Not three cheers, obviously, because they’re French. But one. Muffled. They’re learning slowly. In 2004 reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot were kidnapped in Iraq. France paid $15 million dollars in ransom for their release. In 2005 Florence Aubenas, a reporter for the daily Libération was released after the French […]
In a splendidly retro way, TheEye has been tagged in a what-does-your-desk-look-like meme by Woman On A Raft. The path of tagging destruction wends its way back to Mordor via JuliaM; Grim Reaper and ManWiddecombe, Filthy Engineer and to the instigator, the unmissable Dick Puddlecote. Various others of the bloggers of Gondor have […]
In Greg Dyke impersonation news today, it seems as though TheEye has an extra title for the business card – television mogul. Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that YouTube and similar websites (inluding EyeTube) based on user-generated content will be considered TV stations in Italian law (Google translation of Italian original), and […]
For this evening: TheEye will be trying out a new iPhone application called ‘Top Shelf‘. If you want to mix a new drink, the app thinks the way most of us do – instead of going out to buy the ingredients, it shows you how to build a new drink with […]
Back in September after much talk of censorship on YouTube and GrumpyOldTwat losing some of the videos that he had uploaded, TheEye and an intrepid band of testers launched EyeTube.EyeTube is a video sharing site designed as a safe haven for more controversial stuff than YouTube are happy to host. Originally a free-speech […]
In the West we have beauty contests featuring human beings, but elsewhere it ain’t necessarily the same. Saudi Arabia; where men are men and goats are nervous: Riyadh, Dec 29 (DPA) A beauty competition for goats began Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, as part of an auction bringing together traders and […]
From Time Magazine today, and with no sign of intended irony or sarcasm: There follows in the article a whole host of theories as to why it’s so inconveniently cold when politicians and career labcoats in search of taxpayer-funded grants tell us we’re all scheduled to fry. Of course, the […]
Hideous Big Brother nonsense from the problem areas of* Dundee where alcohol is now being tracked in case you dare to do something the State doesn’t approve of with your own property. Under the scheme, bottles would bear a printed barcode enabling authorities to track whether legally bought alcohol has been […]
Are those solar panels in your trousers or are you just pleased to see me? Because first in the list of Glad I didn’t get those for Christmas we have solar powered trousers. Oh yes. For the low, low price of $920, you can own a pair of Go Urban Cargo […]
This can only be one step down from doing a degree on Coronation Street. It’s official. When, in hundreds of years, the future of humanity scours the U.S. Library of Congress for clues as to how primitively we lived back in the early 21st century, the jive-talking granny in “Airplane!” […]
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