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November 16, 2008 at 11:14 pm · Filed under Life
I hate James Bond films.
I’ve never looked forward to them and have always groaned inwardly whenever I’ve had to watch any one of the dire movies, no matter who was playing 007, and today I read a quote, from David Mitchell, that just about sums it up for me.
“The main thing about James Bond is that he doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. He’s a bit of a dick, really - not someone you’d want to end up next to at a dinner party - but he keeps saving the world, so, you know, fair enough.”
See what I mean.
November 16, 2008 at 10:59 pm · Filed under Everything, Life, Stuff
Ooops. New evidence suggests that the Long Tail effect may not have panned out as first thought. In fact, the word used is ‘debunked’. Read it here.
November 16, 2008 at 10:48 pm · Filed under Design, Life
This is my obligatory Little Big Planet post.
If you haven’t come across LBP then you must have been hiding out in a cave hoping that the CIA don’t come round for tea. For those of you that aren’t on the run from the forces of international justice then you’ll undoubtedly know that it’s an amazing looking game that sort of lets you construct your own levels, environments, interactions and various other treats.
Made by Media Molecule who have also posted up a pretty good flickr album. Nice.
July 20, 2008 at 1:23 pm · Filed under Everything, Life
I’ve been doing a lot of it lately and over the past few days I’ve found myself variously at a very pleasant tea party in the Blue Peter Garden, at NESTA with folks in the film and digital industries, at a Multiplatform TV seminar and at a Media Trust event with charites & the one common feature with all of those events is that no matter what the mix of industries we all ended up talking to other people from our own industry. All of us…not just me.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I find it enormously valuable meeting others who work in the same industry as me (and that I professionally admire) but I would love it if the networking paid off the way it’s supposed to i.e. we meet new people who might want to work with us or hire us. Instead we share highs and lows and compare battle scars with our peers.
This isn’t a pop at the folks who organise such events (I think you do a great job) but rather a call to anybody at an event that I’m at…please feel free to say HELLO even if you do not recognise me, and I will promise to the same to the people that I don’t know.
June 1, 2008 at 1:13 pm · Filed under Everything, Life, Stuff
Want to big up your Wikipedia entry in the hope of fooling everybody into thinking that you’re very very nice instead of very very naughty? Well don’t…unless you want your underhand tinkerings to be discovered for all to see via Wikiscanner - see this article on the BBC to get the idea.
March 16, 2008 at 3:44 pm · Filed under Everything, Life, Web
An interesting article about digital design - “When you create a utility, you’re creating something that gives people time back,” said Nick Law, CCO for North America at R/GA. “It becomes less about information as pollution and more about information to help get through life”
March 16, 2008 at 10:35 am · Filed under Everything, Life, Web
Now, I don’t actually own an iphone (I really wanted it to have 3g you see) but I do own an ipod touch and while I was initially fairly impressed with it’s browser and interface the google maps app for it just knocked me out. Apple have recently released the SDK for the iphone and ipod touch & it’s just a matter of time before it can do amazing stuff that we haven’t even started thinking about. One of the best posts I’ve read on the potential of this device, and mobile in general, is over here at 12 future apps for your iphone. Guess what I’ll be looking at next…
Link found via Ryan C’s Twitter feed - cheers:)
March 16, 2008 at 8:06 am · Filed under Life
Armed America - Portraits of gun owners in their homes. Photographs by Kyle Cassidy.
November 21, 2007 at 6:55 am · Filed under Life
No, that’s it. It’s over. Go home.
July 9, 2007 at 7:02 pm · Filed under Life
Big up to my good friends Craig and Helen who took delivery of a lovely baby girl at ten to seven this morning. Wth any luck she’ll turn out to be a screaming, belching, puking shit-machine so that I can mock my friend from afar. But for now, I’m delighted for them and wish I was up there wetting the baby’s head too. Ahhh.
Mother and baby are doing fine.
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