December 2010
6 posts
Protests are cathartic but useless
UPDATE: I would like to give credit to the fine citizens of Tunisia & Egypt, who have exposed the post you are about to read as the poorly conceived and clumsily argued bit of claptrap that it really is. Cheers guys.
Turn on the television news at the moment, and you’re likely to encounter some breathless reportage on the latest anti-cuts protest. I know lots of people who feel...
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On Wikileaks
“When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once, when I was six, I did.”
My view is that the arguments of Assange et al are really opportunistic disguises for the baser human pleasures of gossip, nosiness, curiosity and destruction. I think it’s a particularly modern, digital, post-everything mindset, and it’s no surprise that...
Minimal cereal packets
On the internet, everyone likes minimal things, like these muppets. I might have dropped out of art school before I learned to use Illustrator, but that’s not enough to stop me joining in the fun:
RICE KRISPIES (Snap, crackle & pop.)
COCO POPS
FROSTIES
CHEERIOS (Cheery corn, cheery oats, cheery rice and wheat)
I made this last one by pouring a bunch of cereal onto my...
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The only girl in the world.
If you saw Matt Cardle’s duet with Rihanna during the X Factor final, you’ll know all too well that her smouldering sexuality can, in the wrong hands, generate unbearable levels of awkwardness.
Alas, it’s something I’ve had first-hand experience with:
Running the wrong way
A few months ago I started using the Couch to 5k app on my iPhone. The idea of the Couch to 5k programme is to slowly improve your running ability from “crap” to being able to run 5k without stopping. Each week, you spend more of your routine running and less of it walking, and the app gives you audio reminders of when you should do each.
Anyway, it’s a good way to start out,...