Posted in advertising, belief, blogs, commerce, consumers, journalism, media, mind, nu-media, person, psychology, society, supernatural, understanding on October 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Blogging at The Sun – Tabloid Lies, D-Notice links to an article on the Sun’s website, where some woman was filming her baby and there’s odd sounds on the tape. I won’t say any more than that about the particular article: not because like D-Notice I want to let you decide about it for yourself [...]
Posted in blogs, cars, climate, cliques, coaches, commerce, consumption, cotswolds, councils, cycles, enmity, environment, establishment, journeys, location, media, mopeds, near, nu-media, ownership, oxford, pedestrian, petitions, politics, public, roads, society, transport on May 21st, 2009 5 Comments »
When I first heard someone complaining in the local press about it taking them forty minutes to get into Oxford from west Oxfordshire, my immediate reaction was: so what? That sounds about right, and if you have the misfortune to be trying to travel on a Sunday and catch a gap in the bus schedule [...]
Posted in blogs, charity, climate, columnists, communication, diary, dickheads, editing, environment, experience, idiom, instant_messaging, journalism, language, location, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, parties, rants, research, society, spelling, syntax, technology, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on February 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
I used to love The Register. It stood up for digital rights, stuck the knife into governmental IT projects, shone the light on ID cards and gave due attention to the largely pointless and wasteful intrusions of technology in the form of CCTV or the database state. But for the past twelve months or so, [...]
Posted in art, blogs, entertainment, humour, made_our_own_fun, media, music, nu-media, radio, songs on February 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Adam & Joe have gently pushed a boundary of the BBC’s idiosyncratic content delivery mechanisms. By which I mean they’re giving you free stuff.
In a recent blog post, Adam Buxton idly pointed visitors at files on a file-sharing site which join together to make their entire new year’s eve programme: jingles, music and all. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, blogs, columnists, crime, dickheads, journalism, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, politics, rants, society on February 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Nobody writes polemics quite like Monbiot’s tirade against Hazel Blears (via many, including looby):
The only consistent political principle I can deduce from these positions is slavish obedience to your masters. Theyworkforyou sums up your political record thus: “Never rebels against their party in this parliament.” Yours, Hazel, is the courage of the sycophant, the courage [...]
Posted in blogs, death, emotions, establishment, interviews, journalism, media, nu-media, opinion, people, person, podcasting, politics, responsibility, right, society, war on February 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Speechification’s superb service to the nation has delivered The Human Button into my podcast tracking devicicule recently. It’s broadly speaking a nutritious slice of Reithian radio and very listenable, although just as establishment as milord would have loved to hear. The presenter Peter Hennessy is professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of [...]
Posted in blogs, class_warfare, cliques, commerce, employees, establishment, freedom, industry, journalism, loyalty, media, money, morality, nu-media, person, politics, society, websites on February 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Late last night I ran out of time and, fearful of the onset of a migraine, didn’t commit this to blog publication. Political bloggers far better than I— especially septicisle—have summarized events better than I might.
Much as feminism is first and foremost about equality and not about misandry, the anger at imported labour at Lindsey [...]
Posted in blogs, climate, commenting, dickheads, environment, journalism, lies, location, media, nu-media, opinion, publishing, rants, research, truth, understanding on January 31st, 2009 10 Comments »
Bad journalism should not be mistaken for bad research. For example, via Brennig comes an instance of the BBC casually and cavalierly cutting and pasting from the inaugural speech. This is pretty low, but hardly a surprise. It’s certainly no lower than the levels to which the BBC, the Mail, the Sun or the rest [...]
Via Hatmantwitter comes Rob’s excellent Real cycling blog. Incunabula, ridiculous cycle lanes and fox wee. And a quiz on real cycling which disdains, among other things, lycra.
I had my bike stolen once, almost a decade ago now. I followed the trail of the pincered lock, and eventually found it, parked back up against the library. [...]
Posted in art, blogs, christmas_2008, entertainment, language, literature, made_our_own_fun, media, nu-media, oulipo, seasons, short_stories, time, webrings on December 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
It turns out to be trivially easy to “hack into” the Skyfi at one’s parents-in-law’s house (the password is printed on the underside of the router), but I do have to return to the merry throng presently and be sociable before K. gives me any black looks. I just thought that anyone who might have [...]
