Sunday, January 28, 2007

More Suitably

Five celebrities who would be really bad choices for narrating in-car GPS systems

  • Joe Pasquale
  • Tim Westwood
  • Woody Allen
  • MC Hammer
  • Sinistar


Five celebrities who would be really great choices for narrating in-car GPS systems, assuming you want to get there very quickly

  • Samuel L Jackson
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • Vin Diesel
  • That Guy Who Does The Movie Trailer Narration
  • Jack Bauer

Concept stolen, again, from 5ives.

Incidentally

Another thing about Image Hosted by ImageShack.us is that it's all about instant Image Hosted by ImageShack.us. Thus, I can enforce really terrible, mid 1990's newsletter designs on you at will. At will! Ahahaha. Given that most of said newsletters were brimming with bitchy remarks, overuse of exclamation marks and terrifying belief in the self-worth of the author, it's clear they were the forerunner of blogs anyway, so Comic Sans dragged into the third dimension is a development long overdue.

This line of thinking does overlook goth and emo, which as far as I know never flourished in newsletter form. Of course, I suppose the point would be that nobody read it; maybe childhood bedrooms across the globe contain crude WordPerfect creations marked "Distribution: 2. Me and the heartless, uncaring world."

EDIT: Turns out it doesn't do WordArt. Or image hosting to anything other than your own server. Rubbish.

Favourite Auntie

While I'm still blogging for the novelty of this Word interface... going through my RSS feeds after two weeks without broadband (which wasn't that challenging, I have to say. I was waiting for withdrawal symptoms that never came) I come across the news that the BBC plans to put its training resource online.

I do like the BBC (unlike Paul Dacre, it appears) and it's this sort of thing that means I don't begrudge it the licence fee. While I almost never watch television, I come across all sorts of BBC content all over the place, I listen to radio a lot and I'm a huge user of the BBC News website. I think the site justifies a big whack of money all by itself, and I'll cheerfully pay for having witless advertising removed. If they could hurry up and do a radio station completely bereft of DJs – just news and music – then I'll be just about ready to get the tattoo.

I know, this is a standard and uninteresting blog post. Give me time, I'm catching up here.