Inane Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End Announcement

“As you enter the screen, we will search you for latops, cameras, recording devices, blah-blah-blah because we want to prevent piracy.”
One hundred people dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow look at each other and giggle.

The Best Dressed Pirate In Austin

What a great/strange/awesome way to spend my last full day in Austin. Thanks to Ain’t It Cool, I and another hundred pirate fans attended a special screening of “Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl,” which was followed by the first airing of the trailer for the third Pirates Film (’At Worlds’ End’). […]

Frontwing joins The Podcast Network for the new F1 Season

Congratulations to Steve Hunter for the successful relaunch of his Frontwing Formula 1 podcast under the banner of The Grand Prix Show at The Podcast Network. Just in time for the opening race in Australlia!

Show Notes - MP3 File - RSS File
Steve’s changed the format slightly from his previous show, with a shorter format, and […]

Ricky Campbell’s First Stunt Was Shit…

…but just like the stunt that makes his dad (Randy) proud, there’s a fine piece of Midnight Movie Extravaganza in what I’m calling my pick of the SXSW Films: The Devil Dared Me To!. Over to IMDB for the spoiler safe outline…
A stunt-fuelled action-comedy from the Kiwi cult-comedy team Back of the Y, “The Devil […]

Join the Army, Join the Playstation Generation.

From Iain Dale’s Diary, refering to UK Hansard…
Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on (a) television sets and (b) Sony Playstations for the use of service personnel in each of the last three financial years for which figures are available.
Derek Twigg [holding answer 18 January 2007]: […]

SXSW Music, TPN Rock and Deja Voodoo

THey always say you just stumble across a band at SXSW Music by chance that become your band. And while two of the acts in this week’s TPN Rock from SXSW could have been those, the prize of “Best Band Of The Fest” goes to the New Zealand rockers Deja Voodoo.

You won’t catch them on […]

“Can Art Survive Google Panel” at SXSW

All I have to say is if this panel had been on Monday or Tuesday, it would have set the blogosphere alight. Folks, this is what we’re up against, and very few Daniels came to see the Lion. I’ll just post my notes from the session for you all to see (exs tags are my […]

Where Is Austin’s Knowledge?

Something I’ve noticed in Austin is the complete lack of knowledge from taxi drivers about their local area. Perhaps I’ve been spoiled having lived in London, and expect a cab picked up in Baron’s Court to recognise the four house sidestreet that I want to go home to in the north of Walthamstow. Yet ask […]

Will Twitter ‘Black Hole’ A Conference This Year

One of things I’ve always joked about is that at some point, there will be a conference where nobody takes any pictures, relying instead on the ‘herd immunity’ concpet that someone else will be Flickring anything interesting. And everyone decides to rely on everyone else, the pictorial record of a conference will vanish into a […]

Having a Dinner Meet Up In New York Next Week

So, once SXSW is over, I’ll be heading up to New York for (1) some sleep (2) Blog Her Business and (3) A Not-Geek Dinner for everyone I know in the area. Eric and Rachel are doing the groundwork on this one, so the details I have so far are:
Manhatten, somewhere central, on the evening […]

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