My feelings about Twitter, now apparently to be ‘taught‘ to British school children, are seemingly shared by the producers of this video. And they said Satire was dead.
Just a silly clip – one woman introducing herself in twenty one different accents. As someone who is incapable of mimicking accents, I’m impressed by two things. Firstly, by the fact that she captures the subtleties of several similar accents. Secondly, that she does it all in what appears to be a [...]
I don’t know what you think, but I don’t think this can be good for you:
An editor for the Telegraph, Roger Highfield, recently volunteered to allow a UK researcher to shut off the speech center of his brain with a high-powered magnetic pulse.
Any security that relies upon the difficulty of producing a paper document is suspect.
The Internet makes some wonderful things possible. Somewhere between art and prank is this five-minute event at NYC’s Grand Central Station. Not only well done, but well filmed.
The event was organised by ImprovEverywhere, according to the Going Underground blog.
I hate mornings, have never had one as bas Michael Moylan from Florida. Here was his morning:
Woke up with terrible headache – suspected wife of hitting him by mistake in the night.
Headache so bad he went to hospital.
Had bullet removed.
Began to suspect that wife tried to shoot him as he slept.
A start like that [...]
I have written before about (what seem to me obvious) dangers inherent in putting personal or commercial information online. Here are some concrete examples:
1. Whether by design or incompetence, Facebook reveals more information to strangers than you think.
2. Your remotely stored documents may be liable to subpoena without your knowledge.
The moral of the [...]
Senior French politicians may not use the BlackBerry.
We have become very used to storing data in what Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others refer to as “the cloud“. Data stored ’somewhere on the internet’ – on servers managed by someone else – is terribly convenient. We can access what we need, from wherever [...]
I was amused by this clip. You can get people to sign anything if you just know how to do it. In this case, a petition to ban that evil compound now found in drinking water near you, dihydrogen monoxide.