A trawl around the web, March 25th to April 1st
Posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 8:49pm. #
Photo: mine, taken on Sunday - showing Heathrow Terminal 5 at around 5pm. Note the huge queues of people desperately trying to fly; unhappy and disgruntled families who’ve been there for hours, and a general atmosphere of despair and…. oh, no, there’s none of that, is there?
Creepy girl in Flash
Wow, this is good. Pop along, and wiggle your mouse around a bit. Wooooaaaaahhhh.
A prank BlueScreenO'Death screensaver for Windows
Make your friends think that their Windows machine crashed when they were out for lunch. A really visible way of showing how unreliable Windows is. A free download. FROM MICROSOFT. Wha?!
TV, versus online TV - Futurescape
First attracted to this post because it used my photo (correctly attributed); but it's a good piece and a nice website. Might add it to my RSS list.
Flying penguins
A really rather good April Fool / viewer deception from the BBC iPlayer team. I could have embedded the YouTube version, but it promotes the iPlayer, so I’ll link to the (embedless) iPlayer page instead. You’ve only 6 days left to watch this, too - I bet it’ll be on YouTube for longer. Amusingly, BBC News have placed this video inside their own News Player… in Real Video (so I can’t watch it). Er.
Radio advertising works
It's not every day that a radio ad gets mentioned in the House of Lords. Wowsers. (I’ve now cancelled that alert!)
London Transport Museum - my photo in the top 5
Look! That there is my photo! The one on the right! Yes, it's mine! I believe the correct phrase right now is "woot". Thank you if you voted for it.
A Breville BTA820XL toaster
Genius. It has LEDs that count down to when your toast is ready, and a button on the top marked "A Bit More" (which toasts just a bit more). User interface design a-go-go.
The Feltron 2007 annual report
Nicholas Felton is a master of self-analysis. In fact, he makes an average of 20.6 measurements a day to produce this excellent book. Kicks my stalkerfeed into the long grass.
Don't Like RealPlayer? You've Got Options
"The BBC's charter prevents it from showering their viewers with craptastic ads for random American companies". I've just checked, and apparently that really is in the royal charter.
This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from March 25th to April 1st. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.
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