Here I am, looking a little grumpy, as part of Mario Cacciottolo’s really rather lovely ‘Someone Once Told Me‘ project.
Category Archives: birminghamuk
Is this ‘unique’ or are the media keeping people dumb?
4 June 2009 – 10:05 am
The Birmingham Mail covered this exchange on Pete Ashton’s blog, which is good — it’s a story. To sum up, an advertising company working on behalf of the Rep Theatre were using reverse graffiti, they — mistakenly one would assume — used it on a monument (that it’s a monument isn’t immediately obvious, if you don’t [...]
Susan Boyle Swine Flu Sex and MPs
30 April 2009 – 10:37 pm
Local MP Sion Simon (finding his way on Twitter) ReTweeted a (vaguely amusing, but not ear-shatteringly funny) witicism: “I’m not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I’m just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.” It’s about Now Show standard, topical, smirk-worthy rather than a belly-laugh — what [...]
Google’s magic anus
23 March 2009 – 8:46 pm
Created by the way Google has stitched two of its Street View panoramas in Smethwick, take the advert for a filum and a moving bus and, oops:
Google Street View fly-by
19 March 2009 – 6:21 pm
Using a route planner for Google Maps, and a screen capture app to capture the screen. This is sort of what it would look like to drive from King’s Heath towards the town centre — the route was going further, but there were gaps in which roads were covered by Street View.
The17
18 March 2009 – 5:12 pm
I’ve just had a email inviting me to be in The17 for a “performance” in April (St George’s Day). I’m stupidly excited.
Friends and sweary flash
20 February 2009 – 9:29 am
Almost ten years ago, I was working at friends of ED — a web design book firm. The imprint is still going, but is owned by an American publisher rather than two brothers who set up shop in Acock’s Green. For a couple of years it rode the “creative” wave of flash design, which in [...]
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Yahoo’s When isn’t so hot on where
Supposedly “hyperlocal” thing from Yahoo, hasn’t quite got the “local” bit, yet. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!