everything changes. dullneon.com's random notes has now changed to a new location.
It has been a long time since this site was built and it’s showing its age. Out of date xHTML/CSS code, too many 404 errors, an ageing publishing engine, weird directory names which I can’t recall creating and the itch to try something new are but some of the reasons why I am embarking on a massive overhaul of things ‘round here. Most links will remain unchanged but there will be glitches here and there as I re-design in public.
I will still be updating random notes, though maybe with a little less vigour. Subscribe to the RSS feed to stay updated (and here’s the RSS feed for my frequently updated link log, via Ma.gnolia.)
I am also in the midst of evaluating whether I should to upgrade to newer versions of MovableType or to re-learn shit all over again with WordPress, so over the course of the next 60+ days, dullneon.com will be under severe re-construction. So there may be radio silence from time to time…
Here’s wishing everybody a good year ahead.
This is great satire: if past masters of photography uploaded their work to photo sharing sites, what would the masses say?
(It really does happen, you know.)
I don’t know how true and verifiable this is, but apparently, having more than 6 megapixels on your digital camera doesn’t count for shit.
Shopdropping is now the purview of culture jammers and indoor street artists. There will come a day when ad agencies decide to do some guerilla marketing with shopdropping tactics, make big news out of it and make this subversive, underground and possibly illegal activity completely commercial and legit.
The Aptera is actually an American-made hybrid car that is just unbelievably fuel efficient: it apparently can run for slightly more than 200 kilometres on just one litre of petrol! It’s available now and is priced at US$27,000 — sounds like a snip with all that fuel you’d be saving.
A great cover of Spandau Ballet’s 1980 hit To Cut A Long Story Short by the Cazals.
Every week, Joe Suta at Threadless mashes up all the winning designs and creates three 122cm by paintings out of them that go into the Threadless Chicago store’s display window. The older ones get sold on the Threadless site for US$250 a piece and some are just beautiful. If not for the international shipping, I think I might be tempted to grab a piece or two…
Blimey! Just after Opera complained against Microsoft having such a crap browser, the IE team breaks the news of the still-in-the-works Internet Explorer 8 which seems to be closing the gap on IE’s poor standards support.
If there is going to be yet another browser war, you can bet your house Microsoft is going to be right in the thick of it.
So, there was this rumour I once heard of where apparently manufacturers printed an invisible code on every page that is output by their laser printers. Well, now we have proof that it it true.
It was good while it lasted.
Everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture. I’d be a couch; Coldplay are an armchair… Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was.
If you are in advertising, you have to see this hilariously ‘oh-so-true’ video.
A moth found was found trapped between the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while being tested at Harvard University in 1947. The moth was literally added to the computer log and tagged as the “First actual case of bug being found”. Later, they would use the word “debugged” when the moth was removed from the machine.
It’s great we made it through but… uhmmm… am I the only one who thought the Champions League could have been sacrificed for a concerted assault on the Premier League title?
These bulbs use technology invented during the age of the steam engine. By getting rid of these bulbs we will save 700,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
this is the full stack of little random notes, culled from a variety of sources and other secret informants who lurk among you gentle readers.
anyway, all this is old and archived. everything has been now been moved, so head on down to the revamped almost daily random notes (unless of course you like this old stuff too much to part with it).
now that i think about it, last.fm almost knows just too much.
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i am about five foot seven, have perfect eyesight and am a recovering coke drinker. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a pilot and my eyesight makes me wonder about the runway not travelled on. currently, my favourite colour is dark red (roughly a pantone 484), work in an advertising agency and am obsessed with chicken tikka sandwiches from a nearby deli. and just because i can, i can tell you that .
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