14 February 2009 – 5:50 pm
Following on from the warmly received post on the happiness of various cat food models, it’s only inevitable that I should be looking at dogs next. After this, who knows. I did have a look to see whether the fish on the fish food packaging looked happy, but they’re a bunch of cold-blooded emotionless bastards. […]
4 February 2009 – 11:36 pm
Have the look of the band of 2009 – as imagined in a British film from the early nineties. They’re various old punk scenesters playing the future Jesus and Mary chain. The set is straight from Jude Law’s forgotten dystopian master-work ‘Shopping’ – desolate monolithic council flats rumble bass and flash neon. They’ve only got […]
29 January 2009 – 11:45 pm
Feed Me Originally uploaded by bounder After waiting for about 2 weeks longer than normal for my RSS badges from Badges for Bands, I asked where they were. Postal trouble it seems, so they sent me another load (and I think popped a few more in for good measure) — well recomended.
28 January 2009 – 12:24 pm
I don’t usually take part in these blog tagging things, normally because they tell you to write about yourself. Now I’ll admit that a lot of things I write (here, on the work-type blog, on BiNS, on the Birmingham Post blog, wherever anyone lets me) are tinged with personal thoughts, experiences and the like — […]
By Jon Bounds
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Tagged birminghamuk, blues, catnip, central tv, chain, church, drama, meme, Michael Grimes, Pontins, Radio 4, star wars, suicide, tagging, tomatoes, villa
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8 December 2008 – 2:56 pm
Birmingham Live and Learn has a nice idea, which is to promote the city’s universities by getting students to blog about their experiences and offer advice. However, whether because of what they’ve been told for SEO or due to poor imagination, a goodly proportion of the posts on the site start like this: Uploaded with […]
24 November 2008 – 11:09 pm
I spent eleven hours on the 11C bus on the 11/11/08. This is a psychogeographical report, it’s not a tale of the trip nor an attempt to map or really delve into areas along the eleven route. I’ll get to that later, I think. I’m not interested in mapping this, only in the most general […]
A platitude that is sitting in my brain, please ignore. Big companies research the market before launching a new product (doubly so before “relauching” an existing one). Then they try to hit their target, shaping the product to “what the users want”. Tiny companies, or people just doing it for the love, make what they […]
26 September 2007 – 12:25 am
Gwen Stefani (yes, I know, not my usual thing, a return of a longstanding agreement from the last time I dragged my other half to watch Belle & Sebastian or somesuch) is not averse to using the odd bit of popular culture – in the first half hour she’s played songs that piggy-back on Topol […]
A new book by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe’ on e-mail etiquette, Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home is already billed as the “genre’s Strunk and White,’, but proposes that we use exclamation marks willy nilly. Because email is without affect, it has a dulling quality that almost necessitates kicking everything […]
