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  • Webcurios 17/01/14 - Reading Time: 26 minutes [image missing] Shy mannequins Westgate Centre, Oxford Has it got better yet? Do you feel a little more grounded, a little less lost, and generally more in control of the careening juggernaut that is your life in this latest and oh-so-modern of years? No? Oh, sorry about that. I wish I could offer some sort…

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  • Webcurios 10/01/14 - Reading Time: 23 minutes [image missing] Chickpizz, London N16 Cory Doctorow, CC licence http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/5453512445/ Yeah, right, so that was the holidays. Good, weren’t they? WELL THEY’RE OVER NOW SO STOP BEING NOSTALGIC AND GET BACK TO WORK. If there’s one thing that the Christmas break inevitably proves, it’s that there’s nothing like a brief taste of freedom to make…

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  • Webcurios 13/12/13 - Reading Time: 27 minutes [image missing] Grounded television Thames Street, Oxford It’s been a long year. This is the last one of these you’re getting in 2013 – THANK GOD, EH? 2013 feels a little bit like a year in which the future caught up with us slightly. All the things that I was writing about in January /…

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  • Webcurios 06/12/13 - Reading Time: 25 minutes [image missing] Jabba the hut Oxpens Road, Oxford It’s late and I’m short of time. Let’s get on with this. Think of me as your wetsuit, webmongs – snug fitting, warming, and equipped with all manner of sensors and electronic gizmos to guide you through the murky depths of this week’s internet. Into the airlock…

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  • Webcurios 04/10/13 - Reading Time: 23 minutes [image missing] Hot & Tasty. Clayton Road, Peckham, SE15 Garudio Studiage photo of the week Literally no time this week due to proper work. NONE. I have websites to launch and stuff. Let’s get straight down to it – open your metaphorical gullets and prepare to down this foaming, frothy (and slightly suspicous-smelling) pint of…

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  • Webcurios 27/09/13 - Reading Time: 22 minutes [image missing] Christmas Sale, Rye Lane, London SE15 Garudio Studiage photo of the week SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK!!!! I know that I’ve done this before, and I also know that mocking social media week is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, and that there’s a Tumblr down there (*gestures vaguely to the section all…

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  • Webcurios 20/09/13 - Reading Time: 22 minutes [image missing] Half a mile to Wham Garudio Studiage photo of the week Videogames, videogames, videogames. And fashion too. EXCITEMENT! That’s basically been this week, along with an awful lot of work – it turns out that helping people open a new venue is actually quite demanding. WHO KNEW? Anyway, I have yet ANOTHER wedding…

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  • Webcurios 26/07/13 - Reading Time: 15 minutes [image missing] 15.07.13 – Sawdust – Morrisons, Aylesham Centre, SE15 Garudio Studiage photo of the week So, a THING happened this week. I’m going to have to mention it below, for which apologies, but really there’s only one thing you need to read about it and you can find it here. Otherwise it’s been much…

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  • Webcurios 19/07/13 - Reading Time: 19 minutes [image missing] World Domination Summit – SW Main Street, Portland Garudio Studiage photo of the week HOT. IT IS SO HOT. WE ARE ALL MELTING. And yet, somehow, we are still finding the strength to whinge about just how hot it is. Oh England, how do I love your schizophrenic approach to the weather and…

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  • Webcurios 12/07/13 - Reading Time: 19 minutes [image missing] Tragic Life Stories. WH Smith, Rye Lane, London SE15 Garudio Studiage photo of the week Right, I have about 10 minutes to write this bit before I have to put some pants on and go to Slough for a meeting. You’re getting off lightly. Think of me this afternoon, drinking bitterly alone in…

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