Offmessage

‘Cos it sure is gonna get busy in the cities…

We’ve launched another customer site today… www.forster.co.uk is the new corporate site for The Forster Company, a really fascinating bunch of people who “deliver communication for social change” (PR with an ethical message to the layman). People who know me in real life will know that that’s exactly the sort of thing that presses my hippy buttons, so I’ve really enjoyed the last few months as we’ve been putting this one together. It’s Plone again (we can’t help it, honest), but the work that our friend Rob has done on the design has made it very hard to tell. All in all a rather good do.

Wind your memory back three years… Paul Collingwod? England Captain? You’ve got to be effing joking!

Yet. Today it seems like the right choice.

For some time I’ve been collecting songs relating to robot lovers (don’t ask, it started with Hawkind’s Spirit of the Age and went rapidly downhill from there).

This, however, has to be the strangest example yet…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALx4Rpo5cY]

When the bot reveals herself to be human he refuses to accept it; now that’s dedication to the cause of human-cyborg-interaction.

Wolf. Badger. Hunting together.

Ha!

This time, for your delectation, a USB paper shredder.  Oh yes – you too can now shred 5 sheets of A6…  simultaneously!

17%, apparently.  I like last.fm toys

What a fantastic word.

Yes, yes, I know. This is a corporate whore video with a very aging Mr T that I really should leave well alone, but… It’s Mr. T. And apparently he’s “The T in I.T.” And that makes me snigger.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1S2tsxVHg]

Wikigroaning (for example – List of Animals vs. List of Pokemon)