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Geraldine said: “I love you this much.” But she...

Dec 1st

I like Dirty Projectors and I like...

There’s only one way to find out…FIGHT! DIRTY PROJECTORS SOLANGE KNOWLES ...

Dec 1st

I'm a celebrity, listen to my complaint:...

I’ve been to a lot of Twitter conferences lately, it’s a dirty part of my job ferreting...

Dec 1st

Blender: What’s your fondest memory of the Starship, Zeppelin’s private plane?
Robert Plant: Oral sex in turbulence.

Dec 1st

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Backwater – The Meat Puppets Does anyone know why the album it comes from (Too High To Die)...

Dec 1st

The Guardian launches open call to explain...

Dec 1st

Harry Hill's potato swastika: how...

According to a report in The Sun, Harry Hill could face trouble from Ofcom for comparing Vienetta...

Dec 1st

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Mike Watt + The Missing Men cover Wire’s Three Chord Rumba and Ex Lion Tamer. Wowsa, this...

Dec 1st

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The Minutemen: in concert and interviewed. Mike Watt: “We just wanted to be our own weird...

Dec 1st

“I could tell Wire fans I’d driven home four times over...”
— Grace Dent on spoilers in The...

Dec 1st

Lost dog “Chewie”. Last seen in Mos Eisley Park....

Dec 1st

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Hollywood – Marina & The Diamonds Mad outfits? Check. Totally barmy pseudo-rap bit? Check....

Dec 1st

Over 2000 SNES games and hacks you can play...

Nov 30th

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The Sun adds a little Apple to its advertising.

Nov 30th

The most genius bit of design I’ve seen in ages....

Nov 30th

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The Sims’ creator Will Wright on creating intelligence models in games.

Nov 30th

“They may serve McRice in Indonesia but, barring a few...”
— Will Self reviews...

Nov 30th

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds....”
— Richard Hofstadter, The...

Nov 29th

It’s only rock’n’roll starring Lydia...

Nov 29th

Someone’s created a Jack Kirby style comic cover for...

Nov 29th

Madonna ironing by Alison Jackson

Nov 29th

US Customs shouldn’t let people wearing this shirt...

Nov 28th

Why are hip hop critics, artists and...

I’ve just been reading and getting slowly riled up by Simon Reynolds’ meditations on hip...

Nov 26th

“I welcome their hatred.”
— Franklin D Roosevelt on his...

Nov 26th

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Gonzo, the Muppet chickens and more covering Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh this is genius!

Nov 25th

Reading the 911 text transcripts

Wikileaks has been releasing hundreds of pages of text pager intercepts from September 11 2001...

Nov 25th

Warning: Robber Bank of Scotland.

Nov 25th

Amazing photo explaining the layers of a Polaroid picture...

Nov 25th

Let's kick bullying out of…life

There seems to be a campaign every other month to stop bullying in some place – stop bullying in...

Nov 25th

Spitfire MK II blueprint from Blueprints.com Was pointed...

Nov 25th

My 4 saviours: MP3tunes.com, Evernote,...

My computer was stolen the other day. But all I really lost was one piece of hardware and a small...

Nov 24th

Just received my latest business cards from Moo.com. Love...

Nov 24th

Happy 60th birthday AK-47

Nov 24th

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Celebrities Seize Africa: “I’m worried young people will emulate George Clooney taking...

Nov 24th

Betty Davis was super-funky and so to is this American...

Nov 24th

Things I’ve learned today: don’t waste money...

Nov 24th

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“Ello, you are getting cosy with Sarkozy!” Sarkozy and Carla Bruni on The Simpsons. The...

Nov 23rd

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Flavor.me - a super-simple way of pulling together a site that combines your stuff from round the...

Nov 23rd

Spying on Malcolm Tucker’s Facebook page.

Nov 23rd

“Nothing has done more to make us dumber or meaner than the...”
— Aaron Sorkin. But conversely,...

