Friday Night Comedy Hour

A meme, lifted from budgie_uk for the purposes of providing me with distraction in between my Friday night programming:

Ask me a question, any question, and I hereby promise I’ll answer it dishonestly. I may prevaricate, I may stall, I may just simply flat out lie. But I’ll not answer the question honestly and straight-forwardly.

Note: neither the questions nor answers are screened. However, I reserve the right to screen any questions if, y’know, it’s funnier.

Go!

Links For Friday 13th February 2009

  • More in link, but in brief, on Monday, the police acquire new powers to stop journalists documenting their behaviour. These powers are a disgusting breach of civil liberties, and give the police unprecdenent powers to be able to prevent their critics from speaking out. There is a protest/media event organised outside New Scotland Yard at 11am on Monday the 16th. I would seriously urge anyone who is free and in London, or can get to London, to get down there with a camera in hand.

Links For Thursday 12th February 2009

Amanda Palmer 10

Amanda Palmer 10

OK, that’s not a clever title. Tough. Nor is it exactly a normal portrait. Don’t care. I really like this one – there’s just enough light in the shadow to give definitition and shape, rather than just being a silhouette, which is what I was going for.

There’s a dozen or so shots from ths gig on my flickrstream. I may post a few more of the better ones over the next couple of days.

Life Through A Lens

Life Through A Lens

I know I’m guilty of this. I spent fully half the gig last night with the camera in front of me. But y’know what: the LCD on my DSLR screen is not active unless I have just taken a shot, and which point it is obscured because it is in front of my fucking head. I don’t like shooting with point and shoots as gig, because I am aware that they have these distractingly glow-y screens.

And also, they’re rubbish for it.

Links For Thursday 5th February 2009

  • Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
    (tags: music art theatre)
  • According to one set of maths, it might actually work out cheaper for the paper to give away Kindles for a while, and then switch to digital only. The logic is flawed in a number of places (the move would cripple their ability to pick up new readers in the short term for example), but it's still fascinating to see that even with e-paper equivalent as expensive as the Kindle, the maths looks to be becoming favourable.
  • Jamais Cascio explaining quite clearly why the academic program offered by the recently opened "Singularity University" is a load of old trousers, and offering a rather more sensible sounding educational program for teaching people to think about the coming years/decades.
  • "Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever." Having recognised that as true, I don't particularly need to refer to the actual this link myself, but I thought I'd mark anyway it just as an action to ensure I commit it to memory.