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| Monday |
the Twenty-Fifth of October, 2004 |
Two things that I hadn't fully registered about ITV Teletext,
until this morning:-
- They use 35-character
haiku headlines! I don't know whether they poached a BBC
writer who used to do this, or stole the idea, or if they've been writing
constrained headlines all along, but it's beautiful, and almost enough
to make me read ITV news instead of BBC.
- The flashing two-row advertisements at the bottom of their pages
are, and always have been, crude protoplasmic banner adverts.
This is enough to make me not read ITV Teletext news.
I realised this whilst trawling the junk phenotype of mutated teletext;
turn your dated analogue dial slightly off-signal (or live in an area with
poor Channel Four reception), and the pages begin to crackle with random
ASCII, and to overlay one another imperfectly as they refresh. News and
racing tips from the higher dimensions. Find out
HHW TO MA E YOUR OOLEY VORKAFORHERU.
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