Posts from 2007

Never expected something from YTMND to put a lump in my throat. Click to play:

There are enough of them already. I just wanted to talk about two interesting things. Interesting thing one The dictionary is superb. See I predict a pint on the marvellous GrammarBlog. As I think Peter Morville commented previously, I think one of the most intelligent and thoughtful touches Apple added was to have swear words [...]

Stop, filler time. How To Be Ugly – the rise of New Brutalism in design Google v Yahoo homepages over the last ten years Why percentages don’t add up – which is scarier: a medical procedure with a 95% survival rate, or one that kills 1 in 20 people? Spam One-Liners – “experiments in hand [...]

It’s no great surprise that my blogging frequency is inversely proportional to how busy I am. It’s not yet reached the stage where I’m staying horribly late and regretting my life, but it’s certainly at the stage where, when I get home, I tend to want to stay offline and decompress. Normally with my Benko [...]

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 [...]