I’ve just bought the Led Zeppelin DVD and what a great purchase it is. For around £15 from Virgin Megastore it has 5 hours of footage on two DVD’s – good value, for a start, and it comes in a decent box with a couple of colour brochures (albeit only a few pages each). The …
The BBC (and others) have started the Creative Archive Licence Group which is providing a whole load of video and sound clips for free download and use in non-commercial projects. Could be useful for something. Creative Archive Licence Group BBC video clip download archive
I thought I would finally settle the question of “Who’s more skill” between myself and my business partner Darren Beale (co-director of Exponetic) with a Googlefight. Initial results were promising: ‘karl bunyan skill’ vs ‘darren beale skill’ gives me 12,700 results and Darren only 5,920, making me nearly twice as skill. However, putting quotes around …
This is a good story about a guy called Michael Larsen who entered an American quiz show called “Press Your Luck” and managed to work his way up to a record prize. Press Your Luck
Someone sent me some information on Breatharianism. The philosophy is that if air was pure then we could live on it alone without having to eat or drink anything solid and that thousands of years ago this is exactly what we did. My first thought on looking at the picture on the homepage was ‘that …
I didn’t know it, but there are model dinosaurs in Crystal Palace park. When I say models, they are pretty much full-size replicas of what they decided dinosaurs looked like back in the 1850’s. They’re pretty good, it has to be said, and the park setting’s good for a stroll. A panoramic view of the …
Darren pointed me towards the London Freecycle Group. It’s a straightforward mailing list where people (in London) post stuff they want to get rid of, the only condition being that it has to be free. It’s also possible to make a request for something although the rules around this are a bit tighter. There’s a …
I’m not sure if it’s just me, the technology reducing our attention spans or (most likely) a combination of both, but I’ve developed an increasingly terse response style for conversations on instant messenger. I get much more curt the better I know someone too. As an example: Tim says: as I know you’re not busy …
‘Lost’ has only just started on Channel 4 and E4 and I’m already addicted. I watched the first three episodes back-to-back last Sunday and still wanted more. I was expecting something Survivor-like i.e. people marooned with some ensuing drama, but there’s a lot more action than that with the introduction of what seem to be …
I’m still reeling from the surreal experience at the Moonlight private members club on Green Street, West Ham (near Upton Park tube) on Saturday night. Five of us (myself, an Indian, a Pakistani, an Italian and an Iranian… this isn’t a joke) had met up for a few drinks and then on to a really …