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.

The 3rd of Twelvember

14 March 2008 – 3:38 pm

The only day of the year that I’m even remotely interested in backwards counter-intuitive date counting such as what the American do. 14/3 is of course π day.

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twitter friends network browser

14 March 2008 – 9:55 am

Twitter Friends Network Browser gives you a bouncy map of yours (or anyone’s) twitter contacts. Throw the avatars around, click to expand the map. (Via)

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hey nice beaver

14 March 2008 – 9:38 am

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgiHvHrOZl8] Australian advert that (I assume) has something to do with women’s periods. It’s a step up from the five-a-side, rollerblading, shite we would normally see. Via Kitchbitch</a.

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hampstr lnk

14 March 2008 – 2:02 am

Stuff your cheeks with: Papercraft ceiling cat – Tubbypaws – meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat.

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evolutionary dead-ends

14 March 2008 – 1:50 am

Useless Body Parts “From wisdom teeth to ear muscles to male nipples, the human body has a number of “useless” parts. Check out these anatomical extras that humans still have but no longer need.” Photo by schoschie

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show us your tweets

13 March 2008 – 7:54 pm

Now twitter has gone truly mainstream – you need to show off your ID.

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Tweets for Today

13 March 2008 – 6:45 pm

09:04 @podnosh but where? your tinyurl isn’t working for me # 16:24 @podnosh @catnip @peteashton no, but she did make pople think that MArtin Mullaney ran it ;) # 16:31 @podnosh more to the point it’s a brilliant way of watching telly # Squidged out by LoudTwitter

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Show us your tweets

13 March 2008 – 10:41 am

Now twitter has gone truly mainstream – you need to show off your ID.

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Tweets for Today

12 March 2008 – 6:37 pm

08:04 @peteashton Your taxi friend must have watched us ;) We are shit – it’s sort of the point. # 08:14 Updated the fromt page of www.upyerbrum.com/ with a stab at some AJAX. auto-updates mean it’s a little closer to that "river of brum" # 10:47 @podnosh no way am I trying that # 11:25 […]

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Tweets for Today

11 March 2008 – 6:34 pm

14:23 And we’re back. 1&1 database servers went down, causing much outage. Fixed now # 14:46 Sitting hapily with my ginger cat, I’m writing a spec, he’s sleeping on his tail # Squidged out by LoudTwitter

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