July 2012
17 posts
Tory MP is a Tory MP →
“A consitutent this morning told me she thought there was more rap than Shakespeare”
Well done Aidan Burley, you of the Nazi-themed French stag party.
You of the texting during your visit to Auschwitz.
A great response to Bradley Wiggins' favourite Top...
, from @hithomgibbs: Original source
Did Bradley have school on a Saturday? “…watching The Word on a Friday night… The next day at school everyone was talking about how they’d seen this group Oasis on the telly.”
The two Ocean Colour Scene songs he mentions as being on the same album are on different albums.
He says the album was from “1994 or 1995”. It was...
Joey Barton's New Site →
A government u-turn
The government are now looking to give us all some power back by enabling more freedom in what we can say and how people express their opinions, not only does this enable more debate, it hopefully removes costly and wasteful legal cases.
The point I’m trying to make is that our society suggests that a versatile form of debate and expression is good, yet libel massively...
Bradley Wiggins' Top 10 songs →
Originally appeared in 2009.
Choices are what they are, my favourite bit about this is the impact TOTP2 had on him! I can totally relate to it! (he’s 4 years older than me) Watching bands on TOTP2 and then going and gorging on them, musically and informationally. It’s where i first saw nearly everything i now listen to.
Are there any good articles about the role of TOTP2 in the 90s?...
Bradley Wiggins Is The Greatest Ever British...
Yesterday witnessed the greatest ever moment in British sport.
Back in 2006, on a ye olde group blog we had (lol @ group blog!) called Nearly Noel Edmonds, i wrote a post about Floyd Landis winning the most incredible stage i’d ever seen. Here is a link!
(In an Irish voice): He Floyd Up That Mountain
TdF leads to hyperbole. The next day Landis tested positive. And i stopped watching the Tour...
#Detectd /71 Fire in Polat Tower, Istanbul, Turkey →
teleportd:
A fire broke out in the Polat Tower Residence in Istanbul today. The building is 42 stories high and hosts both businesses and residential apartments.
First reports say no one got hurt and that the fire is now under control, only the exterior of it was touched.
You should be aware of Teleportd and how they’re aggreggating social photos
Who Makes The "Haters"? →
“There is a sense the people involved are treating the internet like a video game”
This is a good summation of lots of different bits about trolling, and people talking about trolling and non-trolling recently.
Laura Barton Review Of The London Cable Car
Guest writer Laura Barton has penned this review of the new London Cable Car:
I am deep in the heart of London’s docklands, a concrete wilderness once filled with the coarse language of bargemen, their equally coarse hands toiling hard in the hazy sun to earn enough to feed their families. What might they have made of these gleaming alabaster-white machines?
I touch my Oyster on the...
Google might start discounting Infographics →
Excellent move! via @tomewing
Infographics are anti-internet
A worrying trend has happened. Instead of using slideshare to present information, with a lovely notes section at the bottom, or the actual .pdf of a .pptx hyperlinked, all the world and their marketing dept. are using inforgraphics. What is an infographic? An oblong-shaped .png or .jpeg of variously kerned and sized words, often in different type-sets, with numbers larger than letters. As is the...
