Don’t ask me why
But for some reason (perhaps going to see the Gilbert & George exhibition last weekend?), I’ve had this sketch in my head today. Something a bit more cheerful than recent newspaper headlines anyway.
Evening Standard Headline Boards
Cory has a post on BoingBoing about the completely absurd headline boards that go up around London each evening to try and make you buy the papers – especially the terrible Evening Standard. Check out his Flickr set here. I always see them as I head to the tube from our office in Bethnal Green. [...]
Free Martin Lukes!
For years now the Martin Lukes column in the FT has been the best regular analysis of corporate life. Things have taken a dramatic turn today though. Martin – I’m 120 per cent with you.
Who writes this crap?
Poet geniuses Luke Wright and Joel Stickly have a new website called whowritesthiscrap.com. Think of it as a campaign to rid the world of bad writing crossed with a brilliant comedy show. One to watch. It will make you shudder and giggle in equal measure.
Elevator pitch
Solana has a funny story about getting into a lift and hearing her own voice announce the next floor. I once did the voice-over for a Polish pig farmer in a BBC World documentary. Not a lot of people know that.
Net worth
Oh dear. Better stick with the day jobs. According to Cyberwire’s Website Value Calculator, this site is worth a grand total of $126. [via John Naughton]
Forbes on networks
I meant to mention a couple of weeks ago the special ‘networks’ issue of Forbes magazine after Chris Anderson pointed it out (I’m not a regular Forbes reader, I have to admit). It’s an interesting read and has quite a lot of similarities with the Demos collection that I edited with Paul and Helen called [...]
Short short stories
Wired have a lovely little piece where they asked writers to come up with six word short stories. My favourite has to be this one: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time – Alan Moore
