Posted in commerce, consumers, consumption, cotswolds, environment, location, meta, past, reuse, society, time on January 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Two months ago, I said:
Witney’s branch of Cargo closed recently. Fair enough, I thought, but it did so only to reopen in a far bigger store space (where New Look used to be). I give it six months….
Now? FALCO: Witney Cargo. We walked past its whitewashed windows earlier today. Apparently it’s going to turn into [...]
Posted in commerce, cycle_accessories, cycles, kaputt, manufacture, public, repairs, reuse, society, technology, transport on June 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Some five years ago—probably just before I started blogging, as I can’t find anything about it here, and you just know I would—a certain huge cycle shop on Cowley Road tried to sell me the flysheet of a child’s tent, pretending in their sale that it was a multicoloured cycle cover. When I returned it, [...]
Posted in art, arts_and_crafts, climate, consumption, electronics, environment, experience, inspiration, location, manufacture, recycling, reuse, society, speculative_tech, technology on May 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve spent a couple of hours looking for a durable, high-capacity alternative for my iPod, and come to the conclusion that one simply doesn’t exist. A reasonably well constructed Flash-based mp3 player would suffice, were it not for the fact that the largest capacity player of that sort is too small for my music collection [...]
