Clyde Best featured in Telegraph

Posted: December 29, 2007 in Bermuda, football
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Nice piece by Patrick Barclay (brother of my good friend, Bermuda-based journo Charles) about Bermuda soccer legend Clyde Best in this week’s Sunday Telegraph. It’s hard to explain the impact Best had at the time he played for West Ham (late 1960s) when soccer in the UK was predominantly white. He was a terrifically powerful centre forward and made such an impression on me as a kid that when I was applying for a job in Bermuda in 1982, the only things I knew about the Island were Bermuda shorts, the Bermuda Triangle and that it was where Clyde Best came from. In person he’s an absolute gentleman and a nicer guy you couldn’t wish to meet who still eats, sleeps and drinks football. Such was his impact in the UK that in 1997, more than 25 years after Best last played for the Hammers, when West Ham beat Scottish side Clyde on a pre-season tour, the Sunday Mirror headlined the match report: “Hammers are Clyde Best!”

Apple to rent movies on iTunes

Posted: December 28, 2007 in internet, Mac, movies
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Coming soon to iTunes: movies for rent. Apple and Fox have apparently reached an agreement that will see Fox movies available for limited time rental as they are released on DVD. The movies will be available for viewing on iPods and iPhones too. The move will heat up the growing online movie competition with Amazon and Netflix and likely give a boost to Apple’s neat but largely overlooked Apple TV device.  Rumours are that movies would rent for about $2.99 for 30 days – although Bermuda users will likely be hamstrung by the usual international copyright rules if they try to download them. [Surely at some point in this digital instant gratification revolution, the whole international copyright law infrastructure is going to have to be completely overhauled, right?] Incidentally, one movie rental service worth checking out is Jaman which has a growing selection of excellent quality indie and international movies that play on Mac, PC or on your TV via Apple TV (and a little hack).

Replay: Best online videos of 2007

Posted: December 28, 2007 in internet, Technology
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Ah, what would life be like without YouTube? Relive the best YouTube moments of 2007, courtesy of Wired’s Top 12 and Time’s Top 10 Viral Videos. Neither list, though, includes the Good Doctor Ewart’s election announcement – surely an historic internet first? My favourite is probably the inmates of a Filipino prison who do mass choreographed videos of 1980s Pop like Michael Jackson’s Thriller [see above]. Only those inmates in drag are permitted to not wear prison uniforms! For more of their bizarre moves, check out their blog.

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