Jodie Silsby has produced the Portsmouth Vernacular Map. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! A lovingly created map of Portsmouth with roads replaced by local phrases (there’s also a dictionary). Super, it almost makes you want to move there. Apparently London is next for the treatment — come do Birmingham instead please. (via D’log)
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 […]
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.
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.” […]
I’ve spent a good hour or so reading the brill History of Lamasoft by the Yak Jeff Minter himself, and then reliving some of his spectrum classics. The great Psychedelia especially. “I called the program a “light synthesiser”, and advertised it as a new, non-competitive form of entertainment… no enemies, no killing, just light and […]
6 February 2008 – 5:33 pm
Would Microsoft do this? Originally uploaded by bounder
24 December 2007 – 10:22 am
One with a cold, it seems when you listen to this frankly awful, but somehow wonderful Christmas single. Daleks’ voices are done electronically (I hope I’m not spoiling the magic there) – not here it seems.
29 October 2007 – 5:37 pm
Just One More Thing: Columbo Mark Billingham recalls the American TV detective series Columbo, which broke every rule, including identifying the villain in the opening scene, but remained hugely popular. Link good till 3/11.
Flickr’s new revenue model?
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