So, this week’s strip was half-drawn when the computer crashed and corrupted the whole file. Then my tablet decides to give up the ghost and I have to waste more time getting a new one.
What a clusterfuck.
Anyway, upshot is that now there is too little time to draw a full strip to replace it (I refuse to draw the same strip again, that’s too mind-numbing).
So tune in, calibrate yourself and check your vertical hold with the hastily-concocted replacement right here.
So, another week flies by, filled with coughs, colds, more coughs, coughs and maybe a cough or two. Oh, and a really serious cough.
As you may intone from that, I have been sick as a dog all week. But, gentle reader, not so sick that I have to miss my rendezvous with your optic nerve!
This rounds out the Henry strip arc for the moment, unless I can think of some way to bring him in occasionally.
Curl up under the duvet with this week’s strip right here!
Yes, it’s here, the first glimpse of anything significant at all from Halo: Reach. And it leaves us moist with anticipation.
Facebook readers click here for the video.
So, another week comes and goes and another strip goes up.
You know, sometimes I look at the almost child-like personality of Foxx and think, from time to time, that to actually live life through those eyes – with an eternal and perpetual sense of wonderment at everything – would be awesome. But, sadly, we don’t have the option. Ah well, never mind. On with the grind, I guess.
This week, Mart is busy doing SCIENCE! in his super-secret secret lab and has discovered a way that may just allow him to give Foxx more intelligence – maybe even as much as half a wit. Maybe.
Thoroughly analyse this week’s crenellated and slightly squidgy strip here.
So, I thought I would start a new section where each Friday I dig out films from the intertubes around a central theme, silly or serious. This will no doubt carry on until I forget to do one.
This week’s theme is dinosaurs. Yay!
Films after the jump, facebook readers click here to see the videos.
Let me know what you think next week’s theme should be, and I will see what I can find. Just remember: no obvious memes!
Enjoy!
Presented for your amusement: a wonderful little animated film by Studio H5, directed by François Alaux and Herve de Crecy. Ronald McDonald breaks loose on a violent crime spree in a world that is entirely made of corporate logos.
This 16-minute award-winning animated short film film apparently features over 2,500 different logos and brands (alongside some fantastic sound and voice work) - watch, enjoy, and see how many you can spot!
Watch the film after the jump. Facebook readers, as ever, click here to watch the video.
The Government suffered what can only be described as a humiliating defeat today after the High Court reinforced a previous judgment that seven previously redacted paragraphs contained within in CIA evidentiary documentation relating to the arrest and detention of Binyam Mohamed on suspicion of complicity in acts of terrorism should be made public. The paragraphs lend weight to the suggestion that Mohamed suffered severe physical and psychological torture whilst in U.S. custody. Many believe that this was with full knowledge of MI5. More details after the jump.
You know, when I was a kid, adverts for Old Spice usually took place in a football changing room, involved fusty old sports personalities and basically did nothing to remove the idea that Old Spice was for men who actually wanted to smell like a dodgy Robinsons’ pub vault in a Northern working town, circa 1978.
Now, it seems, Old Spice has had somewhat of a renaissance. And a funny one at that. Catch the adverts after the jump. Facebook readers, as ever, click here to see the videos.
No doubt as you have, by now, figured out, we physicists we here at dogsounds Towers pride ourselves on our crusade to bring little snippets of THE SCIENCE! and the knowledge of our universe to our readers in a way that is straightforward, plain-speaking and easy to understand.
We endeavor to cherrypick the best examples of current thinking and put them into your immense and powerful BRAIN to enhance your world view. To bring to you enlightenment without the hassle of going to a university and being all socially inadequate around girls and that.
Okay, well, let’s be honest, we don’t do that much, But when we see an article or a news story about THE SCIENCE! that is the equivalent of waking up and finding dinosaurs in your car, then we have to pass it along as best we can.
But, I am afraid, dear, sweet gentle readers, for the first time we have totally failed. We have today found an article of THE SCIENCE! that is so staggeringly obtuse, we have not been able to break it down. More after the jump.
So, the first and most important rule of any super-secret science team working to create Godawful aberrations of nature for who-knows-what purpose is pretty self-evident: shut the fuck up and say nothing. So it’s both amusing and disheartening to hear that the fount of all super-secret military industrial complex conspiracy theories – DARPA – announced right in it’s annual budget – it’s annual fucking budget, I shit you not – that it is working on synthetic organisms that will live for ever and, should they turn out to be harmful, contain a genetic kill-switch. WTF? More info after the jump.
You know the most annoying thing about shit video games? No, not that developers make them from time to time. No, not that publishers sometimes hobble the developers with constraints that result in said shit game. It’s when crap like Tony Hawk Ride come out.
