30 July 2010

Always check the font before you agree to wave a banner

On reflection…

Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections… I may have bitten off more than I can chew in launching this blog on top of my three other sites. So I’m leaving the Blue Cat in quarantine for now. But do visit my other projects: Bubblewrapped, The Other TaxPayers’ Alliance, or, for a more musical fix (Gil Scott-Heron included), Spacebeats.

Searching for pussy on the net

Is Apple’s robotic censor getting carried away? A friend recently searched for lullabies for his two-year-old daughter at the iTunes Store. Here’s what he found:

Pussy Cat Pussy Cat censored on iTunes

Disappointingly, the offending word wasn’t bleeped out in the song itself.

(PS. Apologies if you found this page via Google because you were actually doing what the title says.)