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June 4, 2009
26.01.05...
The 26th of January 2005 is in my Top 5 Favourite Days Of All Time. It had the makings of one of the the crappest, being [...]
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February 6, 2009
friday five: evolution is fun (in honour of darw...
Five: Mexican Walking Fish ~ one of the coolest things about Axolotl – apart from their smiley pink faces and the grooviest ears (or are they [...]
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February 3, 2009
snowpocalyse: mission impossible...
Today, I move out of the hostel in Hammersmith (here) to the rockstar pad of M&D in Kilburn (way the hell over there). With 40-odd kgs [...]
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January 29, 2009
the big picture...
Flying into Heathrow at night, with the sprawling city lit up below is fantastic. How beautiful are these pics? The Boston Globe has a stunning large-format [...]
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December 17, 2008
pretty cards...
Worky-related Christmas items that have landed on my desk so far this year: one box of Belgian chocs, a branded coffee plunger, l’afarre coffee beans, $50 [...]
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December 8, 2008
one small step towards saving the planet...
Brilliant idea and it’s free! A good idea is always simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining the readability? After extensive testing [...]
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October 27, 2008
a little something for the 'downstairs capt...
So it was only a matter of time before someone addressed the long standing gap in the market and created a line of organic shampoos for [...]
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October 22, 2008
a bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles (...
Rod Liddle, writing for The Spectator, recently published a rather inflammatory piece criticising the contents of the Guardian’s style guide, given away as part of last [...]
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October 21, 2008
return to sender...
For her degree from the Glasgow School of Art, Harriet Russell did a wicked postal experiment. She concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in [...]
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October 8, 2008
who you gonna call?...
The Ghostbusters Ecto-1 car is for sale on ebay. Apparently it has had all of its ghost busting equipment removed. Sucks.
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September 30, 2008
the photograph of the ats searchlight operators...
Last night after I had finished my book, I remembered a photograph that I had seen a few years ago. My friend J9 and I spent [...]
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September 24, 2008
who licked my cheese?...
This bloody genius device could have saved the great Cumberland Street Flatmate Dispute of 1996. When Matty the bio-chem student insisted on keeping his dead frogs [...]

















