Am I the only one seeing a problem with this?

"The imagery comes out of her head, partly inspired by a trip we made to Africa, partly inspired by Jamaican dance hall glory."

"Hey there Rene,
I got your name from [redacted]
We are producing a video for Gnarls Barkley and found out that you were the
stylist on the shoot with the skinhead look with african/beaded accessories.
For the video we are trying to hunt down some accessories, like beaded
belts, suspenders, chokers and thought you might help point me in that
direction.
Any advice?"

So, not exactly as original as it was made to sound originally, but as Wendy pointed out in her comment on the first post, her brother did exagerate a little :o)

@ #22 - ". Any recommendations of cheaper/better competitors to tempt said contract holder with?"

they've been mentioned on here before, and if you can get it in your area O2 are great. true (almost) unlimited access, ADSL2+ (8 Mb capped) for £12.50 a month (or £7.50 if you have a contract or payg mobile with them). BeThere are virtually the same, just a different pricing structure. the unlimited downloads would be perfect for a student house, afaik only people hitting over 100 GB pm have had issues, and that was a while ago on Be. Not long ago they were about the cheapest unlimited BB providers in the UK too, a couple of dodgy bt wholesale resellers were cheaper but probably not as fast.

but... no one likes dandelions?

#8: me too. boing boing suggested otherwise; damn their subversive nature. i feel all dirty and normal again now :o(

Oh thank god i'm not the only one still doing that... :o)

not the only thing they've got a firm grip on! hehehehe....

>> The guy doing the video taping is an idiot.

yup. the guy's an idiot. film it, report it, the end. this is probably the reason all legitimate photographers and videographers are being harrased. thanks, man. well done. :o\

one word: fairuse4wm

finally, my lifelong search for a howto on creating a dancing baby headed frog has come to an end! thankyou boingboing, i don't know what i'd do without you :o)

yeah, WH Smith does it all over the place in the UK. My dad still always qeued for the till for 5 minutes though :o| no idea how many people use it or not though. don't think i've ever actually seen people stick money in one.

>> For everyone's information, I've heard great
>> things about the ADSL2 provider Be
>> (http://www.bethere.co.uk).

Be are owned by O2, and I was with them for a few months and they were great, until O2 released their own branded service which was cheaper (esp. if you have an O2 mobile, £7.50 pm for 8 Mbps capped ADSL2+) and I moved over penaalty free :o). And yes, they are pretty good; my ADSL2+ connection gives me 500 Kbps downloads as oposed to the 220 Kbps I was getting on an equivalent ADSL (BT's DSLMax) connection.

Of course, my mother and sister are both still stuck at 1 Mbps via cable, paying over twice as much as I do for ~4 Mbps, and unable to use any ADSL services as their phone lines (and tv) are operated by the same company. Oh yes, and that would be Virgin then. :oP

Reminds me of that scene from Ghostbusters (2?) where Lewis is trying to get through the little door within the large garage door and going round in circles :oP :o)

what... the hell?!? is this a weird kind of joke? a few chavs taking out some emos i can understand, but whole riots? and punks vs emos? lines of riot police? and then the buddhists turn up and that's where it got far too surreal for me... have they all completely lost it over there?

cheque please!

someone failed (de)interlacing class... :o)

The development of the Mosaic browser in 1933 ?!? Blimey... I kid you not - skip to 04.40. That thing is older than I thought....

DRM or no DRM, 5 seconds running a downloaded wmv through FairUse4WM and I've been watching their now ex-DRM content all over the place (dvd player, streamed to media frontends, on portable devices, linux...). It's easier than pirate bay!

ohh... god... unicorn chaser! NOW!

it's not just cameras... see an odd house? phone em. see someone phoning too many people? phone em. then phone em to report yourself for phoneing em yourself. i dare say they'll get quite a few calls...

>> * VCR Programming

I *knew* there was a reason my dad wasn't learning that one: now he knows less redundant material than myself. sneaky ;o)

There's a guy opening a box from DELL on the 1st floor cam right now... *insert joke about delivery time here*

meh, it'll never beat the sign headline i saw while at uni in aberystwyth, wales...

"National Library Thief Jailed"

my god, it really is the safest town in the UK if that's the best they could do :o)

>> Both of them always wield a fishing rod, so any
>> accidental hits won't increase their weapon
>> skills.

so long as they don't go near any rivers...

I've heard the hugo boss thing before and I'm not entirely sure but it may be a misunderstanding... According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss_AG only the SS uniform "was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Dr. Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck (graphic designer) and made by the Hugo Boss company". I don't know if the two individuals are related to HB or not.

oh i've been waiting sooo long for someone to constructively take the total piss out of the [citation needed] stuff. i heart this man.

>> IANAL

? thats a new one to me...

