April 2009
21 posts
The 20-year-old at heart of web's most... →
Time magazine calls the 4chan website the wellspring of net culture and its online pranks are world-famous
Wide angle pinhole camera →
Photo from svofski on Flickr in the MAKE Flickr pool
I made this from cardboard, old velvet jeans (for light-tight cover). The shutter is made from the back of an old 35mm camera. To…
Will pseudo-nudity sell the Peugeot 308 CC? →
The new Peugeot 308 CC has already been unveiled to the media with first drive reviews appearing in February from the European launch and more recently, road test reviews resulting from a…
How Anthony Rose made the BBC's iPlayer a huge... →
How Anthony Rose made the BBC’s iPlayer a huge hit
Martin Kelner: Gascoigne survives green room... →
The former England star, Paul Gascoigne, coped well with the single entendres flying round the Loose Women cacklefest
Paul Gascoigne turned up on Loose Women on ITV last week, presumably as…
30 Years of Record Buying, Remembered on Record... →
My first albums came from my (nine years) older brother, KISS Rock N Roll Over and AC/DC High Voltage to be specific. I was 5 when he switched me on and I remember…
How In the Loop does us all a disservice →
Alastair Campbell was right – In the Loop’s vision of how our world is ruled is infantile and destructive
The transition from idiot box to big screen is rarely trouble-free. Cinema’s…
Chrysler Town →
Bunky1603 has added a photo to the pool:
Audi vs BMW →
This is pretty funny actually. Audi came out with a billboard that targeted BMW directly saying “Your move, BMW”. BMW responded and placed a billboard close to Audi’s replying…
Tesla to open London showroom →
Firm’s first non-North American abode
‘Leccy Tech Californian ‘leccy car maker Tesla has announced plans to build its first showroom outside of North America in Blighty.…
Whitepaper - The…
iPhone Firmware 2.2.1 causing Wifi issues? →
According to theappleblog, some* older iPhone and iPod touch users are having some issues with the 2.2.1 upgrade. Apple’s forums are lighting up with people whose Wifi has been adversely…
iPhone's Wi-Fi problems cause heated speculation →
Apple recommends turning back the clock
iPhone users who found their Wi-Fi failing after the last firmware upgrade are starting to identify what went wrong, while some have managed to get Apple to…
Video-In and Magnetometers Could Introduce... →
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Augmented reality is about to go mainstream this summer. Mark my words!
The discovery that Apple’s next iPhone might contain both video input as well as a magnetometer (digital…
Infamous hacker DVD Jon raises $5m for new venture →
Five years ago he was a thorn in Hollywood’s side - but now Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen is raising money for his new Silicon Valley startup
You might not have heard of DoubleTwist, a…
Will Buckley: Shearer: saviour or self-promoter? →
Alan Shearer is already taking out insurance on being a false Messiah
Another of those weeks when very little made sense and, once again, the catalyst was Alan Shearer. There he was surrounded…
Escaping a state of crisis →
It was all going so well … Brad Pitt had agreed to star in a movie based on the acclaimed BBC series State of Play, which pits politicians against crusading journalists. But the star walked…
Sign up for Stanford's iPhone development class... →
Want to brush up on your coding skills and make a truckload of money selling your great idea as an iPhone application? Stanford is offering their CS193P Cocoa programming for iPhone…
April 2, 2009 →
Metropolis 40° 47’ N 73° 58’ W from the series Lux Photo © Christina Seely
Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart... →
It looks like Hulu’s trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE’s Martin Millmore says Hulu’s…
Beyond Brutalism: Creative Concrete Architecture →
Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has…
