You are at the archive for the January, 2009
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 over [...]
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 generally watch ITV…
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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 and lawyers whose travel [...]
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 uses same [...]
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 was [...]
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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 About Journalists
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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?
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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 rather [...]
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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
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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 to [...]
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