Should have been looking in Medomsley Road, Consett. All of which to say in one of the many think-tank like* editorial meetings of the FreakyTrigger collective last Friday it suddenly hit us: Phileas Fogg Tortilla Chips are no more. We all checked ou[…]

One of the best things about my job is getting sent e-mails from PR companies and agents, booking acts for student events. now we know students are funny, fickle folk who rate the flavour of the month well over yesteryear’s tried and trusted ac[…]

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”
Apocalypto starts with this quote, underlining this revisionist view of Mayan history which will in some cases subtly unfold infront of us. Apo[…]

It was brought to my attention via the Upper Holloway I’m in Yr Area thread on ILx (back and proud) that Foxtons Estate Agent don’t like to talk about Holloway, and instead appear to want to talk about Hillmarton Conservation Area. Now I […]

I just received – maybe you did too – a spam email from amazon.co.uk entitled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Pre-Order Your Copy Now!”.
I can understand what Amazon gains from this, but really, why would anybody bother[…]

from portland downs. Host Eli, guests, Kat, Mark, Tim. Chart Changes (including tim predicting songs in adverts getting in the charts), Um Bongo, Run To You, New Years Resolutions, Video on the Radio, Dr Pub and Cold Cures, Reggae, Car Key suits and ting, Football Pundits and what they know (also pitchers mounds for managers), Popular does Ernie, Endings (in modern music in particular), also Daphne & Celeste have skinned rabbits thrown at them, Take on Me.

i. in andre n’s general conception of our far future, there is a galactic federation coming to pieces, with a severe class system — the proper mode of address for the pampered aristo class (male) = “gentle homo”
ii. in bedknob[…]

One of those things you get e-mailed to you or find on digg or whatever and it’s too weird for words. Try all the play buttons, but start with the one on the far left.[…]

Hardened chart nerds – and as you might imagine the FT staff includes a few of them – are in a mighty froth over this week’s Top 40 revolution, with download-only tracks (i.e. with no physical presence in, or planned to be in, the s[…]

My heart sinks when I see pub links sent to me via Beerintheevening.com. The whole name seems both derivative of the much more friendly Fancyapint, whilst wholly misunderstanding what makes a phrase like Fancy a Pint so friendly. More importantly I s[…]