Stephen Fry – what’s not to love? While appearing as a guest on Top Gear – the unofficial heterosexual male epicentre – he casually put in a plug for his favourite cruising application. Guttingly for Jeremy Clarkeson, it had nothing to do with cars but instead a gay dating network which allows you to track its members using an iPhone application.
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
When is the last time you used a card catalog?
Personally, I love them – they speak to my twin passions for books & obsessive organization. But with the advent of the computer (even in its most rudimentary form), the card catalog has gone the way of the dinosaur (or the floppy disk, or even the hotel annunciator).
There has been ongoing feedback from Evidently family members regarding the house coffee, varying from positive to negative, so we decided it was time to make a change. But with all those choices out there, and having varied opinions myself, how could one person make an unbiased decision for the whole group? So we decided to do the one thing that made perfect sense and hold a week of “mystery coffee tasting”.
Continue reading ‘Can you spot the face in the coffee beans?’
For the past few months, I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in the food and beverage industry -- everyone wants to give me something for free!
McDonald’s consumers shouted “You had us at free” with free coffee during breakfast hours for two weeks this past April. In a world where we’re taught that nothing in life is free, is offering the consumer a chance to walk in, ask for a coffee & walk out without any money changing hands a strategy for long term trust or simply a way to increase foot traffic for the day? Continue reading ‘Free For All’
Ok, so I’m sure you’re sick of all this Twitter excitement, but you have to admit; to Tweet or not to Tweet is no longer in question…. only why you didn’t Tweet before…. Continue reading ‘How do you organise a protest in 2009? Use Twitter of course…’
OK, so it’s no secret the a remake of The Crow is in the pipeline, but as time drags on and momentum gathers behind the ludicrous idea, I begin to feel increasingly agitated about it. Continue reading ‘Leave them alone…’
Twitter has been dominating the news lately. As the latest social network to explode into the mainstream, it seems that everyone and everybrand is having a crack at tweeting.
There’s been a fair amount of floundering as brands struggle to find their feet. Twitter is (if you’ll forgive the strained metaphor) the world’s largest cocktail party. 20 million people trading quips, composing one-liners and passing on gossip. Interrupting the conversation to sell potato chips is, at the very least, socially awkward.
It was 1993 when I saw my first piece of computer generated imagery (CGI) and looking back over the last 16 years of innovations and technological advances, nothing really has beaten what I saw. I was eight and the big summer movie was Jurassic Park – an incredible piece of movie making. Originally, the dinosaurs were to be brought to life using stop frame animation but Spielberg soon realized that computers could take realism to a new level. Continue reading ‘One of the first (and maybe one of the only great) uses of computer-generated imagery.’
After seeing La Clique last night all I can say is ‘make sure you see it too’. I was expecting it to be good but just how amazing it was blew me away. Anyone with a sense of humour and an open mind would be almost guaranteed to love this slickly produced oddball variety show/circus/burlesque. I don’t want to give too much away as the shock of discovering what you are about to see next is all part of the fun but suffice it to say there are a wide range of acts, each with their own bizarre talents that should definitely not be attempted at home. Continue reading ‘La Clique London’
The first official scientific experiment to be conducted using Twitter starts tomorrow!
The subject is remote viewing which is defined as: the attempt to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means or extra-sensory perception. Continue reading ‘the science of twitter’
