Author Archives: Jon Bounds

Writer, honest. Currently working on Pier Review “a journey to the outcrops of a dying culture”.

Used to do Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Dirty Bristow, 11-11-11, Twitpanto et al.

Putting up goal nets as a metaphor for life

15 January 2009 – 11:16 pm

“Some clubs are fearsomely well organised. They have pegs and a mallet to anchor the net down at the back. They have a chair or a ladder to attach it in the corners, and they have velcro strips to attach it to the crossbar where inevitably the hooks had been torn away by years of […]

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Creative Review on London’s new Design Committee

5 January 2009 – 5:07 pm

“this new Design Advisory Panel will feed into the Design Advisory Forum and will be managed by Design for London, which now sits within the London Development Agency’s Design, Development and Environment Division. Got that? I would hate to be responsible for all the tea and biscuits for that lot. Most design committees are a […]

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Problems with nightclubs

1 January 2009 – 2:41 pm

Apart from the prices, the awful music, the clientelle… “The guy who stands in the toilet all night. I don’t like it, there always usually african and get abuse from drunk people. I also sometimes just want to get out of the stinking mens toilet as fast as possible but can’t because I can’t dry […]

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TwitPanto – Dracos.co.uk

23 December 2008 – 6:03 pm

Wonderfully clear version of the twitter panto, pulled together on the fly by a wonderful person. Narrator in pink, cast in blue, backchannel behind you… [link]

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Hamster On A Piano Eating Popcorn

14 December 2008 – 12:22 pm

Hamster On A Piano Eating Popcorn (via Laughing Squid)

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30 Ways to Shock Yourself

12 December 2008 – 1:07 pm

30 Ways to Shock Yourself Originally uploaded by bre pettis Illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern

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Big you say? Well you live and learn

8 December 2008 – 2:56 pm

Birmingham Live and Learn has a nice idea, which is to promote the city’s universities by getting students to blog about their experiences and offer advice. However, whether because of what they’ve been told for SEO or due to poor imagination, a goodly proportion of the posts on the site start like this: Uploaded with […]

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MJ Hibbett – The Advent Calendar Of FACT

5 December 2008 – 7:19 pm

YouTube – The Advent Calendar Of FACT

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I can’t work out if it’s a lot

5 December 2008 – 12:29 am

Skitch.com > bounder > Google Reader (1000+)

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ManyBooks.net – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader

26 November 2008 – 2:12 am

I've got a Sony eReader — and I've quickly eaten through the free "classics" that come with it and a number of CC licensed works. Rather than buy books I've start on this site — there are 22,303 eBooks available and all free. [link]

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