Tag: technology

  • Hidden meanings?

    I don’t know what this means, but I’ve discovered something weird with the iTunes Music Store. I wanted to find a particular song by Bob Dylan called “Dignity”. But the search box won’t find it for me, instead returning an error: “We could not complete your iTunes store request. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.” But if I type in something else — say, “Political World” — it comes back instantly with the relevant hits.

    Is iTunes making a comment on postmodern society?

    And is the fact that the iTunes Store lacks dignity as disturbing as the fact that MS Word has no problem with “newspeak”?

    Dignity Denied

  • New Poster: Ready?

    I’ve got a new, rarer “landscape” poster ready. It shows two Zarkov rockets at a docking tower, with crew running to man the ships. A DV snub fighter is lifting in the background, and the ever-lovable jetpack guy has just launched himself. The tag is “They’re Ready to Do Their Part … Are You Ready to Do Yours?“, with the ubiquitous “Work to Win” slogan. I am particularly happy with this one because it is not based on an existing poster, at least not as far as I recall. More below the fold.
    Ready to Do Their Part

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  • Why I’m a Technophile

    For you to understand this post, there are two things about myself I should tell you — they’re already well-known to any of my friends:

    1. I drink a lot of Coke.
    2. I have catastrophically bad eyesight.

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