Mmmm…. Here’s an interesting gizmo. You plug it into your video iPod and — Bingo! — you’ve got a 50-inch virtual screen.
Alas, I do not possess such an iPod. But even if I did, would I want to look like this?
Er, no, thank you very much.
Wonder what he’s watching.
Readers with thicker hides can get one for £149.00 from here.
Useful when depressed. Late Night Political Jokes. Sample:
“Tony Blair, prime minister of England, is stepping down. He said he wanted to spend more time humping Bush’s leg. … He said he hopes people remember him as the people’s poodle.” –Bill Maher
“They didn’t have the heart to tell Bush. They didn’t say Blair was gone. They just said he went to live on a farm.” –Bill Maher
Well, blow me down! The Daily Torygraph reports that:
Men find photos of the opposite sex much more “rewarding” than women, new research claims today.
According to the study men take the same pleasure out of looking at an attractive female form as they do from having a curry or making money whereas women do not take any significant reward from looking at pictures of men.
The survey published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B said that brain scan studies show that “reward centres” are triggered in men when they gaze at a woman’s face or body whereas they are not in females…
Reward centres, eh? Now that’s what I call leading-edge research. (Or should that read ‘world class’? I’m always getting the two mixed up.)
I never thought I’d find myself agreeing agreeing with John Howard, but in this case I’ll make an exception.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has ordered the country’s cricket team to pull out of a planned tour of Zimbabwe later this year.
He said the tour would be an “enormous propaganda boost” to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
My only complaint is that his description of Robert Mugabe as a “grubby dictator” was too mild.
Wonder what my colleague Ray Ison thinks about it. He’s no admirer of Howard either.
There’s been quite a lot of chat on photography sites about the Canon G7. Why? Because of its ‘clunky’ feel. It reminds people, apparently, of ‘real’ cameras. The top view, for example, is supposedly reminiscent of a Contax or even an M-Leica.
A guy in the Financial Times even claimed it was a ‘rangefinder camera’. Odd that this doesn’t appear in the technical specs.
Stand by for a new trend in ‘retro’ digital cameras.
Garr Reynolds has a very thoughtful post on the pros and cons of PowerPoint.
I rubbed my eyes when I read this Reuters report
At a panel discussion on the second day of the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference, top executives said talk of the demise of traditional media in the digital age was overblown.
While new distribution technologies like the Internet and mobile phones are siphoning television audiences, media companies argued that the Web also brings new revenue streams.
But the discussion quickly moved to criticism of the perception that traditional media businesses are dead, and to the rampant copyright offenses enabled by new digital technologies.
“The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War American general George Custer who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle dubbed “Custer’s Last Stand”.
“They will lose this war if they go to war,” Parsons added, “The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion.”
Hmmm… Gordon Brown has a web site. But it’s called GordonBrownForBritain.com. GordonBrown.com is a Blogger-hosted blog run by someone who doesn’t seem particularly enamoured of the Chancellor. Someone on Brown’s team missed a trick there, methinks. The domains GordonBrown.net, .org and .info are taken, but GordonBrown.us and GordonBrown.biz are still available.
Hmmm… I like the sound of this. But I’m afraid it will be like one of those diet books which show how you can eat all the steak frites you want and still fit into size 10 jeans.
Bet Prez Sarkozy takes a dim view of this kind of thing. After all, he disapproves of the 35-hour working week.
Thanks to Michael for spotting it! Great Q&A session, btw.
If you want more, why not try the PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg Address?