Words Dept.

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Richard Herring.com: Warming up – Herring responds to out-of-context quotes in Guardian piece. “To have those contentious lines quoted out of context, with absolutely no explanation of what else takes place can have no other effect than to make the casual (and even the quite careful) reader assume that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Spotify for iPhone – Clever use of PR. Spotify says the app is ready, whacks ball over to Apple for a response. Mobile Industry Review: Can SpinVox spin their way out of this? – “Hi-tech voice [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. The Marple Leaf: Silver linings on dark clouds “There is light at the end of this dark tunnel. These people [the BNP] are nutters. They will now have to face the same level of scrutiny as [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more of this sort of thing. Twazmuppet BBC News: Councils get banned jargon list – Nice use of the phrase “predictors of beaconicity” Guardian: How Peter Cook and Dudley Moore fell foul of the law yet still escaped prosecution – National Archives reveal [...]

Comic Sarah Silverman’s apparently disastrous appearance at the Hammersmith Apollo over the weekend proves that if you hype something beyond the level to which its promise can possibly be fulfilled, the risk of it being shit is magnified tenfold. Thus an appearance on Jonathan Ross and the cover of the Guardian Weekend is not a [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but haven’t got round to it. Last week I stayed in Edinburgh overnight and was able to catch a couple of Fringe shows with a local Haggis-eating Irn Bru enthusiast by the name of Adrian. Really. Firstly we saw Justin Moorhouse’s show, Justin Moorhouse’s Ever [...]