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Personal Reflections

…and now, MAD TV is going mad

Excited about MAD TV Madness Week, which happening next week from 8-14th February. It’ll be a lot of work, but it sure as hell will be a lot of fun putting it all together too.

I came up with two different print ads for the event. This first one has been published in the latest edition of The Stag too.

It features guinea pirates. Basically, they’re pirates but at the same time they’re also guinea pigs.

I also made a second ad, which didn’t get approved/published. This one features eyes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and critical praise from The Washington Toast.

Apparently, this second ad was judged to be too scary for release because of the disembodied eyes. 😉

And yet, after doing all this, I still didn’t truly feel that I was part of the Internets generation. This feeling has been gnawing away at me for quite some time. I had epiphany recently. No, it wasn’t “Bananas are an excellent source of potassium. [slap]”, nor did it have anything to do with the Boob Lady.

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Oh, did I hear you say “What is MAD TV Madness Week?!”. I guess you’ll just have to tune in to www.madtvsurrey.co.uk to find out.

In case you haven’t read it already, you might also be interested in my previous blog post Has MAD TV Gone Insane?

PS – After discussions revolving around various university and students’ union policies, some content posted here earlier has been taken down.

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Technology

Five Years of Rediscovering The Web

It’s been five years since Firefox was launched. To commemorate this occasion, Mozilla has released a video on Firefox’s journey over the past five years. It’s an animated advertisement…and it looks simply beautiful, and the soundtrack is pretty groovy too. We all know about Firefox of course, so I’m sharing this not to tell you about Firefox, but to simply admire such a well-created video.

Watch the Five Years of Firefox video

Firefox really shook up the world in more ways than one. It presented the first real threat to Internet Explorer since Netscape Navigator’s demise. In a way, it paved the way for interactive web services and apps that we are so fond of these days; by attempting to stick to standards, it even forced Microsoft to slowly come to terms that it must follow standards to stay in the race. Even with far more choice now – with Safari, Opera, Chrome – among others, Firefox started and still leads the charge of IE alternatives. What do I like most about it? Customizability, of course.

Keep rediscovering the Web!