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Well, that means it’s time for me to wish anyone who happens to read my blog a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if so I hope you got anything you wanted.
Is it Christmas? Today, it is.
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That was a T-Shirt design by Fake Steve Jobs, (AKA Dan Lyons). I’m a great fan of his, and the past week he stole Christmas. Well, Christmas headlines at least, when he went out of character to show just how Apple isn’t always the goody two shoes company most fans take it for.
Apple recently paid Think Secret (an old Apple rumour site) good money to shut up and shut down, nobody much cared because (to quote RoughlyDrafted magazine) "ThinkSecret’s RSS feed has served as essentially a time delayed version of AppleInsider". Lyons, a wouldbe full time fiction author, only in journalism for the money, thought this would be a prime opportunity for him to jump out of character, and write a little drama for himself. Apple was going to shut him down.
Each of these were told as out of character, and fooled many news sites, or at least were covered, here are the posts in order of posting.
I’m weighing an offer from Apple
So now Apple is all pissed off
God bless you for your support and later…
I’m feeling a little bit better now
Breakfast with an Apple Lawyer
Still the finest Christmas song ever
The first six of these are the story, and it’s refreshing to see someone take an entirely different point of view on the crisis, away from the usual comedy of FSJ, a heart tugging tale reminding us all that Apple, lawyers and Steve Jobs, can be pure evil sometimes too.
Dan Lyons, obviously as architect of the tale, comes out heroic, blasting Apple for using Ghandi when shutting down people’s freedom to speak, just isn’t what Ghandi would do.
Still it’s worth a read, and anything that caused the real Steve Jobs to email back to whining users, and me to make an image mocking it, has got to be worth it, right?
Unfortunately, as Dan wrote in his latest post. It’s not really a joke, is it?
Check out this trailer for season 4, could be considered spoilery, but you know, it’s damn cool.
Well, perhaps that’s an unfair statement, after all, the blog I’m about to write about isn’t only about travelling round cool places you may have seen in Lord of the Rings. What I’m talking about is my friend’s gap year blog, which you can find here.
My friend Naomi has decided to dedicate a year to exploring New Zealand, and in a very ingenious idea, is documenting her travels on a blog. (You know, like this one). By the looks of things it’s updated quite often, and I’m definitely going to subscribe.
Kinda inspirational, no?
The UK has been stuck with the old millions of lines multi-coloured, fake water droplets and other jazz for so long. Please can we have Coke’s new minimalist look in our country? Please?
Based off an ancient blog post you can find here. Thanks guy.
Now as you know, I’m a mac guy, but I thought over the winter, I might try out VMWare with XP, since Vista looks shit without its aero glass (oh and it’s getting the most awful rep from everyone who utters its name).
So I thought I might try out Windows Live Writer, it had been recomended on a podcast I listen to, and it’s incredibly cool looking, no ads like messenger, it’s got the wordpress logo seamlessly integrated into the design, and it’s just generally nice looking. Obviously this is my first post with it, so I don’t know if it will post yet, but hey, it looks nice.
Oh yeah, and you can change the colour! How awesome is that.
But as I said, I have a mac, I mean, do I really want to boot XP every time I have to express myself? No, I don’t but you know, it is pretty neat.
Did you notice a certain trend towards one font in Movie posters… after this you’ll realise. That’s for sure.
Well Christmas will be here for me in less than a week when I return home for the longest time since fist leaving for University. University has been somewhat of a large disorientating spin into confusion for me, meeting people was fun, being buried in 12 metric tonnes of paperwork and given a light beer was not.
You don’t really know who you care about until you move away from them, I find, and as such it will be good to get home, and you also don’t learn who cares about you the most until you move away from them.
Lots of people keep going on about ‘Christmas doesn’t come until the Coca-Cola advert is on TV’ there are countless facebook groups uttering this same message, personally I think it’s awful if we define a festival by the advertisements of a soft drinks company. If they stop advertising, how are we supposed to know when to start celebrating??
And is vegetarianism for me? Afterall, animal ingredients are used in the making of film, and I love the cinema. Jesus, send help.
A few people have been curious about my drawing skills, I don’t draw that often so please excuse this, it could be considered rubbish, especially after that example i posted a bit earlier in the week.
Here we go…
That links to my DeviantArt account, which only has that on at the moment. I might update this and add another in a moment. Again, model is Evangeline Lilly.
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