Wings On Some Wheels

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Month: June, 2008

George Carlin, RIP

This morning I heard of the sad death of George Carlin, so today I decided to watch ‘It’s Bad for Ya!’. The whole special is on Youtube, in 7 10minute videos, if you have the time there well worth checking out.
I’ll start you off with the first clip below;

 
-Kyle

Remembering Tim Russert

At yesterdays televised memorial service for Tim Russert, Luke’s "Uncle Tony" (Russert’s brother-in-law) performed a beautiful acoustic "Born to Run" in tribute. How do you follow that? Well, Luke and Tom Brokaw had "a little surprise," which Brokaw introduced: "This was the one guest that Tim was never able to persuade to appear on Meet [...]

The 4th Time

Right, in about 55 mins I’m heading off to Birmingham. Staying in a Travel lodge then tomorrow morning I’m heading off to Cardiff then the Millennium Stadium to see Bruce Springsteen. I’m so excited, watch out for the pictures on FaceyB in the next few days.
I’ll be micro-blogging my experience over at Twitter.

Here [...]

Horrific

Just leave it alone;
I seen this via Neatorama, it is horrific.
-Kyle

Possible Firefox Mobile UI in Action

Aza Raskin (son of Jef who you maybe familiar with), head of UX at Mozilla Labs, shows off some very neat designs being considered for Mozilla Mobile.
Check it out if you hadn’t already;

 
Maybe I’m a little undereducated in what Aza is saying above. He specifically states the interface does not allow multi-touch based interaction, [...]

Chickens

That’s strange both my last 2 posts include chickens, now what are the chances of that!
That reminds me, KFC mmm.
-Kyle

What’s in your Wallet?

It now seems Capital One credit card is taking customisation to the next level. It now allows customers to brand their plastic pal with their favourite image from Flickr.
For some reason I’d like to see somebody place a pornographic image on the front of their card, just imagine how uncomfortable that would be in [...]

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First [...]

Summers Here…

It has been rather a dull month here on kylemayne.com, due to my dissertation and exams postings been very slow. Well officially summer is HERE, a period in which I become rather unproductive. So, I line up a few books I want to read, prioritise some DVDs (I’ve decided upon all ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’ [...]