Nov 23rd

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TRACK OF THE DAY: Glambulance – Borderville If the cast of the Rocky Horror Show was hijacked by...

Nov 23rd

Share your iTunes Genius Mixes. Here’s what mine look...

Nov 23rd

Fiction fragment: Locked Out

He was stood in the rain. His underwear was dirty, wet and grey like a pigeon on a wintrer’s...

Nov 23rd

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Pretty amazing performance of With Or Without You by 11-year-old Sungha Jung. Via...

Nov 23rd

“That does bring me onto my next point, though - pasta. There...”
— Woman Cannot Live On Pasta...

Nov 23rd

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The Gloaming (0.59p), a sleep timer iPhone app that lets you drag the sun to set the time. iTunes...

Nov 23rd

Jordan Mechner's blogging his journal from...

Nov 23rd

Name In Vain Christmas cards by Chu

Nov 23rd

From Jedward to Deadwood: should...

Literally minutes after Jedwood went last night, the Conservative Party (or at least Conservative...

Nov 23rd

George has been working hard on the laptop today.

Nov 21st

"Loved by their fans, hated by their...

Cameron Crowe interviewed Led Zeppelin when he was 18 years old. Goddamn it, I was born to late… ...

Nov 21st

The F-word (from Almost Famous)

Mom: That's it, your sister said the 'f-word'.
William: I think she said "feck".
Mom: What's the difference?
William: The letter "u".

Nov 21st

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Spotted this a while back but forgot to post it. Glad to be reminded of it by… jamesholland: How...

Nov 21st

Revenge poem

To tell the truth if you march me out of a building I’ll come back and burn it down one day...

Nov 21st

The Replacements did Let It Be better...

Hell, I know some other band called their record Let It Be first but it’s just an average...

Nov 21st

Can the 2009 Trabant Concept take East Germany’s...

Nov 21st

Jason Lee’s American Icons deck: TV, Beer, Cigarettes,...

Nov 21st

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One more: Jamie Thomas skating to Creedence’s Fortunate Son.

Nov 21st

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Kicked Out Of Everywhere – Mark Gonzales I love the bit where his deck bumps into the old lady and...

Nov 21st

Ideas vs their enemies: Jesus vs The Romans | Yoko vs The...

Nov 21st

The cardinal rule of conferences:...

Having schlepped my way to several “social media” conference recently including...

Nov 20th

In the shadow of the noose: LIFE Magazine photo taken as the...

Nov 20th

Beware of the predators in the stream:...

On Twitter we fire hose our thoughts, opinions and daily lives into the world. The very ease of the...

Nov 20th

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Guns + Gardens: a DIY show set during a zombie apocalypse. Useful and scary.

Nov 19th

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Germaine Greer vs a moron (1971)

Nov 18th

Stupid ideas I'd put in place if I was...

I’ve always wondered why the cost per head of food for prisoners in the UK penal system is...

Nov 17th

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Johnny Cash (or as Oscar dubs him “Johnny Trash”) sings to Oscar The Grouch on Sesame...

Nov 17th

Run free Charlie Brooker: if...

The rather splendily named Mercdes Bunz has writes in a piece about micropayments: But how much...

Nov 16th

Stupid ideas I'd put in place if I was...

Stand on the right, walk on the left; don’t dawdle on Oxford Street; don’t get the Tube...

Nov 16th

My 5 favourite Google interview...

Why are manhole covers round? Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco? Explain a database...

Nov 16th

Great Business Insider piece about being...

Nov 16th

Magwire's a brilliant way of finding...

Nov 16th

T E Lawrence wrote us the perfect...

In The Evolution of a Revolt, T E Lawrence wrote: Granted mobility, security (in the form of...

Nov 15th

Dave Eggers on why he's launching a...

The local angle is crucial because that’s why newspapers should exist. I thought we should...

Nov 15th

Oh and by the way, I live blogged last...

