Dive into the archives.
- I’m off to see the engines
Seeing a picture on my mother’s blog (truly, we’re turning into the Von Trapps of blogging: my brother Ewan has one too) sends me off on a scout through Flickr for pictures of the Waverley, the historic paddle steamer I spent many happy childhood days on.
Its greatest feature, for me, was the open-sided engine [...]
- Designed to death
I’m not sure if it’s fitting and inevitable, or shocking and embarrassing, but the Design Museum’s website is a temple to Flash wankery, the most appalling example of web design I’ve had any regular contact with. Even the HTML only version sucks.
I do wish they’d sort it out, although sorting it out might involve removing [...]
- Gervais joins GU
It’s all very exciting… Ricky Gervais, comic genius behind The Office and Extras, is to produce a weekly podcast on Guardian Unlimited from next week. This, from MediaGuardian (free reg reqd):
“I want to do a radio show where I can say what I want, when I want for as long as I want and that’s [...]
- The perils of a public email address
It’s not just spam… it’s hate, too. Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson writes:
“I was quite surprised and a little disappointed that my Hurricane Katrina cartoon of September 5 2005 generated only two hate emails amidst a much larger postbag in favour, and those two were frankly feeble. Being told I’m “just pathetic” doesn’t really bother me, [...]
- Blog posts! In a book!
Am back from the high seas. Lots of pix on Flickr, and some new books in the reading list… all of which I’ll get around to writing about sometime, I’m sure. Really.
But first: the exciting news that Tim Worstall’s anthology of the best of the British blogosphere, 2005: Blogged is published later this week (ignore, [...]
- Sonic weapons: from comic book to reality
The attempted hijacking of a cruise ship last weekend provoked plenty of interest chez Tosh last weekend, and not just because we’re planning to bog off on a cruise later this week (let’s face it: an attack by modern-day pirates would make for one hellava Flickr collection, wouldn’t it? I might be able to dash [...]
- The world’s worst airline
My friend John is responsible, in large part, for my dislike of flying. When, once, we shared a disgraceful, environmental hazard of a flat over in Putney, he would detail - over morose beers - what an air crash would feel like. “Everyone says it would be quick,” he would say, “but it wouldn’t. Falling [...]
- The scourge of silent callers
Bobbie’s written an interesting post on technologyblog about “silent calls”, and how Ofcom plans to reduce the number made.
Turns out its telemarketers: they have machines that dial ahead of their call centre people, lining up calls so the drones don’t have their productivity damaged by having to wait for someone to pick up. Trouble [...]
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