Writing tagged Misc
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RCA and CSM degree shows
My highlights of the Royal College of Art degree show and a brief comparison with the Central Saint Martins show.
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New and improved Jamie Oliver
This year, when I haven’t been coding TheyWorkForYou.com I’ve been employed at the lovely Poke working on the new Jamie Oliver website, which launched yesterday. Here are a few highlights.
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Beach hut photos
Photos of the brightest beach huts on the Essex coast.
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Bishopsgate Goods Yard demolition
You can’t see much of the demolition from the street, but from a few stories up you get a better view of the brick mountains. Photos here.
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TheyWorkForYou.com
Our new project launches today after several months of work… track your MP’s most recent appearances in parliament, search all the speeches and written answers, comment on proceedings…
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London’s Elections - The Designers
Analysing the London mayoral candidates based on their grasp of design. Few have any.
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Homeostatic envelope
The idea that there are boundaries defining the limits of normal experience, from joy to depression, and
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Goof of the day
The official Parliament website plumbs new depths of cluelessness.
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Donald Barthelme’s reading list
81 works recommended by Donald Barthelme, and why such reading lists are far more intriguing than ‘50 Essential Albums You Must Own’ style lists.
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Bye bye HyperCard
HyperCard has been put out of its misery, which seems inevitable but a shame. But you can download a stack I made a dozen years ago. About tea.
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Powergen’s negative energy
How can one company do so many simple things wrong: Powergen sent me a gas bill a while back,…
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Houston’s transport
Houston’s got light rail. But it didn’t when I was there, and I’ve provided a handy set of bullet-points outlining my experience of travel in the city.
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Why not to buy a Roomba
The cute little robot vacuum cleaners have rather less ethical cousins.
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I forgot to pack my cynicism
A worryingly seductive train journey from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
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I’ve had it up to here
After 5,000 MyDoom emails in the past couple of weeks I’m signing up to Knowspam, to get my email back.
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Whither Ikeaphobia?
Many people say Ikea and Starbucks are evil. Adam Greenfield says they’re fine. I say the world’s not so simple and these black and white arguments don’t help anyone.
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MapQuestster
My frustration at spatial annotation ideas and social networking nonsense spouted gently onto the Geowanking mailing list.
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Their first movies
Quotes from ‘My First Movie’ on how driven (or otherwise) first-time directors have to be.
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Weblogs, unexplained
Watching the word “weblog” appear in the press with gradually decreasing amounts of explanation.
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The Poetics of Space
I was unexpectedly disappointed by Gaston Bachelard’s book, so I’d love to know why it’s so highly rated. Enlighten me!
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Richard Herring on his new watch
The [Timex Ironman digital watch] comes with a box about the size of a pack of playing cards that…
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Jame Oliver’s new site
I just helped set up Jamie Oliver’s new-look weblog, er, I mean diary. It has a fantastic cookery question and answer section.
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Its true
Greil Marcus quoting John Humphrys in the Sunday Times quoting Lynn Truss’s Eats, Shoots…
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Vito, Michael and Henry
In ‘The Believer’s September 2003 issue, Jim Shepard compared the “honourable” morality of the gangsters in Coppola’s ‘Godfather’ films with the destructive selfishness of those in Scorcese’s ‘GoodFellas’, and, all too briefly, likened the latter to the world of Enron and Bush’s government.
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Statement of a Photographic Man
An excerpt from Henry Mayhew’s 19th century ‘London Labour and the London Poor’, in which a photographer describes one of the many scams he pulls on people with this new technology.