Words Dept.: archive

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Guardian review: The Bellbury Poly – From a Distant Star; Various Artists – Ritual and Education I want to be a shotgun-toting, gangster-robbing black homosexual like Omar on The Wire Popbitch: Which one is the starter, which one is the desert? – Humorous letter of complaint to Richard Branson [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Robert Peston blogs from Davos – A "comforting blanket" and "a few days of jaw-jaw". Eh? Larry Elliott: Why banks need to be like Captain Mainwaring – Yes, as in Dad's Army. YouTube – Todd Carty goes bonkers on Dancing on Ice. – Bears repeat viewings. Not that I [...]

Crain’s this week has a nice story about “council and quango chiefs” spending “hundreds of thousands of pounds” of public money travelling by first class train. The editor’s comment bemoans the first-class gravy train and free gin and tonic for fat cats. It’s a nice story that’s bound to cause a justified outbreak of tutting among the Manchester accountants [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. FFS Corner: News of the World slams Jonathan Ross's "sick OAP sex gag on Radio 2" You'll notice they repeat the comments in their entirety, however. Marina Hyde: Manchester City's executive chairman Garry Cook's charmless attack on Milan over the Kaka affair was a new low – Guardian columnist [...]

As Jonathan Ross returns to our screens later, both ITV and the BBC’s flagship current affairs programmes have scheduled timely and hard-hitting investigations into the issue of very rich famous people saying “he fucked your grand-daughter” and stuff. ITV’s timely attempt to tackle to hard-hitting subject, part of the Tonight strand, was on earlier and [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Fry/Ross Twitter love-in Allison Pearson – The world's worst columnist – Tasteful description of cancer victim Jade Goody as looking "like a human sacrifice". ASA confirms that God doesn't exist (kind of) The "Manchester City effect" = £100m for a goalkeeper "Blumenthal-related farking" What All PR People Should Know [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. How unhealthy is a doner kebab? Daily Express marks Barack Obama's first day … with a wraparound car ad It’s Time for Facebook to Die – Could Facebook be on its last legs? And what of Twitter's future?

I can’t help but find the whole situation with Man City and Kaka deeply amusing, especially following today’s foot-stamping session from City chief executive Garry Cook. As a Liverpool fan, I’ve never had any particular grudge against City. In fact, the air of genial nuttiness that seems to surround the club and its fans is [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. New Bleep site (Beta) – Warpmart dies, merges with Bleep, gets redesign How Twitter is going to start making money (maybe) 1000 novels everyone must read: Crime (part one) Hart Beat Intro – Exceptional electro-influenced kids' telly theme music

Why is it that a PC user can get better functionality out of an eight-year-old operating system than a Mac user can get out of a four-year-old operating system? Say I want to get a new iPod Nano or run Adobe Air (for applications like Twhirl and AlertThingy) on my Mac, I’m going to have [...]