Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterA pattern appears to be emerging. I look at my diary on a Monday and notice that it looks comfortably empty. About thirty seconds later I get a slew of emails and suddenly my week looks like the revenge of the iCal Gnomes. I get up, deal with urgent ORG stuff, go in to see […]
The impudence of the music and film industries never ceases to amaze me. First they make crap products no one wants to buy. Then they sue their own customers because they aren't buying said crap products. Then they follow that up with DRM that kills your computer. And now they are trying to hijack proposed […]
The Movie Show is up. Cam does his own show notes, but all you need to know is that I get heckled a lot, provide a piss-poor review of MirrorMask, which goes along the lines of 'it's beautiful, you should watch it', get heckled a bit more, talk about Dead Man, to the tune of […]
This is just too funny not to pass on: The Morning News, Is He Cute Or Is He British?
I once spent a happy, drunken evening with my English friend Debs and our Welsh friend Aaron, sitting in Debs' lounge in Trefor, north Wales, making Aaron repeat the words 'guarantee', 'Llanrwst', and the phrase 'it's at […]
And no, I don't mean the pretty-boy chick-stealing Trojan but the great and beautiful capital of France, where I shall be for Les Blogs 2, where I am going to be telling Marc Canter and Hugh McLeod to shut the fuck up so that Anina can get a word in edgeways to talk about socialising […]
John Batelle had better bloody be worth it.
*grumps off*
The emergence of new communications technologies has radically changed the civil rights landscape in our society. Privacy, intellectual property, and access to knowledge are just some of the areas where digital rights are being eroded by government and big business.
The Open Rights Group (ORG) would like to invite you to an evening of digital rights […]
I found my favourite earring. There's a lesson in there somewhere, I'm sure, although it's probably less about the nature of possession and more about things you shouldn't do whilst wearing earrings.
Funny how a delay on the train when I have my Treo and a blog post to write isn't as bad as when I […]
And here was me, thinking my friend Joi was a bloke… and all this time she was just leading me on and disguising her true nature:
8. Joi Ito of Technorati (http://joi.ito.com ) has her hands in a lot of Web 2.0 companies, some you might not even know about yet. This makes her […]
Salsa Cymraeg.
Wel, nid gweld, per se - dw i ddim eisiau gweld tomatos wedi cael eu torri - ond clywed. A dawnsio.
him: you have no time for this: http://hannu.biz/letters/
me: probably not
[a few minutes later]
me: you're quite right. 197. that's pathetic
him: I got to 907
me: wow. i panicked
him: yes, eventually you do
As you might know, I sometimes co-host The Movie Show on The Podcast Network. If you've never listened to it, my basic role in the show is to have the piss taken out of me by my darling friend Cam, and to giggle a lot. Yes, I too can see a bright future ahead of […]
I absolutely promise this'll be the last post about Neil Gaiman for a while. Absolutely. Promise.
Tonight was the 'Lenny Henry interviews Neil Gaiman in front of about 1000 people' thing, which I had previously sworn blind I wouldn't go to, but then was invited to and I couldn't possibly turned down such a kind invitation. […]
I was going to open this post with a direct quote from a website that gathers salacious gossip about the stars, but which says about Neil Gaiman nothing more than, and here I paraphrase, “However lovely you think Neil Gaiman is, he's actually lovelier”. Sadly, I can't find the link, so you'll have to take […]
The thing about having favourite things is that you face a dilemma. Either you put your favourite thing somewhere safe so that nothing ever damages it and it can't get lost, or you use it all the time so that you can delight in whatever it is that makes it your favourite particular thing but […]