Lists, Fuck Yeah!
Umberto Eco, one of my favourite brainy writerly dudes, talks with Speigel Online about lists and why they’re so important to us. A couple of extracts… What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order…
Sick Track (At Least That’s What I’d Say If I Was Young)
This track makes me wish I was 18 and stupider. Loving the no-budget promo video. It made me chuckle, but I am a sucker for funny dancing. I’ve just downloaded the Future Sound Of Russia compilation from whence this came. It seems like…
Farewell For Now From My Two Excuses
I’ve been a bit quiet recently. But I’ve had my hands full. Sometimes both of them. At least for most of the time I’m not at work. It’s a daunting thing having two babies that can cry at the same time and who currently have absolutely no…
Extremely Beautiful Mini Synth
This OP-1 thing is absolutely gorgeous. It’s a synth and a MIDI controller. And it’s got well fancy skills like an inbuilt FM radio that you can manipulate. Zoiks! And Teenage Engineering, the Swedish company that are developing said…
Wheelbarrow Race Win
I’m breaking that rule about not posting videos with loads of views again – but this is one of those clips that even if you’ve seen it, watching it again will put a second smile on your face… via: http://www.zefrank.com/
Holy Cow(‘s Milk) Batman
I was in the supermarket and this lost toy was sitting on the milk shelf. It looks like a setup. But it wasn’t. Taken in July but only just found it on my camera.…
Free Gift in 2009 WTF?
Aviva sent me this bit of junk mail yesterday. I was transfixed by the free gift. Look at it. It’s a machine to store telephone numbers and appointments. It’s got an amazing (crystal clear) 3 line LCD display. It has a non-querty keybord…
Nice Graphic From Olympus XA2 Manual
I thought this was simple and to the point… Manual downloaded from here.
Breaking the Law With A Clarkson Beatbox
There’s some a law that says you’re not allowed to post any YouTube video that’s already been seen by more than quarter of a million people. I’m prepared to break that law, go to blog jail and get done in the showers for being a…
The Secret of Being Happy
If you’re lucky enough to have choices in your life this just about sums it up doesn’t it? via: Poptimist…
VOTE FOR ME!
I just heard the other day that I’d been shortlisted for ‘best blog’ at this year’s BIMA awards. I don’t really know how I feel about it to be honest. It’s a bit odd, because I don’t think that I could really ask for anyone to vote for me…
Talk Talk Love The Web
You can argue all you want about the contents and the style of the report. But the fact that Talk Talk have decided to open up their Digital Anthropology research to all of us scumbags proves that they fundamentally get something……