Gotta love it, people are angry at auntie. I love the arguments; Why should public money be used to create competition to a successful commercial venture such as MySpace? ….and what for it….. Few will want to dispute the emphasis on building multi-media websites to cover areas ranging from sport to health. But the popularity [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
calm down dear, it's only lazy journalism
Really should have posted about this when I thought about it yesterday. But I was being lazy, and now the point seems a little mute after today’s happenings. But I do feel I need to speak my mind about Charles Clarke getting all puffy and red-faced about media-representation of the government. “I believe that a [...]
April 22nd, 2006
Went for a vey nice walk with my girlfriend today, here are the pics.
Rich Barnard – STFU
STFU
Artist: Rich Barnard
Rating: out of 5
Media: CD
Genre: acoustic
Producer: self-produced
Favorite songs
- something about you
Rich has been a firend of mine for a long time (we met at school circa 1990) and many a jape has been shared since. As a very good friend, I am ofcourse duty bound to say that his creative output is good. So on being sent a copy of his first full album, STFU, happiness and pride were in abundance. Yet moving the friendship aside for journalistic impartiality, I bloody well love this album. As soon as the last elegant bars of ‘Something about you’ faded away, I was doublie clicking on the first track such was my enjoyment of this very well produced record. And the second listen only enhanced the experience.
Simple in nature yet complex in all the right places, STFU is a relaxing and uplifting piece of work.
Tags: Music
Dave the Chameleon
Dave the Chameleon, absolutely brilliant stuff from the people that brought us such classics as the war in Iraq and Third World debt cancellation. A very cute mini-film ala Pixar about David Cameron and the very much hyped belief that he changes his opinion depending on whom he is addressing (isn’t that the very definition [...]
web two point oh
As much as I am excited about new developments in the world of the interweb; flickr, youtube, digg, delicious…etc. I can’t but help think that the rush towards web 2.0 gold might have a touch of the March 2000s about it. Sure these services are really good and there is definately a tidal shift occurring [...]
Hach̩ Рburgerlicious
Location:
24 Inverness Street – Camden
Food rating: out of 5
Decor rating: out of 5
Service rating: out of 5
Wow, now that’s a burger. Its my birthday today, so I decided to treat myself to a lunch. I had heard that Haché in Camden is meant to be the best gourmet burger restaurant in London, so there was really no competition to where I was going to go today.
The place is an excellent little restaurant (in the true sense of the word, not the McVersion), very cosy and comfortable yet still remaining functional (in a naughties eclectic, Japanese/Conran fusion sort of a way). Service was excellent and the choices wide, although for me it wasn’t difficult, always in these situations I plan to go for the exotic, only to come back to the down right traditional (The Canadian – steak, cheese and dry cure).
The food was quite excellent. Although a traditional construct, the taste was anything but, the addition of rocket really balanced the taste (as in many burgers the meat can sometimes be a little overpowering). All in all it was quite incredible. I had to take a break from time to time just to allow the two opposing forces inside me to decide on whether to devour the burger or simply marvel at it.
Of course the devouring won.
Golden Section
Everyware
Really like this concept, imagining a world where objects, all objects (or at least a lot of them) produce data. In everyware, the garment, the room and the street become sites of processing and mediation. Household objects from shower stalls to coffee pots are reimagined as places where facts about the world can be gathered, [...]