fun
Google’s magic anus
POSTED IN birminghamuk, found stuff, geekery | TAGS : fun, google, google streetview 23 March 2009
Created by the way Google has stitched two of its Street View panoramas in Smethwick, take the advert for a filum and a moving bus and, oops:
We were on the radio
POSTED IN my projects | TAGS : fun, jules, Radio, Rhubarb Radio, the big paws 7 March 2009
And it was loads of fun, I’m sure we made loads of balls ups but I’m too scared to listen again to it. You can tho’ (if you like):
Radio Free Horse Shit For The Garden
POSTED IN birminghamuk | TAGS : comedy, Danny Smith, fun, music, Radio, Rhubarb Radio 9 February 2009
If you like the Two Ronnies your first thought when using the word Rhubarb is probably “manure”, but no more. At least until they run out of themes and end up doing a gardening-with-poo based show, Danny Smith et al’s Rhubarb Radio show puts all effluent fertilizer thoughts out of my head. It replaced them this week with robot sex, but that’ll change as long as I keep tuning in at 7pm on Saturdays.
If you spent your evening less productively this week you can still listen again:
iPhoto sees people everywhere
POSTED IN geekery, misc | TAGS : arse, bearwood, face recognition, fun, iphoto 30 January 2009
I’ve been playing with the new iPhoto ’09, it’s major selling point is face recognition — it attempts to spot faces in your photos and keep a record of who’s where. It makes some brave attempts, but doesn’t always make it:
First it spotted a face in Bearwood High St.
Then it saw faces, lots of them, but didn’t connect them together.
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cup of tea and a sit down
POSTED IN do want | TAGS : cup, design, fun, outsized 9 May 2008
Twitter Cartoon Day
POSTED IN cute, geekery | TAGS : catoon, fun, twitter 18 April 2008
Normally my twitter followers are a, fairly, sane bunch of humans – but today I’ve been watching then all turn to toons. Today has been declared ‘Twitter Cartoon Day’ -
“Brighten up the lives of your fellow Twitterers today by changing your avatar (picture) to a cartoon character.”
mithr, twitter for your mum
POSTED IN geekery | TAGS : fun, humor, microblogging, mither, mithr, parody, twitter 2 April 2008
Does your mum witter on about nothing? Get her on mithr, microblogging for your mum.
Not a virus, maybe not real yet, but very smart
POSTED IN Uncategorized | TAGS : fun, mac, youtube 7 March 2008
Bookmarks for 26th February through 28th February
POSTED IN del.icio.us, twitter | TAGS : , blogging, chat, communication, fun, geo, geotag, google, googletalk, im, law, mashup, media, news, nikon, photography, socialmedia, socialnetworking, twitter, web2.0, widget, work 28 February 2008
These are my links for 26th February through 28th February:
- GeoPic II geotags your Nikon shots, saves on battery – Engadget –
- ITN doctors footage – Apparently they dropped advertising into the background of Brits items? Dodgy
- TweetVolume – see how often stuf gets twittered – a sort of "twitterfight"
- press complaints commission to investigate media scraping of social media content –
- Google Talkabout: Google Talk chatback – 'Guest' chat widget for people to connect with you via GoogleTalk – very clever for small blogs. untill someone invents GTalk spam
Sometimes you need a little help making decisions
POSTED IN my projects | TAGS : API, contest, Flickr, fun, mashup, photo 14 February 2008
So that’s where Flickr Fight comes in. It’s a little toy I made to bring the power of Flickr into everyday decision-making – just type in two words and see which one wins. Here’s a few of my favourite so far:
