I’m the webmaster of the Backyard Productions website, and we just won an award for best IAC club website.
BYP website wins an award from the IAC →
March 15th, 2012One week to win a new right to parody →
March 15th, 2012The UK government is considering amendments to copyright law, and the right to parody is one of the amendments being considered. This is an exception the US already have in their laws, and allows the use of copyrighted material for parody (e.g. Spoof songs, campaigns, commentary).
The government last considered this in 2006, but lobbying by incumbent industries prevented a change. Read the Open Rights Group’s article for more info, if you’d like to add your voice to the debate in parliament.
We have one more week to tell policy makers that we need a right to parody. You can help by *writing to the consultationcopyrightconsultation@ipo.gov.uk *to tell them why you think this is a good idea.
Late for work because the train was early!
March 14th, 2012
I’m not sure how this makes any sense. I ran for the train station, made it in plenty of time, but the train had departed three minutes early!
Reminds me of the sketch in Come Fly With Me featuring an airplane that had departed so early none of its passengers were aboard, because the airline was trying to balance out all the late departures.
Ozzieboy – The Movie
March 14th, 2012Baby Oscar is welcomed into the world with this trailer thrown together on iMovie for iPhone.
Olympics security →
March 13th, 2012This article is very pessimistic about the games, but lots of interesting data points. I had no idea so much military would be involved in protecting The Olympics.
During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal missiles, will loiter above the gleaming stadiums and opening and closing ceremonies. RAF Typhoon Eurofighters will fly from RAF Northolt. A thousand armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol an Olympic zone partitioned off from the wider city by an 11-mile, £80m, 5,000-volt electric fence.
The Drift has started
March 1st, 2012
I was gutted to have missed the first weekend of filming of The Drift but excited about getting stuck in this next week!
Where our calendar comes from →
March 1st, 2012This article gives a pretty good run-down of where our wonkey calendar comes from. And also how leap-years resulted in the loss of 10 days, which I’ve separately heard caused ‘revolutions’ (or at least wide-spread grumbling) by the populace for their days stolen from them.
It’s bizarre to me that the whole world seems to use the gregorian calendar and 24-hour day, but we can’t agree on daylight savings time, or other measurement units.
