You can imagine my surprise when I picked up the local newspaper, Liverpool Echo, and read that a woman had been living inside herself. My first thought was she may have been part snail or tortoise but it turns out it was just someone at the Liverpool Echo/Daily post building sleeping on the job. In fact it must have been several people sleeping on the job. Unlike web publishing where an article will likely be written, proof read and published by one person a newspaper will generally pass through several people’s hands before it leaves the building plus this was in a huge font on the FRONT page of the newspaper. It’s unfortunate that a serious and tragic story was turned into comedy by some lacklustre quality control
I like the idea of the new art installation “The Telectroscope” by Paul St. George and I can imagine some people, thick people, falling for it. I say I like the idea because I’ll not get to see the thing for real being that it’s in London and New York. I could bitch about the fact that it’s another project that centres on London, apparently the only city of merit in the UK, but I won’t. Also don’t like the fact that they vandalised Wikipedia to promote this thing but it wasn’t like they edited an existing page changing history in the process, so I’ll let them off with that. Wikipedia has weathered greater problems than this and is still able to tell the world truth that Mr T invented the combine harvester.
There’s a gallery of images and more information about it on the official website.
The specification of the new Acer PC Predator is amazingly good, the style on the other hand is way off. I can understand why people go for Apple hardware on looks alone if this is he best that can be done by the other team. I know they’re trying to appeal to a certain market segment but why is it that when these designers hear that something is to be aimed at PC gamers do they suddenly think we want something that looks like it’s straight out of a Mecha anime. Some of us who play game on PC are actually professionals who like things to be a little more subtle than a 2 tonne hammer in the paws of colour blind, deranged ape with a penchant for exaggeration. Please can the PC designers out there come up with something that wouldn’t look out of place in a home but is still intended for game playing. Some of the Dell XPS systems and all of the Alienware systems are guilty of the same design for gamers stuff but to a far lesser degree than the atrocity that Acer have managed. Well done Acer, bottom of the gaming PC barrel reached we should be able to climb out now. I say that more in hope than expectation as I’m sure someone will find a way to “better” Acer.