It was the the Playstations 10th birthday yesterday. 10 years, wow. I can still remember the first time I saw one in use, it was pretty damn impressive for the time. It had loads of fast moving 3d stuff, amazing cd sound and the actual console looked good. Speaking of which, I like the new Playstation3 logo a lot:
Sony’s graphic design is always very nice.
Netscape? Whoah, everyone thought you were dead! But damn! The new you is u-g-l-y: http://gemal.dk/misc/nsb05.png
“The new Netscape is based on Firefox, but with a twist – it includes support for switching to Microsoft’s IE engine.”
Oh dear god…
Last Friday I went to my first Thanksgiving dinner kindly hosted by Jed (aka Neil) at his and Ian’s place. There were a few initial delays but we had plenty of wine to keep us occupied and when we got to the food it was delicous. He’d cooked a huge turkey (that had apprently taken an age to defrost) and to go with it we had sweet potatoes, stir-fried sprouts with almonds (very nice), stuffing, gravy and a carroty type salad which was curiously nice. We polished all that off with strawberry cheesecake and chocolate roulade, and some belt slackening…
A couple of gallery updates to feast your eyes on. The first is from Jed’s birthday party about a month ago which was rather hilariously fancy dress. See if you can work out who everyone was supposed to be (sorry about the lack of focus).
The second is from when my parents were up visiting about three weeks ago. We took them along to the Falkirk wheel which is pretty impressive and looks good in photos (see then new header image).
John Peel has died from a heart attack while on holiday in Peru.
This new programme on BBC2 look very interesting in our increasingly different world.
Woo-woo. Looks like Ben and I have secured the flat we wanted. We’re going along to the agency on Monday to sign things and pick up the keys 🙂 :). Now, I’ve just got to move all my junk in…
Yes, the first Mario game came out 19 years ago today in Japan in 1985. To celebrate this I give you these images:
Travelling is strange at times. One minute I can be sipping coffee in the dawn sun at home in chemical suburb Billingham. In an hour I can be climbing over mine spoil heaps in Nenthead with rabbits scampering around and grouse flying overhead. Give me another couple of hours and I can be back in the city muggy-heat of Edinburgh with the smell and sounds of the festival on the air.
G.C.O.O.F.N.
Gorilla Comes Out Of F*cking Nowhere
The Guardian have announced their best of british blog awards. I was skimming the article and noticed that my vague aquaintance george was commended in the photography section! holy crap! Congrats to George!
He is far too good with that camera 
Christmas has arrived.
Just found all these site:
http://existencil.topcities.com – mostly grafitti/stencil stuff
http://edinburghst.blogspot.com – photography with a sprinkling of stencils
http://www.streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk – damn good b&w photography around Edinburgh, especially this one
Random quick entry from a web phone thingy in heathrow. keyboard is ass
First saw this when we were watching the Grand Prix last weekend and its very, very well done. It seems to have hit the newspapers recently and they claim is was done in one take. Even if that take was the 606th one. Its advertising the new Honda Accord and consists of lots of bits of the car interacting with each other, cartoon style, in a huge chain of events. Its hard to describe, you’ll have to watch it for yourself.
update
It seems the actual advert only used one small amount of CG, pretty impressive. Even that was just to join the two halves together.
I’m kinda running out of space on my current host and their upgrade plans are not the cheapest in the world. So, I’m on a mission to find a host that offers ~100MB for less than £5 per month. If anyone knows anywhere good, drop me line.
The UK ISP community has refused to sign up to insane government plans to monitor all internet traffic. Good on ’em!
Full story here courtesy of the guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,816523,00.html
The Gibson-meister, one of my fave authors finally has a new book out in the spring of next year. Seems quite nifty aswell, set in London and no doubt having lots of other yummy stuff. I am looking forward it a lot. Check out all the gossip here at one of the better gibson ‘fan’ sites.
This exhibition is coming to town after a stint at the Barbican. This is very good news, I love exhibitions and musems. 🙂
In other news, this video is just the best thing EVAR!
Just watched David Lynch’s latest film Mulholland Drive. Wow. I mean you just have to watch it, and then maybe watch it again and then read a synopsis that describes the plot. Then you might ‘get it’ and its very clever. Plus you start noticing all the little things and gawd…its good.
Roger that, failure sir. Out.
I’m on a mission today to take some good photos or at least get something different. Check back tomorrow to see if I get anything.
Went to see the comedian Rich Hall on monday night. He was pretty good although I’m sure he reused a couple of jokes from last year. As usual we seem to have missed everything at the festival. The first show we see is on the last day :). Theres always nexy year (hrm, we said that last year).
This game is rather good. In fact its the most fun I’ve had since counter-strike was ‘new’. You can drive ships, planes, tanks, jeeps, APCs, landing craft and aircraft carriers. Yes, Aircraft Carriers.
🙂
It’s currently only a Multiplayer Test but is still fun, play are selling it for £29.99.
Well, that was a damn good party. Many pictures are now up in the gallery section. Looks like everyone who went is checking them out:
(my site hits go through the roof)
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