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todays news 3/3/08

geniespace — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:02:59 +0000

todays news a bit of a gift to practise some tongue in cheek, snappy headlines:

MICROSOFT GETS MEAN WITH YAHOO!

After Yahoos rejection of a $1.4 billion bid buy out bid Microsoft are threatening them with a boardroom coup.

DARLING DOES DUTY ON DRUNKENESS!

In a bid to curb binge drinking Alistair Darling is set to increase duty on wine.

Both stories seen in The Times today.

The munchies

geniespace — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:33:25 +0000

late night out and got the munchies? The best recipe for this instead of ‘Ye Olde Curry’ is nachos,jalapenos, cheese all melted in the oven serve with spicy beans, salsa, guacamole and sour cream = a one pot wonder saves on washing up.
Short of money make your own drink! Take the cheapest drain cleaning vodka you can buy (Iceland is good) slice 5 lemons, dissolve 7ozs of sugar in a little of the vodka (on a low heat!please) cool and mix with the rest of the vodka- enjoy!

winchester journalism2 george orwell

geniespace — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:35 +0000

thinking about what George Orwell has to say on using old metaphors and i believe Chris picked up on it in the seminar today, old metaphors lose readers because one makes assumptions (i know i do) about content or type of story, when i read an old metaphor as headline etc. especially these days when everyone is always looking for something different and that is why we need to always look for a different angle.

my choice (sorry about the pun) for Orwellian speak today is: Choice is Freedom

Hi everyone

geniespace — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:10:24 +0000

I was given this Flash video about the Future of the Media made in 2004 find it at EPIC2014, what do you think?