With tongue in cheek
adj.
1. Meant or expressed ironically or facetiously.
2. Ironic, slyly humorous; not meant to be taken seriously.
3. Characterised by insincerity, irony, or whimsical exaggeration.
4. Humorously ironic, mocking, or insincere.
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ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media
Via techspotlight:
2-3 years ago, so-called “startpages” were all the rage - an online dashboard where users can collect links and quickly scan important news feeds. Startpages were also an evolving platform for “widgets,” mini web apps that can be placed inside a web page.
All of the big Internet companies had startpages and promoted them fiercely: iGoogle, My Yahoo!, Microsoft’s Live.com. Among the startups, Netvibes managed to establish a foothold. Other startup battlers included PageFlakes and Protopage. In 2007-08 startpages were viewed as the second coming of portals and some even thought they might be the next social networks. Now of course many people use Facebook or Twitter as their place to “start” on the Web. So what will become of the startpage - does it have a future?
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BBC iPlayer - Ride of My Life: The Story of the Bicycle
Bicycle porn from BBC4. Wait till you see the bike he builds himself. It’s pretty fucking hot.
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‘UK to see surge in next generation of mobile technology under new Government plans’ — BIS
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Lawyer: “Could you see him from where you were standing?”
Witness: “I could see his head.”
Lawyer: “And where was his head?”
Witness: “Just above his shoulders. -
Lawyer: “Are you married?”
Witness: “No, I’m divorced.”
Lawyer: “And what did your husband do before you divorced him?”
Witness: “A lot of things I didn’t know about. -
dayofbirth.co.uk
“Find fun and interesting facts about the day and year you were born. Just enter your date of birth below and click Go to begin.”
I am 8,597 days old. Yikes!
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Things People Said: Courtroom Quotations
Witness: “He was about medium height and had a beard.”
Lawyer: “Was this a male or a female?”
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Media response to the Raoul Moat manhunt
The Media Show, BBC Radio 4, 14.07.10
An interesting discussion around the media coverage of the Raoul Moat manhunt, and the affects of the coverage on wider society. Cue the old chestnut of ‘glamorising the actions of men like this encourages others to take up arms themselves’ from the ‘expert’ psychologist. Hey, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. I’ve heard it so many times is all I’m saying…
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(via captainpeg)
