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The Evolution Of Underwear exhibition at the Fashion And...

Jul 1st

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GDGT launches. I think this could be a game changer. It’s a really slick looking site that...

Jul 1st

Only in Scandinavia: Nescafe have given out a...

Jul 1st

It takes me approximately 5 minutes and...

…this is because I am a soppy git.

Jul 1st

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Flying Macbook - an advert for the French Postal Service. I’m really glad mine is better...

Jul 1st

Surf by Camellie. Her work reminds me of Robert Crumb only...

Jul 1st

danmeth: Dan: Yo, how scary is the Red Skull? Tom:...

Jul 1st

Can't sleep, try Russell Davies' looping...

Jul 1st

Everything will be OK in the end by Jono Lewarne creator of...

Jul 1st

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This is what happens when pop eats itself, drinks too much sambucca and is sick on its own jeans....

Jul 1st

Another comment on Chris Anderson's...

Jul 1st

Morrissey in charcoal. (via elvisdepressley) Source for...

Jul 1st

Brilliant comment from The Guardian...

Dear Stakeholders, it is with regret that I, on behalf of IPC Media, announce the death of a...

Jul 1st

Prostitute Phone Cards quilt by the appropriately named...

Jul 1st

Chris Anderson: The King Of Free Is A...

I’m but a minnow in the world of journalism. I skitter around in the lower depths writing...

Jul 1st

Glastonbury archaeology. Vinyl lost in the mud.

Jul 1st

Domo Kun iPhone case. I want this but it’s sold out....

Jul 1st

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The Good Dick trailer “Dude, you can’t talk to the porn customers…” I really...

Jul 1st

The Sexy List from the website of the excellent indie flick...

Jul 1st

There's a blog called...

Jun 30th

Sonic Ruth - only the internet could create something so...

Jun 30th

What kind of Butt are you? - this sums up everything that is...

Jun 30th

“I think British people like their pop to have a particular...”
— Andy Falkous of Future Of The...

Jun 30th

Souvenir tickets? Oh AEG, you bunch of...

“Since he loved his fans in life, it is incumbent upon us to treat them with the same...

Jun 30th

Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film

Jun 30th

Disguise Your Ugliness.

Jun 30th

Glastonbury: 50 stages in four hours

Jun 30th

It’s rare that a film poster sums my life up so...

Jun 28th

Glastonbury Overheard #11

Indie girl: One day your metabolism's going to give up and you'll get fat.
Rake-thin-indie-boy: Yeah. But by then you'll have married me.

Jun 28th

Glastonbury Overheard #10

Three blokes dressed as Musketeers: All for one and one for…
Drunk Scotsman: …cunt!

Jun 28th

“You’ll be sorry you hit me, you f***ing communist...”
— Pete McEnroe after Czech...

Jun 28th

Glastonbury Overheard #9

T-Shirt of man crashed out at the Park Stage: I fingered A 16-year-old.
Chest of large man eating from two plates: Falafels rock my world.
Back of shirtless man stumbling past Spinal Tap (written in lipstick): I Love Cock.

Jun 28th

Glastonbury Overheard #8

Teenage-girl-with-headband: We should get some drugs.
Mother-of-teenage-girl-with-headband: If you like, darling.

Jun 28th

“In the music business, the idea of being A Reasonable and...”
— Peter Robinson’s article...

Jun 27th

“When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did he inject him?...”
— from Channel 4 News Email...

Jun 27th

Glastonbury overheard #7

Teenage girl 1: If you were a Glastonbury stage, which one would you be?
Teenage girl 2: Um…John Peel I suppose.
Teenage girl 1: What? Dead?

Jun 27th

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davidmanque: The Seeds - Can’t Seem To Make You Mine RIP Sky Saxon (1946 - 2009) Because everyone...

Jun 26th

Glastonbury Overheard #6

Bloke in white suit, panama hat and white wellies: I call this look festival smart casual.

