Words Dept.: archive

This is the office of Three Rings Design, a games company in San Francisco. Surely all offices should look like this. It contains “an attacking octopus couch, a secret lounge hidden behind a bookcase, captain’s quarters and a steampunk bike rack”. I work from home and, needless to say, my back bedroom contains all these [...]

Would you look at that? A massive 4ft designer toy by in demand artist KAWS. Not sure where I’d put this – perhaps it could stay in the window to scare away burglars. It retails at around £1,250. Not that unreasonable for an artwork on this sort of scale. Consider, for example, that Damien Hirst [...]

Marks & Spencer is launching a £150 suit that allows you to control your iPod using a controller hidden in the lapel and wires concealed within the lining, reports the Daily Mail. I can’t possibly imagine why anyone would want such a thing, other than to mark themselves out as the biggest prat in the [...]

Glasgow city council has decided to engage with the problem of fly posters by sticking “Cancelled” stickers on them. I’m doubtful this is going to have any meaningful effect. In the short term, it’s going to confuse people, who’ll think that major events have been cancelled when they haven’t. In the long term, nobody is [...]

An amazing revelation in today’s Observer. Apparently, David Cameron has been “whining like a schoolboy” about the Daily Mirror‘s coverage of the Conservatives. He’d requested a clear the air meeting with the Mirror‘s editor, Richard Wallace, which backfired when Cameron and his flunkeys decided to compare the paper’s coverage with that of Neil Kinnock in [...]

Why is it that both the UK’s main network broadcasters are tonight televising the final of a talent contest where the winner gets to be in a West End musical? Is it some kind of sick prank? How did one channel work out that the other’s Grease final would be held on the same Saturday [...]

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