- 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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- 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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