WINGS – “Let ‘Em In”: The picture on the left is the first google image hit on “Thumbs aloft”. This song would surely be the first google audio hit too.[…]

OK, I was genuinely surprised by the existence of this![…]

Well-Meaning Website Stymied By Thick Interweb User: or alternatively, “That’s 1 In The I for Txtspk” depending on yr view on who exactly is the idiot here. Would any nippers have visited this website anyway? Probably about as many […]

Visionary ranting from one-time FT contributor Robin Carmody on Pulp and “Common People” and pop before and after the Britpop boom. Stirring, on-form stuff. Probably because he doesn’t hoist his banner (ironically or otherwise) for[…]

Marketing magazine published its annual Britain’s Biggest Brands survey this week. And what’s this I see?
A new entry at No.45? The highest percentage growth of any brand on the list? 120 million sales this year? Who could it be but&#8230[…]

Future Perfect: Nokia R&D futurologist keeps photo-blog scrapbook asking lots of interesting questions while travelling world. A more likeable Momus, maybe?[…]

Planet-watchers arrive at unworkable fudge: classic “sideways move” speak re. Pluto, for whom a special role has been found more suited to its abilities. IF IT’S NOT A PLANET JUST BIN IT. I also like “The surprise is Ceres&#82[…]

I really shouldn’t be telling you about this, but I was tasked at work recently with picking tracks for a ‘corporate CD’ that my company’s parent company is putting together. “Pick five tracks that represent your company[…]

Thrill Power Overload is a book-in-progress blog by former, shall we say, close confidante of Tharg, David Bishop. A history of 2000AD, the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, it looks to be thorough and quote-heavy, interviewing everyone, though the ju[…]

I have just been updating the links page on our work intranet. It was an exciting trip down memory lane, as nobody had bothered to look at it in several years. How many? Well, put it this way: the list of “useful search engines” was heade[…]