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.

Giant firefox made of flowers

22 August 2008 – 11:26 am

Guggenheim museum Bilbao Originally uploaded by mcbozburger At the Guggenheim museum, Bilbao (or is it a cat?).

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Bus stop swing

20 August 2008 – 10:58 am

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It almost makes you want to wait for a bus. Via Wooster Collective: Bruno Taylor’s Playful Spaces

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Bill Drummond – The Manager

20 August 2008 – 10:40 am

I’ve been reading KLF-er and artist Bill Drummond‘s new book 17, it’s fascinating in it’s surface honesty and deeper ambiguity as is most of his stuff. In it he mentions a video he shot, supposedly instead of doing what Alan McGee told him to do (make a promo for a single from his obscure album […]

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It’s not what you like

16 August 2008 – 7:26 pm

I’ve just finished reading a excerpt from Haruki Murakami‘s book about his obsessive running, and in particular a 100KM “ultramarathon” he completed (it’s taken me a while to get round to, it was in the Observer in July). He’s been one of my favourite authors in recent years, but something has disturbed me about finding […]

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Get your Tweets back on SMS (probably)

15 August 2008 – 8:59 pm

I’ve been experimenting with different ways of getting twitter notifications by SMS now twitter has turned that off in the UK. If you search “RSS to SMS” on Google you find Pingie – which seems to offer the ideal solution. It will send text updates from an RSS feed (and you can get a feed […]

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Famous Scenes from Spectrum Football Manager History

13 August 2008 – 2:10 pm

After Through the Wall, and a dodgy (by which I mean rubbish) text adventure called Planet of Death (of which no record exists), one of the first games I played on my ZX Spectrum was Football Manager. It was slow, written in BASIC, and the amount of control you had over the success or otherwise […]

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bubble wrap calendar

12 August 2008 – 6:08 pm

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Very therapeutic — Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day. via

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Tony Blair is Ali G

3 August 2008 – 10:54 am

Supposedly shocking “leaked” memo by Tony Blair to some of his New Labour buddies makes the Mail: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Shocking, to me, as the fool uses the word “dissed” without apparent irony.

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Dave Gorman has tech support woes

31 July 2008 – 12:08 pm

Googlewacker and America crosser Dave Gorman has being trying to sort his broadband out this week — he’s written up two accounts of his dealings with BT tech support: I kept hearing the following phrase: “Your case has been escalated to the complex faults team but due to a system error the task has failed.” […]

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Wibbly Wobbly Jelly on a Plate

30 July 2008 – 2:46 pm

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! JELLO TIME .COM – by Rafaël Rozendaal

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