For Immediate Relief: Speaking Like a Human
I’m also a big fan of that yearbook-caption style of opening a sentence with a gerund (“Flipping the Wang Chung cassette in his Fiero, Douglas plucks at the pastel tee clinging like a crazy girlfriend to the sherbet Don Johnson blazer blazing in the blazing Dade City sun.”).
“A gerund attacks some peaceful pronouns”: and that’s why you never start a sentence with a gerund, though I’m sure I have at one time or another.
But seriously, these press releases — and this Newsgator release is nothing out of the ordinary — are so hard to get any sense out of. After a few sentences, my brain replaces the words with “blah blah blah…”
An interesting catalogue of unusual and hard to find CDs, DVDs and vinyl.
Meow mix
I just played this and my two cats came racing up to the computer, looking around with wide eyes to try to work out where all the other cats were. They even looked hard at one another as if trying to work out if the other cat had somehow taken up ventriloquism. That was all much more entertaining than the video itself.
Ravens at the Tower of London
Interesting interview with Jeremy Howard of Fastmail.fm. I’ve been with them nearly a year now, and I wouldn’t go back to another service provider as my mail email host. Brilliant reliability,…
Nifty hint that could be extended to do fancier stuff. I must say that I think the new Dropbox iPhone client is brilliant. Being able to view and/or email a link to a document to someone while on the…
I’ve only recently come across the Matt Berry/Rich Fulcher comedy series Snuff Box on DVD, and I really like it. It’s a dark, surreal, funny and filthy show, with some really classic moments.
Occasionally, they rely a bit too much on swearing for shock value alone, but sometimes the surreal aspects are genuinely funny. This song (while NSFW because of the aforementioned swearwords) is brilliant, and absurdly catchy.
There are loads of camera/filter apps around, but this looks like a nice balance of ease of use and good results. Just wish it shared to Flickr too, though.
Simple but very useful utility to allow you to schedule Time Machine backups whenever you want: you can use an interval (every n hours) or at calendar intervals.
Here’s another excruciating video from Microsoft, this time explaining how to host your own Windows 7 launch party.
The poor actors are all chuckling so uneasily and so much, I’m starting to feel like this is all subtext for an orgy they’re throwing later.
This video is a parody, right?
Right?
Via Neven Mrgan's tumbl
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