Woop! Diversity have taken the win. An awesome performance and well-deserved winners, massive upset for the bookies I think! Makes up for some of those other voting show winners of the past.
Hmm. Seems to be following on a theme lately of fakery. This I also think must be a fake as a family discovers an image of Jesus impressed in the marmite lid of their jar of consumable.
Yes, the second coming is truely here! Or maybe not. To me it looks like a squiggle and, at best, you could be generous and say that it does look like an image of Jesus – it was probably scribed into the lid by one of the family members, what with the family being a god-fearing family and all.
So on TV just now in the UK is a talent show called “Britain’s got talent”. On it appear a number of variety acts that have been chosen by the judging panel for the live shows every day this week. Each day we pick two acts by phone vote, and the winning acts will all appear in Saturday’s live final.
Except that this year, we have Susan Boyle. Now, I have to admit that I heard her original audition and I though – as many others did I suppose – that she was pretty good. And clearly it was a kick in the face to all of those who might judge on first impressions, because she wasn’t presented well and noone expected anything of her.
Since then, though, we’ve basically had a media machine backing her every step of the way in this “competition”. She’s now one of the shortest favourites ever with the bookies. She’s pretty much a dead cert to win, and you can’t go a day without hearing something else about her in the news.
When the other contestants go through, it’s “to give her some competition”, but by the sounds of it they may as well not even bother. Likewise it seems that the viewing public may as well not vote for their favourites, as the result is already decided.
The issue I have with it really is firstly, well, when she did her seconds live performance it just wasn’t that great, secondly that the judging panel are doing PR interviews bigging her up, and thirdly that there is other talent that is a lot better than her on the show that’s basically not got a look in. That, of course, and that when she appeared on her semi, she didn’t come across as a particularly nice personality. In fact she came across as cocky and arrogant, and it makes you wonder if the original meekness wasn’t just a device to gain favour – in which case it has worked to a spectacular degree.
I realise that much of the reality TV scene comes across as manufactured, but this just takes the cake. Why even bother making it a competition?
The old – the supposed find of “the missing link” in the shape of a perfectly preserved human-dinosaur hybrid fossil. This must be a fake if ever I heard of one. Already there is a book and TV show around it. Hmm. Impressive media machine, though.
The new – WordPress 2.8 beta 1 is available for testing. If you have a dev platform for your blog, you should get it now and check it out. The more people who test the fewer bugs will hit the release version.
Ferrari have threatened to quit F1 over the proposed introduction of a budget cap for next season. There is some question over whether this is a threat that won’t be carried out, but if it is and Mosley does not change his mind on the matter, then we could see no traditional Ferrari red cars racing next year. It would be a sad day for F1.
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