August 2011
18 posts
Channel 4's coverage of The Athletics
In 2005 Channel 4 got the coverage of the Ashes. It happened to be the greatest Ashes of all time, and was helped along by mega technological wonders: snickometer, the red-zone (that bit between the wickets), and most influentially Hawkeye. Channel 4 took the risk, invested heavily and as a result innovated a sport that was being crushed on BBC: cricket as past-time BS. Instead of Tony Lewis...
Booktracks: sounds whilst reading - initial...
There’s a new thing coming called Booktracks! Here’s the PR release, helpfully disguised as an article. tl;dr booktracks is a new way of reading books, where sound comes in at the right moments as you read.
Booktracks some initial thoughts:
1. Will this be like Smell-O-Vision?
2. Is this a problem that needed to be solved? Why did we climb Everest? Because it was there. Why did we sync...
Hadley Freeman's Choice of Favourite Ever Album
I’m very glad that Hadley Freeman who is a writer i really like chose Like A Prayer which is my favourite Madonna album as her favourite Madonna album on the guardian feature My Favourite Album which is timed to get people excited about all the new music stuff the guardian are going to start showing on their website which is a great idea because they have oodles of ppl across the world...
What happens to campaigning pages 9 months later
“I am not sure I want to learn about gangs from an area of America that has 400...”
– Say what you like about Hugh Orde (e.g. he illegally used taxpayers’ money to fly his family places, he is a PR-loving oik who wants to become the next Met chief, he is culpable for the complete lack of faith in the police, he did a fine job in Northern Ireland), this quote is awesome! Source
Gratesland →
Below is how all people my age who like GRACELAND start talking about it.
“I’ll level with you Hugh, i was ~1 when it was recorded” followed by “it brings back memories of holidaying in the UK, Pater insisting on Graceland going on-what was then-the tapedeck.
“At the time i hated him for ignoring my Little Mermaid clamour; now i realise i owe him a debt of...
The Prime Minister Is Top Of My Political Agenda
News has broken that the Broken Society is back at the top of the political agenda. Here is a list of other things that have at one time or another, also been at the top of the Prime Ministers’ Agenda since he took office: Bankers’ Bonuses Fat Cat Bonuses MPs’ Expenses Reassuring the Markets Footballers’ Wages Footballers’ Cursing Footballers’ extra-marital...
A new micro-blogging platform
WIth the arrival of Heelloo, pronounced (HeellooOOOOooo in Simpsons waiter voice) on the micro-blogging scene, let’s take a look back at some other classic movers and shakers in this most competitive of micro-industries.
Lots of noises ‘er it’s a twitter clone’. TO me PERSONALLY it looks more like jaiku
jaiku
http://poohugh.jaiku.com/
THis was bought by google then...
There May Be Rioting In The Streets And A Crisis... →
tomewing:
via Mike Daddino.
WatchBest TED talk i’ve heard, on Electroconvulsive Therapy
WatchTrembapolinalo comes to pass
Film Club: "Singles" 1992
I watched Singles on Saturday. It’s a 4/5 film, but not in a conventional, “good” way.
Things bring up the score, that don’t normally affect film scoring.
{in american voiceover accent} Ok, let me explain…. [short guitar riff begins]
-Soundtrack: the soundtrack is unbelievably strong
Alice In Chains – Would?
Pearl Jam – Breath And A Scream
Chris Cornell –...
The Radio Ballad
I asked my father to write me an email about the Radio Ballad. He did! It is below, it’s much better than anything my excitable, superlative mind could CONJURE.
here’s my tl;dr
-If you are interested in any of the following: primary sources, working class stories, of our industrial past, of working people, accents, folk music, BBC Radio, then you’ll love it.
-Do you know whose...
