Frank Kogan’s Real Punks Don’t Wear Black is a devastatingly good book. The first evening I read it I found that it shook me up a lot – I recognised the ideals and ideas Frank was chasing, even if I couldn’t have articulated t[…]

Brand Republic brings news of 2006’s first big brand extension clash: both Coke and Pepsi are bringing out coffee-flavoured fizzy drinks at the start of next year.

Coke’s offering is Coca Cola Blak, as seen in this picture – but on[…]

Mona Lisa ‘definitely smiling’
The “computers analyse art” story is perhaps second only to the “scientists have discovered an formula” story in the science spacefiller stakes. Here we see “emotion recognition[…]

QUEEN OF BEAN AND SEDGE:[…]

Extraordinary late entry from Challenge Business.[…]

Mashed Artichokes??!!: I think the stuff in this article about blood sugar is probably pretty sound however the family Xmas isn’t all about the food and drink, it is a finely calibrated and balanced thing in which ideally every factor that migh[…]

Around the time of her death about two years ago, Agnes Martin became less subtle, and started using colours and shapes that in her previous painterly practice would strike as unusual, even shocking. (if you have painted grey lines on beige paper for[…]

The comic with the worst ending of all time is THE MEAN TEAM, which ran in 2000AD in the 1980s.

This story started as a future gladiator sports story and was alright if you squinted. The Mean Team were the fiercest fighters in a killer capture-the-f[…]

And indeed it appears no-one started the Hemel Hempstead fire currently burning up all the oxygen in the world. Not only has the disaster/pretty sunset maker thrown up massive cultural differences in the use of the word casualties (see this ILE threa[…]

I’d never thought much about this before — but endings of adult lit aren’t as difft from endings of kids’ books as you’d perhaps expect. But perhaps this is unsurprising: one of the basic social facts about adult lit is […]