Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

by Iain on October 30, 2007

Penguin have re-covered a load of their books in the lovely ‘classic’ style covers. I was particularly inspired by ‘The World According to Clarkson’ re-badged as essays. Obligatory buttons:

Cliff Does a Radiohead

by Iain on October 30, 2007

From The Times today – link to online version of the story. So Cliff is taking 1p off the price of his new album for every person that pre-orders (down to a minimum of £3.99) – the starting price is (…)

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Tony Wilson and Eva Pascoe on the Internet

by Iain on October 30, 2007

Awesome footage. Eva Pascoe (founder of Cyberia and member of the digerati) tells Tony Wilson all about the internet. [Update: Thanks to Steve for the link to the newer better version of the video - nice one mate] Obligatory buttons:

This Busker is Well Good

by Iain on October 29, 2007

Saw him in North Laine on Saturday. This epic psychedelic trance improv was just part of his set. A proper one-man-band with mad skills. Again sorry for the video quality. I think I might have to invest in some kind (…)

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Twitter / cookbook

by Iain on October 29, 2007

And for anyone who doubted the usefulness of Twitter, the Internet brings you… Twitter / cookbook – 140 character recipes. via: kottke.org Obligatory buttons:

Oh My God!

by Iain on October 28, 2007

Like any good Mac Geek I upgraded to the new version of OS X (Leopard) at the weekend. And its very nice. A painless experience and there’s literally zero learning curve. But at the same time I keep finding new (…)

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This Made Me Feel Jolly

by Iain on October 27, 2007

5 Years Later by Noah and the Whale. Obligatory buttons:

Mini – Lunchbreak Moonwalking

by Iain on October 26, 2007

Yesterday I blogged about theotherlunchbreak.com – Mini’s really nice lunchtime learning sessions. I managed to get along to the ‘Learn to Moonwalk’ session and it was great! Sorry about the rubbish quality – my phone video camera just isn’t good (…)

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Sony’s RecYou

by Iain on October 26, 2007

There’s been mutterings of recyou.jp around for a few days. It’s a very slick Japanese flash site for Sony Walkman. It’s quite hard to navigate your way through it, I managed by trial and error rather than a knowledge of (…)

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Web 3.0 Doesn’t Sound Like Much Fun

by Iain on October 26, 2007

I wasn’t going to post this as it’s not all that enlightening. It’s from a few months ago and is Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) talking about web 3.0 as a bunch of lightweight free distributable micro applications / services. Which (…)

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