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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses.

The Sunnyvale-based company expects to begin registering new addresses under the domains of “ymail” and “rocketmail” around noon PDT Thursday at http://mail.yahoo.com .

-Wired News

This is… wierd. rav-g@rocketmail.com was my first email address, in 1997 I think. Now it’s back! This can’t be progress, can it?

Adobe Air. Google Gears. What is it with offline-web applications and alliteration anyway?

February 26, 2008 in Asides, Rav Idly Wonders | 0 comments

please tell Clyde & Co that having a big world map on your “locations” page that serves no purpose whatsoever and just confuses the user - who actually has to click on a tiny drop-down list in the corner - is bad, and annoying, and also bad?

UPDATE: Well shut my mouth.

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So it’s mid-January! You remember 2007, right? Right? The one before this one. The one with the missing girl, yes? Yes! That’s right.

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This is kinda cool

I got a little angry at friend of mine. Let’s call her, for the sake of example, Mandy Davis. Not a close friend, it’s fair to say: someone I’ve done a couple of film projects with, nothing major. Possibly she’ll invite me to the party, but definitely not to the actual wedding. That sort of thing. But a nice, friendly, fun person, not someone I’d expect to get annoyed with. [Read more →]

OK, bear with me. Dumb title. Titles are tricky. But necessary.

I saw a play today: Electronic City. It’s by Falk Richter, a German playwright; it was performed by MIT students, a member of whose company is staying on my sofa right now. It was good. It’s a good play, snappily, energetically performed. Anyway, here’s the thing; it was performed in the Dana Centre, a science-museum in miniature which apparently exists for people to “talk about science.”nNow, in studentworld and in Edinburgh, I’ve seen drama performed in a huge range of venues - churches, cupboards, quadrangles; I know plays have been performed at Edinburgh in toilets, Birth, Deaths and Marriages offices, and sewers. I once planned a love story that took place in the showers of a swimming pool changing room. That would have been shit. But mostly, I didn’t realise until today how strong the potential of anywhere-theatre is. [Read more →]

Nothing But Bonfires is my fabulous acquaintance Holly’s marvellous blog. And there are pictures of me! and other people.

Just a lucky discovery, this. WAMC’s Weekly Rundown is a free, streamable, downloadable, rss-able, podcastable “irreverent” weekly newsmagazine that comes out ever Friday night (EST). Big deal, right? Wrong! It’s a strangely joyous and occasionally genuinely funny dive behind the headlines from a nicely sneery-liberal East Coast perspective. The star of the show is Greg, who’s one of those people who you just know was a geek at school because, however much they’ve blossomed/got contact lenses/come out/found likeminded people, they still retain the slightly nasal voice. I always imagine Greg as a clever-looking blond preppy character, a bit like the guy from Ally MacBeal who was in Desperate Housewives last week. I haven’t dared to look at the website for fear he’s really fat with long greasy black hair and a Megadeth t-shirt.

Support comes from Mary, who, bless her, isn’t very funny, but tries hard. And her rubbish moments just make you appreciate Greg more. I always imagine her with a big blonde perm and a pink tunic, slightly patrician-y. Again, I daren’t look at the website, as she’s probably a lank-haired dropout.

Anyway, here’s the website, and here’s the rss/podcast feed.