Day: 11 May 2007

Bing tiddle tiddle bang

Bing tiddle fiddle bing

Bing fiddle fiddle tiddle tiddle

Bing fiddle tiddle tiddle BONG!

So went Zatapathique and singers in the Europolice Song Contest many years ago, parodying Lulu’s win with Boom Bang-a-Bang in 1969. She sang:

…My heart goes Boom Bang-a-Bang Boom Bang-a-Bang when you are near…. Peter Warne/Alan Moorhouse, 1969

Dom alerted me to this little tidbit from the Register, letting me know that my iPod may interfere with my Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator. I find myself more inclined to take Monty Python’s line rather than Lulu’s, even though it is, oddly enough, Eurovision tomorrow. So I shall continue to wear my iPod with pride; the only concession I will make is one that I have been making ever since the pacemaker was fitted: no electronic devices or trailing leads near the left pectoral. Now you know.

More blog serendipity. I’d seen this slideshow quite some time ago, but never got around to posting about it; it was one of those things that I thought everyone must have seen, and I try very hard to stay as a “thinker” blog rather than a “linker” blog. Then, yesterday, I was talking to Malc, who had found the slideshow while visiting some other site I had linked to.  Later yesterday, when I was talking to someone else at work, the topic came up again, and I began to realise that perhaps not everyone had seen it. So here it is.

It’s only six minutes long. Well worth it. Karl Fisch, the author, originally called it Globalisation and the Information Age, I believe. Which is a good description of what it’s about. I suspect the name changed to Shift Happens after modifications by Scott McLeod. My thanks to both of them.

It’s now available via my Vodpod on the sidebar, or at this link.