So long Netscape

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of people online.

Its market share has since slipped to just 0.6% as other browsers such as Microsoft' Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox have eroded its user base.

The company recommends that users upgrade their browser to either Firefox or Flock, which are both built on the same underlying technologies as Navigator.

Top tennis points

The first rally is awesome..

Marriage proposal gone bad

Evolution of car logos

Blue

It's not news.. but blue is a Mac icon's favourite colour.

Found

I seem to be a bit addicted to ffffound.com - here a few of my recent favs

Push it

Norreys Estate

This is a fun little game.

This is my first attempt at creating a sleeve for Flickr's CD Cover meme, an increasingly popular game.

It's a simple game:

1. The first article title on this randomly generated Wikipedia page is the name of your band.

2. The last four words of the very last quote from this random page from quotationspage.com OR you could use the last few words from the bottom of my homepage which has a random tube gossip quote, either way this is the title of your album.

3. The third picture on this page, Flickr's list of interesting pictures from the past seven days, is your album cover. (Or ideally use this random image where the photographer has granted permission to alter and re-use their work, in accordance with their Creative Commons license.)

Portishead's Third

Portishead are releasing their third album, called Third, sometime in mid April, after a ten year silence and apparently it's been worth the wait.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2256187,00.html

MIND THE GAP

Transport For London has turned to graphic design in an attempt to make it easier to get on and off crowded tubes.

From Valentines Day 2008. London Underground is to trial various graphic devices on the Jubilee Line. The markings are designed to encourage those waiting on platforms to let passengers off the train before getting on themselves. There are four different styles, each style to be tested at at least two locations from the following list of stations: Canada Water, Canary Wharf, Green Park, Kilburn, London Bridge, Swiss Cottage, St John's Wood, Waterloo, West Hampstead and Westminster.

Whenever I hear "Mind the Gap" it reminds me of the early Ricky Gervais podcast where Steve Merchant bangs on about a teenager he saw on the tube who had a tshirt printed with just the slogan - "Fuck the Gap".. still makes me chuckle whenever I hear it.

Clearly a painted (perhaps holographic) hole wouldn't work but would be fun..

Cool Wall

Massimo Falsaci's wall piece, Tramonto (sunset), was a winner displayed in Milan last year.

Diesel are running a competition where the prize is to have your art displayed on some massive walls, across the globe and including Manchester in the UK.

http://www.dieselwall.com/

Sponsorless Shirts

The Manchester Derby today begun with moving scenes at Old Trafford in respect to the 23 - of which eight were players from the Old Trafford club - who died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.

United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and counterpart Sven-Goran Eriksson each laid a wreath either side of the centre circle before an impeccably observed minute's silence.

United's players wore 1958-style sponsorless red shirts numbered one to 11.



City won 2-1.

It was interesting to see sponsorless shirts. I quite liked them but as a neutral it felt to me like the lack of sponsor on the shirts made the Man U players look and feel more fashionable and less imposing, at least to me, it was slightly odd. I wonder if it affected either sets of players? Although perhaps the occasion got to them and the shirts had nothing to do with it..

World Press Photos of the Year

World Press Photo of the Year 2007, Tim Hetherington

The winners of the 2007 World Press Photo Awards have been announced, with UK photographer Tim Hetherington taking the top award.

More at worldpressphoto.org.

2nd prize Spot News Stories, Roberto Schmidt

This photograph of Kenyan election unrest in Nairobi is part of a series taken by Columbian/German photographer Roberto Schmidt for Agence France-Presse on December 29-31.

1st prize Contemporary Issues Stories, Jean Revillard

Makeshift immigrant hut in Calais, France, taken by Swiss photographer Jean Revillard for Rezo.ch.

1st prize Daily Life Stories, Pieter ten Hoopen

Dutch photographer Pieter ten Hoopen took this photograph as part of a series entitled ‘Kitezh, the invisible town, Russia’ for Agence Vu.

1st prize Portraits Singles, Platon

President Putin photographed for Time magazine by UK photographer, Platon

Copa Davis

Man I hate Andrew Castle.

Of course this is the same size court that he learnt the game on, and his opponent at the other end of the court is just a man.

There will be blood

I wanna see this..



Guardian :

This is a dark, uncompromising film, thrillingly original and distinctive, with a visionary passion. It is a movie against which all directors, and all moviegoers, will want to measure themselves.

Sagmeister's 20 life maxims

Currently on show at Deitch Projects at Grand Street gallery in New York is a new exhibition of work by Stefan Sagmeister. Entitled Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far.

Sagmeister's full list of 20 maxims are as follows:

1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
7. Assuming is stifling.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
10. Money does not make me happy.
11. My dreams have no meaning.
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
15. Worrying solves nothing.
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.

Half man half tree

32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

He is known locally as 'Tree Man' and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in 'freak' shows.

Discovery Channel Video



From the Telegraph - apparently he may be able to be cured.. More

Shadow legs

Scientologists vs. "Pathetic Hackers"

Scientologists have called the hackers who have taken down their websites as a "pathetic" collection of "computer geeks.

The hackers took offense to the removal from YouTube of embarrassing footage of Tom Cruise, in which the actor hailed the religion as "a blast".

Cruise claimed: "We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the authorities on the mind, we are the authorities on improving conditions ... we can rehabilitate criminals ... we can bring peace and unite communities."

This weekend the hackers have stuck back with online sabotage. Guerrilla action has so far included the temporary disabling of its international website and "Google bombing", the church is the first result returned by Google when users type "dangerous cult".

Scientology's UK website has been unavailable and in the US the FBI were investigating what they said was the hoax dispatch of white powder in envelopes to 19 churches in the Los Angeles area.

I am more and more inclined to not like Tom Cruise, not really that bothered about Scientology, I did kinda wonder if I should add to the Google bomb, but I'm not that bothered.

In the UK, half-a-dozen protesters leafleted shoppers and brandished a banner reading "Scientology Sucks" in Manchester.

Microsoft bids for Yahoo!

Microsoft lays down a serious challenge for Google with an audacious $44.6bn bid for rival Yahoo!

The deal would rank as one of the largest dotcom takeovers since AOL and Time Warner merged at the height of the tech stock boom.

Google comprehensively dominates the online search market with a global share estimated at 75%