Nov 15th

“I have the same sign on my office door that Field Marshal...”
— Will Self’s Body + Soul...

Nov 15th

Chaka Khaaaaan! This is the greatest animated GIF ever made....

Nov 15th

“Paul Simon wrote the lyrics and theme song to the Sixties...”
— from a great list of 70 Things...

Nov 15th

Now Belle's been caught: the anonymous...

High-end-call-girl turned sex-blogger Belle Du Jour has been unmasked (or rather unmasked herself)...

Nov 15th

Ikea's senior managers have to "adhere...

There was an unwritten law for Ikea upper management: loyalty to Ingvar unto death. -...

Nov 14th

Hacking Withnail’s Facebook page

Nov 14th

The Bourne Films as a pie chart – from a brilliant post on...

Nov 14th

"Hello, I'm your banana…" The...

I just drank an Innocent smoothie (and hey, I know they can’t really claim to be all that...

Nov 14th

Beware Santa’s devil child.

Nov 13th

See me in Iceland – drinking glacier water...

Nov 13th

The coming of the ice age: the death of...

No industry should believe it has the right to exist. Changes in technology and human behaviour have...

Nov 13th

Brilliant line from Lester Bangs's...

How do you define a group like this, who moved from “Heroin” to “Jesus” in...

Nov 13th

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A 140 character limit in business meeting points would be seriously useful.

Nov 13th

"It's about the conversation", said the...

Last night I attended Lewis PR’s Social Media Summit. It was a good event but as is usually...

Nov 13th

Bill Hicks spotted on the tube: “We are all one...

Nov 11th

Pointless and patronising: my three word...

Previously, the title of most patronising tech product must have been held by one of the many pink...

Nov 11th

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@jamiecullum is a lucky man. The Divine Ms Dahl. Nigella, you’re out. Sophie, you’re in.

Nov 11th

dannifromdublin: This is my cat Prue. The photo is being...

Nov 11th

“In my newspaper reporting days on The Mirror, one of the...”
— Alastair Campbell’s...

Nov 11th

Mags closing? A Canadian copy-editor proves the worth of...

Nov 10th

Investigating the code of shoe-tossing:

On a small street near my girlfriend’s flat in Dublin, there’s a pair of trainers with...

Nov 10th

@dannifromdublin the dinosaur.

Nov 10th

“Britain has an ample supply of bona-fide child murderers...”
— great response to the Gary...

Nov 10th

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Martha Wainwright sings Edith Piaf’s Adieu Mon Coeur. I love her more than ever. I’m...

Nov 10th

Another cartoon from my own personal selection entitled...

Nov 10th

Hating The Popular: X-Factor, Twitter...

This has been sitting in my drafts file for a while so hopefully none of my friends on Twitter will...

Nov 10th

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Kraftwerk + bleeps = instant rudeness (via AudioPornCentral)

Nov 10th

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Black Sister (Elvis vs Jacko) by VoiceDude. Jacko meets his ex-father-in-law for some undead pop...

Nov 10th

“Darling don’t you love a man trap?” The...

Nov 10th

Gary Glitter, Channel 4 and the...

The death penalty, pedophilia and the way we deal with pedophiles and the nature of evil – all...

Nov 9th

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Pacman played with Roomba robot vacuum cleaners. Quite utterly mad.

Nov 9th

“I no longer plead with heaven or go rummaging in books for...”
— Dory Previn

Nov 9th

Cat vs. Fish – FIGHT! (by Amazing Superpowers)

Nov 9th

Marketing men say 'Well, my wife likes...

In the course of writing my article on The Impossible Project and Polaroid for Wired, I had the...

Nov 8th

Britain’s toughest star? Ha ha ha ha…bollocks.

Nov 8th

“To say one has read the Da Vinci code is to cheapen the word...”
— Will Self. The man is one of...

Nov 7th

“I feel very strongly that Sesame Street has aimed too low,...”
— Sesame Street’s debut...