Jun 26th

Glastonbury Overheard #5

Well-to-do chap: I can't work out if that smell is me or Glastonbury?
Well-to-do lady: It's you.
Well-to-do chap: Oh…

Jun 26th

Glastonbury overheard #4

Very stoned guy: So…Jeff Goldblum killed Michael Jackson yeah?
Other very stoned guy: That's what I heard.

Jun 26th

Who composes bad taste jokes?

Are there people just waiting for a celebrity to kark it with a pad full of terrible puns and...

Jun 26th

The archives of the next artstar are...

I worry about what legacy modern photographers [will] leave, having worked their entire careers in...

Jun 25th

Glastonbury Overheard #3

Angry bloke on phone: I am not fucking paranoid. You're paranoid. I haven't been talking about you. I KNOW you've been talking about me.

Jun 25th

First fake celebrity spot of the weekend.

Jun 25th

Glastonbury overheard #2

Dialogue

Jun 25th

Glastonbury overheard #2

Posh bloke: I can't believe it takes 7 years to become an architect. I thought it took like...one.
Posh girl: These mushrooms are shit aren't they?

Jun 25th

Glastonbury all bleeding heart liberal life is here.

Jun 24th

Glastonbury overheard #1

Random guy 1: So you're not vegetarian any more?
Random guy 2: Hey, look ok...I eat bacon.

Jun 24th

Mac Dock Spelling from Mike Giepert (via Swiss Miss)

Jun 24th

MP Expenses controversy satirising single ad from 3OH!3. Not...

Jun 24th

Conor McNicholas announces resignation...

It’s the music journo equivalent of Blears leaving on the eve of the local elections....

Jun 24th

The Glastonbury Programme costs £10

Old hippies inevitably turn into capitalists in the end.

Jun 24th

Boombox Skateboard deck If I wasn’t horrendously...

Jun 24th

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Henri Carter-Bresson on photography. (via Boogie Woogie Flu)

Jun 24th

Ariel gets a job as a stripper. From Gets A Job, a site that...

Jun 23rd

Walkonh through the tunnels beneath Kings Cross makes me...

Jun 23rd

Turning 'Neda' into an icon is not the...

The newspapers and the concerned choirs of the social web are all singing the same song - Neda, the...

Jun 23rd

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Wreckage Of My Past: The Story Of Ozzy Osborne. This is just pathetic really. Ozzy’s just...

Jun 23rd

“It’s like having Benny Hill as a Prime Minister.”
— Annalisa Piras talking about...

Jun 23rd

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Sacred Trickster - Sonic Youth “What’s it like to be a girl in a band?” Really...

Jun 23rd

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End Of A Century - Blur Continuing my totally perverse choices of favourite songs, the one I most...

Jun 23rd

lilianag: soyf*ckers anonymous

Jun 23rd

Mario by Ryan Wood (via The Design Inspiration) Finally the...

Jun 23rd

Reality TV meets Mrs Doubtfire.

The BBC is to launch a new series that mirrors the movie Mrs Doubtfire, with fathers dressing up...

Jun 23rd

David Van Don't

All purpose headline for any news story featuring pudding faced pop pariah David Van Day.

Jun 23rd

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The War Book the government would have used to co-ordinate their actions in the event of nuclear war...

Jun 23rd

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In the beginning from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. (via Huffduffer)

Jun 23rd

Toor Tired by Marc Johns. I like Marc Johns’s...

Jun 23rd

Sweet!

vb: Try hitting the right and left arrows while on your Dashboard… you’ll go forward or backwards...

Jun 22nd

Sometimes it's not worth chewing through...

…like when you realise your blog is marginally less popular than Fuckyeahtaylorswift. Oh.

Jun 22nd

Well that was a bit of synchronicity wasn’t it?

Jun 22nd

John Lennon's pact with Satan

Jun 22nd

Liam: Do I look like Jimmy from Quadrophenia? Everyone:...

Jun 22nd

A quick self-test for narcissism

Re: Catcher in the Rye If you think Holden Caulfield “gets it” and sees through people’s...

Jun 22nd

Great white sharks and serial killers have...

