The day is oh so pretty

Finding it hard to focus as it’s oh so sunny outside.

Bell Orchestre “Recording a Tape (Typewriter Duet)”

Red Links 28/05/09

Public interview with Shane Black and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang screening. Gourmet site Gastronom.ie has Lindt prizes for your 50s. Via James, how to make window boxes out of election posters. T writes a yuppie essay. Kid has talent. Hope he remembers us after he sells 1m books. Love the work of Beniot P. Scary [...]

A Proposal for CampCamp

Been thinking lately of organising a CampCamp. A CampCamp could have talks on load of different things, its mission statement, like Alien, is propagate more camps. A CampCamp might have talks on: Ways to abuse Social Media How to talk to the Yoof like they are “You People” How to use Moodle/Django/Ruby on Rails/… How [...]

Red Links 26/05/09

Simon reflects on the liveblogging phenomenon. Trouble in the Houses of Porsche and VW? The case for working with your hands. A Case of a Picnic. Bus graveyard. TopGear animal testing. Sharon Van Etten ‘For You’. Via See What You Hear.

Battle of the Bottle

Photo owned by Kevin N. Murphy (cc) It’s an old saying, gentlemen prefer blondes. Last Friday I came to the stark conclusion, gentlemen would never prefer me. As a blonde. Carla’s hands belied her disgust. “That colour is doing you no favours.” “Let’s go warm” “I’m afraid that’s going to mean two layers” “A squillion [...]

On Media and MiCandidate

Suzy has written a piece on the adoption of MiCandidate data by media organisations in the run up to the June 5th elections. Go, take a read!

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