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.

Springsteen Videos

These are just Amazing, shot in HD and look brilliant on my high def monitor- Plus the sound is just tremendous. Enjoy Wink

Paris
Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
http://www.vimeo.com/1251404
Atlantic City
http://www.vimeo.com/1251316
Rendez-Vous
http://www.vimeo.com/1251223
For You (I recommend this one)
http://www.vimeo.com/1251182
Adam Raised A Cain
http://www.vimeo.com/1251092

Antwerp
Point Blank
http://www.vimeo.com/1225454
Trapped
http://www.vimeo.com/1225674
So Young And Inlove
http://www.vimeo.com/1225325
Sandy
http://www.vimeo.com/1225942
I’m A Rocker
http://www.vimeo.com/1226676

- Kyle

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 Press," he said. "But they were great friends, and Tim went wherever he had to to hear him. Ladies and gentlemen, from Europe where he is on tour: The Boss."

-Kyle (via Backstreets)

The 4th Time

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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 we go then, we are pulling out here to WIN!

- Kyle

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, but utilises a form of single touch interaction. The problem is that he then goes on to use gesture based scrolling (in moving up and down – Aza calls it ‘Kinetic Scrolling’) . Now as I believe it, single input touch screens do not allow gesture based interactions (i.e. the typical touch screen devices you see dotted around city centres). Therefore, the device must be using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, which allows gesture support and multi touch interaction. Meaning, why have the technology there and not use it ? – I’m wondering does Apple own the patents ? – I don’t know, its something I would have to look at (I’m fairly sure they don’t, just look at Surface). In terms of accessibility, zooming in and out of web pages works amazingly well from multi-touch interaction, it makes sense to use the technology available, doesn’t it?

From the video I got the impression it was something they went against in terms of design decisions but the problem I have is WHY?  

I suggest before you leave, have a shot of the interface in action.

-Kyle 

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?

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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 Marks & Sparks.

-Kyle

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

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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 Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure — right from Day One! — that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me…….

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘THIS’ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘OTHER SIDE’ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his ‘CURRENT’ problems before adding ‘NEW’ problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…

ANDERSON COOPER – CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can’t you people see the plain truth?’ That’s why they call it the ‘other side.’ Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like ‘the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It’s as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken.. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^(C% ……..reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken! What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one? Where did that sucker go?

DICK CHENEY: Where’s my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens a colorless white? We need some black chickens.

(via one of those pointless emails)

-Kyle

Summers Here…

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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’ to start with, although I still haven’t complete Palin yet) and become very repetitive in not doing much. That is normally my summer, yeah you might travel here/there for a few days but it isn’t a big occurrence. I tell work I don’t want to be bothered between Monday to Friday and I slip into doing nothingness.

There’s one big problem with ‘nothingness’, I hate it, it grinds me down, I become more tired doing nothing than studying for exams or completing that handsome twelve-thousand word document. So what can I do about? Well go travelling, but again I find that about as exciting as watching Big Brother on Channel 4. I could become productive, I have been asked to design a website for a company, but again I need some encouragement and currently money doesn’t do that. The problem is that I need to become energetic, getting up earlier on the morning and maybe heading to the gym would do the thing. Not that I’m unhappy with my fitness, just I can’t seem to shake this unmotivated rut I’m currently stuck in. I have quickly become set in my routine and I need to break free of it!

Leave it with me, although I encourage you to leave comments below!

- Kyle