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.

Tetoris

11 March 2009 – 10:02 am

it's 'HD' Tetris, impossible. – Tetoris.

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Cat-eat crunch two – bargain edition

9 March 2009 – 11:19 am

So, we’ve established that cats on the packets of cheap brands of cat food don’t look too happy. But can we prove the correlation by delving deaper into the bowels of cheapness. To that end I took a trip to a store that prides itself on nothing more that its low price — B&M Bargains. […]

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We were on the radio

7 March 2009 – 2:56 pm

And it was loads of fun, I’m sure we made loads of balls ups but I’m too scared to listen again to it. You can tho’ (if you like):

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Campaign for Real Heritage

4 March 2009 – 5:42 pm

Are you fed up with “officials” deciding what’s important? Do you wish that history wasn’t just written by the winners? The losers, the outsiders, the real people have history too. It deserves recognition, YOUR history deserves a blue plaque. So now it can have one, the Campaign for Real Heritage will place a plaque anywhere, […]

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Straight 8, super 8, gr8

3 March 2009 – 2:11 pm

"Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to […]

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Mark Lawson acts a bit of a presumptuous git

28 February 2009 – 1:10 am

Mark Lawson in The Guardian: “Most art – and certainly the greatest examples – is private and exclusive, created by elite professionals for an audience of amateurs. Though touched by it, we cannot touch it. Schemes that physically involve the public in art or music are an important part of art, but should remain a […]

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Lolrus unboxing

27 February 2009 – 2:48 pm

Lolrus unboxing Originally uploaded by bounder I has a lolrus.

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What did I just join again?

27 February 2009 – 12:18 am

I noticed today, not sure how long it’s been going on, that you can now (if you’re an admin) change the name of a Facebook group. You didn’t used to be able to, which is one reason there are so many groups with typos or spelling mistakes in the names. I thought this was a […]

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Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous

26 February 2009 – 12:02 am

"love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. – Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's […]

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Chinese Twispers

25 February 2009 – 10:40 am

No recriminations or anything, just an interesting thing that happened this morning on the Twitter. I was listening to Radio Five when the sad news that David Cameron’s son had died broke. This sort of “news” is normally queue to turn off radio and TV, as there’s nothing to be said, but they’ll insist on […]

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