Personal Data Storage – Last Chance Saloon
We saw a similar model appear and as quickly disappear a few years ago with record labels offering albums on USB drives. It was not a success. Now, personal storage companies are trying to use content to subsidise their hardware. Seagate announced yesterday…
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the pentatonic scale
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Lady Gaga 1 billion views in context
From Mashable’s Twitter stream: Now trending on Mashable: “Lady Gaga First Artist with One Billion Online Video Views” – http://bit.ly/cEAELB In the same way that people follow Mashable on twitter, people can’t help but watch Lady Gaga videos on YouTube….
Your face on a burger?
So, Burger King said they put faces on burgers, they didn't really, they put it on the wrapper: http://www.andykinsella.com/2010/03/14/burger-king-whopperface-your-face-on-a-wrapper/ I was hoping that they'd actually taken the pork grown in a lab idea a stage further: http://www.physorg.com/news178869104.html Now that's a…
Brilliant HPTO on MSN UK today
A brilliant interactive home page take-over on MSN today, preserved in screenshots below. I like the CTA with the added assurance that ‘you won’t leave this page’ underneath the ‘Click here to explore’ although a better job could have been…
Pink Floyd preserve the album format. Yay for albums!
An article over at Bloomberg says a Judge has decreed that EMI are contractually bound to sell Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, not as single tracks. Brilliant. A big move in preserving the album format in an…
Advertising, what is it you do again..?
This is so familiar its frightening. I particularly like the copy at the end that says “For internal use only. Please do not duplicate.” So is it OK if i post it on You Tube?
Site migration, new blog
So I’ve decided to drop this site onto WordPress. Old versions of the site are available here: From 2006 – 2008 – http://andrewspooner.com/v2/ From 2004 – 2006 – http://andrewspooner.com/v3/ Earlier versions are available going back to 2001 from the internet…