Spotlight

Spotlight hosts short but interesting stories about ideas, events and people from around the world. Basically is a random pile of stuff that I notice during my day or I stumble upon while on the internet, so don’t expect to be seeing updates here on a regular basis.

Watches Are An Astronauts Best Friend | | The Moon Dust Watch

We’ve all probably heard that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” or maybe even that “a dog is a man’s best friend”, but what about the astronauts? What would we give Neil Armstrong or the countless other individuals who’ve spent some of their life outside of the confines of planet Earth?

You know, I think this [...]

The John Rodsted Lecture

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture by Nobel Laureate John Rodsted about his campaign to ban the use of landmines and cluster bombs from the world’s armies. Over the hour long discussion which he had about his activism over the last 20 years, he talked about the many challenges which he faced by [...]

Gates and Seinfeld’s New Family

Well the first ad may have been a low random start, but the next ad has come out to be bigger, uncut and is still about… nothing. In this one, Bill and Seinfeld have now gone to a “new family” and are living with them before they eventually get kicked out. Besides the implication that [...]

Its Moist and Chewy and About… Nothing?

I don’t know if this is worth “big top points” but Microsoft have launched their new $300 million advertising campaign with this ad about something (its just not easy to work out without sitting around thinking about it). Hopefully this is just leading up to a bigger advertising campaign about something that actually might make [...]

Nokia Series 40 Security Alert

Nokia confirmed last week a big security flaw in its Series 40 operating system that allows hackers the ability to install and run remote code of any type on these phones without the users permission and consent. The consequences for this are enormous with over 100 million of these budget phones existing in the world. [...]

Olympic Blue Screen of Death?

While most of us perceived the Beijing Olympics going off without a hitch, with perfectly syncronious dancers, extravagent performances and an impressive list of technology. However, according Gizmodo and a large number of independent observers, one of the screens in the bird’s nest blue screened during what was otherwise a nearly flawless the Opening Ceremony. [...]