Today's PSA
The controls on today's Google Doodle actually work.
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2011-02-08
Sometimes things get better
I'd like to thank the BBC for putting the word "VIDEO" at the start of the headlines for all of the stories on their site which are predominantly videos*.
It makes it significantly easier to avoid opening pages which I either can't watch at work, or have no real interest in looking at at home.**
*On the RSS feed, that is. They use a little play button image on the site itself.
**I don't enjoy watching a talking head take five times as long to explain something than it would take me to read it myself. I'm not four, I can read for myself. The only time I'm interested in video news is when the image/footage itself is part of the news - i.e. rarely.
It makes it significantly easier to avoid opening pages which I either can't watch at work, or have no real interest in looking at at home.**
*On the RSS feed, that is. They use a little play button image on the site itself.
**I don't enjoy watching a talking head take five times as long to explain something than it would take me to read it myself. I'm not four, I can read for myself. The only time I'm interested in video news is when the image/footage itself is part of the news - i.e. rarely.
Interesting thought of the day
In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show him emerging from the ocean like Ursula Andress. Sexual torture, too, if less creepy-glam than being stripped and painted gold. Vesper Lynd is Bond: never not in control, never without a plan, seducing to further her goals. She has to die so Bond can become her.
From on Ubergrid, Warren Ellis' Tumblr.