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December 13, 2006 – 12:40 am
Reading those kinds of kitchen catalogues that include astonishing improbable gadgets designed to “take the hard work out of preparing a fruit salad/slicing an onion/pulling out the cling wrap/some other simple task” have long been a source of small innocent amusement.
But this really takes the biscuit:
LCD digital photo frame with bright 7″ display for your favourite digital images with customisable slide shows & MP3 music via built-in speaker
* Bright 7″ active matrix LCD display – 16:9 widescreen format
* Create customisable slide shows with music via intergal speaker
* MP3 music playback and MP4 video playback
* Supports SD/MMC card, xD card, MS and USB flash drive
* Clock and calendar with alarm and snooze functions
* Supplied with credit card style remote control and 3 interchangeable fascias
Could you possibly put together a more pointless collection of the latest electronic gadgets?
Well I suppose you could, but you’d have to try very, very hard.
A silver medal isn’t bad…
December 8, 2006 – 2:35 pm
… I find myself saying for the second time today, after noting that was the placing (shared) I took in Jim of The (Daily) Maybe’s poll of Top Green Bloggers. Congratulations to Paul Kingsnorth, the winner, and Life is complicated, my fellow runner-up.
And thanks to everyone who voted for me! (and to Jim for raising the profile of green bloggers).
Even emoticons have accents
November 24, 2006 – 2:51 pm
The great thing, you’d think, about sign language, is that it is universal. A smiley face is a smiley face; you don’t need words.
But you’d be wrong. 🙂
I was corresponding by IM with a friend in Korea and thereby learnt that a smile in Korean web-writing is ^^, and a frown ^-^.
Which reminds me of one time in eastern Syria when I was trying to get a taxidriver to take me to the train station. Phrasebook Arabic didn’t work, so I had a brainwave and signalling with a pulling down motion with my arm, as you’d operate a train whistle, and said “choo choo”. Smiles all around; he understood perfectly!
Shortly afterwards, we arrived at the church – complete with bells. I caught the bus in the end.
100 Green Bloggers!
November 24, 2006 – 2:46 pm
In a spectacular piece of bloggery, Jim on The Daily (Maybe) has collected a listing of 100 Green bloggers (a neat balance to an insignificant little list of political bloggers that managed to entirely ignore the Greens earlier this year.)
And I’m urging you to have a look at it not because he’s also got a top ten on which he’s asking people to vote, on which he’s kindly included Philobiblon, but because you’ll find some great new bloggers there.
You’ll also be pointed there to the blog of the new Male Principal Speaker of the Green Party, Derek Wall.
The blog of Sian Berry, the Female Principal Speaker, has been on my blogroll for some time. (The focus is less on her at the moment, BTW, in case you were wondering, since she was elected unopposed in September, while the poll for her male counterpart was a postal ballot, the result of which was only announced today.)
Update on Mike Newell
November 13, 2006 – 10:34 pm
I expanded on my post below about Mike Newell’s sexist comments on Comment is Free this morning, then donned my hard hat in anticipation.
But I don’t know if it is getting more civil over there, or it is just my lucky day, but there’s quite a decent discussion going on, and only the odd bit of invective being thrown my way.
If you were there and got put off by the atmosphere, it might be worth giving it another go.
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