Whatever your politics it is strange and wondrous to find DJs and graphic-designers independent of a politician’s campaign putting mixes and posters together. DJ Z-Trip’s Obama Mix is pretty good and Shepard Fairey makes Obamatastic posters.
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it “Robert Mugabe”.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you. “Do you really want to get rid of “Robert Mugabe ?”
6. Firmly Click “Yes.”
7. Feel better?
Tomorrow we’ll do George Bush.
(Not for us Mac heads but it made me laugh, in a sad way. Bugger, so negative. George and Mad Bob just need hugs I reckon. Maybe a pint down at the local and a good talking to by their moms. But definitely loads of hugs. And counseling.)
Love him or hate him, Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame is a character. The man knows no shame and speaks his mind. He also gets to drive nice cars, pollute the environment, insult lesbians, econazis, politicians, women and pretty much everyone else. He is nothing but fair in his abuse.
So it’s great to see a bit of Monty Pythonesque humour applied to the legend that is Clarkson. Presenting, Clarkson Island.
… in the world.
(And for The Stig fans, he makes an appearance, watch till the end.)
The mind boggles.
(via Cormac.)
Woke up this morning to find South Africa, my home country, has “elected” a new president; Kgalema Motlanthe. Never heard of him to be honest. Apparently he was the deputy president of the ANC.
He is temporary however, a pollyfiller president until proper elections next year when, with much trepidation, Jacob Zuma becomes the new president as the ANC wins another election (this is no Obama vs. McCain race. SA elections are a one horse town with the rest of the field sporting one-legged asses.)
Obama talks to President Bartlet of The West Wing. Thanks Aaron Sorkin. Hard to believe McCain and Obama are in a dead heat in the polls.
If you have 5 minutes to kill then get Earthscape for your iPhone and have a bit of a wander around our mother Earth. The globe spins, zooms and you can even get a horizon view as opposed to the top-down view. It isn’t terribly practical without a search but it is one of the more beautiful and awe-inspiring apps for the iPhone.
Delivery Status Touch is a beautifully designed app. for the iPhone that provides package tracking for UPS, FedEx, ParcelForce, DHL and many others. I love the way each company is given a different look. The simple and clear graphics make it easy to quickly check-up on multiple packages. It also links up with a Mac OS X Dashboard widget and lest you worry about typing tracking numbers into the iPhone you can forward them on from your main computer.
If you have ever built a complex website and needed to validate it you’ll know there are two choices; validate page-by-page or point a bot at it that validates everything and drives you nuts with irrelevant results.
Enter Wingman. A Firefox extension that records a session of web-pages you visit and submits them to a validation service. You then get back a neat list of pages and their validation results. It even handles pages that require a login. Handily the validation results show the important errors and problems, not pages of arcane nonsense.
Yarr! Me hearties, tis nearly the end of ye Talk Like A Pirate Day, yarr! Shiver me timbers tis a hearty day it was. Kiss yer missus like yer never comin’a back and yo ho ho its a pirates life for me, yarr!
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