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‘Boy texting’ in 1911 « HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

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Bluff Magazine - Poker Magazine, News, Rankings and Results Alvim-correa12.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sport | Football Inter are holding out for a massive fee for Dutch midfielder Sneijder, but have hinted a deal involving cash plus either Michael Essien or Florent Malouda might clinch a move. Chelsea face competition from both Manchester clubs. Guus Hiddink, expected to be named as Chelsea’s new manager next week when a settlement deal with the Turkish Football Federation is thrashed out, has singled out Sneijder as one of the key players he wants. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is still reluctant to meet Inter’s massive price for the 26-year-old – and even more of an obstacle is Sneijder’s massive £175,000 a week wages. Meanwhile, Chelsea’s hopes of landing Brazilian whizzkid Neymar have taken a knock. Chelsea are hoping to conclude two deals this weekend. A £9m deal for Racing Genk winger Kevin de Bruyne is also close, but the 19-year-old Belgium international is to be loaned back to his parent club for a year before moving to England.

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‘Blue Is The Colour’: versions from around the world I dimly recall watching an animated Czech film on Channel 4 many years ago, which featured a version of the Chelsea anthem Blue Is The Colour sung in Czech. (Huw Jones in the comments now reveals this to be ‘Virile Game’, by Czech genius Jan Svankmajer - it appears 1min 45secs into this clip.) It seems I may not have imagined this. I’ve just found out that the song was indeed recorded by Czech singer Frantisek Ringo Cech as Zelená je tráva (‘Green Is The Grass’) in 1981. Here are some Czech footballers – including the great Antonin Panenka - singing it in the 1970s. There’s also a Danish version called Rød-hvide farver (Red and White Colours) recorded by Flemming Anthony in 1984. And here’s a rather chirpy Finnish version, where it was recorded by Vexi Salmi and called Hoo Ji Koo, although it’s better known as Taas Kansa Täyttää. Here are The Proclaimers singing a pretty awful recent version, renamed ‘White Is The Colour’ for the Vancouver Whitecaps in Canada. Like this: Like Loading...

How to use Siri for voice dictation on a Mac with Mobile Mouse By now just about everyone knows that you can use Siri to take dictation on an iPhone 4S, but what you may not know is that you can also use it on a Mac. If you have an app on your iPhone that allows you to access your Mac's keyboard functions remotely, you can use Siri's dictation feature on the iPhone 4S to dictate text to your Mac. One example of an iPhone app that you can use to dictate to your Mac is Mobile Mouse. In practice the dictation is actually quite accurate; it does make mistakes, but I managed to dictate almost all of this post using Siri via Mobile Mouse with only a few adjustments. The best part is, there are no settings that you need to tweak in order to get this to work. Thanks for the tip Rohan!

10 things we want Siri to do in six months It’s time for Apple to start improving Siri before it’s too late. The fledgling voice recognition service – the butt of late night talk-show jokes and featured prominently in Apple TV ads – works well for setting up a meeting and reminding you to pick up milk when you leave work. But there are some other things that it just doesn’t do as well. Or at all. And we keep craving more functionality beyond meetings, spoken text messages, and snarky quips. Read on for our 10 things to improve Siri below. 1. Siri can read incoming text messages but not incoming email messages. 2. Are you an intelligent avatar or just a cheap Apple trick? 3. As well as talking about the weather and other basic stuff, Siri can answer basic math and science questions. 4. What? 5. Siri can dictate an entire text message for you, and 99% of what you say is typed perfectly. 6. Here’s another way to improve Siri: make her do photo editing. 7. Siri is not able to open apps, but Apple is remiss in leaving this feature out.

Film Noir Buff: Suedeheads The very word Suedehead refers to the grown-out crop i.e. a Skinhead haircut. The attire and the attitude that went with it were not very different from those of his immediate predecessor however; it was rather a variation on a theme. The Suedehead of the early Seventies wasn’t so much a separate entity as a continuation of the smart Skinhead who (in many cases anyway) had always worn his hair slightly longer than the ubiquitous number one of ’69. One has to remember when the Skinhead was yet to be christened as such; Peanuts (as they were somewhat inaptly called) still wore their hair in a college-boy style. The neatly side-parted hair re-appeared at the tail-end of the movement when what basically still were Skins had their hair in that style, or indeed a grown-out crop which resembles the “French crew” (which is like a crew cut but longer, about two inches all over) of the early Mods. Now this is obviously where the pared down version of The Look takes shape. Alex Roest Viewing:

Tough Guy 2012 - In Focus Billed as "the toughest race in the world," the Tough Guy 2012 competition took place yesterday in Perton, England. Every year, thousands of men and women tackle the course, which is described on the Tough Guy website as eight country miles filled with freezing mud and "barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia, acrophobia, claustrophobia, electric shocks, sprains, twists, joint dislocation and broken bones." Gathered here are some images of the fun had by the tough competitors in this year's event. [27 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A competitor in fancy dress emerges from muddy water during the Tough Guy Challenge endurance race in Perton, England, on January 29, 2012. Every year thousands of people run the 8 mile assault course which involves freezing temperatures, fire and ice. A competitor leaps through fire during the Tough Guy Challenge on January 29, 2012 in Perton, England. Competitors jump into muddy water during Tough Guy 2012.

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