June 2012
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Minimalist desktop wallpapers →
I like these - they appeal to me. I would like my desktop to look like this but I can’t see the wallpaper for all the icons (might need to sort that one out first).
Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy... →
A Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera. Educational too… from Parslow.com
Jun 28th
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Mr McGroovy's Rivets →
Mr McGroovy’s rivets provide a mechanism for turning any cardboard box (or just plain old cardboard) into a major space-filling craft project material. The rivets connect together to create a durable join. The site also offers suggests of sourcing materials, different building projects and helpful hints for dealing with cardboard boxes in general.
Jun 28th
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The most isolated man in the world →
Slate ran this two years ago - but presumably he is still somewhere in Brazil and likes to dig holes - although nobody knows why.
Jun 27th
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Bananas and Monkeys →
A parable of modern management policies…
Jun 27th
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Tumbling Lichenstein heads
Some recognisable Lichenstein paintings from the retrospective of his work on the fortyfoursunsets blog.  Also a result of my determination to get animated gifs working on Tumblr…
Jun 27th
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A mighty morphing Dali sequence…
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“Keele are Number 1 in the UK for Quidditch!” Oh, I think I just made my...”
– So this is how to select a university for a course. A tweet from a potential unnamed scholar of this Midlands institution. Unfortunately I know the whole story and it is specifically number 1 for “Muggle Quidditch” which as silly as it sounds is quite a different thing…
Jun 24th
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Trademark device names
I picked up some toothpaste today and discovered the “Nurdle” device is a trademark of GlaxoSmithKline. So I went on a hunt for other devices with names. There are some obvious ones. Coca Cola - Dynamic Ribbon Nike - Swoosh Guinness - Harp of Brian Boru (possibly a description rather than a name) A lot of the registered marks are more generally just descriptions. Bass - Red...
Jun 21st
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“Lancashire indoor hang-gliding champion”
– A proud achievement indeed but one that definitely requires unpicking. The things you can learn from Benidorm (the ITV series that is).
Jun 18th
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“Whatever you do don’t type ‘askew’ into a Google search...”
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10000 tattoos... of urls →
He has 10,000 URL tattoos and is on his way to 100,000. This project is linked to Back 2 the Light where the URLs are also accessible. $35 CAD will get you a spot. Apparently it is all about breaking a world record. But I had always lived under the mistaken believe that a world record needed some sort of previous measure to be gauged against. OK, 10,000 tough stickers is impressive but how do you...
Jun 14th
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I want your psychologist
So… if you take the lyrics of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance and hold it’s hand through a quick translation into Latin and a flirtation with Afrikaans and then back to English. In the end it is all fairly recognisable except noticeably “Want your bad romance” that becomes the slightly more disturbing “I wish you the evil” - near enough? Oh, he was sick in the Oh,...
Jun 13th
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Jun 13th