Jun 22nd

Defacing papers is fun - Hey Jude Rogers (via...

Jun 22nd

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Warm Heart Of Africa… - The Very Best (feat Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig) The Very Best...

Jun 22nd

frangry: I want this dress. OK, you have the dress and...

Jun 22nd

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Mr Angry vs The Scientologists. “Don’t talk to those people. They are creepy.”

Jun 22nd

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Besides Motown Junk, Judge Yrself may actually be my favourite Manics song. I know this is peverse...

Jun 22nd

Hey Don Henley - think you’re a songwriting...

Jun 22nd

They’ve arrived and boy does Allison Mosshart look...

Jun 22nd

21:12 and still no sign of the Dead Weather. Inviting people...

Jun 22nd

Random Youtube Insult Generator: too lazy to compose your...

Jun 22nd

Fail Pig  by Fabio Rex Too - pops up when Swine Flu tweets...

Jun 22nd

Mark Edwards's piece on George Harrison is a...

Jun 22nd

“The cost of the redaction was £1m. The contract was to scan...”
— a senior Commons source...

Jun 22nd

Pattern Recognition: Annotated

Jun 22nd

Jarvis Cocker for Oxfam’s “Go blue in the face...

Jun 22nd

binkythedoormat: Benoît Santiard – design graphique. Bon.

Jun 22nd

The stats for the word “Twitter” from Wordnik....

Jun 22nd

William Gibson Buzz Rickson shoes. I want a pair of these...

Jun 21st

I Wish My iPhone Could… “suck my dick”?...

Jun 21st

The coolest company in the world

twentysomethingtales: As I blogged before, on the 4th of July, there will be an awesome treasure...

Jun 21st

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I have discovered a real life Alan Partridge. And he’s making his own news programme every day...

Jun 21st

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Hazel Blears getting the thumb screws applied on BBC North West. I missed this at the time sadly. ...

Jun 21st

Also spotted in Media Monkey: the...

Another nice tidbit from Media Monkey: Is Times reporter Patrick Foster, who revealed the identity...

Jun 21st

“I have a lot of ideas because I read the Daily Mail every...”
— Daisy Goodwin, the woman...

Jun 21st

via Film School Rejects. There was a brief window when Emily...

Jun 21st

Told off by the Internet

Jun 21st

Screw you Tumblarity. Seriously, screw...

I’ve worked really hard posting lots of interesting things in the hope of breaking in to the...

Jun 21st

Newspapers: A Quick Survival Guide

Jun 21st

“Fragile do not crush” by Keri Smith....

Jun 21st

“PEOPLE IN LIFTS. If Bruce Willis gets in wearing a vest and...”
— via Viz Top Tips on Twitter...

Jun 21st

Jack You Off: Sarah Ditum on poll jacking the...

Jun 21st

Sir Tom Baker, Soho, London. I was seriously disappointed to...

Jun 21st

“The festival is not a good time to experiment with drugs....”
— from the instructions for...

Jun 21st

The Times keeps gloating about outing...

Anna Mikhailova, the journalist behind the unmasking of Zoe Margolis, @girlonetrack, has slung up a...

Jun 21st

kafka-on-the-shore: Deckard as seen by solitude on...

Jun 21st

Has technology killed the protest song? No,...

Jun 21st

Fact 1 Fiction 0. Something Awful contributors reimagine...

Jun 21st

A Littlebigplanet reimagining of the default iPhone...

Jun 21st

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The BFI National Archive is posting clips on Youtube. Here’s Irene Handl playing a woman...

Jun 21st

God, nostalgia is depressing…

…going through old snaps in iPhoto. Adding names to faces and memories to exs.

Jun 21st

Harry Potter earned JK Rowling £5 per...

Source: The Guardian’s rather fine behind the scenes article on the next Potter film.

Jun 21st

Douglas Hogg redacted @ LolFatCats. It was inevitable really...

Jun 21st

Gosh yes Tess.

Jun 20th

Oh Sarah Harding, you’d probably leave fag ash and...

