written by Martin on Sep 29, 2001
Let-Me-Stay-For-A-Day.com is the website of Ramon from the Netherlands who has decided to see how far he can travel on the goodwill of other people. All he asks, is for you to put him up for one day, let him update his website and he’ll move onwards as his journey around the globe continues.
It was interesting to see his entries for September 11 onwards.
written by Martin on Sep 28, 2001
I’m not against using Flash as a web design tool, but as Marketing Sherpa suggests, maybe Flash designers need to be a little bit more careful about what they use it for on websites.
written by Martin on Sep 27, 2001
A Belgian company have created a special set of baby ‘space pyjamas’ in a bid to fight cot death. The futuristic babysuit contains sensors similar to those used for astronauts which monitor heart rate and breathing, and come in three sizes.
written by Martin on Sep 26, 2001
Good to see The Onion back in business, with a typically acerbic view on the Current Situation. You simply can’t beat the boldness of a headline like ‘Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell’.
written by Martin on Sep 26, 2001
A BBC employee in London has just got himself in a whole crock of trouble for allegedly passing around an email about CNN using old footage, which he refutes.
written by Martin on Sep 26, 2001
I’m pretty sure this is a hoax, but The Executive Chutes Corporation are promoting ‘The Life Preserver of the Sky’, a parachute for getting out of big buildings.
written by Martin on Sep 25, 2001
BBC News Online are running a story about conspiracy theories, suggesting they are nothing more than human attempts to explain shocking events that the collective psyche has difficulty comprehending.
The late comedian Bill Hicks once said that he visited the Sixth Floor of the Texas School Book Depository and viewed the window overlooking Dealy Plaza, which has been reconstructed to appear as it would have been on the day John F. Kennedy was assasinated.
As the inimitable Mr Hicks commented, it’s perfect in every detail, because Lee Harvey Oswald isn’t there.
written by Martin on Sep 24, 2001
The guys at Unblinking have traced companies and government agencies whose offices were destroyed in the World Trade Center in New York. I found a link to this on Jason Kottke’s site. As Jason points out, they seem to have tracked down more company listings by using search engines, online telephone directories, official websites and simple research techniques than most powerful media agencies have managed to.