June 6th 2008 | Posted by:
yann
Who said that developing isn’t hard work?
You’d better watch this Apple “Safari Technologies Evangelist” running into humid trouble after her presentation about Key Practices for iPhone Application Development…. Quite funny and weird to see that online, they could have recorded it again, no?
Watch out this fun one and other great iPhone SDK presentation videos here: http://developer.apple.com
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May 30th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Similar to decapitation, defenestration and de-caff coffee, we’ve been de-Googled.
Our blog has been hacked, indeed I could be the hacker posing as Adam and copying his verbose nonsensical writing style.
This goes beyond the deluge of spam comments alluding to specialized genitalia enhancements. Some sort of evil bot hacks the site, slaps a lot of seemingly white space at the bottom of the page and fills it with links to all manner of filth.
I’m trying not to take this personally.
The result of all the spam links is that Google thinks we’re a link bait spam site and has de-listed us, meaning our beloved blog Read the rest of this entry »
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May 26th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
I think this may be research disguised as entertainment or vice versea.
A series of links of people being hit in the face recorded in slo-mo for your (not my) sweaty pleasure.
No embeds, so click on link above for more of smoking-dude-refuses-to-put-it-out-and-friends…
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May 22nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
It’s been practically a whole dotcom cycle since I last talked about the term I made-up ‘appvertising‘ and remarked upon it’s gentle passage around the web.
Now at a staggering 67 entries on Google. A new entrant caught my Fat eye, Binge Eating.
I clicked on the link which took me to some generic weight loss website.
What can this mean though? That people are now actually eating advertising to such an extent as to term their sedentary munching, a binge! Zut alors!
People please eat all the banner ads and pop-ups you can see, in fact eat most of any Conde Nasty website which seems to have a plague of pop-ups.
‘ooh look I accidentally clicked on that pop-up for Louis Vuitton prosthetic travel arm… no I don’t want one, I’d seek it out and click on it if I did!’
Such ads just patronise the audience, trying to trick people into clicking on your add only serves the people selling the space on CPM’s, it’s a false economy.
But appvertising, ah sweet notion that you are. Branded applications provide the user with relevance, ie this app entertains/informs me with warm, comfy brand association, ‘thank you dear Heineken for sponsoring my iPhone bar guide to Europe, thank you from the bottom of my cold barrel of yummy Heineken and for the lady sitting opposite me who when I had not drunk any of your sparkling hops I did not find attractive, but now, post-hops intend to woo with my unique dance routine.’
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April 28th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Sometimes text and video just don’t mix.
Digg goes where no man dares to go and comes back with his mother.
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April 19th 2008 | Posted by:
Fernando Calvi
Our fellow Bon-Bon, collective chums, have create this amazing video “for” Radiohead:
View it in HD
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April 7th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Great article from Erick Shonfeld over at Techcrunch regarding Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley, choice quote:
‘When I asked which region was most likely to emerge as Europe’s Silicon Valley, the answers were all over the map: London, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, even Barcelona. The money is in London, cheap office space is in Berlin, the mobile expertise is in Helsinki, the weather’s nice in Barcelona, and the inexpensive engineers are in Estonia (which may not even consider itself part of Europe, but is close enough to manage from Berlin or Amsterdam).
As Europe searches for its Silicon Valley, it may turn up as a state of mind rather than a specific place. The truth is that Europe may not need a single Silicon Valley because business is becoming so distributed. While some Silicon-Valley chauvinists may disagree, the idea of concentrating all the talent and capital in one region seems so last century to many Euro 2.0 entrepreneurs.’
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January 26th 2008 | Posted by:
Fernando Calvi
January 22nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
On the web, fat is the new thin, we’re just glad to be able to contribute.
‘Blogs written by fat people — and it’s fine to use the word, they say — have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity.
Smart, sassy and irreverent, bloggers with names like Big Fat Deal, FatChicksRule and Fatgrrl (“Now with 50 percent more fat!”) buck anti-obesity sentiment. They celebrate their full figures and call on readers to accept their bodies, quit dieting and get on with life.’
(via NY Times)
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January 2nd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
(via NYTimes)
NEW words are most happily received when they arrive without fanfare. When they appear with “ta-da!” or “look what I did!” and are touted as clever or cute, they feel like impositions on our time. We resent that they exist mostly to exalt their makers.
On the other hand, when we revel in new words it’s often for the little jokes and puns implanted by their coiners. We delight in coining them, too, especially goofy throwaway blends in which two words combine syllables and meanings to make one. (How about “bromance,” a strong relationship between two heterosexual men, which combines “bro,” from brother, and romance?)
A large part of the delight derives from the re-orientation that new words make possible. They are fantastical transportation — portkeys and improbability starships — into other cultures, workplaces, minds.
Please lord, save me from a gorno Navy Shower, a nose bidet and a vegansexual, actually on second thoughts I’ll try a bit of vegansexual in the walkshed…
(this photo was tagged, ‘vegan gingerbread dalek’ in Flickr)
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