January 2012
17 posts
RIP Ronald Searle
Headmaster Grimes (BA, Stoke on Trent)
December 2011
7 posts
Kl0ut Perks
Possibly another reason why Klout isn’t a measure of anything. It’s revenue model is daily deals (first come first served) WITH A TWIST (completely useless pieces of tat that’s not aimed at selling you anything; aimed at selling the advertisers 2 seconds of eyeballs).
“Klout Perks are exclusive products or experiences that you earn based on your influence. Influencers...
Yahtz Shot: My year in status: 2011 part one →
thomgibbs:
I change my GChat status whenever I’m going to be online for most of a day.
Having always struggled with longform blogging it’s a neat way to highlight the sort of internet verbal ephemera which tickles me endlessly.
I like that my statuses stand alone, without explanation or context.
“The Miami Heat retired the number 23 jersey on April 11, 2003, even though Jordan had never...
Cash Peters' show is leaving 5Live
The End of Cash Peters’ slot on 5Live is truly a sad moment in the history of radio. I know this sounds OTT but i don’t care. I’ve listened to it on and off since it started. The same year i got my first radio was the year Radio 5 was re-launched as 5Live, i distinctly remember the front of the Telegraph’s TV and Radio, which had all the names of 5Live dressed up as Formula...
The Thommys 2011
Every December, my great friend Thom does The Thommys. It’s been running for 10 years, i joined about 5 years ago. There are now 155 people on the email list. The premise is: Thom asks 40 questions, and everyone replies all with the answers. This year has been a particularly enjoyable year for 4 reasons: -Smartphones: reading them on the commute is complete JOY -Good year of music:...
Jack and Jill thread on reddit
A really interesting thread on reddit about Jack and Jill, the new Adam Sandler vehicle. SOME BACKGROUND J&J has been given 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, 2.8/10 on imdb (7x the score!), generally PANNED by everyone. The thread is “Does Sandler realise that his movies are shit? Does he care?” A very valid point, every film Adam Sandler has made has been terrible. A quick audit shows...
Google and Citizens Advice Bureau Partnership...
The news facebook have been [w]rapped on their boring knuckles for destroying privacy online is very interesting indeed. Especially if you’re interested in UK offline display ads. Building up to yesterday’s announcement, Google have been running a campaign with Citizens Advice Bureau, alerting to Average Joe how e.g. Google know where you are in the world (using your IP address who...
November 2011
17 posts
Some Thoughts About Snowflake by Kate Bush (and 50...
Her son Bertie has the same lisp as Kate! I can’t remember what this lisp is called, it’s r’s into w’s ‘cweepy cwallies’. I thought it was once called a Devon Lisp but can’t find anything (help pls).
Kate Bush previously noted she was not able to hit the same notes as she once could (after the release of Director’s Cut, in rare, wonderful videoed...
tomewing:
“A story about an overworked Oxford student’s suicide currently tops the most shared and most viewed lists on the Independent’s website despite dating from 1997. ‘Sean, 12, is the youngest father’ (January 1998), and ‘Scotland’s ugliest woman honoured’ (May 1999) are another two that highlight the trend. (…) It’s most likely that the old stories were discovered by chance or a Google...
Follow Friday On Tumblr
You should all follow http://ovd.tumblr.com/ it’s a really brilliant photo blog. Makes me chuckle every time a new pic goes up.
http://ovd.tumblr.com/
I work with a majority of people younger than me
This is the first job i’ve worked in, where the majority of ppl are younger than me. Which is incredible for a few reasons: -They are all really nice. -They can drink and not get hangovers. Even the ones who think they have a hangover don’t even know what a hangover is. -They stay out partying till 4 ALL THE TIME. And then come into work feeling fine. -Even the ones i think are older...
Block Jimmy Wales' Face On Wikipedia
Growing frustrated with the tech communities slow reaction to blocking Jimmy Wales’ face on Wikipedia, i decided to try my hand at a bit of code. This plug in will work with Chrome or Firefox, and marks my 2nd foray into building browser plug-ins.
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Notes on possible return of Dizzy →
The happiest time of my life was playing Magicland Dizzy with various siblings on the Spectrum, at the age of ~8. I don’t think we ever completed it, what having 1 tv in the house, and that needing to be turned off when something exciting was on television. The only time open to completion of complex, non-sensical, electrifying games (“use Dozy’s fish-wand to summon the...
Someone has reviewed Kate Bush who doesn't like... →
“Like trudging through drifts, 50 Words can be a frustrating listen, where dour piano motifs have the edge over catharsis.”
Like trudging through a laboured simile based on the album title being about snow, this review is like walking through brown snow, 2 days after it stopped snowing, with all the snow melting and mixing with the brown crap mud. 2 days since it snowed, and...
The Xtra Factor is this year's Christmas Number 1...
Quick comment about this year’s X Factor:
The Sunday night shows aren’t working, possibly because of how rushed they are.
The total, hands-down greatest thing about the whole X Factor this season is The Xtra Factor:
The Xtra Factor
Previous hosts have been Ben Shepard, Fearne Cotton, Holly Willoughby and Konnie Huq. This year they’ve gone with Olly Murs and Caroline Flack!...
Blue Lines Revisited: A Google+ Mystery →
But more importantly, Google integrates Plus into its web-dominating search engine. With Google+ Direct Connect, searchers can insert a “+” before their query and jump directly to a business’s Google+ page. Type “+YouTube” into a Google search box, for instance, and Google will take you straight…”
“But why would you? The Direct Connect feature would really help if G+ was...
