Little Storping-in-the-Swuff

Good news from Rogue Amoeba. When they sadly made it clear that an Airfoil for iPhone, sending your iPod other app’s audio to your hifi, is not possible due to Apple’s restrictions, I inferred they couldn’t get sound from the Mac onto the iPhone either. Not so, and Airfoil Speaker for the iPhone is under development.

Ideally, this will include a remote control for Airfoil too, so by combining with Apple’s remote (or perhaps even through a simple integrated iTunes controller) you would be able to start playing music on your Mac, decide where to send it (including, of course, right back to the iPhone) all from the iPhone itself.

So even if you don’t have an Airport Express in every room, if you’ve got your iPhone with you you’ll have access to your whole library of sound anywhere you can connect to your network.

An even nicer refinement, though one Apple may not like to implement, would allow the audio to be streamed to the iPhone wherever it is on the internet…

I’ve become quite a fan of the Bourne films but Universal spending out now on the exclusive rights is bad news.

I’ve never read Bourne and hadn’t realised there were so many books, but the films were unusual in each sequel improved on its predecessor. I was unimpressed on first watching Identify but Ultimatum bowled me over. It’d be hard to improve on it again.

There was a neat arc to the well planned trilogy, and the ending, with Julia Stiles’ mouth just twitching into a smile, has to be one of the top kick-ass film endings of all time and a terrific way to end the series. What a shame not to go out on that high.

In pleasant ignorance, I escaped the fact that it’s Children in Need night, until 5 minutes ago, when the first two minutes of The Next Doctor popped into my RSS feed.

A quick look at the costume that Mr Morrisey is wearing and I was convinced that he will be the new Doctor.

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Bit of a break out bid today, on the minus side.  Three casualties.

Inside, the worms are abandoning the compost and climbing up the lid. I think they’re finding it too damp. They get two sports supplements from the Guardian, plus a special internet pullout.

Two pluses:

• They’re giagantsomely fat and there’s approximately a bgzillion of them.  Despite being over rich in lemon rind and onion peel, my diet suits them.
• There are some teeny tiny ones, which can only be taken as evidence of procreation.  Implies a happy and expanding colony.

I thought it was just me. Indeed everyone I confided this theory to has pooh pooh-ed it.

Then I looked up one of Peter Bradshaw’s (two, contradictory) reviews and found that he too had spotted references to other Bond films in Quantum of Solace. And, bar the obvious Goldfinger reference, they’re different ones.

Are there any others? Is it possible that every film was subtly referenced?

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It’s back on BBC One for series 2 on Saturday, with a deservingly prominent position in the schedule.

Wary though I am after the controversy stirred up last time I had to post a picture of these shetland blacks also from the potato man at the farmers’ market.

I was surpised, when I cut into them, that the blue is just a seam near the surface. Clever camoflage to hide the yellow within… and they are not any where near as tasty as the salad blues.

I’m drunk, damp and deafened. I’ve had a very good time.

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Or “Bond Songs Are Forever” or “Unlicensed to Sing” or “Sing Another Day” or, as the Guardian puts it in their round up: For Your Ears Only. Because the answer is they go to Youtube where, released as B-sides or discovered in the vaults, they are then married up with the original title sequences by the fans - which is fairly weird with For Your Eyes Only where (uniquely) Sheena Easton actually appears to be miming (badly) to Blondie’s title song.

You may well be familiar with Dione Warwick’s Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or Julie Rogers You Only Live Twice but there are many more out there of which the Guardian links to only a few. These include Johnny Cash, The Pet Shop Boys and Saint Ettienne, but, alas, not Vic Flick and Eric Clapton which sounds awesome. Most of the songs here are pretty awful, though a couple are better than the official ones largely because the official ones are even worse…

Their link to Ace of Base’s Goldeneye doesn’t have the film’s titles so here’s a better link.