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I’ve linked to archives of Russian propoganda posters before. This time it’s anti-alcohol posters. Perhaps New Labour should try the same tactics? Maybe they will.

Really faithful flash recreation of Bustamove.

Punter finds first ever Velvet Underground acetate at a yard sale. Buys it for $0.75.
Found at MeFi

DartMail. That’s a serious data transfer protocol.
Found at Raw Feed

Ferry Halim has put up a new game - The Perfect Cup of Tea. Go mice!

Channel 4 is about to run a new show, called ‘Demolition.’ In the run up they are asking us to vote on the building we’d most like to see demolished. I’d like to start a campaign. Please please please can all readers of offmessage go to the Channel 4 site and vote for the York Moat House hotel? Please. Anyone who’s been to York will know exactly what a blot on the landscape it. It needs to be knocked down.

Please. Vote for this monstrosity.

Both sensory impact and mocoloco are linking to Jacqueline Sanchez’s rather gorgeous Lego Jewellry (pick ‘Forever Young’ from the menu). And so they should be - some of her other work is pretty nice as well…

Having just spent the day attempting to persuade my current customer that a wiki would be the ideal solution to the problems that we and they are currently facing it was serendipitous to see this article (Blogs and Wikis: Technologies for the Enterprise) rise to the top on del.icio.us. Unfortunately it’s too simplistic, too blog focussed and really misses the point in a lot of ways. Comparing a wiki to a CMS is incorrect - a wiki is a collaborative workspace, not a content management system. They’re about knowledge, not content management. If you want to compare a wiki to a current commercial product then Windows Sharepoint Services is a better comparison. And calling a product bulletin board (something that’s been around since the days of Minitel) a ‘blog’ is a bit of a mistake as well. Ah well. At least the article doesn’t talk about “blogs for marketing” like almost everything else I’m reading at the moment. May I remind you of MSNfound lest you temporarily forget your sanity and think that’s a good idea…

…this headline would really amuse you. But you don’t, so it won’t. I’ll get my coat.

I’ve been a Eudora user for 7 years. Seven long years I’ve kept and filed every (useful) mail that I’ve ever received and despite storing gigs of data locally it still shits on Outlook (which I’m forced to use at work) in terms of flexibility, message filtering, spam filtering and (crucially) searching.

It was with some trepidation then that I undertook the likely massive and potentially disastrous task of migrating to Thunderbird. Reason? My new mail host uses SSL with a cert provided by freessl and despite appearing to have very simple certificate management Eudora simply wouldn’t let me connect to the new host. I tested it with (spit) Outlook Express and Thunderbird and both had no issues at all, so rather than being a right royal pain in the arse and giving Doug more work than he needed I decided to “upgrade” (Doug’s words) to Thunderbird.

Changing mail client (particularly one with lots and lots of locally stored mail) is always really bloody scary, and usually fraught with difficulty. Eudora to Thunderbird however is a piece of cake. Open Thunderbird. Click Import. Select Eudora. Wait a couple of hours. Job done. I’m impressed. Seriously impressed. And it’s very nice to use as well. I have a feeling I won’t be missing Eudora, which is weird given it’s been a constant companion for so long.