January 2011
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The Andy Coulson affair makes me think: "Yes and...
Before today when Andy Coulson found himself leading the news bulletins, most people didn’t know who he was. Despite the fact that he has been at the heart of a major media scandal and stood beside the Prime Minister, he wasn’t well-known at all. Of course in the liberal Twitter bubble and among media and political wonks the hacking story was huge but it doesn’t get much play...
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10 O'Clock Live review: playing at Paxman and...
It was pitched as a new live satire show to revive the spirit of That Was The Week That Was and bring some of The Daily Show’s incredibly reactive political comedy nouse to a British comedy scene with only the listless Now Show and Have I Got News For You offering topical gags but 10 O’Clock Live fell flat.
The first episode of 10 O’Clock Live was essentially a...
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Blood libel is Palin's "you won't have Nixon to...
Sarah Palin’s bottlerocket political career is coming to an end. She has undone herself with her own words, making her an even more unappealing choice for the Republican nomination. The mainstream of the Republican Party realises that Palin is too hot to handle and in the run up to next year’s elections it’ll have numerous opportunities to see why the Tea Party backed candidates...
I got these lyrics written, you got a...
Pretending God is Doctor Doom
he’d rather send you to your room
than out the door and into something better
Pretending God is a Doctor Doom
in a Croydon tower block with gloom
don’t blame me
hey, hey, I blame the weather
The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost
that Captain Britain loves the most
he took her to the pictures and he’s bitter
Jesus Christ and Doctor...
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Johann Hari on Kenneth Tong: the journalist as...
Johann Hari gets much love on Twitter. He’s the cleverest boy in class as I’ve written before but his grandstanding takedown of self-confessed sociopath and full-time dangerous fuckwit Kenneth Tong isn’t the Ali-knocks-out-Frasier triumph some people are making it out to be. It’s Hari letting a fool hang himself and pulling the quotes together effectively.
No doubt Johann...
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Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me single...
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Look away while Lady Gaga molests the corpse of...
Imagine Apple if Steve Jobs never returned. Imagine it had continued to allow poor-quality machines with the Mac OS onboard to be sold. Imagine if it had continued to dilute its brand and its influence, allowing everything good about the Mac to ebb away while a hardcore of fans cried foul. Without the presciding central intelligence of Steve Jobs, there’s every chance Apple would have gone...
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Thoughts on the Giffords shooting in three West...
Aaron Sorkin should be the dream speechwriter for any democratic President. Put aside his previous drug issues which would get the shock jocks frothing and his way with an emotional line, a rhetorical florish is immense and intense. Obama comes close to those heights at times. Certainly his speeches during the 2008 Presidential campaign, particularly the More Perfect Union speech in Philadelphia...
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Looptaggr: DIY graffiti printer →
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Paul Giambarba, designer of the iconic Polaroid...
“Yes, I will admit to being an old curmudgeon, but I knew Edwin Land and Bill McCune, and somehow I can’t imagine them in such a situation. Nor would they have tolerated such language from Gaga, who thanked Polaroid for letting her “design this sh*t myself.”
In my 28 years of being involved with the real Polaroid, I can’t imagine Land or McCune signing off on an...
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Looptaggr: DIY graffiti printer →
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The Vaccines: music PR hype given a fisking
The Vaccines have been getting absolutely breathless press from some quarters so I thought I’d do a little deconstruction job on the article that greeted their third place showing in the BBC Sound of 2011 list. You can read the original here:
British rock band The Vaccines, who are guided by the managers of [Franz Ferdinand][1] and the Kaiser Chiefs, have come third on the BBC’s Sound...
By me @electricpig: Avatar Kinect is the Star Trek... →
…I also predict that the first Daily Mail scare story about Avatar Kinect perverts or Avatar Kinect criminals will come out within 6 to 8 weeks of its debut. And don’t be surprised if the same companies who colonised Second Life so eagerly begin to create Avatar Kinect environments for their brands and pay actors to personify their mascots. Out of work actors will be turned into bargain...
