2011-06-26 (Sunday)
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Links
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YouTube - Talking Funny Part 1 Of 4
Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis CK talking about comedy. Part 2 didn’t work for me in the UK, others OK. I’d love something like this involving Stewart Lee. (via Ted Mills)
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Henry Beck Rules, not OK? Breaking the Rules of Diagrammatic Map Design (PDF)
A thoughtful essay by Max Roberts, from 2009, about the rules used in Beck’s diagrammatic London Underground map, and when they’re worth breaking. Well worth a read. (via Blech)
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Comment Challenge plugin
Apparently is (still) effective at stopping Movable Type comment spam. I feel like I’ve gone back in time several years.
Tweets
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@Zoonie That was another big and well-rehearsed performance, rather than "just music". Also brilliant.
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Applause. #beyonce
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@mik3yb Robbie? I have some standards! :)
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@mik3yb All the blokes with guitars etc are mostly just playing music. Fair enough. It might be good music. This is a performance.
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@Zoonie If I watched any other event involving dance I'd expect them to have choreographed it. Why is this different? It's a big show.
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@Zoonie The dancing is *too good*?!
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@antimega Yes, certainly beats some unkempt blokes in t-shirts.
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What’s this Beyoncé career retrospective about? Does anyone watching Glastonbury on TV not know who she is? Even i know.
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@alruii Wasn’t that John Cooper Clarke? (If we were watching the same clips…?)
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@maxgadney They’re a bit like metal for people who don’t like leather.
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Soon I will be able to do instant face recognition on strangers in the Glastonbury crowd and identify people singing along to Kaiser Chiefs.
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What are the Kaiser Chiefs for? Do they fill the Stereophonics gap?
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@stml There’s a quote along the same lines in the display about the Festival of Britain at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Huh, turns out I had heard Janelle Monáe before: ‘Tightrope’ was #2 in Said The Gramophone’s best songs of 2010. Music’s a blur these days.
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Cor, London.
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Janelle Monáe at Glastonbury yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0129fhd/ (at start and 32:30) (UK only) (Wonderful performance.) (Yay!)