…his face is permanently blurred to protect his identity.
Google Maps launched its Streetview service in the UK yesterday, and some intrepid sightseers have already found the Stig at the BBC’s White City offices. Fun.
Also Nottingham High School, on a rare “not rainy” day:
Oh, and Wally on Putney High Street:
This BBC headline confused me for a few moments:
I didn’t think turkeys were flightless (wild, they’re not), so why the plane? Images of Chicken Run came to mind…
Bad bit of journalese there, I think. Not a great idea to associate plasticine poultry with a plane crash, however unintentionally.
Update: The BBC has updated the title to [...]
I’ve had my shiny new iPhone 3G for four weeks now, and while I love everything about it, I can’t help but feel that there’s more that it could be doing…
Fortunately, Apple has enabled users of the iPhone to download additional applications for the phone through the App Store, which works very much like the [...]
Also, now that the BBC has its embeddable media player working, any chance of embedding full iPlayer programmes on external sites? Can’t be long…
According to this week’s Doctor Who, the Doctor’s phone number is 07700 900 461.
Alas, “The number you have called has not been recognized”. BBC, you disappoint me. Why feature the number so prominently (full screen, at least three times) if it doesn’t do anything? Would it really have been that difficult to put a recording [...]
Not entirely sure what’s going on here… but it’s worth a watch.
Sergey Brin, utterly bemused, in the background – quality.
When the BBC decides to do an April Fools joke, they don’t take any shortcuts. This new trail for the iPlayer, for example: Terry Jones discovers flying penguins in Antarctica.
Beautifully shot, seamless CGI, tongue firmly in cheek. A true successor to the legendary spaghetti trees. I love the confused toucan.
Even better, I think someone at [...]
Oh yes:
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Thursday 7 February [...]
Now, despite my natural aversion to, and deep-set loathing of, Jeremy Clarkson, I think you’d be hard-pushed to find any better televisual entertainment for a Sunday evening than Top Gear.
And yesterday’s episode was, to put it mildly, awesome. Not only did we have the much anticipated (and, again, awesome) head-to-head race between a Bugatti Veyron [...]