Someone's built a website that translates phrases repeatedly into Japanese and back until the phrase stays the same in both languages. So, for a Crazy Friday Competition, I fed in a bunch of lyrics - pretty much all indie/rock stuff from the 1960s through to the 2000s, if that helps - and you have to … Continue reading Lyric translation quiz – WIN BIG PRIZES
Category: Gimpy internet nonsense
'Compare seu QI' is a current trending topic. OK then: slightly enriched uranium is less good than @stephenfry's quiz show # RT @Herring1967 I have been overwhelmed with messages of support and commiseration and am ending the day feeling a bit sorry for Brian Logan # Maybe my LC piece (live tomorrow AM, waiting-for-not-very-exciting-things fans) … Continue reading What I’ve been up to, week ending 2009-08-02
What d'you reckon? It's not quite minimalist enough for my tastes just yet, but I like the way it does all the groovy Web 2.0 stuff, only two years late. I think the text box needs to be narrower and the borders wider... any other suggestions?
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RT @paulcarr: The anatomy of a Twitter attack. Must-read post from Nik Cubrilovic @Techcrunch http://bit.ly/2DTClm (via @TACJ) # "3 secondary moderns in every town", demand UKIP: http://bit.ly/17VUD4 # Feel exceptionally ropey. Better not be #swineflu # #bexleypowerfail killed work IT all day, even tho I'm in EC1. Otherwise wld never have heard of it. If … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26
Any puritan/moralist types want to explain how this warrants criminal prosecution, rather than 'best get a new career'? http://is.gd/1wdhl # RT @AdamBienkov: #Tories will prolong your misery shock http://bit.ly/3uVQjg # I'd forgotten that neocons described themselves as 'liberals mugged by reality'. Struggling to think of a group less acquainted with reality # Clue is a … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19
Noting the correlation between 'people who make noise complaints' and 'miserable bastards who're jealous that other people get to have fun'. # It's one-to-one in my book. # I've never made a noise complaint. It's only noise, FFS: sleep through it, or kill yourself if you're too pathetic to manage that # Actually, that's a … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12
Yes, Mumbai is indeed hotter and damper than London. Including all of London's Turkish baths. # Good @realdmitchell article, most of the commenters are ignorant fucktards: http://bit.ly/IY5YC #gasthenonswearingcuntwits # I agreee about 75% with this piece - http://bit.ly/10sbZI - but 100% with running it now rather than deferring to sentimental 'respect'-ery # Idly contemplating whether … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05
Lewes = pretty town. A23 between Croydon & Elephant & Castle = road to, from & via hell. Glad to be back in N19 # RT @PreachyPreach Germany does its best to ensure a long prolonged recession. http://bit.ly/h9XE6 # "Miners and police unite in beating the crap out of Greenpeace anti-coal protestors" #worldwithoutThatcher # If … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28
Lunch & wine are required. # The Last Boleyn Girl seems about as terrible as that sort of shit usually is. Hoping Jess will tire of it before we miss House # Sorry, director, The Other Boleyn Girl was OK. Scarlett Johansson was heartbreakingly beautiful, but I suppose that's what she's for. # I love … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21