Nov 7th

@lottegoeslive (a rather fan-bloody-tastic journalist btw)...

Nov 6th

Push The Envelope by Heavy Rotation ($28). I really love...

Nov 6th

Check out Driving Like A Maniac, my friend...

Nov 6th

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New York LED Subway signage. This is amazing but if it was introduced in London, someone would...

Nov 6th

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Kill The Cool Kids – Gay For Johnny Depp. Warning! This is essentially several minutes of a man...

Nov 6th

Katy Perry in a West Ham stripper’s outfit…um…this is...

Nov 6th

What Space Invaders Really Look Like via Threadless

Nov 6th

Gordon Brown in GQ aka the "how the hell...

Piers Morgan: Why didn't you, as a former chancellor, smell a rat before the system collapsed?
Gordon Brown: Because I didn't know that the AAA-rated subprime mortgage assets being sold to us and the rest of Europe from America were valueless. And nor should I have been expected to know.

Nov 6th

Comparing the wars.

Nov 6th

How my career low-point was the best...

In September, I was called to the director’s office. I was online news editor at Stuff.tv and...

Nov 5th

Read the article that ended my time at...

Mannequins pose in the dusty factory, lines of Polaroid images spread before them, their careers...

Nov 5th

Play old Gameboy games in your browser. Oh dear, there goes...

Nov 5th

The new UK issue of Wired is out and my article is trailed...

Nov 5th

Boy I love font related puns – Helvistica (via juliasegal)

Nov 5th

Marina Hyde on the Daily Mail's Poppy rage. A...

Nov 5th

“The question I really dread in interviews is, ‘Well,...”
— – Jimmy Carr in The Guardian.

Nov 5th

Youth in Revolt, Japan 1964 Very few things are cooler than...

Nov 5th

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Have to thank @wordmagazine for introducing me to my favourite new cover: Ghost Town [Isso Nao Da]...

Nov 4th

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“There’s a front-wheelie and most difficult for girls being a ‘large girl’...

Nov 4th

My dad made this collage of photos of our dog Bert, who was...

Nov 4th

This cartoon hit a little close to home. (via...

Nov 4th

NME journo doesn't feel teen spirit...

Oh now will you look at that, it’s another day and I’ve found another article on the...

Nov 4th

12 Angry Men as a graph – from the much larger set of films...

Nov 4th

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Bands I’ve interviewed recently who aren’t dicks #1: The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing....

Nov 4th

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now

Nov 4th

I've written about Girls for Q's Track Of The...

Nov 3rd

Are you a werewolf? Have difficulty explaining when you...

Nov 3rd

Suprise, suprise, the Daily Mail website’s readership...

Nov 3rd

It's not the medium, it's the message,...

Answering the question: “Why do so many people seem to like Twitter?” Twitter itself...

Nov 3rd

“Satan’s Cheerleader. When These Girls Raise...

Nov 3rd

Charlie Brown skeleton sketch by M Paulus. He’s...

Nov 2nd

@rose_darling wins best comment on my...

I really thought this comment deserved to be pulled out of the dark realms of the comment section....

Nov 2nd

Thoughts on youth cultures

I’m part of an email list of music writers, critics and general degenerates. There’s...

Nov 2nd

George the cat from Kilburn meets Doug the dog from UP....

Nov 2nd

Twitter narcissism: my 5 favourite...

@Utku’s Most Gold Stars list – @Utku’s well worth following in his own right and this...

Nov 2nd

“Don’t go outside! Don’t go inside! Get into the...”
— Dylan Moran on modern...

Nov 2nd

The Stephen Fry effect. Friday (posted nothing much): 38...

Nov 1st

Norah O’Donnell live from The White Ho Via...

Nov 1st

Stephen Fry returns: what have we...

Stephen Fry’s Twitter exile lasted 12 hours. For most of that period he was in transit on the...

Nov 1st