Archive for October, 2007

Bernie’s better beginner’s guide to photography A little visual perspective on the $87 billion being spent on Iraq – or ‘big numbers – just how big are they?’ How does it feel to die? – fascinting if morbid New Scientist article I just discovered this hilarious comic strip called Garfield and Conceptual terrorists encase Sears [...]

Inspired by Rebekah Sedaca’s Boxes and Arrows post, some workmates and I took a social day out learn the art of comic drawing. I can barely remember the last time I attempted to draw anything ‘for real’ – it’s long been something I’ve decided I couldn’t (and therefore shouldn’t) do. And, well, I’m still not [...]

I’ve started to play chess again. And wow, they’ve made it lots harder since I’ve been away. I’m putting it down to my more open brain. Yup. Remind me to write about my strange left-brain-to-right-brain conversion some day; there can’t be many designers with Physics degrees. There doesn’t seem to be a great lot of [...]

It’s very late and as such I’ve yet to work out how important an announcement this is. Hasn’t even hit Digg yet. Radiohead have a new album coming out. In ten days. No pre-release hype, no PR, no Letterman appearances. No surprise there. The surprise? You choose the price. You could say this is something [...]