Mentos Do Good
Mentos Turns Coke/Mentos Geysers Into Video Contest – this article says it as well as I could, so I’m not going to repeat it. But I suppose you need to know what it is, so here’s a quick summary. Put Mentos in Coke. Booooooosh. Quite…
Fail Fast, Fail Cheap
Ged’s comment reminded me of a great quote that someone once made in my presence. I wish I could remember who said it so I could credit them. But I can’t, sorry. It was someone VC-like from around the time that I was working at First…
Broken iPods. What to do?
I’ve got 2 x 4th gen ipods at home, both with knackered hard drives. My inner environmentalist says that I can’t throw them away. But getting them fixed will cost £150 quid each. Which just isn’t worth it considering they’re old and…
We’re fucked
OK, not totally. But this is an interesting development. A startup that will take your designs and turn them into coded web pages by outsourcing it to cheap places around the world (returning your pages within 5 days). Prices from $150. If…
Jealous Animals
Jealous Animals. I’m not quite sure why I love this site so much. But I do. It’s a really simple little site. Hardly a transformational opportunity to engage the user. It doesn’t rely on the normal whiz bang of a lot of web suff. It’s just…
Garfield (not the cat) on Cyber Lions
Although I would be interested to see what Garfield the cat would have to say about Cannes. Anyway. You’d expect a geek like me to talk about the web being a “transformational opportunity to engage the user”. But when someone from…
Blog Shares
Not quite sure how it all works, but it looked like a bit of fun and something I should at least know about. I’m preparing to have my ego crushed as this proves my blog is less useful than a blog about something really useless. Oh yeah, my…
My Thai Dancing Worm
quality=”high” width=”320″ height=”256″ name=”movie” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”> When I was in Thailand I saw this little fellow dancing on his thread as I walked up a…
Ether: Sell what you say
A new site. In ‘zeta’! (Via TechCrunch) Yoiks. This sounds interesting. And a recipe for disaster if done badly. Basically you set up your Ether number (a freephone number) through the site, and set your rate in $. Then when people call…
Sadness
There’s only one thing that I can think about at the moment. I went to my first funeral yesterday. My good friend Oliver Padfield died from cancer when I was away on holiday. He was only a few weeks older than me. He leaves behind a wife…
Flickr Enabled LCD Frame
ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame I’ve seen this kind of thing before and there’s something really nice about the thought of having a frame that you can subscribe to a Flickr RSS feed of your photographs, or…
Reflecting on Reflections
As Cal rightly says, reflections are going to end up as the blink tag of web 2.0 (or perhaps one of them). I started using Keynote instead of Powerpoint and was excited to find that it had a automatic reflection generator. I got bored of…