Jun 20th

Teenage Engineering’s Styrofoam Turntable. This is...

Jun 20th

I spent at least five minutes fashioning a waterproof for...

Jun 20th

Eyeball clock by Mike Mak. Sure it’s difficult to tell...

Jun 20th

Circle the cat - another little baffler. Deceptively...

Jun 20th

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Bruce Sterling speaking at Webstock 2009 on what will come after Web 2.0. “Human creative...

Jun 20th

“I am not a man. I am Cantona.”
— I need to see Looking For...

Jun 20th

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A Vietnam veteran returns to the country to give back a photo of a man he killed during the war to...

Jun 20th

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Commodore 64 for iPhone. This is cool, clever and the product of properly sanctioned licensing deals...

Jun 20th

I Love Traffic flash game…

Jun 20th

An exercise in rebranding Tesco’s Value range by Ruth...

Jun 20th

I just want to fit in somewhere.

wearethesleepyheads: I want to have a proper group of friends whom we share interests and are on the...

Jun 20th

The evolution of the mobile phone expressed as a russian...

Jun 20th

Thatcher’s Dead T-Shirts. A sad way to have your say....

Jun 20th

When I grow up I want to be…Princess Leia. Emilie Sandy and...

Jun 20th

Monthly magazine club…

Jun 20th

(via whatthevandalstook) That looks like The Bishops to me.

Jun 20th

Threaded direct messages in the Bluebird Twitter client for...

Jun 20th

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The classic movie homage video for Dan Black’s Symphonies. It uses the music from his Biggie...

Jun 20th

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whatthevandalstook: onewomanshow: Donovan - Season of the Witch With apparently only 2 chords,...

Jun 20th

You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Robert Burton...

Jun 20th

“I’m the Face/baby is that clear?/…all the others are...”
— I’m The Face - The High...

Jun 20th

“My new wardrobe and I are packed off to the continent to...”
— My year without sex by...

Jun 20th

marco: Kevin: “Country breakfast”. I’ve added my...

Jun 20th

First paragraph…

Would you want to read more of a story that began with this? I’ve been thinking a lot about...

Jun 20th

wearethesleepyheads: parachuteshark: on my fridge go off...

Jun 20th

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Fuck You - Lily Allen video (via the lady herself on Twitter, @lilyroseallen).  A day in...

Jun 20th

Me and Monkey making a list of things to take to...

Jun 20th

DIY gadgetry | BBC News

Jun 20th

“You know, I do know how to prepare for old age. Never have a...”
— John Cage. This really makes...

Jun 20th

“I went for a walk. What did I see?” I find this...

Jun 20th

The lesser-spotted non-lairy Liam Gallagher. From a new...

Jun 20th

Oh My Science — replacing god with reason… one tweet at a...

Jun 20th

On culture and education…

Jun 19th

When Internet irony goes wrong: thinking Fritzl is funny. ...

Jun 19th

There's a fuckyeahterryrichardson??

bingoparaphernalia: Fuck off, Terry Richardson. “Unwashed” is not an aesthetic. It’s not original or...

Jun 19th

Brokenbottleboy vs Daily Mail Monsters...

Picking apart the pontificating of a two Daily Mail columnists in one day probably seems a little...

Jun 19th

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Mental and meta, Paul Giamatti’s new film Cold Souls finds him playing an actor called…Paul...

Jun 19th

Infinite Summer - reading Infinite Jest...

Jun 19th

Aung Sang Su Kyi’s UN pass. (via whatthevandalstook)

Jun 19th

Looking at external hard drives for my...

Jun 19th

Purple Rain Created Hip-Hop

Jun 19th

I’m going to see this kind of thing a lot for the next...

Jun 19th

OK, so I post new content and my...

…there’s always that temptation to reblog some heavily trafficked content to artificially give...

Jun 19th

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Back Bone - The Rumble Strips (from the forthcoming album Welcome To The Walk Alone) I got to hear...

Jun 19th

Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities from Sam...

