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gotta love wikipedia
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Here is the anonymous superauthority of the interwebs, talking about the new Girls Aloud video:
The futuristic video was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.[2] Girls Aloud appear in “sci-fi inspired PVC leotards”,[13] travelling through space and approaching Earth in illuminated glass spheres (resembling meteorites). After the second verse, the [...]
my notebooks
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Inspired by this post- 25 years, 85 notebooks (hat tip Kathy Sierra on twitter), I’m kicking off today with a couple of pictures of two of my own notebooks. They are nothing like as edibly gorgeous as Michael Bierut’s- I think and write nearly always just in words- but there is something so glorious about [...]
out of focus
Friday, January 23rd, 2009I had one of those moments of blinding insight on reading this tweet by gapingvoid this morning. Like a lot of things Hugh Macleod says, there’s plenty of underlying meaning to it, which I can’t presume to extrapolate fully, but the life/ blogging connection is meaningful to me, and immediately explained something I have pondered [...]
Hitler reborn over the net: a nerd but clearly quite insane
Friday, November 28th, 2008My son absolutely loves the Hitler meltdown meme on youtube. If you don’t know about that, and why would you really (unless internets are your job), it’s a scene from the 2004 German film Downfall (Der Untergang) where Hitler is in the bunker and he finds out he has lost the war and goes ballistic [...]
thought #2: the internet: people or thing?
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Why do I care whether the internet is people or a thing?
Obviously it’s both. There’s the mechanisms needed for it to exist, and there’s the messages sent out by the people who use it. The internet is a giant set of connections all working together, getting bigger and transmogrifying into a newer differenter internet [...]
a thought #1 (listening/ mind-reading)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008What’s the difference between a product where the creators listened to what you wanted, and a product where they seem to read your mind?
One is rational, considered, makes sense. The other can be magical. It can also be kind of frustrating- the “why didn’t I think of that?!” crazy feeling. Reading your mind doesn’t mean [...]
cutting down time online (without losing goodness)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008I’ve been noticing lately how much of the time I spend online is really too much. It’s certainly as easy today to waste hours pootling around doing nothing as it was when “surfing” was first invented. But also, I find myself inreasingly headachey, tired and annoyed from following the same sort of aimless routines [...]
blogging as writing- unfinished voices
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Most blogs I’ve read for years and years have maintained exactly the same voice throughout, because the person writing is the same person. Sometimes voices develop because people change and grow increasingly into themselves as they get a bit older. Some of us don’t stop morphing and growing up till we are quite old, others [...]
how can you not love google…
Monday, October 13th, 2008… when they do things like this? I rarely notice them, but my son is absolutely charmed by many of Google’s date celebration pictures. And I can’t help thinking his reaction is more meaningful than mine somehow. (Also Paddington is a favourite in our family, and his station and statue within are landmarks of our [...]
things I love online today
Thursday, October 9th, 20081) Guy Kawasaki’s spectacular post about being on a U.S. aircraft carrier, 26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging. I’m halfway through so far, saving the rest for later. Sample fun fact: pilots are more likely to call themselves “Butthead” than “Iceman”.
2) Hugh Macleod’s 10 questions for Seth Godin. I [...]
