Stephen Fry decries compliance.
Twenty five years ago this month, a man called Richard Stallman announced to the world his intention to create a complete operating system from the ground up. He called it, GNU, which stands for GNU’s Not Unix. To help celebrate this occasion, I’ve made a video to tell you about GNU, and free software. Stephen […]
Stephen sets out to unearth the real USA with the launch of his new book Stephen Fry in America on October 1st. Travelling across the continent in his black cab, Stephen visits all 50 states discovering the people, cultures and landscapes that make up a remarkable nation.
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 30th August 2008 in The Guardian “Dork Talk – A kind of magic” – The Guardian headline Stephen Fry is wowed by Nintendo’s magical Wii Last week I looked at the remarkable rebirth in the fortunes of Nintendo, a renaissance engendered by two products – the DS, a pocket […]
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 23rd August 2008 in The Guardian “Dork Talk” – The Guardian headline Stephen Fry has a lot of affection for Nintendo’s DS, which he finds much more engaging than Sony’s PSP Poor Nintendo. Those clever little handheld games in the 80s: small, orange, plastic “Game & Watch” devices that […]
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 16th August 2008 in The Guardian “Dork Talk” – The Guardian headline Stephen Fry is stunned by the sheer brilliance of the Spinvox, which translates voicemail into text However uninterested you may be in technology, it is likely that you use a voicemail system. If you have a mobile, […]
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 9th August 2008 in The Guardian “MacBook Air spawns digital anagrams” – The Guardian headline Stephen Fry ponders the preposterous twist of circumstance that made ‘laptop machines’ an anagram of ‘Apple Macintosh’ ‘Laptop machines”, by one of those preposterous twists of circumstance that make you wonder who is running […]