April 2011
2 posts
Charlie Brooker: The AV campaigners have created a... →
There was a TV ad depicting a Grand National style event in which, thanks to AV, the horse in third place magically finished first. This was unrealistic on two counts: partly because the example they used was impossible, but mainly because all the horses survived.
Alan Silberberg: I had to let myself remember mum... →
“I didn’t realise Milo’s story was going to be about a bereaved boy when I started writing,” Silberberg says. “It was going to be a funny story about a goofy kid, but two chapters in I realised I was in a place I’d not been to for a very long time.”
March 2011
10 posts
“This week, [Nicole Scherzinger] announced her forthcoming debut solo album or,...”
– Come earthquake or tsunami, there’s always a celebrity there to help | Life and style | The Guardian
“Those damn curtains didn’t work out AT ALL. I was so sure they would sell!...”
– ruby star rising: racy thoughts from inside my head
“All very benevolent but still, given the current climate, it seems bonkers to...”
– Britain’s new entrepreneurs: young guns go for it | Business | The Observer
“‘The lies of a newspaper in London can get a bloke’s head caved-in...”
– Daily Star reporter quits in protest at tabloid’s ‘anti-Muslim’ coverage | Media | The Guardian
Craftaholics Anonymous: t-shirt pom poms →
If I had a theme for the day, today’s would be “round things”. Still slightly regretting not buying the compote jar in Waitrose (just because I have no idea what one does with “compote”…)
Sketchbook Stories →
Other people’s processes are the most fascinating thing in the world to me.
2 tags
“People have asked me many times to say what, exactly, is the point of this...”
– Michael Bierut’s 100 Day Project
June 2009
32 posts
“If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian...”
– N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
Toastie Cafe
My plan: a cafe that sells only toasties. All different sorts of fun and interesting toasties (maybe Mozzarella and beetroot? Swiss cheese and butternut squash? Egg, chips and beans?), as well as the good old favourites.
Good idea #548 hits the skids
Last week as we walked home, I announced that I’d like to do some sort of scheme that would be like Mary Queen of Shops (where Mary Portas goes in and saves a struggling shop), but for charity shops. Mary Queen of Charity Shops started on BBC2 last week.
I swear, all of the good ideas have been taken.
“My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women...”
– In Fashion Magazines, Retouching Stirs a Backlash - NYTimes.com
“When we talk about the advantages of class, Lareau argues, this is in large part...”
– Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell (2008, p108)
“In 2006 the world produced 161 exabytes (an exabyte is one billion billion...”
– Warning: brain overload - Times Online
“unfortunately, I do tend to squeal when someone else tries to put make-up on me”
– Margaret Mountford on her last series of The Apprentice (gutting!)
“Tempting a person of the opposite sex requires concentration and attention.”
– “Contestants from the French version of Temptation Island have won compensation for unfair dismissal as well as the right to be treated as salaried workers.”
“He said that you can’t really fight the client when they kill your...”
– Penelope Illustration » only one course of action
January 2009
1 post
“I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven’t succumbed to...”
– Peaches Geldof
October 2008
3 posts
Web Without Words →
Web Without Words takes well-known websites and strips them down to the “concept” stage.
“Ordinary Icelanders are no more responsible for the risk-seeking businessmen who...”
– Professor Eirikur Bergmann Einarsson on Britain’s use of terrorism laws to claw back the money invested in collapsed Icelandic bank, Icesave.