-terrorism advertising campaign

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March 8, 2008

Music for Web Designers?

I just saw the following advert on Facebook

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One problem: never, ever, ever use music on a website. Videos, fine. Films, of course. Websites, no. When someone watches a video, they watch that video only and don’t concentrate on anything else. The same goes for a film. When I visit a website, I’m likely to have six different ones open at once. I don’t want them all singing to me.

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March 4, 2008

Upgrading RAM

MacBooks have RAM installed as a “user-replaceable part” i.e. you can replace it yourself without voiding your warranty. This might be why you’d want to

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March 3, 2008

There Will Be Blood

I might write a more detailed post when I have time, but for the moment:

For crying out loud, go and see There Will Be Blood

If you’ve seen it already, go and see it again. It is up there with the Shawshank Redemption. It really is that good.

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MacBook Air

Some time ago Apple announced the MacBook Air - a ridiculously lightweight and thin MacBook. Although it lacks a lot of features (internal CD drive etc) it can be upgraded to have a solid state HDD (which is fast and near-silent, not to mention very reliable) and relies on wireless to do almost anything.

What’s more impressive is how it fits this all, plus a full size backlit keyboard and LED screen into the thinnest notebook so far.

Apparently uptake has been high, which surprises me. The MacBook Air is a feat of engineering, but the lack of a CD drive and limit of just one USB port limit its practical use, especially at a cost of at least £1199.

As far as I’m concerned, the MacBook Air is the Bugatti Veyron of notebooks. Incredible engineering and ahead of its time, but perhaps beyond what the current market can handle. The sales will probably prove me wrong, but at least I can say this.

If this is the future of notebook technology, it looks promising.

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March 2, 2008

Flickr Lolcats

For those who have been following the Lolcat craze (for the uninitiated, essentially pictures of cats with badly spelt captions), I just logged on to Flickr and was presented with this:

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Genius.

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March 1, 2008

RCRD LBL - Free MP3 Downloads

RCRD LBL could probably be described as the result of the artist rebellion against record labels. You can download free music from them legitimately from various artists, including well known ones such as Moby and Fink.

Moby posted on his Facebook page, along with a link to RCRD LBL:

I love the fact that as the old/traditional infrastructure of the music business is breaking down it’s being replaced by new and more compelling institutions like RCRD LBL.  The vice-grip hegemony of the corporate labels and corporate radio stations is loosening every day, which can only be seen as a good thing for music and listeners.

Too many times this has been said, but I’ll say it anyway: maybe this is the start of something.

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