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!

Bookmarks for February 13, 2009

  • Under the Counter Terrorism Act 2008, documenting dissent is under attack
    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.

Bookmarks for February 12, 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.

Bookmarks for February 5, 2009

  • Southbank Centre > Music > Mouse on Mars soundtrack Herzog's Fata Morgana
    Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
    Tags: music, art, theatre
  • Should The New York Times Ditch Paper, Distribute Kindle E-readers?
    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.
  • Open the Future: Flunking Out
    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.
  • DesignAday – Truism
    "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.