Monthly Archives: October 2007

Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

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

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 £7.99. Do the simple math and you realise that it’s only going to take 400 people [...]

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Tony Wilson and Eva Pascoe on the Internet

Awesome footage. Eva Pascoe (founder of Cyberia and member of the digerati) tells Tony Wilson all about the internet.
The footage is ripped from an interactive CD-Rom (hence the jaunty bevelled edges and rotated frame). From 1995. When the web was fun.

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This Busker is Well Good

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 of camera that can do half decent video content. Anyone got any tips? I’ve been recommended [...]

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Twitter / cookbook

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!

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 little things that are better than they were before. And I’ve had to read any [...]

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This Made Me Feel Jolly

5 Years Later by Noah and the Whale.

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Mini – Lunchbreak Moonwalking

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 enough…

A free lunch and a thoroughly entertaining lesson in the moonwalk – I’m still not an [...]

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Sony’s RecYou

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 Japanese. Basically you can upload a photo and it animates you in time with music. Your [...]

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Web 3.0 Doesn’t Sound Like Much Fun

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 is all very well, but he doesn’t make it sound all that sexy.
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