Bête Noire
An eighth of England is currently still under water – this coming just a month after a different eighth of it had been temporarily transformed into a boating lake by...
Pick a Side
In today’s Guardian, there’s a Q and A with Aimee Mann, which includes these reactionary snippets: What’s the greatest threat to music?Music downloads and CD burning. If music is free,...
What’s in a Word?
2,091 web users, polled by British research body YouGov, were asked to cite the Internet generated words and phrases that bug them… 1. Folksonomy2. Blogosphere3. Blog4. Netiquette5. Blook (a book based...
Brains Needed
I’m trying to work out the etymology of two phrases that seem to have become common in the blogosphere. If anyone knows where they might come from (TV show? Specific...
Create Your Own Positive Reality
Coke have redesigned their cans for the Japanese market. If anything, it’s a simple reduction of a slick and overstated 80s style; a more classic approach. Not according to Coke’s...
Karma’s Gonna Get Ya
Following my tetchy anti-Buffyism rant earlier this week, I settled down with an as yet unopened season 4 BtVS boxset, only to discover that disc four is missing. It must...
Banned Phrases of 2007
The following phrases and/or syntactical constructions are now officially old. Please stop using them immediately: “Wow. Just wow”. The word “really” used on its own for sardonic emphasis. (eg: “I...
My Two Heads
As an apparently discerning child of the late 20th Century, I find myself continuously torn between high and low brow culture. Marie and Donnie were a little bit country and...
I can’t handle the snark…
There’s been something eating away at me lately – and I blame Friends. More specifically, I blame Chandler Bing in Friends. The influence of that programme, now forever stuck in...
World War 3.0
A comment on Digg referred to the current Middle Eastern conflicts, Chinese military build-up and North Korean rumblings as World War 3, Beta 1. At first I wished that I’d...