Posted in writing on Sep 20th, 2007
Dear God I’m addicted to Scrabulous. For anyone who hasn’t been playing (or reading Charlie Brooker), it’s a Scrabble plugin for Facebook. Except, inasmuch as I can be bothered to find out, it started out as a turn-based email game. Whatever, our Charlie’s “no Facebook till lunch” note to self is still as apt as [...]
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Posted in politics on Sep 20th, 2007
Another campaigner outside the Brighton Centre this morning, this time with a placard: Jesus is the only saviour for sin and all it’s consequences Now I don’t mean to come over all Lynne Truss*, but if there’s one way to get your message across it isn’t with an errant apostrophe.
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Posted in journalism on Aug 17th, 2007
Anyone looked at BBC News today? Stupid question really. You don’t need to see the site’s off-the-scale Social Meter score to know it’s one of the most authoritative on the internet, even if its writers still don’t know where to put an apostrophe. The site’s lovable semi-literate fucknuttery remains intact, then, but the Beeb has [...]
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