October 2011
27 posts
: HELP WE'RE IN GRAINGE DANGER (That's a pun) →
jamsponge:
After being repeatedly asked what it was that actually transpired at last night’s Gaming Media Awards, I figured it would be easiest to simply whack it up here.
Grainger Games - a retail company mainly based in the North of England – decided they fancied the idea of getting closer to the…
This is well worth reading in its entirety
Irony →
“Consumers have tolerated double-dipping — products that cost customers money and have ads — for over a century. It doesn’t feel as offensive in contexts that have always had it, such as printed newspapers and magazines, or cable TV.
But ads shoved into a non-free iPad or web publication feel wrong to me.”
Man who invented Instapaper, a non advert-supporting text-scraper,...
“Great tour:
tiny James Williamson spending all his money on a pornographic slot...”
– My friend Rory making me LOL hard, reminiscing our school’s U14 Football Team’s France Tour, during France ‘98.
My top 6 Private Eye front covers
Few if no-one has asked for my opinion on my top 6 Private Eye covers. As a smug 27 year-old, i’ve bought Private Eye every fortnight for a smug 9 years. Here are my favourite 6 covers of that period.
Later on in this week of MIRTH, i shall go through my top 10 Brennan adverts, as featured in Private Eye.
In at 6:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1102
Purely for all the olé...
NME review of Kate Bush new song is annoying plus... →
Aerial is a very surreal album, there’s a song about a washing-machine, and another where she only sings the decimals of pi.
“Since ‘Aerial’ it’s been more steady, calm waters.” There’s not been anything since Aerial apart from re-issues and new arrangements of old songs.
“For those of us who have been secretly longing for a return to the ...
One Week // One Band: Fugazi - the legacy →
oneweekoneband:
Fugazi have, thankfully, resisted offers to get back together since announcing their indefinite hiatus. It’s hard to see them taking the increasingly popular route of becoming a festival-headlining touring jukebox. If they were to make music together again it would surely be closer to the…
Youtube Movies Launch Validates Google+ Rant
The article on Google+ that we’ve all confusingly read and enjoyed starts to make more sense every time you lay its core message on a new Google release. News that youtube have started to rent movies online is in [consumer] principle excellent news. So let’s take our new knowledge of Google and layer it over Youtube Movies.
What does Google do best? Search.
Here’s a search for...
Guardian to maybe...open a shop WTF???? →
This is not the answer to the Guardian’s deficit. Here are some ideas:
Stop hiring people. Now. You’re currently hiring for an Analyst. Take that job off the market right now.
Get rid of the Observer next week. Just do it, and tell your readers it makes financial sense. Work on a guardian saturday in a week, you’ll get it done.
Then start selling all the Macs that aren’t...
The Singles Jukebox above 7/10 2011 Spotify... →
The ones not on there are not on Spotify.
Kudeo - Severant (full album stream) →
therichgirlsareweeping:
Big thx to PVB (she’s been on a roll lately) for spotting what is most certainly, hands down, the best album of the year — surpassing everything else in this annus mirabilis by quite a wide mile.
This is what my good friend @McShank said too!
#BrokenBritain email special
An email has just gone round at work, here’s an excerpt. This thing will be based in Shoreditch:
There will be bimonthly shows, guest curators and hopefully work that crosses art forms, so graf guys working with poets {most favourite phrase ever written}, fashion designers patterns with digital artists mash up {is this from a stupid phrase generator}, photographers with illustrators {whoa...
A Fugazi Spotify playlist →
oneweekoneband:
Also available on YouTube.
Don't pun Series 15 of The Simpsons →
Paul Carr uses an pun from Series 15 of The Simpsons, to launch a funny new non-desktop magazine.
Screw Rock 'n' Roll: The line of succession is not... →
screwrocknroll:
The BBC reports that British PM David Cameron wants to change the law regarding royal succession:
The PM wants to scrap the ban on spouses of Roman Catholics ascending to the throne and give girls the same right of succession as boys.
But he needs the 15 other Commonwealth nations to agree…
It is manifestly absurd to apply to the monarchy any argument based on the...
If Facebook’s news feed was an RSS Feed (actual...
Daniel listened to Rolled Together by The Antlers on Spotify.
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Daniel listened to No Widows by The Antlers on Spotify.
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Oli commented on his own status: “amazing vibes”
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Thomas read What was Topman thinking with these T-shirts? on The Guardian.
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Sam was tagged in Wendy’s photo.
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Daniel listened to Parentheses by The Antlers on Spotify.
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Oli : “The Horrors and TOY tonight!!!...
Stephen Fry's Planet Word on Swearing - 5 minutes →
On Sunday night i was catching up on 3 1/2 hours of X-Factor. Twitter alerted me to Stephen Fry’s Planet Word on BBC2, an episode about swearing, which i watched after. The highlight of it is Brian Blessed and Stephen meeting an expert on the link between swearing and pain-management. It is in the top 10 TV moments of the year. Start from 17 minutes in, takes 5 minutes of your...
Siri
Here’s some starting ideas that will get you thinking about Siri. All are based on earphones being in. You’re not taking your phone out of your pocket.
Are there any restaurant deals within 2 blocks/ 1/2 mile?
Please direct me to Rising Sun Court from my current location?
How fast is this train going?
Can you tell me if any of my friends are nearby?
I’ve just woken up on a...
IF YOU USE TWEETDECK YOU ARE POSSIBLY LOSING +80%...
I have been trying to write a post about the future of advertising, where billboards are replaced by police badges that shoot lasers etc.
But i can’t quite get it written down. It sounds better in a half-cut enthusiastic pseudo-scientific polemic rather than a considered blog-post (is this a paradox? Ed.)
So instead:
IF YOU USE TWEETDECK YOU ARE LOSING +80% OF YOUR POSSIBLE...
What song does the opening refrain to Wichita...
You know the opening riff (refrain) on Jimmy Webb’s Wichita Lineman, the bit with the morse code, and then the 5 notes proceeding it.
Jimmy Webb – Wichita Lineman
What other song does it sound exactly like?
A post about Anonymous and Knightboat
The scene opens on a TV show. A speedboat drives into view.
Announcer: We now return to “Knightboat: the Crime-Solving Boat”. Michael: Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers.
Knightboat: You don’t have to yell, Michael, I’m all around you.[the poachers ride onto the beach, jump on motorcycles, and speed away] Michael: We’ll never catch...
danielbower.com: Dennis and the Rosedale Chimney →
danielbower:
A few weekends ago some friends and I decided to tackle the the North Yorkshire Moors during a two day trip from York to Robin Hood’s Bay and back. For those of you who have ever done been to the Moors you’ll know that it’s pretty up and down, and for those who have ever cycled it you’ll know it’s…
