By mattr on November 21, 2008
You can switch the internet off now – this site has won it, and will never, ever be bettered.
Some of my particular favourites:
272 – If the teacher forgets to assign homework, keep quiet. 245 - Look people in the eye when you thank them, especially waiters 165 – [...]
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By mattr on September 8, 2008
The BBC has kicked off an interesting project to track a shipping container as it travels around the world.
‘The Box’ (I can already hear Orbital) has been sprayed in BBC livery, and fitted with a GPS tracker. TV, Radio and Online content will be produced to track the container, which will be fed into the [...]
Posted in other sites, random, TV | Tagged box, container, globalisation, shipping, thebox
By mattr on September 1, 2008
Many will know that I’m a massive fan of Elbow – having seen them a couple of times in recent years I can attest to how good they are live. The amazing FabChannel has an awesome gig available for streaming through their website.
The show was from 25th June at the Paradiso Main Room in [...]
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By mattr on August 21, 2008
Like most people I was doubly impressed with Usain Bolt this week – smashing both the 100m and 200m records whilst winning Olympic Gold.
Now you have a chance to race him yourself – in true old school track and field style – I hit 9.61 and 9.82 in two attempts… I think my keyboard [...]
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By mattr on August 12, 2008
Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:
Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for [...]
Posted in internet, microsoft, other sites | Tagged images, live, live search, photgraphy, search
By mattr on August 2, 2008
Without a doubt the best bookmarking site has relaunched in its first major redesign since the acquisition by Yahoo. They have had a really nice, clean redesign and added some improvements to key features (100 character notes fields are useful) – whilst also moving to a more ‘traditional’ URL.
My delicious bookmarks can be found [...]
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By mattr on August 1, 2008
Twice a month, a service from PhotoJoJo emails me a reminder of what my flickr stream was doing 1 year ago – this week, as I plan a trip for my anniversary – it pinged into my mailbox and reminded me of our trip last year. We had a weekend in Lille, followed by a [...]
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By mattr on July 28, 2008
Cuil is a new search engine – from some ex-googlers, it launched last nights with amazing claims of having indexed 121,617,892,992 pages (yep – 121 billion).
So – as always with a new search engine, you hop on over for a quick ego-surf – and here are the results:
Live Search for Matt Rutherford – number [...]
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By mattr on July 23, 2008
Berocca are giving away some ‘blogger relief’ packs….which I guess will contain tubes of their vitamin-c loaded craziness (I love those buggers when I’m suffering from a cold – or jetlag), and some other groovy stuff.
I stuck my name down…might get something nice for free!
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