links for 2008-01-30

"The International Triathlon Union have announced five new Continental Cups to its 2008 season. Chania, the second-largest city on Crete, will host an ITU Triathlon European Cup on April 13". We get a world sporting event here...and I'm in Miami!

Great shot of a ZX Spectrum 128+3 in a special package from Currys - includes "Massive 128K memory" it says here...

"I've been saying for as long as anyone would listen that all the music ever recorded is going to be on the Internet, and we are going to have sufficient bandwidth and connections on every possible listening device, and file based music will be history".

My submission made this week's final cut: "I know it's not enough to have just one point from two games. We now have only one hope and that is the Ivory Coast and God......." - Berti Vogts, Nigeria coach. That is two hopes, surely?

You've all seen this already, haven't you?

My favourite response: "What? you mean I can't just push a big red 'SPAM' button and make it work???"

I do if it will be funny. Amusing cultural misunderstanding here though. Appears to have taken as sincere a comment suggesting the C-word is not particularly offensive in the UK, but that a word that rhymes with banker is 'a powerful word for Brits' ;-)

"I've asked whether they collected appearance fees (Konnie Huq was paid £4,750 when she appeared at a press conference last year) but strangely TfL seems not to know. They're much quicker off the mark when they want to complain about a story". Meow.

"As I was shoved into a corner on the tube the other day, I noticed a new poster in the Picaddilly line carriage. The work by Nils Norman is an adaptation of the above-ground poster". Somehow seems disappointingly less than the sum of its parts to me.

"Search for 'googol' (the number that is 10^100) on Yahoo! and it asks if you meant 'Google' (that little search company). Google doesn’t do this…". And still no look-in for Nikolai Gogol in the spell-checker

"'Gridlock' has been nominated for an Epiphany Prize from Christian media organization Movieguide. The prizes 'seek to increase man's love and understanding of God'". They did notice the nun was a cat and that they were fighting giant mutated crabs?

"Now the taxpayer will be forced to pay for yet another sleaze inquiry or police investigation into politicians' misuse of public funds when all this could have been avoided simply by providing full disclosure of MPs' expenses when I asked 3 years ago".

"People on otherwise sensible newspapers are not checking whether assertions are facts. Journalists may rail against bloggers, but it would be good if we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot by doing precisely the things that we accuse the bloggers of".

"It's official. Google ranking changes that sent many #1 positions to exactly #6 last December were an unintentional effect of... whatever Google really wanted to do. They've owned the mistake, and the rollback has now spread across most data centers".