Finally! Someone has released the product I keep meaning to get my act together to do. In fact, I was planning on working out how to do this over Christmas, but James Bridle has beaten me to it. Now and Next shows what’s on the major BBC radio stations now and next, to enable more [...]
By Remiel. Horrifyingly true. Click through to Flickr to see it larger.
Tomorrow we have a referendum in the UK to decide whether to change our current voting system of First Past the Post (FPTP) to Alternative Vote (AV). I’m a consciensious voter, so I’ve been trying to pay attention to the issues about this in order to make an informed choice and vote wisely. It’s been [...]
Anna Pickard writes a lovely and entertaining blog called Little Red Boat. She recently had the BRILLIANT idea of ‘the snailr project‘, which entailed travelling around the US by train, sending postcards to people who’d requested them. She describes it as: One journey of almost 7000 miles, six new cities, eight trains, fifteen days, and [...]
I’ve just read Bodies by Susie Orbach. In it, she argues our bodies and the way we think about them are shaped by our early experiences with our parents and, as we carry on through life, we are influenced by how our culture tells us to think about our bodies. In broad strokes, of course, [...]
In the early days of blogging and the internet, it was considered very important to create a page and leave it there for all time – changes after publication were frowned upon and had to be declared. This was important so people could reference the page reliably and was also considered ‘honest’. This is still [...]
Good grief, this is scary. I avoid lots of tv because of the sexism, but now I begin to see why so many films don’t speak to me. It can’t turn me against Back to the Future, though. (via Bechdel herself, who credits a friend of hers with the idea.)
I love this stuff. via The Chief Happiness Officer.
Happy Christmas! This is the Christmas card I drew and sent this year, but which also threw me into a frenzy of confusion about Christmas card etiquette. When I was growing up there were two sorts of Christmas card givers and you had to pick a side. One set of people gave a card to [...]
I have just visited your Islington branch and have a few questions. Why are you playing music in this branch? Are you under the impression this bank is an optional shopping experience, which you seek to enhance, or somewhere that people might visit for leisure? Do you believe that all your customers are under 25, [...]