I’ve blithered before about Google sodding up search, personalising it and “correcting” your input and so forth. I just want to enter search terms, and have a search engine search using those terms. Call me weird, but when I type something into a search box, it’s because I want to search for that word...
Artists are bad enough. Art critics – and art collectors – are worse. Andreas Gursky just had a photograph sold for $4.3 million. Srsly. Oh, and this is the photograph: Again: srsly. I could whine about how aesthetically bland and completely devoid of meaning or interest it is (indeed I have done so), but that’s not what...
I thought, since I’ve used it pretty much every single day since I got it, and since I would count it one of the absolutely indispensable apps on my iPad, that I should probably write a “sort of review” of Filterstorm (I now have the Pro version, but most of what I’ll be saying...
Mr Charlie Sprout, avowed atheist and alfalfa enthusiast announced yesterday that he had determined the precise day on which the entire Universe would almost certainly fail to be destroyed by a vengeful god. “I was tending my shrubs when it came to me” said Mr Sprout in an interview following his announcement. “Not like a...
This: There’s a blog on technologizer about how Apple products != jails I’m sick of the smug insults delivered by some people at Apple users – simply because we *choose* to use an Apple device. So we can’t hack it and play around with the source code and … Good. I’m glad. I have no desire to...
In Which Heavy Metal is Evil, Because Suicide!!1!1
Oh we have ourselves another fool, smothering a plate of idiocy in moron sauce. This time it’s Dr Katrina McFerran, from the University of Melbourne (who, as Guitar World noted, is not Tipper Gore, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so) who is trumpeting the dangers of teh heavy metalz – with a beautifully...
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