The Streets of London
A Monaco style Grand Prix on London streets? The Mirror’s not impressed.
Two London car related posts in a row. Slow news day.
Monthly archives: May 2004
Chelsea Tractors
Let’s hear it for Ken Livingstone, currently the only major politician in this country with the balls to attack the morons who buy giant 4x4s to drive around the city.
‘When I see a farmer going over rugged terrain in their four-wheel drive, I think that’s a reasonable decision to have made. When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think ‘you are a complete idiot’.
Enhanced?
Can you tell real breasts from fakes? I managed a respectable 15 out of 20.
via Fleshbot (both NSFW)
The Naked Nemesis
Apparently students from all around the country have been taking part in a record attempt to set the highest number of naked people on a ride. There was even a competition for best test photograph, won by Kent rag.
Purple Gang
Old Hippies never die. They just reform and write songs about Stockport that are bigger than Britney in Hungary.
Mo' Logo
I’m becoming hooked on cutting up the edges of letter forms and doing funky things with clipping paths. I think I could change the fonts. Something a bit more feminine and/ or voluptuous for Mary and more cursive for Tales.
As always, comments are welcome. Even if those comments are only ‘Stop faffing around and do your coursework you lazy git!’
Nota Hari
The real life M was against female agents using sex to obtain information.
Microblog
Bill Gates embraces the blog. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I can see another browser war type situation where a future edition of Explorer has a blogging engine built in and Microsoft tries to take down Blogger and Movable Type.
via Penny
Blogroll Update
Just added to the blogroll is Stephen Newton’s blog. I added his Museum of Spam a few days ago. I’ve added a few other sites and removed a couple that appear dead, but the big news is the roll’s move to the bottom of the page, which hopefully will have helped load times.
Short Track
BMX is to become an Olympic sport, starting with the 2008 games in Beijing. This is actually old news (July last year), but I only just found out.
Dr. Love's Super Baby Making Show
A proposed Singaporean reality show will award $100,000 to the first of ten couples to conceive. Singapore needs a baby boom-
Only 37,633 babies were born in 2003 — way below the 50,000 it requires for defense and economic purposes.
Defense purposes? What do they do, fire smart babies at their enemies?
Offensive Pigeon Strategy
Declassified MI5 files have revealed early Cold War plans to use homing pigeons to commit bacteriological attacks.
I want my MP3!
I have a terrible confession to make. I never used Napster back when it was, well, Napster. By the time I got around to using work’s bandwidth for file sharing, the original was mired in lawsuits and I opted for ‘new Napster’ Scour.
So, corporate Napster launched yesterday. I won’t be using it. Or iTunes for that matter.
If I want music from one of the ‘big five’ I’ll seek out second hand cds or bargain basement prices in the HMV/ Virgin sales. Indie cds can be bought on my rare trips into Piccadilly Records. Online there are far better places to get music, which won’t be tied to the downloading PC- Spinach Records, run by Fruitbat of Carter USM, financed their early releases on a ‘shareware’ scheme- download a few tracks from the album then pay half the price of the final cd, with the first hundred or so people to lay down money getting special bonuses; betterpropaganda offers free sample songs; MPeria utilises BitPass for ultra cheap songs (particularly whilst the dollar is so low); I haven’t used Download.com much, but it offers free downloads as well; Hippocamp (who have just gone over to ogg files) is just down the road from me, as are Ishta (Hippocamp is absolutely free. If I could, I’d PayPal them a few quid.) And there’s a bundle of bands out there giving away tracks to get people hooked. Give them a try.
(Edit: I won’t use iTunes the store, but I will sing the praise of iTunes the music player. I’m currently working my way through a smart playlist of all the songs with a 0 play count, so I can get to listen to everything. Only 7 days of music to go!)
Who the hell is Abi Titmuss?
From demure nurse-next-door to C-List celebrity.
All the way through the article I had the name Fred Titmus(s) in my head. It seems Fred was an England footballer in 1922-23 (search for capped England players here), an England cricketer between 1955 and 1975 and, more recently, the subject of Fuckin’ ‘ell, It’s Fred Titmus by Half Man, Half Biscuit.
Photo Friday
This week’s subject is Macro. I have a Top of the World pic for it.
There’s photos for PC and mobile wallpaper in the shop.
Just William
The current project on my course is to design a new logo for a local school. It’s paying, so I’m not sure about sharing my work on it- perhaps when they announce the winner. Anyway, I was thinking of mocking up an example on a school uniform. I typed ‘school uniform’ into Google and expected the worst. Admittedly, the top sponsored link was for an adult toy shop, but the first page of web results was surprisingly wholesome (the images result are a bit more suspect). This historical overview is neat but no use, and there’s no way I’m taking pictures of school children.
Telling Tales
Inspired in part by a piece I did for the course, here’s a potential Mary Tales logo.
Always read the label
A US high school student is recovering in hospital after drinking a chemical from the school lab on a dare.
Peaches
How do I get to be a judge in Manchester’s Best Bum competition?
That's a Wrap
The 24 Hour Film School. Cool.