Jun 19th

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Generative Faber book covers. Design for print-on-demand book covers by Sam Baldwin. The words are...

Jun 19th

Jan Moir has made scaremongering into an...

Her column in today’s Daily Mail on gap years is eye-wateringly unpleasant. The crux of her...

Jun 19th

Nick Mohammed’s website is brilliant. You might have...

Jun 19th

How to find the original Flickr Photo URL and...

Jun 19th

The Encylo-pie-dia by Jono Lewarne (via Creative Review) ...

Jun 19th

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Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Catchy song approaching. Video for Jason Bought A Hatchet by...

Jun 19th

Tommy Guns Salon. This is great design. It really makes me...

Jun 19th

The Book Seer recommends what you should read next....

Jun 19th

BBC no longer updating it’s New Talent pages (via...

Jun 19th

The most honest Daily Mail poll imaginable.

Jun 19th

Get along and game this Daily Mail poll. Via @glinner...

Jun 19th

“…our leaders have been spending money on petrol-powered...”
— Bare Bones creator Harry Malt...

Jun 19th

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Rave On (Buddy Holly cover) - M Ward. It’s like a transmission from a zonked out time...

Jun 19th

(via Weird Ink)

Jun 19th

100 Days Of Fry: Morgan Ritchie is illustrating one of...

Jun 19th

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Stochasticity - definitely the word of the day. Radio Lab dedicate a show to the role of randomness,...

Jun 19th

Jeff Soto graffiti (found at Very Nearly Almost’s...

Jun 19th

vinh: Avengers Poster by strongstuff

Jun 19th

Little Boots influences charted at BBC News Wow, nicely...

Jun 19th

I'm no Thatcher fanboy (what a...

…is it really justifiable to joke about waiting for her to die? A good number of comedians and...

Jun 18th

Nick Cave - The Death Of Bunny Monroe. Just pre-ordered...

Jun 18th

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“Pat Robertson once said it’s a long downward slide/that will lead to legalising sex...

Jun 18th

Oh Google contextual ads, you crack me up. Watch the...

Jun 18th

“You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about...”
— Douglas Coupland (via Twitter)

Jun 18th

The sensitivity of Tumblarity is...

…you can get additional followers, reblogs and likes as well as post new content and still see...

Jun 18th

“Gordon and Dena Coleman said they cannot leave or enter...”
— BBC News Now this is totally...

Jun 18th

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In Our Time: Elizabethan Tragedies. Interesting discussion of why tragedies were so popular with...

Jun 18th

"Do the airhorn dance, African airhorn...

Jun 18th

“I love the smell of trains” - whoever wrote...

Jun 18th

Wondering how many random people...

I know I’ve accepted friend requests on there before and not really known if I remember the...

Jun 18th

In too many countries, writing an article is equivalent to...

Jun 18th

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Post-It Love Sweet short film. It was slightly undermined for me by two things 1) the music is a...

Jun 18th

Regret The Error

Jun 18th

Things I’ve Liked On Tumblr Recently Mosaic. Make your...

Jun 18th

The perfect serving container for ice cream… the...

Jun 18th

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..but despite the fact that I don’t think she’s made a Hole record (see earlier post)....

Jun 18th

Courtney Love says "I wanna be Hole...

Courtney Love has announced that her forthcoming album Nobody’s Daughter (which has been...

Jun 18th

“What’s is highly troublesome is this: The way that Beck once...”
— Will Bunch (via azspot) My...

Jun 18th

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The Lilyest Hobo - It’s Not Fair meets the theme to The Littlest Hobo. A minor work of genius....

Jun 18th

commutefrom.com - this is the kind of thing that makes me...

Jun 18th

Monkey meet-up.

Jun 18th

“Walking into an Abercrombie & Fitch is a bit like...”
— from a great (but seriously...

Jun 18th

DIY shoe decoration. These are great. I used to draw on the...

Jun 18th

This monkey is coming to Glastonbury with me. I wonder how...

Jun 18th

Bizarre Jack Chick style comic on the story of LSD.

