- Webcurios 06/11/15 - Reading Time: 33 minutes [image missing] Rishi Dastidar In a week in which we’ve seemingly just sort of rolled over and accepted the fact that we’re going to be surveilled everywhere we go on the internet with a broadly resigned shrug – look at us, apparently feeling all totally fine and relaxed about The Man knowing all about our…
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- Webcurios 21/03/14 - Reading Time: 25 minutes [image missing] Sad, expectant, happy Dominic Alves, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/6303773254/ WE DONE A BUDGET! Or, more accurately, Gideon did. Thanks, Gideon. Didn’t we all enjoy all the INTERNETS around it, though, eh? Oh. Well TOUGH, webmongs, because it’s going to be like that EVERY SINGLE DAY on Twitter for about three months as of this time…
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- Webcurios 14/03/14 - Reading Time: 25 minutes [image missing] One Stop Jerk Centre, Harlesden Cory Doctorow, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/2147445224/ Happy Birthday, The Web! You all have Tim Berners-Lee to thank/blame for being able to read this, as do I for having something to write about. I remember the first EVER time I used the web – at college, in 1996, when we…
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- Webcurios 07/03/14 - Reading Time: 28 minutes [image missing] Military intelligence ThisParticularGreg, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisparticulargreg/3243342757/ LOOK! FAMOUS PEOPLE TOOK A PICTURE OF THEMSELVES! Jesus wept. I mean, really, I know that ours is a culture in which nothing is too pointless and ephemeral to be analysed ad infinitum, ad nauseam (and yes, I am well aware that I am / this is…
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- Webcurios 28/02/14 - Reading Time: 28 minutes [image missing] Dr Dull and Arts Champion Frank Kelly, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/comiccharacters/3323495260/ So last night I went to the theatre with my girlfriend (to see Superior Donuts at the Southwark Playhouse, which I can recommend unreservedly and for which you should get tickets should you live in London and be interested in that sort of…
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- Webcurios 21/02/14 - Reading Time: 27 minutes [image missing] Crazy inflatable people Patrick Quinn Graham, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/pftqg/2484115806/ So obviously the most important thing that’s been going on this week is in Ukraine, not that you’d know it if you garnered most of your news from social media. Even a company spending $billions on a jumped-up text messaging service pales into insignificance…
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- Webcurios 14/02/14 - Reading Time: 29 minutes [image missing] Awkward glance David Martin Hunt, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidchief/516645478/ RAIN RAIN RAIN HARD VIDEOGAME RAIN SNOW MEDALS GRAVITY RAIN POLITICS RAIN HEARTS FLOWERS SOLITUDE LONELINESS STUFFED TOYS RAIN. That’s basically been it, hasn’t it? Good, glad we’ve got that cleared up. I’ve not got time for preamble today, thank your lucky stars, so let’s…
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- Webcurios 07/02/14 - Reading Time: 26 minutes [image missing] Enjoy Shin. St James’ Road, SE16 Garudio Studiage photo of the week Well HELLO! Isn’t it exciting? Today we celebrate that wonderful intersection of cold weather and gravity – the WINTER OLYMPICS! A few weeks when we can get all exercised about Russia’s absolutely appalling human rights record and attitudes towards non-heteronormative lifestyles…
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- Webcurios 31/01/14 - Reading Time: 26 minutes [image missing] So Good Mega Phone Box New Road, Oxford Were you aware that this week it was decided that getting irritated about income inequality and railing against the iniquity of the whole 1% thing is effectively replicating the conditions which brought the Nazis to power? Well it was, so now you know. Meh. Look,…
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- Webcurios 24/01/14 - Reading Time: 29 minutes [image missing] Cool telegraph pole Abingdon Road, Oxford However bad your week’s been, it’s been better than that of the workman who shut the Victoria Line yesterday, and possibly Bieber’s as well (leaving aside Bieber’s youth, beauty and millions of dollars, which I am sure are providing some sort of small consolation to him). SO…
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