Friday, July 28, 2006

Months after it was fashionable...

...I've noticed the latest big thing the Fools Who Are Easily Parted From Their Money are pissing away their cash on rather than paying tax or giving it to a worthwhile charitable cause: YouTube.

There's all sorts of stuff on there, some of which is actually good because it was made by professional people for broadcast on real television channels. Who knows how long it'll be before the inevitable happens and whole thing is shut down on account of the blatant copyright infringement. It's just like MP3.com all over again - remember that, kids?

In the meantime, here's something you may have missed when it was on BBC3...



Fantastic. Okay, there's only one real joke - but what a joke.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

It's not big or clever. Don't do it.

Looking through my recent holiday snaps I notice something a trifle off colour.

Take these two seemingly innocuous photographs, taken at St Ives and The Eden Project respectively. Both very public places, the sort of places where you would expect to find people using cameras.


Hold on. What's that near the edge? Oh! Ha ha ha, yes, very funny - someone's taking a picture that's not of us, but let's pose for it anyway! Gosh, you're clever! Yes, that'll show me for having the hubris to use a camera, to take pictures of places I'm at, while I'm on holiday!

Hey, here's my toothbrush, want to stick it up your arse before I click the shutter, yes, that'd be really funny! No, I know, just stand there with and pose like an idiot. That'll show how very witty you are.

Look, I wouldn't have minded just the one person, but this looks like a trend. What Sunday-supplement writer suggested it? Or was it Richard & Judy? Well, if you're reading, I hope you feel satisfied.

If you know these people, be sure to remind them what not to do they don't want their grinning (or pouting - I assume that's what her on the right is attempting) faces plastered over some random blog on the Interwebs.