The BBC Click program about technology recently reported on the fact that Windows now has to include a choice of browsers in new bundled operating systems to avoid an unfair advantage for Explorer and had comments from various companies providing browsers about why theirs is the browser of choice.
If you watch the second half though you will see what they say are videos by viewers indicative of the repsonses they received. Get the feeling the producers of Click don’t use/like Explorer? Though they have the Microsoft guy on first in the execs portion – check out the viewer representing Explorer. roflol
Developers doing extra coding to make something work in Explorer 6 – Consider the Naked Man!
Question: Is the Mozilla/firefox woman attempting to recreate the firefox on her head?!
In the last year there have been two commercials screened on TV promoting yet another post-humous Jeff Buckley collection. Below is the original advertisement for “So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley.”
Original cover
Links to new TV ad
After Alexandra Burke won X Factor (UK singing competition with Simon Cowell as a judge/producer) and the winner’s song was announced as a cover version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah a grassroots effort was made by the UK public (facebook group) to bring Jeff Buckley’s single to Xmas number 1 instead.
For fans, Alexandra Burke’s gospel-ly version just seemed to miss the point unless it’s ironic but according to this article that does not appear to be the case.
A cheap attempt to capitalize on this fervor came in the form of a new TV ad and CD cover being released.
The new advertisement attempts to capitalize on the X Factor tie-in by increasing the font on “Hallelujah” obscenely, larger than the artist’s name. It also appeals to the same maudlin tactics the television show is skewered for by focusing on the tragedy of his death (in a new print ad and tv ad). On this season’s X Factor, what should have been the personal tragedies and triumphs of the contestants, was spun in an endless parade of PR and airtime, there was a contestant with a dead wife, one with a dead mother, a new baby sister, a dead almost grandmother, etc.
Just thought the bad taste should be documented. When I saw the new ad it made me want to throw up and throw something at the TV. Instead I ranted at Kevin and now I bring the joy to you.
Sunday will be the finale of America’s Most Smartest Model. Till we find out if the winner will be Model, Pseudo-Soviet, Anger Management Issues Andre or Sleazy – Evil 80′s Movie Frat Boy VJ…enjoy Ben Stein‘s previous exit lines to the contestants.
Like discoloration of the tooth enamel after the application of a whitening dentifrice, you Brett, must now disappear into history.
AMSM ep10: Angela eliminated without a line from Ben Stein.
AMSM ep11: Like the Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad in February of 1943, VJ, you have staved off defeat and vanquished your enemy. You are America’s Most Smartest Model.
There’s a great conversation about the show here with links to modeling done by the contestants and fun dialogue from the show.
We managed to catch bits of Live Earth….The Foo Fighters rocked…Kevin’s dad’s reaction to Spinal Tap: “They’re a bit daft aren’t they?”…The Pussycat Dolls looked like hookers and the Beastie Boys looked like elder statesmen.
The most extreme range of crappy to sublime in one performer was the finale by Madonna.
La Isla Bonita as performed by Madonna with Gogol Bordello was absolutely genius. So that’s what the song was missing – wacked out gypsies. Admittedly, I really liked the song when it was first released in 1987. I was 10 or 11 at the time.
The point of the concerts according to the official website:
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
The stupidest song possible for Live Earth was Madonna’s Hung Up, the very last song to cap off the night.
A crisis does not indicate that “Time Goes By So Slowly.” This lyric repeats in the damn song at least 14 times, but probably more. And time probably moved even faster last night with the environmental impact of these shows.
