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What do bloggers, private detectives, and faerie princes all have in common?
They are all in Hypergraphia, a new story appearing in Insomnia’s “Survival” anthology.
This time around I have been teamed up with the extremely talented Valia, who has a line in moody artwork that will certainly suit the story very well indeed … unsuprisingly, this is a dark one folks!
The previous Insomnia anthology, Choices, sold extremely well at the Bristol Comic Con and is currently available via Amazon. The book is consistently picking up good reviews, a testament to the editorial direction of the team from Insomnia as well as the very talented creators who contribute their time and hard work.
So, keep your eyes peeled for “Survival” whilst I search for a cure for Hypergraphia …
Posted on : 04-07-2009 | By :
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After yesterday’s post about the vomit inducing Microsoft advert, I couldn’t help but mention that other piece of (evil) marketing genius from Redmond for Internet Explorer 8 that has hit the press today.
If you download Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft will donate eight meals to the “Feeding America” campaign.
Internet news sites are already awash with commentary regarding Microsoft’s “download IE 8 or a child starves” approach, with a saddening number of responses from some Internet malcontents that Americans don’t need any additional feeding. For once, I’m not going to add grist to the mill of sarcasm. Somewhere, there is either a pretty bad person or a pretty good person behind this and, although the effort may seem a little misguided and will probably be viewed as at least a misfire if not a total backfire …, it is still an easy way to give a little something to charity.
So, here’s the plan
- Go to http://www.browserforthebetter.com
- Click the big “download” button
- Pick an operating system. Doesn’t matter which one.
- When the option to download the file comes up, download it.
- You should be presented with a page confirming that 8 meals have been donated
- Wait for the download to finish and then delete the downloaded file
Microsoft only require you to download Internet Explorer 8 for them to donate the eight meals. They don’t say that you have to install it.
Only complete downloads of Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 through browserforthebetter.com from June 8, 2009 through August 8, 2009 qualify for the charitable donation to Feeding America®. Microsoft® is donating $1.15 per download to Feeding America® up to a maximum of $1,000,000. Meals are used for illustrative purposes only. Meal conversion is effective until June 30th, 2010.
My only concern with my master plan is that the definition of a “complete” download involves installing the product and downloading more files in the process; the download is only 18Mb, which seems remarkably slim for a Microsoft application.
Still, I got to the thank you screen, I think that means my work is done.
So, what are you waiting for? Download (but feel no complusion to install) Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 today!
Posted on : 02-07-2009 | By :
Chris Lynch | In :
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Just when I think the world isn’t getting any worse, Microsoft pop up and deliver something so truly misguided that it is brilliant.
YouTube – O M G I G P Internet Explorer 8.
Pop quiz … “What Worse?”
1: That multi-billion dollar multi-national mega-corporation Microsoft is resorting to the “Internet Explorer will hide your porn” argument to try and shift IE8
or
2: They are using Dean Cain, who used to be Superman, to do it?
I leave it to your own soul to decide.
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