- The Best Word Book Ever,1963 and 1991. - a set on Flickr
- Fascinating look at the changes in Richard Scarry’s childrens’ picture book. “Beautiful screaming lady” is a favourite 1963 phrase. (via Tom Taylor)
Links for Friday 1 April 2011
Friday 1 April 2011, 11:58pm
1 Apr 2011 at Twitter
- 08:09am: @tomcoates @cityofsound That kind of thing Just Works (most of the time) if you use Echofon on each device. So good.
- 09:48am: @denisewilton You’re supposed to add “USE THIS ONE 2” to the name of the correct file.
- 10:30am: There aren’t many job ads this ideal for someone who loves both Django and karaoke (which isn’t me): http://bit.ly/fQty8z
- 12:03pm: Looks a bit office-parties-and-tequila but I'm still excited by prospect of Mexican-ish breakfasts near the office. http://flic.kr/p/9v35yL
- 12:07pm: @spaceboy Look at map on Flickr! Backstreets south of Great Eastern Street.
- 01:20pm: After adding 47,478 <a href>s to this text over the years I seem to be slowing up drastically.
- 05:05pm: @tomtaylor Jelly bean addiction might look cool and “sick” but it’s a very real problem. We’re here for you Tom.
1 Apr 2011 in Comments elsewhere
- Life Drawing | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Yeah, it’s lovely. Nice and simple but plenty of information there. And it looks like you were listening to what the teacher said we should do, rather than defaulting to how you usually draw, which I rarely managed, so well…
On this day I was reading
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1668-1669 v. 9 by Robert Latham (Editor), William Matthews (Editor), Samuel Pepys (Author)
- Always Magic in the Air by Ken Emerson
- London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 7, 31 March 2011
Music listened to most that week
- The Animals (23)
- Colin Stetson (14)
- Stereolab (13)
- AGF (13)
- Pizzicato Five (13)
- The Rolling Stones (12)
- Tortoise (12)
- Talking Heads (11)
- Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern (10)
- The Coasters (7)