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VIRGIN MOBILE’S PIT POLICE TO OFFER HELMET POLISHING SERVICE
Virgin Mobile – 8 Apr 2004

Virgin Mobile, title sponsors of the Yamaha British Superbike Team and the Yamaha R6 Cup, is offering a unique helmet polishing service for lucky bikers at each of the British Superbike rounds this year.

The complementary service, performed by the twelve stunning Virgin Mobile Pit Police, will be available to all bikers at the British Superbike Championship at the Virgin Mobile roadshow area. The Pit Police will be armed with the very latest lubricants and foams by Shift-It products to give bikers’ helmets a satisfying shine.

Virgin Mobile’s brand director, James Kydd, said: “All superbike fans like having their helmets polished, and the free service is available to all bikers although we suspect the sexy Virgin Mobile Pit Police might prove to be a bigger hit with the men! We recognise there is a serious safety issue if bikers ride home with bug-smeared visors and poor visibility so we are offering this as a public service to make sure their helmets are clean and polished to perfection!”

The helmet polishing service will be one of many Virgin Mobile activities that the fans can enjoy on race day. For a limited period, fans will have a chance to win an official team Yamaha scooter, worth £1800 and a Samsung E400 phone, while runners-up also have the chance to win phones and team merchandise.

 

Update: Edited to add pics of the Pit Police.

Via Davezilla, a site for making your own road signs. Here’s mine. I also invite you to share yours, post a link to yours in the comments if you have a good sign to share.

Miss Piggy: “Never eat more than you can lift.” [Quotes of the Day]

Cult of Mac posted a fun bit from the Terms and Conditions of the new version of iTunes.

Does Homer Use ITunes?

The Terms and Conditions attached to the new version of Apple's iTunes says, “THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.”

(Via Lockergnome News Watch) [Cult of Mac]

Damn, and I wanted my next life support machine to have iTunes built in.

Carinah just told me about this neat little toy that lets you know when a blog you read has changed via AIM called Blog Change Bot. I’m giving it a try and placed a little button for it down on the left that looks like: .

Update (4/30/04): Ooops, forgot to change that so that it subscribes to www.ezoons.com, fixed now.

I just got an email notification from Orkut that a friend of mine left me a message. So I go over there to check it out and it isn’t showing up in my messages area. This has happened to me a few times. Orkut will send you a notification of something, yet it seems to be before the site itself has updated. Hello? What’s the point of telling someone there’s a message or friend request from them if you aren’t going to let them read/accept it. Idiots.

Just found a cool bit of information about those little arrows in the new iTunes. It appears you can change the behavior so that it doesn’t go to the iTMS. Yay! That’s one gripe down.

My other is that the party mix should use songs from shared playlists. I mean, I have access to all this music remotely (on my server) directly into iTunes, and I can’t use it with the one new feature I think is the neatest. So that’s a big nitpick/wishlist item. I still think they should have the concept of an ‘admin’ iTunes user. So that I can store all my music on my desktop, but edit playlists and song information and ratings from my laptop. That would truely rock.

Needing to do work and having the DSL be down pretty much all day.

I’ve been using Spamassassin to check my email for spam for ages now. And it has worked pretty well on and off. Recently, people on one of the mailing lists I frequent have been discussing something called CRM114 (since the author of it is on the list). Last night I finally sat down and read up on it and tried installing it. After one false try and a little bit of fiddling I got it working (note to self, email them about issues I had getting it set up).

So far it’s still in the learning stage. A fair number of false positives and negatives, but the documentation indicates that is normal in the early stages of training. I’ll report back as more time passes and see how well it works. If it works quite well I’m thinking of making a set of applescripts for Mail.app so that instead of running it on ones mail server, they can run it on their local machine. I think it should be quite doable.

I’ve been playing around a bit with AudioScrobbler.com. It’s a kind of music community site that gives you music suggestions based on what you listen to. Since I just started using it, it’s still learning what I listen to via a plugin for iTunes (there are plugins for most of the popular music programs out there for Windows and Mac). Right now it is just building up a profile of me that you can look at. Since I’m always looking for new music things to sample, hopefully this will give me some good suggestions down the road. On top of all that they have various web forums and groups you can join for different music genres and performers. I dig it!