Jun 18th

A Softer World - uncomfortably true as ever.

Jun 18th

Meg Pickard on Twitter and the Iranian...

Jun 18th

How would we know if there were CIA...

The hymnals of praise to the political power of Twitter in the wake of the Iranian election protests...

Jun 17th

Yes, I’m a dog…

Jun 17th

Mos Eisley Cantina. If it was my local, I’d be down...

Jun 17th

Dan Black - Hypnotize (I stand corrected!)

Jun 17th

Experiment: on Saturday night @ Glastonbury I’m going...

Jun 17th

Rupert Murdoch: rumours of his genius...

“As the social networking deal of its era, News Corp and MySpace can expect extra scrutiny,...

Jun 17th

Screwballs in skirts. The subtitle of a pulp magazine and a...

Jun 17th

Raindrop sequencer - it’s like a Tenori-On made by...

Jun 17th

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Dan Black - Hypnotize. This will be on his album. He thought there were copyright problems with the...

Jun 17th

I used to have seriously girly hair…and a magazine for...

Jun 17th

Are you going to Glastonbury?

Give me some way of contacting you - weird or ordinary it doesn’t matter.

Jun 17th

When the past comes rushing at you like...

Someone posted a picture of me and my ex-girlfriend on Facebook. I’d never seen a picture of...

Jun 17th

Oh hell yes. Signs that you love your iPhone too much -...

Jun 17th

Glastonbury Clash Finder (direct link)

Jun 17th

There is absolutely no excuse for a blog...

…no one really loves Phantom Planet that much. Well, no one of average intelligence or above at...

Jun 17th

American Splendour...

Harvey: You don't have a problem with moving to Cleveland?
Joyce: No, I find most American cities depressing in the same way.

Jun 17th

“and the jobless men stood looking out the windows at the...”
— from We Ain’t Go Money,...

Jun 17th

Satiretastic. (via lilianag)

Jun 17th

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The video for The Rumble Strips latest single Not The Only Person is deliciously unhinged. Charlie...

Jun 17th

Car lust #345: 2009 Gullwing-America 300 SL Panamericana...

Jun 17th

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Everything’s better in 8-bit. 8-bit Keyboard Cat Plays Mario Off Spotted by deplorableword

Jun 17th

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Instrumenting Your Life - talk at Webstock 2009 by Tom Coates of Yahoo! Recording your life online.

Jun 16th

Wayward Sons: The Ballad Of Big Star

Jun 16th

Gmail is recommending me “dangerous kissing...

Jun 16th

My Indie Cred from Wondermark

Jun 16th

Yep, this is pretty much my entire worldview summed up in a...

Jun 16th

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“That’s not Anne Robinson is it? She’s even got new tits.” God bless you...

Jun 16th

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The video for Hold The Line, the first single Switch and Diplo’s Major Lazer collaboration is...

Jun 16th

Liking the Raf Simons for Fred Perry collection (as featured...

Jun 16th

The Guardian ponders "Are female columnists...

Jun 16th

I don't understand why people thought...

If dissidents can access it, security services can to. It’s not a closed network. And marking...

Jun 16th

“The gay stuff is probably OK but the Nazi stuff - I’m...”
— Austrian TV star Alfons Haider...

Jun 16th

Another work of genius from the ever-reliable Dan Meth. ...

Jun 16th

There is no better sleeveface than a Morrissey sleeveface. ...

Jun 16th

“Huh!/said the man to the lady/mmm mmm hmmm/Huh!/said the...”
— Hey - Pixies. Frank Black....

Jun 16th

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The Pixies playing Gigantic and Hey on the pitifilly pun-titled Lonely Charts Club back in the...

Jun 16th

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Husker Du perfroming 8 Miles High at the Camden Palace in 1985. Good work Bob.

Jun 16th

By me @Guardian - Has best-before reached...

Jun 16th

My blog on sell-by-dates made the front page of The Guardian...

Jun 16th

The true face of Jeremy Kyle. Illustration by Neal Fox from...

