This week on my Twitter feed I seem to be continuing where I left off last week and grumbling about people on public transport ( Read more... )

Ooh, it's nice out today isn't it? I'm in shorts. Take that, landlord who was grumbling yesterday about how we've had all the good weather this year and there definitely won't be an Indian summer. Some "stuff for Friday" now, with a couple of bits and pieces I've seen online this week. Firstly, if you thought local newspapers were short on hard- ( Read more... )

A real mix-and-match of "stuff for Friday" today. First of all have a look at this video if you haven't seen it before - Pixels. The embedding doesn't seem to be working properly but it's worth following the link to watch the short film in its own right, but I also had a dream about it the other day. Not much to add to the clip except I dreamed I ( Read more... )

Well yesterday was one of those very exciting days to be a Twitterer - the days when the whole place goes up in arms over someone being a cunt. The someone was, as is so often the case, connected to the Daily Mail and the story was Jan Moir's now-infamous opinion piece about Stephen Gately's death - to all intents and purposes she said the coroner ( Read more... )

At Sainsbury's today they were handing out free Bags for Life¹ to mark their 140th anniversary. This reminded me of a story I saw in the papers yesterday (but can't find an online version of) saying that using these bags for your shopping spreads disease and stomach bugs. Well I use them so I read on, and you know what? Lots of people are getting ( Read more... )

So Jade Goody has died of ovarian cancer aged 27; I'm not going to say a lot about it, but since I made a few posts about the notorious Celebrity Big Brother 5 a couple of years ago, it seems like this is the unexpected ending to that story ( Read more... )

Oh, thanks for nothing, The Guardian.


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Being surrounded by newspapers at work can be a depressing experience - I often spend my lunchtimes washing the nasty taste out of my brain by reading the numerous blogs taking apart the lies, overt racism, and conservative propaganda that passes for journalism. Websites like Mailwatch, The Enemies of Reason and Five Chinese Crackers are well worth ( Read more... )

Question on the cover of today's Daily Fail:


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Happy Halloween, if you're into that sort of thing. It being on a Friday this year seems to have inspired people to turn it into a week-long thing - since Monday, LiveJournal has instead been called

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