pushing the sky

If there was one bit of news I didn’t expect to wake up to yesterday, it was that Michael Jackson had died. At first, I heard that “reports out of the US” were saying he died, or was in a coma. I didn’t want to believe it, but over the next half hour, the news [...]

Fallen Princesses is a series of images imagining Disney’s Princesses post-”Happily ever after”. Some great juxtapositions, especially Belle of Beauty and the Beast.

It’s amazing how a sense of an unspoken privacy policy holds you back. You can’t blog about work, because that’s naturally privileged information, but then when you’re unemployed and looking for work, you can’t talk about the interviews you’re taking because that too isn’t something you want to broadcast. Rock and a hard place. I’ve [...]

If you haven’t yet been seduced by the brilliance of Mad Men, you can now watch the pilot episode, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, online in pretty damn high quality for free. Even better, they haven’t got that stupid geographical restriction so many other streaming sites have. Americans only. Others need to look, uh, elsewhere [...]

Geebus, how hard is it to find this somewhere striaghtforward on the net? Step 1: Open International pref pane in System Preferences Step 2: On the Languages tab, click on “Edit List” Your list of languages already in the list might be longer – e.g., it’ll usually have most of the European languages. Step 3: [...]

In case you haven’t heard of Google Wave, or haven’t had the time to watch the video and realise how it really will change just about everything to do with the internet, Andy Ihnatko has written his take on it, and it pretty much lines up with mine – this is genuinely new, and if [...]

“So, you’re in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway.” Step Seven: When she enters the room pretend to be unconscious. Allow her to turn you over and try to wake you for a few seconds before you open your eyes. The injuries [...]