There’s been a media storm lately over the banning of rapper M.I.A’s video “Born Free” which apparently depicts ginger people being rounded up and killed. The video was taken off Youtube near instantly for fears of upsetting viewers, but as usual, there’s more to it than meets the eye. M.I.A is trying to tell a [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Ginger Genocide – M.I.A’s Video Ban
Posted: 29th April 2010 by Age in RamblingsTags: ginger genocide, M.I.A, NWA, rap
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Image of the Day – Short Staff
Posted: 29th April 2010 by Age in Interesting DiscoveriesTags: image
Image of the day, taken from Dave Delahaye
Shortened URL’s, can they be trusted?
Posted: 29th April 2010 by Age in RamblingsTags: links, twitter, url
Just rambling here, as always, but there’s one problem with Twitter (and the internet I general since its inception) and that, to my mind is short URL’s. As we all know, there’s a character limit on tweet and so a number of URL shortening services popped up all over the internet, with a simple premise [...]
It’s hitting summer soon. The mornings are starting to warm up. So now the coat/no coat dilemma kicks in. Do you wear a coat and risk at some point getting sweaty or having to carry it? Or go coatless and risk getting cold/wet if, being typically British, the weather suddenly turns to rain. Oh, the [...]
Bah! Trains! Leant out of the window today to open the door, as you have to with these old crummy trains, accidentally touched the hand of some bloke who was standing on the platform trying to open it from the other side. I didn’t see him in my defence. He was standing to the side [...]
Zombie raised the fact that our Comment Central theme isn’t mobile friendly. In an effort to please him, I’ve installed a mobile plugin and theme. It will now look boring on your phone, but you should be able to load it quickly and view it properly!
Amusing image of the day comes to you from http://www.mathfail.com/
The British Bosnian Strikes Again
Posted: 28th April 2010 by Age in RamblingsTags: bosnian, mouse, prank, slow
Oh! The shenanigans. I’ve literally been laughing so hard today it’s hurt my tummy. I wish work was always this much fun. I recently divulged a tale of hilarity from our Bosnian colleague in the office. He’s such a character, I can’t stop laughing at him. Interestingly he apparently can’t speak his own language above that [...]
Black hat SEO, the hackers bad plan
Posted: 28th April 2010 by Age in RamblingsTags: black hat, search engine optimisation, seo
Yesterday led to an interesting discovery. A clients website had apparently been hacked. Google had already picked up on it and the site was marked as unsafe on the search engine results. The site itself however looked relatively clean and as it should be, until you had a look at the actual code. Hackers had [...]
TinEye – Reverse Image Search
Posted: 27th April 2010 by Age in Interesting DiscoveriesTags: copyright, reverse image search, tineye
This is TinEye, I discovered it the other day and it’s worth sharing because it shows how clever the internet is. The premise of TinEye is simple enough. It allows you to use an image to search the web for other sites/pages where the image is used, re-used and even abused. This is brilliant for [...]