- Webcurios 26/02/16 - Reading Time: 25 minutes Well, now we know. 4 months of tedium as a bunch of dullards attempt to convince a largely ambivalent electorate of the validity of their point of view – I thought we did this last year, but it turns out that referenda are even WORSE than general elections from the point of view of them…
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- Webcurios 19/02/16 - Reading Time: 26 minutes HELLO AGAIN EVERYONE! Rejoice, for 2016 can finally properly begin – Web Curios is BACK FOR GOOD (barring additional holidays, sickness, a general continuation of the overall lack of anything resembling a regular audience for this, the publisher pulling the plug, death or serious illness, or just the eventual victory of the crushing sense of…
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- Webcurios 29/01/16 - Reading Time: 32 minutes HELLO LOOK WEB CURIOS IS BACK! Yes, look, fine, I know that noone really reads this and therefore noone really cares, but I care, OK, and I need to do something ease the frankly terrifying buildup of internetpressure inside my skull in order to avoid painting my kitchen an unpleasantly bloody shade of grey matter…
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- Webcurios 11/12/15 - Reading Time: 30 minutes [image missing] Alex Liivet, CC licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexmartin81/21467769946/ I went to Amsterdam! It was fun! We played videogames and smoked weed and did mushrooms and all those sorts of stereotypical Amsterdam-type things – what LARKS! Then last weekend my little brother died and the glow of carefree fun sort of wore off a bit. WOAH! Big…
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- Webcurios 27/11/15 - Reading Time: 28 minutes [image missing] Everything’s fixed! All that talking and opining about What Must Be Done has sorted EVERYTHING OUT! Praise be! ONLY JOKING! It’s all still a total fcuking mess, whichever way you look.The only people with reason to look happy at the moment are the arms manufacturers, and they tend to grin suspiciously most of…
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- Webcurios 20/11/15 - Reading Time: 33 minutes [image missing] John Harwood, CC https://www.flickr.com/photos/john_t_harwood/2853642055 Well that was vile, wasn’t it? Let’s accept that there’s little or nothing edifying I can say about Paris and associated issues and move on – except that I was watching Question Time last night and a few things struck me which I will share in passing: You know…
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- Webcurios 13/11/15 - Reading Time: 24 minutes [image missing] Stephen Allport, CC licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenallport/22241824215/ So this morning I unaccountably woke up 75 minutes late (not unaccountably at all, I just forgot to turn on my alarm) which means that I had even less time than normal to write all this crap and which crap, as a result, is a little shorter and…
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- 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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