Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Based on this article, which says that 31% (of 100 people) lie when they register on websites, I thought I’d do some research of my own. Do you tell the truth when you register?
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
According to this article at WiredNews, the emoticon is 25 years old tomorrow. They were first used by a Professor Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon University, apparently. I found this article from Microsoft really helpful, if a little serious, on the subject of how and when to use them. It explains that “emoticons are sideways faces [...]
Monday, September 17, 2007
About 20 million people seemed to have made it down to the South Bank this weekend for the Thames Festival, though it doesn’t seem to have got much news coverage. They closed Southwark Bridge on Saturday for a food fair, and it was so busy they had to stop people going up the steps from [...]
Some of my photos from the V&A Village Fete can be found here. The Fete was a great afternoon out. The highlights for us were: Texteducation, where competitors tapped out text messages on modified dance mats against each other and the clock The badge making, where we chose items from a collection of catalogues to [...]
We went to the Roald Dahl Museum at the weekend, which is really well done. The first half focusses on the life and work of Roald Dahl himself, and the second on giving children ideas and tools for creative writing. We all got to sit in the great man’s writing chair, which was an experience… [...]
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Can’t help but love this. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig] Sigur Ros are getting very popular here… The BBC have picked up on them and they’re using them a lot in links and trailers. Rather like what they did with Lemon Jelly a few years back.
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I read the Register. And today the headline that caught my eye was “Extra anus kills four-legged chicken”. How could I NOT click on that story? Anyway, it’s very sad, quite weird, and I hear KFC are on their way to investigate.
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Harry’s uploaded his video to Google Video, at This means he can win the competition, if he gets enough votes! There really ought to be more entries though. I know people have been filming, so where are the movies?
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Harry from Agency.com has done a movie about the slides at Tate Modern. Much more polished and professional than mine. It’s here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaRf-sBP9w]
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