Small Beds and Large Bears

I console myself with the fact that she like others might not be an estate agent for much longer.
FALCO: Fuckall and Buyhard, Witney. Like dayglo colours and electronic music, the closure of estate agents is back in fashion.

You should never listen to me, really. When Twitter could no longer send free SMS updates in the UK, I was one of many that predicted the decline of the service in this country. The reason was my personal experience: I felt I had found Twitter’s “killer” application—liveblogging and expanding the experience of things like [...]

… is present in the myth of consumer empowerment:
Capitalism is about power. That’s why so many elements of it are inexplicable. It is not, and has never been, about rewarding hard work. It’s about using a system that pretends to reward hard work in order to reinforce power relations between employer and employee. It is [...]

… otherwise I can’t understand why he would want their finances, their homes and their very way of live ruined by runaway climate change in the near future.
I’ve met a few people who, despite being reasonably aware of (and fairly comfortable with) the notion of social responsibility and responsibility towards others, still voted for Boris [...]

Now that the great house-transferral industry is in trouble, estate agents are arguably even worse human beings than they were a bit over a year ago. Back then they were busy bothering and berating anyone on their books in order to keep stoking the fire under the pressurized, overheated market. I remember quite vividly the [...]

Ten minutes later: this, this, this and this.

hatmandu mentioned recently that I have strong Google-fu under certain circumstances; he’s also witnessed the ability of his own LiveJournal to draw in the search rankings. I think all we’re seeing is that Google’s algorithms still work well with trusted, coherent content (false positives notwithstanding).
There’s no easy way to cash in on it, Hat, so [...]

Dear Jeff Bezos,
Why what you and your company are doing has finally become unacceptable
I’m a pragmatist when it comes to economics. A purist in my politics, I nonetheless see that all commerce is to some extent tainted by people being shitheads. Besides, the markets eventually bury anyone guilty of gross stupidity or overweening hubris. With [...]

You might have got this from a round-robin email: I’ve been sent it by K.
If you receive a card through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) saying that they have a parcel awaiting delivery instructions and can you contact them on 0906 6611911 DO NOT call the number as this is [...]