Mothballed last year, the Observer Blog has returned in preparation for the Sunday newspaper's relaunch into the Berliner format — the same process its stablemate The Guardian successfully went through in September 2005 . newsdesigner.com has more details on the relaunch .
Pending an evening of the Indiana Jones trilogy and a shitload of drinks, I humbly plagiarise and present: To Prepare You'll need the following: The Indiana Jones trilogy, preferably on Blu Ray: A movie playback device, and a humungous TV (surround sound system recommended) Bunch of friends who aren't surly drunks A shitload of alcoholic […]
West Wing actor John Spencer died yesterday aged 58 after suffering a heart attack. He played Chief of Staff Leo McGarry in The West Wing, one of my favourite characters in the show. Apparently he had appeared in 7 of the first 14 episodes of Season 7 before he died. The show is in hiatus […]
Robert X. Cringely casts a critical eye at Oboe, the mp3tunes locker service, asks Michael Robertson (he of mp3.com and Linspire) how he thinks the business can be profitable, and looks at how Apple may be doing something similar. read more | digg story
I've finally resurrected my meeja.net domain by re-registering it with godaddy.com . Why didn't I use gradwell.com , my regular registrar of over five years? Because godaddy also have some insanely cheap hosting — US$37/yr for 5GB of storage and 250GB of transfer a month. That's riduculously cheap. So what am I going to do […]
Well, here it is: Cute, isn't it? You can read The Guardian free online until the 26th of September if you want to find out what it's like without binning 60p. Shame they ditched the sans-serif masthead though ... cf: The Guardian | BBC News | NewsDesigner.com
Mr. Bronson , scariest fictional schoolteacher ever, played by Aberdonian actor Michael Sheard, has died, aged 65 . Best remembered for Mr. Bronson in Grange Hill, Admiral "You have failed me for the last time ..." Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back and also for playing Adolf Hitler five times (in Rogue Male , The […]
Darth Vader's 'Nooooooo' in Star Wars Episode III is now somewhat legendary, but in a English -> Chinese -> English translation for a pirate copy, it apparently comes out as "Do not waaaaaaaant!" Excellent.
Here's where I know I'm a nothing, a nobody. I watched Kill Bill, Vol. 1 at the cinema when it came out a year and a half ago. As soon as I could, I bought the DVD . After watching it both those times, I thought, "Jesus, what a cool flick", but of course I […]