Fans of pop star Rick Astley descended on London’s Liverpool Street train station for a “flashmob” event.
The “flashmob” - where a group of people assemble in a public place for a brief period of time - happened just before 1800 BST.
Some of the fans donned Astley masks in honour of the 1980s hitmaker, before the crowd sang his trademark hit Never Gonna Give You Up.
Takes portsnap.com to the next level.
Rule # 1: All people are idiots.
Rule # 2: Don’t try to understand why people do things, just understand that they do.
Rule # 3: It will break.
Rule # 4: As the guys that make the Internet ‘happen’, no one knows what you do.
Rule # 5: Everyone has an opinion on how to do what you do.
Rule # 6: If something goes wrong, it’s your fault. Even if you have nothing to do with it. See Rule # 7.
Rule # 7: Even though you have no ownership or responsibility for it, you can probably fix it. See Rule # 6.
Rule # 8: To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. See Rule # 6 and 7.
Does all the usual things that a Parrot device does. Excellent Bluetooth handsfree, easy controls etc…
However, the new spin on this is that they dropped the CD player and replaced it with onboard flash, USB, and data card inputs allowing multiple means to push music and media to your sound system. The extra advantage is that the space saved by doing this creates a neat storage area in behind the faceplate. An tidy spot to drop your ipod and keep it hidden. (oh, it has an ipod terminated USB cable too…).
It is due to be released on the 1st May 2008.
I’ll be having one of these I think.
Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an all-time low, after the BBC’s internet chief Ashley Highfield used a blog post yesterday to tell ISPs to get stuffed - and even threatened to name and shame them.
The cost of carrying iPlayer traffic has been a sore point for ISPs, who must absorb steeply rising traffic costs. Regulator OFCOM’s Market Impact Assessment estimated the P2P version of iPlayer would create up to £831m in extra costs for the internet industry. In the first month of the “low bandwidth” iPlayer, ISPs saw streaming costs rise 20 per cent.
But Highfield, Director of Future Media and Technology at the £4bn-a-year corporation, said the BBC won’t help them out.
“I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers,” he scolds.
So, the BBC pushes peer to peer technology, gets the user to hammer the crap out of their ISP service as if it were uncontended and then blames the ISPs when they pipe up and remind everyone that bandwidth isn’t free. Lovely…
Well, I grabbed the bull by the horns and installed Firefox 3 Beta 5 RC2. It’s pretty sweet. I had 3 Beta 4 but it started crashing every five minutes - it looks like Java borked it up nice and proper.
The only gripe I have is the addons not working. But I’ll get over that I think. So far so good.
Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.
An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and industry happy until the launch of Windows Mobile 7.
Leaked screenshots of 6.1 have already done the rounds in the blogosphere, and show the system has been simplified with the screens displaying less mess than the Vista-inspired version 6.
A new look with new fonts, new homescreen and new features such as a task manager and copying and pasting in Internet Explorer all bode well for users of Microsoft’s OS for handhelds.
This really has me lost for words. It’s a long clip - be warned - but it’s well worth watching all the way through.
This is a clip of a tour through a museum run by Creationists for Creationist kids.
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