The most amusing observation from watching the specials attached to the Lord of the Rings DVD last night — a severe case of anti-product placement. I think it was the half-hour special for the American Sci-Fi channel, we only noticed because they were using the same footage as the other two specials we’d just seen. Every time any recognisable corporate logo would have appeared, it was pixellated out by a large hovering blob on the screen. Someone in the crew wearing a Nike cap — blob over the cap. Peter Jackson wearing a fleece vest with a logo on it — blob over the logo. Someone wearing a logo on a t-shirt — blob over the shirt. This is getting ridiculous! Are they going to start pixellating out cars in the street if the manufacturer hasn’t paid? Will people who aren’t the focus of the show have a blob over all their faces?
- http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=adrian+tritschler&type=1: find out what Google thinks of you, or of someone else. Sadly, this is what it says of me:
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adrian tritschler is still very involved with sophos
Recharged my camera and uploaded the weekend’s photos. I definitely need to work on the PHP pages to display my most recent albums and things most recently changed. It might even be an idea to have tiny thumbnails appear on the day they were taken…
