If you’re hanging around the streets of Melbourne, keep a happy face on. I saw a car on Macarthur Avenue crossing Royal Parade yesterday, that looked very much like the Google Street View car that was seen in Geelong last year. Big thing of cameras and a little round GPS aerial on top of the …
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Terry chops!
Like a million others, I got a laugh out of ‘Will it blend?‘ – where everyday items meet their doom on the spinning blades. I’m sure I’m not alone, though, in wanting to give that guy a slap – his self satisfied demeanour and spotless lab coat… and let’s face it it’s still a ad …
The Melbourne Model – a social experiment?
Well, it seems so, according to the Sunday Age. Alright, so it isn’t the editorial, it’s the ‘heckler’ column on the back page. Stinging criticism, nonetheless.
‘allo, ‘allo, ‘allo!
Credit for spotting this goes to my good lady, but this week’s theft of a Garbage truck, as reported on page 28 the Moreland Leader (December 10, 2007) seems to be an “open and shut case” as they say in crime reporting parlance. I only hope the local plods are reading the paper too, because …
how to design a website…
It’s been quite a difficult week at work. I’ve found myself subject to the whims of a great number of people who don’t really know what they’re doing. I was prompted to pen the following:
Sony Bravia goes stop motion
When Sony released the now famous ad with the bouncy balls there was huge speculation about how they did it. Was it computer generated, was it faked – the discussion was quickly stopped as eye witness accounts told of the amazing photo shoot. The next ad was the exploding paint – again brilliant and memorable, …
Apple’s forgotten placeholder
Shouldn’t laugh at the misfortune of others – however small – but Apple’s website is usually so perfect, everything in its place, that when there is a problem you’ve gotta make the most of it! In this case, the hoary old chestnut, the nemesis of graphic designers everywhere – forgotten placeholder text. On the Australian …
Just keep Grand Final day clear!
Don’t you just love it? Unbridled, blind optimism is virtually mandatory if you want to be a Collingwood fan, but with the triumphant and emphatic return of Nathan Buckley, the imminent return of Josh Fraser and the return of belief and form for the rest of the team, optimism is running at such high levels …
the only good thing about an election…
How about this kerfuffle about whether Peter Costello said whatever about John Howard to some journalists? Are you interested? No, I thought not. I mean, it doesn’t matter who you vote for, this sort of episode will only confirm your already held suspicions. I mean, hands up who thinks the pollies are lying? … ’nuff …
Apple’s new browser ;-)
Was doing a bit of ‘drag and drop’ on my mac a while back, when I accidentally ‘dropped’ in the wrong place. The result was a web page that rendered in the software update window. Not really so surprising given the ubiquity of the webkit in Mac OSX, but to have it render pages so …
OpenOffice vs. Redmond on the buses
Interesting bit of dialogue here. A blog notes bus ads from Sun pushing OpenOffice.org by taking aim at Microsoft… Amusing enough in it’s own right, but… …a Microsoft employee fires off a retort in her his blog with some taunts of her his (? gender assumption cleared up, thank you Sandy) own. Trouble is, the …
confirmed – Ballmer is a nut!
As if we needed confirmation – last week we had a blogger from inside M$’s Vista testing team saying that it was a complete load of garbage and that Ballmer should be fired. We’ve all heard about him chucking chairs in a google inspired tantrum, but this latest piece “Microsoft chief forbids his kids from …