On the one hand: poor bastards. On t’other, oh my god, the jokes…

One of the few people I know who really has Twitter cracked. His stream is made up of short critiques and quick ideas, usually very sharp and on target. This is a good example, neatly summarising the key problem with the work. He’s well worth reading.

Interesting cross section of society. The overall view skews a bit anti, but when you’re talking about smack and crack in places, it’s going to be hard not to, I guess.

Short: it’s a light puff piece that is the following things: predicatable, slightly amusing, and elevated by the actors rather than the writing. Please breathe out now, over-excited nerds. Go and watch something, worth getting agitated over.

I’m going to spend an hour or two thinking about this tonight, and see if I can come up with a reasonable forecast/application. I imagine the other applicants will be better qualified, but it’d be a fun thing to even try to do.

Well, I know what I’m doing on Saturday.

Just read that headline a few times. Go on. Now: that’s not science-fiction. It’s, y’know, a real thing. Tell me that’s not enough awesome for a week, right there. That’s cheered me right up, that has.

I feel unclean linking to the Dail Heil, especially for a non-story like this “rebellious artist is middle class public schoolboy shocker”, but I remain a fan of Banksy’s work, and will be interested to see what impact this has on his future efforts.

Counterbalance - here’s the sort of crappy sensationalist headline that the Express likes to run with, about the decaying state of out society “Buglars to be let off” type stuff, being shredded by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.

Good metaphor. I get my geek news through blogs instead of community-type sites for this sort of reason - the window where the site is gentrified enough that the a-geeks don’t annoy me but the masses and the attendant noise/churn haven’t arrived is small.

This is an idea I want to revisit. I know a number of very creative people, and see no reason why a bunch of us should not get together and make something clever.

Very very angry now.

Well, now Viacom is going to know about it. This, right here is why Google is dangerous. They may try not to do evil, but they can be compelled to hand over vast amounts of their oh-so-nice-honest data to people who are much more evil.

Doing a bit of research. There may be a few links in this vein coming.

I won’t bother to commenting on these, they’re just for me, not stuff I think it’s worth other people looking at, unless you’re facsinated by the nasty bits of Soviet Russia.

Diamond Geezer explains some of the significance of the numbers 1-30 in the context of London

It’s possible I have become confused about the metaphor here. Still, this is worth a look if you’d like to get an idea of the scale of Google’s operation. It’s slightly terrifying. And full of rice.

Someone get me one of these, at once. Not to screw with other people’s photography, you understand. But screwing with my own photos sounds like fun to me.

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