f4c38o0K?

In an idle moment, I was thinking about social networking sites and how the natural progression might be from all-encompassing global phenomena to tightly controlled specifically targeted medium. As such, here are a few ideas:

fakebook: For forgers.
fadebook: For sound engineers.
facebuck: For deer (or 80s sci-fi) lovers.
facebucket: For window cleaners.
facebok: For South Africans.
facehook: For pirates.
bakebook: For breadmakers.
vasebook: For people who insist on using American pronunciation (i.e. Americans)
allyourbasebook: For lovers of old internet memes.
fastbuck: For people who have sold their social networking sites to massive faceless global conglomerates and gone to live in the Bahamas.

Anyone care to chip in?

Giving Palm The Finger?

Astonishing account of Palm 'customer service' (impersonating the CEO, anyone?)

Could Tech Support Undo Palm?

(via daring fireball)

Big Blue Collapse

So this was bbc.co.uk at 17:15 today:


I guess the 20-odd homepage developers were all off merrily tucking into their turkey sandwiches :)

FFFFound

Anyone have a spare invite for FFFFOUND?

You can spend hours wilfing around via the You may like these images links. And we like a good wilf (quiet at the back). Anyway, I'd like to join up!

Christmas Eve At The Coalface

It's been a busy old morning.



So anyway, this is me wishing a very Merry Christmas to all my fellow bloggers and (both) my readers. Have a good one, whatever you are doing. And here's to a fruitful 2008...

Overheard #32

This may have been about the recent fluctuations in the FTSE or the price of beer at the Rack & Tenter. I forget. Anyway:

It's been up and down like a euphemism.

34B-O-XXS-18-24m-15"

Just in time for that last-minute dash to Oxford Street to buy everyone's presents in the sales, we bring you:

Christmas Cheat Sheets

Amusingly, the ladies' one contains 'ring size' (now there's optimism!)

Yes, I'm blogging on Xmas Eve. Yes, I'm at work. Yes, the two are connected

Bad Apple?

Looks like Apple has decided that the season of goodwill is the perfect time to go on the offensive against commentators and bloggers who deign to publish leaks/reviews/criticism of its products.

And now, in an astonishing move (and in my clearly worthless opinion, a proper PR shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-disaster) they have suggested to the daddy of the genre, Fake Steve Jobs, that he cease and desist in return for a 'settlement' / update#1: as long as he shuts up about it / update#2: or worse / update#3: lawyer time

Anyone else think the most media-savvy company in the world just started to make itself look ridiculous? But hey - what do I know. Hang on, there's someone knocking at the d...

(And of course it's all a subtle Yuletide gag from the very amusing Daniel Lyons and his Forbes crew...or maybe not...but perhaps it is...or not...could be...looks like it isn't...or is...*applause*)

Bah Humbug

Hurrah! It's the ever cheery Charlie Brooker and his Festive Quiz! The maths round is especially taxing :)

Where's It Gone?

I was bemoaning to esteemed colleague Alex the other day about one advantage that IE7 had over Firefox (*gasp*) in that when you went to full screen (F11) the menu bar nicely disappeared as well, only sliding back in if you moused near it or hit the Alt key. FF didn't do this by default, much to the chagrin of those of us currently playing with their shiny new Eee with its dinky 7" screen :)

However, Autohide to the rescue. Nice work, KrickelKrackel plugin guy.