Jun 16th

Barbershop from Bowbrick’s Flickr.

Jun 16th

“The prince always goes round the back to wield his...”
— Sir Richard Rogers criticising...

Jun 16th

“So here’s my recommendation for Digital Britain: think of...”
— Tom Dunmore, Why 2Mbps...

Jun 16th

(via im863)

Jun 16th

from the Flight Of The Conchords Spring 2009 concert posters...

Jun 15th

Untitled (Family at fog pond), 2005 © Jocelyn Lee (via We...

Jun 15th

Wallpaper commissioned professional designers and design...

Jun 15th

Keep on tweeting in the (un)free...

Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance to allow tweets from Tehran publicising the upheaval in...

Jun 15th

Set our timetables free...

The Office of Rail Regulation has announced that it’s investigating complaints about National...

Jun 15th

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Blur playing Beetlebum at the East Anglian Railway Transport Museum (now that’s a venue). I...

Jun 15th

Hooray for Mick Ronson (and no, he wasn’t Mark...

Jun 15th

“So here is the paradox: Emin is one of the least...”
— Jonathan Jones reviews Tracy...

Jun 15th

Kim Gordon - she’s like the alt-rock Nigella. ...

Jun 15th

Today's thing I'd banish from the...

…smooshy status updates on Facebook. “Harriet is off to meet Marky-warky, the love of...

Jun 15th

Biblemap...

Jun 15th

Reason I Wish I Lived In New York no.324: MOMA’s...

Jun 15th

Royal British Legion write open letter...

The Royal British Legion has released an open letter to BNP leader Nick Griffin after he ignored...

Jun 15th

Creative writing holiday...

Jun 15th

Simple Acts for Refugee Week. This is clever campaign. I...

Jun 15th

“Some of the good things in life are corrupted or degraded if...”
— from the first of this...

Jun 14th

Free WiFi in churches. (via stealourideas) The Christian...

Jun 14th

Gordon Brown needs to read this Leunig cartoon. It’s...

Jun 14th

“I don’t know how they’ve managed to brand the recession. I...”
— Lily Allen, Interview Magazine...

Jun 14th

Latest entry on my weird things I want...

It’s Iceland’s national drink - made from fermented potato mash and flavoured caraway -...

Jun 14th

Yep, Leunig had Big Brother sussed before it even existed.

Jun 14th

Screenwipe | Newswipe soundtrack Spotify...

Jun 14th

Incidentally, I see how ironic it is...

…and have just done that (twice in fact). So no snarky comments, OK Shadowfirebird?

Jun 14th

Tumblr needs to create an unlove...

I’d use it for Julia Allison photos of people she’d like to name drop about (“This...

Jun 14th

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The 10 Most Ridiculous Things About The Beyonce Experience (via The Glennonator) My favourite is...

Jun 14th

Iranians twittering from the election...

Jun 14th

inky: By 9 0 0 0. Please don’t. This was...

Jun 14th

Snow White’s drifted. Snowy from Diana...

Jun 14th

Afternoon poem

// Asleep on the unmade bed in the afternoon sunlight your letters strewn around me like...

Jun 14th

Reading the transcript from John Peel's...

John Peel: I could cope for about 24 hours, that's as long as I could do it for I think.
Sue Lawley: What you'd need would be a regular supply of new releases to give you zest?
John Peel: Yes, that and detailed reports on the football!
Sue Lawley: So John Peel is going to go on and on looking forward?
John Peel: Well, it seems to me as I said a natural thing to do - certainly I will, yes.

Jun 14th

I’ve found my next pet. …from AT-ATs: Not...

Jun 14th

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“Noel Coward!” singing his interpretation of Amy Winehouse’s Rehab. This is a work...

Jun 14th

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Adam And Joe reduce an episode of The Archers to just the sighs. It sounds like the soundtrack of a ...

Jun 14th

Joe Strummer’s hymnal in praise of Bruce Springsteen...

Jun 14th

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Iranian band Front playing their prog-folk cover of Cliff Richards’ Congratulations after...

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