Tetoris

it's 'HD' Tetris, impossible. – Tetoris.

Cat-eat crunch two – bargain edition

So, we’ve established that cats on the packets of cheap brands of cat food don’t look too happy. But can we prove the correlation by delving deaper into the bowels of cheapness. To that end I took a trip to a store that prides itself on nothing more that its low price — B&M Bargains.

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The expresion on this lovely ginger cat seems to say “enough, stop pushing this bowl at me”.

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I know this isn’t a great photo, but ‘Delight’ doesn’t seem the gaze this puss has.

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Posh Cat looks like the food is beneath him.

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‘Schmusy’, which must mean something nice in German.  On first glance the cat is having an ‘eyes closed’ moment with an owner’s rub at the side of the face — but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was long dead and the taxidermist isn’t holding his head in place ready for the glue.

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It’s quite hard to see if the ‘Rufus’ cat is happy or not, these being the smallest photos of a cat I’ve seen. They’re also heavily photoshopped, but the designer still decided to use the shot of him about to spray his ‘scent’ (for which read piss) all over you.

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‘Miau!’ might be a freindly noise in some foreign language version of animal phonetic spellings, but hin English it seems like a cry of terror or pain. The cat’s stare is fixed as he backs away from the packets bearing his picture. Would you fancy eating it?

We were on the radio

Jules doing 'the big paws' hand gesture. on TwitPic

And it was loads of fun, I’m sure we made loads of balls ups but I’m too scared to listen again to it. You can tho’ (if you like):

Listen to The Big Paws on Rhubarb Radio

Campaign for Real Heritage

Are you fed up with “officials” deciding what’s important? Do you wish that history wasn’t just written by the winners?

The losers, the outsiders, the real people have history too. It deserves recognition, YOUR history deserves a blue plaque.

Campaign for real heritage

So now it can have one, the Campaign for Real Heritage will place a plaque anywhere, commemorating any event you like. Just get a sticker, fill in the gap, and stick (with permission, obviously).

Stickers available to buy here. They come in ones, tens and fifties — depends how much history you wish to create.

When you’ve made history, have a ceremony, take a photo. Place it here.

Straight 8, super 8, gr8

"Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to discover if anything will have come out…"

The competition for people that tell you that most of the editing is done "in camera". – Straight 8, super 8, gr8.

Mark Lawson acts a bit of a presumptuous git

Mark Lawson in The Guardian:

“Most art – and certainly the greatest examples – is private and exclusive, created by elite professionals for an audience of amateurs. Though touched by it, we cannot touch it. Schemes that physically involve the public in art or music are an important part of art, but should remain a small one”

isn’t that up to the artists rather than the critics, Mark?

Lolrus unboxing



Lolrus unboxing Originally uploaded by bounder


I has a lolrus.

What did I just join again?

I noticed today, not sure how long it’s been going on, that you can now (if you’re an admin) change the name of a Facebook group. You didn’t used to be able to, which is one reason there are so many groups with typos or spelling mistakes in the names. I thought this was a problem, but now I’ve realised something.

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It’s not just for fixing mistakes. You could, for example change the whole purpose of a group — making people aligned to causes they wouldn’t dream of signing up for. I’ve messed with a stupid little group I’ve got, but a prankster (or a hacker with an admins details) could easily move thousands of people from a nice fluffy group into one that promoted racial hatred.

It’s only a matter of time until it happens and the Daily Mail are poised to be appalled.

Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous

"love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. – Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous.

Chinese Twispers

No recriminations or anything, just an interesting thing that happened this morning on the Twitter. I was listening to Radio Five when the sad news that David Cameron’s son had died broke. This sort of “news” is normally queue to turn off radio and TV, as there’s nothing to be said, but they’ll insist on saying it over and over again. But before I got to the switch, Nicky Campbell read out the statement from the Conservatives that (paraphrased) said: “the Camerons hope that people will respect thier privacy” and without pausing for breath “we want your views on 0845 etc”. That’s everything that’s shitty about modern media, so I tweeted:

Twitter / Jon Bounds: Radio 5:
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Which obviously resonated with podnosh, who retweeted (taking out the bit about Morrissey — reasons of space, or reasons of musical taste, I dunno):

Twitter / Nick Booth: RT @bounder: Radio 5:
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But by the time it had made Twitter search:

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There was a subtle difference there, this tweeter had a problem with Nicky Campbell that I hadn’t articulated in my original, but it’s attributed to me there. There’s a subtle difference between “what cock” and “what a cock” — enough to cause libel-ish issues if I was famous enough for people to leap on to criticise. Had I thought “better” of my original statement and deleted it, only the retweets would have been on the web — how would I prove my innocence in “what-a-cock-gate”?