>> 1 girl, 1 arm

this isn't another one of those 2 girls 1 cup things is it? i dont think my monitor can take any more of that :oP

these are the cutest things EVER! topped my christmas list straight away :oD

>> Scent it with your own scent beforehand

*ahem*... you don't gotta pee on it first do you? :o\

haang on i see a flaw... you cannot go to the above right of the red ghost, or above left of the yellow! tut tut... B- for effort.

There's been a number of reports on local media in the UK saying he was detained for around 40 minutes to be questioned.

Well... I don't know about the "want to buy the CD" statement, but on the whole every single thing the band does, given it's the full time work of the band members and co., is to make money. This should be pretty obvious, no? The fact that some things they do are free and others aren't shouldn't be the concern.

The album was given away as money would be better made elsewhere, something many bands have actually done (smashing pumpkins, crimea, ash, prince, radiohead...). Profit from gigs, merch, other cds, payed downloads, press deals etc should all increase, and given that many people would have downloaded an album for free anyway they won't lose much from that.

So like I say the only strange thing is that someone said the ONLY reason was to make money PURELY off future CD sales or the same album, as that's probably the one thing that will see decreased sales after the giveaway.

Nothing to do with bitrates, drm, slaps in the face or being nice. Just a business plan.

gotta love how you get "LMAO" out of the word board, so long as they allowed diagonal moves :o)

hope you stipped the wheels off and snowboarded back down. it's hella fun once you get the balance right :o)

no chance of these in little ole england? i want one of those doggy ones :o(

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/04/a380sfo05.jpg

no wheel or joystick? they've not taken to using wasd for control have they?

More details from the bbc: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7028389.stm

So the images appear to have been willingly added to USB drive, seeings how they were in a folder on the drive (no virus based activities, at least the bbc make it sound that way) and it sounds like windows just autoran the drive with a default "open folder" setting when inserted. Which would also suggest the pics were saved in the root folder. Although I guess if it just recognized a load of photos on the thing it'd might've given a "view slideshow / images" option, which someone with little experience may just click ok to whatever it says, then whatever windows found first would show... but anyway.

How on earth did this guy not notice them when presumably he saved his presentation to the drive in the first place? I could accept it may not have autorun in the same way when inserted in to his own pc, but to save any files to it surely he would have started in the root folder anyway? If so, at the very least he would've had to ignore numerous jpg files with possibly dubious names.

"sulky chair... is sulking"
"i used to get all the booty on me"
"i can not has booty"
"they use you. it's all they do."

moar!

"in ur house... not anymore"
"in ur street... sulking"
"ma bukket... it is gone"

come on people it's asking for it!

Haha this would be perfect for an Andy Parsons ( http://www.andyparsons.co.uk/ ) joke about how much the british love to que :oP

FON ceo Martin Varsavsky has been writing about the deal in his blog (which I love btw, especially how open he is about stuff) http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/

The latest is his reply to an article suggesting he's paying for every BT customer signed up:

"This story in Techcrunch and in GigaOm is wrong. Hey Om, are we buddies or not? Next time pls check with me. Do you think el fonero jefe here would pay BT $10 dolares per fonero they get??? No way jose."

aww a bat came into my bedroom while i was sleeping at my grandmas house. didn't know what it was as obviously everything was a little dark and i was curled up in bed scared of whatever the hell was making weird noises in my bedroom. but it was making really nice cat like purring noises, you'd think it would squeak or something but it just purred. eventually got the courage to run out and get my mum / gran to deal with it. i think it just flew out the window after a bit, no fancy golf ball stick things needed.

woohoo! made 300,000 then all my cows died :o\ stupid geopolitical health people sued me to the moon anyways :o(

A number of bands in the UK have done something similar this year.

The Crimea (ex-Warners signed) released their whole second album for free, non-DRM MP3 download with cover art on their website back in May, prefering other revenue streams such as show tickets and merch to tide them over. I'm a big fan of them and, having been to a few shows before & after the release, I'd say it deffinately worked; attendance must've increased 5 times. They eventually release the album on CD for purchase a few months later.

Ash, uncer the same management of The Crimea, then announced they'd no longer be releasing albums and sticking with single releases. No freebies though.

And then Prince, as you probably know, gave his album away to gig attendees and tabloid readers. Again, he'll also be selling the thing at a later date.

So no one yet has bothered to stop selling recorded music all together...

>> At left, the World War II German Exploding Chocolate Bar

oh please, don't give them any more ideas... *will leave chocolate bars at home next holiday*

just don't take it anywhere near boston, eh?

oh ffs, another led bomb is it? are there any sane people in the boston pd?

have to say though...
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/slideshow/news/14173047/detail.html
3rd pic, tut tut, i'd have expected much more from an mit student, that thing looks a right mess :oP

Are you sure that's a toaster shaped teapot? It looks a lot like a teapot shaped toaster to me.