hackbash

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Happy one indeed, and big thanks to Handolio for doing all the hard work. He’s the Hackbash behemoth. I’m just the, um, moth.
Personally I think we’ve done a good job of focussing on the original topic; working through the possibilities for real online journalism in a marketing environment.
Now here’s a video of two dogs [...]

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OK, more customer service-related whinging. I have a BT landline so I can get broadband, which doesn’t come from BT.
The line’s intermittently noisy. Sometimes it’s unusable. When it’s bad, the broadband’s slow, when it’s not bad the broadband flies.
When it’s bad, it’s almost cured by disconnecting the broadband modem. Almost, but not quite.
I know the [...]

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Charlie’s on holiday, but he’s asked me if I can post this - bird-watching freak that he is.

(Via Jason via B3TA)

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Because that’ll work.

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I don’t know. In my day there were only two stupid things to do with a balloon: Let go of an inflated one at a family party so it blew a salivatory* raspberry, or untie a helium one and pretend to be a chipmonk.
It turns out there are at least two more stupid things to [...]

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Noun: When performed by a sub editor, the act of shattering a writer’s fragile ego by presuming to change A. Word. Ever.
(See Coren G. v Owen, Amanda and Ben - 2008)
Usage: I can’t stand it, I know you planned it
I’m gonna set it straight, this Watergate
I can’t stand rocking when I’m in here
‘Cause your crystal [...]

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Kestrel rescue at Downing Street!

Cute, but not quite what I was expecting. Where’s the rescue then?

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Holy fucking crap.
I expect these words to be uttered by a legion of shell-shocked My Bloody Valentine fans today, as they nip out at lunch, pick up Kevin Shields‘ new album The Death of Patience, and lay back for a bit of easy listening.
I’ve just listened to the five minutes of No Good Deed Goes [...]

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