Magnum in motion has photo essays with audio commentary. The only one I’ve watched is the ‘Inner-City Youth, London’ one - which I would certainly recommend. I found it via GRIMETIME. I’ve downloaded a few grime tracks recently; it was PopText that started me in that direction by posting a few tracks from the [...]
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more folk wisdom
21 December 2005 – 12:07 pm
On the subject of folk wisdom:
I’m reading a book called Mutants which mentions a C17th book called Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths, in which Sir Thomas Browne investigated a lot of received ideas, like the fact that ‘a King-fisher hanged by the bill, sheweth in what quarter [...]
Pony or Porny?
8 December 2005 – 12:18 am
This turned up as a link on some website or other. It’s an old favourite, but none the worse for that.
the coolest use of Flickr EVER!!
2 December 2005 – 12:10 pm
Sorry for the exaggeration marks.
But it is pretty cool. It seems to be this guy’s idea, but this is the recipe I’m most tempted to try:
You need to click on either the link or the photo above to see why it’s such a fab idea. I’m almost tempted to try doing one of these myself.
blog design
29 November 2005 – 1:04 am
I’ve been thinking about web design recently, specifically as it applies to a possible redesign for this blog. There’s no rush, because the current look is fairly new and I’m pleased with it, but I had set myself a more ambitious target. Inspired by an exchange I had with Will over at Corridor of Uncertainty, [...]
Overheard in New York
23 November 2005 – 10:49 am
Overheard in New York is always worth a look. Some recent faves:
Teen boy #1: So the other day I was watching TV and I said out loud, “Fuck, I wish I didn’t just eat all those Doritos.” And then I was like, “Wait, I didn’t just eat any Doritos.” And now I’m like, “Maybe I [...]
For a short time only - valid XHTML *and* CSS!
18 November 2005 – 10:18 am
It’s not that I go out of my way to use non-standards compliant HTML or CSS, but some of the specs seem pretty petty (tags must be lower case, img tags must have an ‘alt’ quality, you have to close your break tags), so I certainly can’t guarantee that the site will remain valid for [...]
Google Analytics
15 November 2005 – 11:28 pm
Google have just launched a free web-traffic analysis service which looks pretty damn good. At the moment, they seem to be struggling under the weight of people joining up, so it hasn’t recognised my site yet. Presumably they’ll get it sorted soon enough. I don’t quite see how they’re going to make money at it, [...]
Flickr interesting photo meme
12 November 2005 – 11:41 pm
Well, it’s not actually a meme unless anyone copies the idea, but hey-ho. Or at least, I guess technically it still is a meme, just an unsuccessful one. Don’t get me started on evolutionary theory.
Search Flickr for photos tagged with your first name. View them ordered as ‘most interesting’. Post the most interesting photo to [...]
search engine queries
31 October 2005 – 10:29 pm
Yup, it’s that time of the month again.
Firstly, what might be my all-time favourite, even better than ‘tugged eggcorn’:
squiggly lines in digital cameras are they ghosts?
Some of the others, in no particular order:
rachel whiteread is crap
decadent west blog
i will magnify the lord bible quotation mary
browning gather ye rosebuds
katatsuburi soro nobore fuji no yama
japanese halloween masks
masks [...]
last.fm
8 October 2005 – 2:55 pm
I joined last.fm, a site which streams customised internet radio. The idea is that it learns what music you like (by eavesdropping on your computer, and via your recommendations and radio choices), and uses people’s choices to build up stations. If you’re a non-paying member, you can choose stations like ‘Similar music to Kylie Minogue [...]
Amazon is getting on my tits
30 September 2005 – 11:08 am
I find it incredibly annoying that Amazon has started inserting advertising (or ’sponsored links’ as they prefer to call it) in your search results. I accept that large chunks of the web can only survive because free services are paid for with advertising, and that seems fair. But Amazon is a shop. It’s trying to [...]
search engine queries
30 September 2005 – 8:13 am
The pick of the search engine queries used to find this site during September:
nelson cricket anecdote
chipotles canned sainsbury
england cricket jerusalem listen
pseudo-ku
banana shallot photo
rik auden
maradona gastric bypass
richard gere films
dead land
kedgeree
maskless diving
poetry perfidious albion
old american pinup
what are the kennings in the seafarer poem.
processions that lack high stilts
What a lot of disappointed punters.
you gotta love open source
28 September 2005 – 4:09 pm
I just downloaded The Gimp as a substitute for Photoshop. And so far it looks pretty damn impressive. The interface is a bit Windows-y (Unix-y?) for my liking - not because there’s anything wrong with that, but because I’d prefer all my software to be consistent. And it’s a tad geeky (a menu called ‘Script-Fu’? [...]
New banners
6 September 2005 – 1:28 pm
You may have noticed that the site now has randomly chosen header images. And a photo credits page (link on the left) so you can find out where they’re from.
Search engine robots
16 August 2005 – 10:32 pm
In the seven days this domain has been in existence, it has been visited by the robots/spiders of search engines 745 times - mainly Google and Inktomi (which I think may be Yahoo). I find that extraordinary. But then Google is pretty damn miraculous anyway. Paul Simon was right - these are the days of [...]
‘Linguists boycott Kansas intelligent design hearings’
7 May 2005 – 12:44 pm
Something amusing from Language Log.
two entertaining links
19 October 2004 – 8:13 pm
Americans, quite naturally, get annoyed at the Grauniad’s attempt to swing the US election.
Someone rubbishes Catcher in the Rye. God I hate that book.