It’s when developers attach a goddam peripheral to the game and sell it for £bazillion. A peripheral that is absolutely no use whatsoever with any other game (or, in fact, it is fair to say, the fucking game it shipped with). And what makes Tony Hawk Ride even worse?
It’s a franchise that has been going down the toilet for years, and it seems everyone except Activision and Tony Hawk can see this. The saddest thing about this game is not that people forked out a fortune for a pile of crap, but Hawk’s response to the overwhelming slamming of the game: he declared that everyone decided to hate it before they had even played it.
No, dear. It’s just a shit game.
Catch this week’s blisteringly critical strip right here, but only if you have your licenced dogsounds strip-viewing glasses with patented seeing-o-vision installed.
So, you know, airlines spend a metric fuckton of money creating brands and liveries that have a corporate identity and enourage familiarity and loyalty. And, it seems, 99% of them end up with ‘planes that look as boring as ass. Ho-hum.
And then comes an airline that only three people outside South Africa have ever heard of – kulula – who are not only so utterly cool that they are allergic to uppercase, they also spent about $13.52SA on a redesign of their fleet and arrived at the coolest looking civil livery in the history of everything ever. The design is called “flying 101″, and the idea of travelling in an infographic is rather appealing.
The only trick they missed was painting the turbine fans yellow and black and labelling them in the legendary “percentage of pie chart most resembling pac-man” style.
Witness and enjoy:
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukranian artist. Using a giant light box and music, she paints animated stories in sand recounting the invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. She won Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009. Singing jackasses need not apply.
The story starts with a couple on a park bench, followed by the chaotic invasion, morphing into an old widow and a memorial for unknown soldiers, ending with remembrance that “you are always near”. Turn up the volume and watch this captivating sequence full-screen:
I love it when some smug, bullshitter gets hoist by his own petard and made to look like a complete spamdangler.
Seems back in 2000, EDS was contracted to design and build a CRM system for BSkyB. However, turns out they made a complete arse of it, and eventually BSkyB had to say “GTFO” and ended up “getting a man in” to sort it, at great expense.
Court-based shenanigans ensued with BSkyB claiming that if EDS had not misrepresented its expertise and abilities they would have awarded the contract to their first and original choice: PriceWaterhouseCoopers. They claimed that this misinformation and subsequent failure of EDS to live up to its own bigging-up led to excessive delays and unwarranted extra spending by BSkyB. Part of the case against EDS and the accuracy of its claims lay with one Joe Galloway, Managing Director for CRM Solutions at EDS, who apparently gave a timeframe for the completion which turned out to be utter and complete bollocks (technical term).
The legal case included five separate accusations of mirepresentation, including the one above. Now, the case eventually fell in BSkyB’s favor, with only the alleged misrepresentation above being upheld by the judge. But the kick in the ass in this case is how this came about and how it resulted in a reputation being completely pummelled into dust in the most awesome comedy courtroom drama way possible. Read on after the jump.
Remember Ladybird books? Little educational tomes that were oh-so-delightfully stuck in the Heartbeat era and told small children about interesting yet mundane things whilst teaching second-level reading skills?
I remember them fondly, and our man in the Americas emailed this to dogsounds Towers. Learn some interesting things about policemen that probably still hold true today. Although I think Brian Plectrum is now head of the Met. Or the replacement for the Post Office Tower, one of the two. Read on after the jump!
So, another weekend, another strip.
This one, I think, was Mart’s idea. And it might stretch out for a few episodes. Perhaps.
You have to admit, it’s pretty awesome that someone thought it would be funny to put a smiley face on a hoover, and then the company actually went and ran with the idea. Can you imagine a car designer having a laugh, making the front of a car look *just* like a silly face, only to find that the heads of production then decided to actually produce it?
Sometimes, corporate suits show their human side, I guess 
Yes, this week’s strip is finally up, after delays caused by…um…Wallander, old episodes of Dr. Who and a couple of episodes of Horizon. And a program about ancient Egyptian sailing boats.
Anyhoo, we really struggled for ideas for this week’s strip, so consequently about three of you will understand any references in it. But what the hey. It was Mart’s idea
Scrape a key down a piano string and materialize to this week’s strip right here.
As the big freeze continues apace around dogsounds Towers, Mart asks a question that, come on, admit it, we have all asked ourselves at one time or another.
Whilst this cold snap continues, make sure you are taking time out to embrace your innder child; go out and play in the snow!
After, of course, you have caught a whiff of this week’s strip right here.
Just a quicke update to let you know there is some *new* stuff in the store, Just a couple of ‘lolfoxx’ items for the time being.
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