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Why haven’t newspaper clichés evolved?
30 October 2009 – 4:47 pm
There’s a lovely new site doing the rounds called Glum Councillors it’s dedicated to collecting:
“images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques.”
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Sites like this and Lolitics are parodying the politicians (and wanabees) — but the poses and the tone are those [...]
WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s
6 July 2009 – 11:52 pm
WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s Originally uploaded by Brian Lane Winfield Moore
Play him off keyboard cat
7 May 2009 – 4:34 pm
New meme discovery:
which has lead to “Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat”, where Keyboard Cat tidies up awkward social situations:
More, more, again, again here.
Worthless Piece of Crap
14 April 2009 – 10:44 pm
A quick group blog we set up today, with the idea of getting to try new stuff — and trying to break it. Trying to hate it in the hope that that will be impossible, a possible cure for gadget lust: Worthless Piece of Crap
I’m not in a good mood
3 April 2009 – 1:46 pm
I’m not having a good week, been busy with work that (while important and good) isn’t at a very exciting stage, I’m tired (which isn’t going to get any better when I get up at 3.30am for this) and I’ve had a few tiny bits of rejection. Which is probably why a sleight in the [...]
Fiction
1 April 2009 – 12:35 pm
I don’t write fiction much, haven’t for years, but I decided to see if I could knock something out for Tindal Street Press’s Roads Ahead compilation. The brief was simply a “substantial short story”, which I took it on myself to write overnight — as tight to the deadline for submission as possible.
Turns out, [...]
Amazing new business model for newspapers: “be any good”
18 March 2009 – 7:30 pm
I’m not a journalist: I did a little bit of journalism training, I have been paid to write for a living, I blog a lot (which requires some of the same sort of skills, some of the time), I read a lot of “news”. I know a lot of journalists work very hard, write good [...]
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