Words
A few words I've been throwing around willy-nilly recently: I've written about the magic of posting things (you know, actually posting … posting things … in the post … with stamps and paper and spit)...
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I'm knocking some code around, and need to throw a test post out there to make sure my RSS feed is working. Seems like as good an excuse as any to quote this speech from the last episode of Mad Men,...
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One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real. — William Gibson
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Vulture Books
A little personal project plucked from the film/design Venn diagram in my head: Vulture books. It's one part tribute to my favourite design birds and one part utter geekery. It started with me...
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Bumps
The beautiful Dr Benneworth-Gray, shot by Emma Case Early on in our courtship, during a typically sophisticated booze-and-movies night at her apartment, Dr B managed to spill a large glass of red wine...
View ArticleTools
Back in 1995, when Bill Gates rather accurately predicted the form and function of the iPhone (or, as he snappily called it, the "Wallet PC"), he described it as the new Swiss Army Knife. The iPhone...
View ArticleIce Weasels
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. — Matt Groening, Life In Hell
View ArticleTwelve Things On My Mind Before The Dark Knight Rises
1. Nought-five Well crikey, this has been a long time coming. To put it into context, I posted my review of Batman Begins on here several months before excitedly writing about getting my own MySpace...
View ArticleOn Big Evil Plans and Superheroes
This is about the Big Evil Plans in this year's comic book movies. As such, it contains spoilers. Lots of spoilers. Spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Avengers. You have...
View ArticleA Stationery Field Guide
Typewriters. Polaroid cameras. Turntables. Things. Great big clunky things that, despite the obsolescence suggested to them by the feature-creep of what our ancestors called “tele-phones”, they endure....
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