Making Good Shit Stick Is Tough
Don’t get me wrong. I love the meritocratic world of the web. Good stuff floats, average stuff gets suspended in the sea of mediocrity and bad stuff sinks without trace. And that’s the way it ought to be. It used to be really easy. Back in…
Great Book – 99 Ways To Tell A Story
Whether you like comics or not this is a great book. The author takes the same, very simple, story (a guy going downstairs to the fridge) and tells it 99 times in different ways. There’s loads of variety and you don’t have to be a comic…
Love This Concept
Buzz just sent these round at work. Bins that get sealed with magazines. Perfect for lavatorial readers like me. Although I do worry about the ambient moisture in a bathroom environment causing wrinkling of the mags (from bitter…
Ooooohh Trippy
I just got this in a mail from make-up company Hard Candy. Don’t ask why I get make-up emails, I just do, right. Following on from the acid-free-child-safe microdots earlier in the year it would appear that hallucinogenics are in. I’m not…
Live Internet Streaming Man
Pretty soon we’ll all be like this. Photo from KK+ on Flickr. UPDATE: If you want to do live streaming from your phone keep your eyes peeled for Flixwagon. Eran popped by with news of a soon-to-launch startup, see comments for more.…
Great Explanations of Wikis, RSS, etc…
Common Craft have created a bunch of interesting explanatory videos, they say: We’re interpreters. We present your products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format we call Paperworks. Theres…
Bad Interface Destroys Retail Opportunity
It was the last line on this machine that stopped me in my tracks: It’s obviously supposed to tell us something about the contents of the machine. But it doesn’t actually help at all. This rather odd ‘Nominal Width 53mm’ raises far more…
Another Scary Moment in Techno
Even scarier than techno Viking. If that’s possible.
Never Ending Web Page
Here’s something we just did for Orange. Goodthingsshouldneverend.co.uk It’s one of my favourite things that we’ve done in a while. It’s a never ending webpage. Crammed full of fun stuff and lots of surprises. Some are online, some are…
These ARE the t-shirts you’re looking for
These T-shirts have to be some of the finest in the universe. Via Nik’s new buythistshirt.org blog.…
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.…
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…