Monthly Archives: October 2007

Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

Posted on 30/10/2007 by Iain

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.

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Cliff Does a Radiohead

Posted on 30/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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Tony Wilson and Eva Pascoe on the Internet

Posted on 30/10/2007 by Iain

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]

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This Busker is Well Good

Posted on 29/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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Twitter / cookbook

Posted on 29/10/2007 by Iain

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

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Oh My God!

Posted on 28/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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This Made Me Feel Jolly

Posted on 27/10/2007 by Iain

5 Years Later by Noah and the Whale.

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Mini – Lunchbreak Moonwalking

Posted on 26/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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Sony’s RecYou

Posted on 26/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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Web 3.0 Doesn’t Sound Like Much Fun

Posted on 26/10/2007 by Iain

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 … Continue reading →

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