Monthly Archives: March 2012

With past winners that include where-are-they-now Super Extra Bonus Party [above] (who won the award in 2007) and others who didn’t quite parlay their prize into any sense of a significant breakthrough here or abroad, does the Choice Music Prize really matter to anyone outside a media in-crowd? Can the Choice really deliver on the promises it proclaimed when it was set-up in 2005?

Judging panel should keep Choice real (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)

Which elicited this:

Super Extra Bonus Party (Facebook)

And that dedication:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7hCJxfflgU

Thanks Meg Hyland

Do you like your smileys?

If you answered :) to that, then Emojicons is the single serving site for you: every keyboard pictogram under the sun, updated constantly, ready for cutting, pasting and begging for your input.

Created by Huy Hong, who also inflicted this on the interwebs. Hong sez:

Welcome to Emojicons, your one-stop plot of internet land for every ლ(╹◡╹ლ), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ಠ_ಠ, and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ you can possibly imagine. We’re here to serve your every textual need, providing a relentless number of ways to refine your chats, tweets, IMs, Facebook posts, YouTube responses, Reddit comments, forum flaming, rage quitting, trolling, and every other type of written discourse.

Get your smiley on here.

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As the world waits for the iPad 3.

Behold The ‘Bashful’ the Apple tablet protoype from 1983 named after the shy dwarf in Snow White.

Concepts for this early pre-touch tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy disk drive and convenient handle for maximum portability. An attached stylus helped the user interact with the screen. One frog/Apple tablet concept also included an attached phone.

 

Apple’s Third-Gen iPad Rumoured To Feature ‘Never Before Seen Touch Technology’ (Apple Insider)