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Chugging
If you walk down a central London street like Carnaby Street, most lunchtimes you’ll come across in-street charity teams who are very keen to get you to sign up a direct debit order with whoever they’re representing that day. It’s called “chugging” – charity mugging. I’ve known for ages that these teams are not volunteer…
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Amazon Gorefest
Amazon is running a video commercial on their site for a book called The Death Artist. You can currently see the ad somewhere around the crime book section (I suspect that like other ads, it’s only shown a certain number of times, so it’s tricky to link directly to). Anyhow, the reason that this is…
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Blogging in Britain
Last week MSN released a report entitled Blogging in Britain (PDF via The Daily Telegraph) which is all very interesting and supplies lots of hard and fast numbers which I’m using for a work project. But whoever worked on the presentation of the stats in the report really needs to go back to school and…
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Lies Of Omission With Lists
Channel 4 had one of those interminable list programmes on the other night. In this instance, it was the 50 films you should see before you die. The final list is here with Apocalypse Now coming out on top. In this case, the list was put together by a panel, and it was all to…
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MP3 Audiobook Giveaway
Last week, when I was bemoaning overly-abridged audio books I noted that The Times was claiming to be giving an unabridged audiobook of Stormbreaker, but pointed out that it couldn’t really get a 240 page book into 78 minutes. Well today it became clear that they were giving out an mp3 audiobook. Full marks for…
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Stage 16
Yesterday’s stage in the Tour de France was spectacular with Floyd Landis cracking badly on the final climb, rueing the day that he decided to let Oscar Pereiro get half an hour on the field and get into yellow.
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No TV Licences At Post Offices
This news seems to have escaped me. For some reason, from the end of this month, you’ll no longer be able to buy your TV Licence from a Post Office. Instead, aside from all the various direct debit options, you’ll have to use a PayPoint location. The reasons given include that there are more PayPoint…
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Euro Car Parks
Every company needs a good meaningless motto. Someone at Euro Car Parks obviously liked the Microsoft “Where do you want to go today?” campaign and though they could tweak it just a little bit for a car park company. Hilarious, just hilarious.
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Stuart Hughes is Quite Pleased
Who says that even journalists in warzones aren’t competitive? Listen to Stuart Hughes’s piece from late last night describing the BBC’s coverage of the day’s evacuation of British citizens from Beirut.
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Panography
I made this image from my window today in the baking sun using a great little tutorial from Photojojo. I’m sure I can do better with more time and many many more photos!
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Sport Relief
I’m completely with Martin Kelner on the various merits of Sport Relief. Kelner mentions Chris Evans high-fiving some tsunami survivors, while I was unfortunate enough to be there at the end when all the participants starting hugging one another congratulating themselves on a job well done. The most truthful comment came from a showstopping Peter…
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The Mediaguardian 100
Mediaguardian published their list of the most powerful 100 people in the industry today. As usual you get the feeling that the contributors had more fun putting it together than anything and it’s all a bit meaningless. But what I find really strange is that despite putting less usual entries in previous lists (for example,…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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