Steven Levy on the iPod shuffle (Guardian article). Scientists have know for a long time that the folk perception of randomness and statistics is skew in many different dimensions of wrong, but it takes the bloody iPod to get this fact into mainstrea[…]

It’s not too often that the most intelligent albums are also the most full of feeling, but I think Lyfe Jennings’ The Phoenix is right up there in both qualities. It strikes me as one of the most interesting albums of the year, and I have[…]

I used to be a comic book editor, years ago. Telling artists where they are going wrong and why is a very hard thing to do. I also edited a critical magazine about comics, and my greatest regret about having to hand it on, when the comics themselves […]

“in a time of ruthless warriors, capricious princes, and the sherriff of lily allen, a land in turmoil cried out for 1xHERO. He was robin, a beardy princess halfpint forged in the heat of the crusades.” :D
i watched it at T’s (re)ho[…]

The Holloway is not the nicest pub in the world. It used to be a Litten Tree, which changed its name after a murder took place in it. The manager clearly thought that naming the the pub after a nearby prison might put off some of the worst punters fr[…]

Triffic piece on Paris Hilton by the unusually shrewd pop blogger David Moore. He points out at least one thing that had me guiltily thinking back to my own lazier moments, when he talks about the way commentators (sympathetic or otherwise) invoke th[…]

The spirit of political cartooning lives on![…]

Do you want to know what’s on the Poptimism ballad giveaway CD? I bet you do. Spoilers below the “more” link!
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C90 Go! – a series of seven long essays about mixtapes sent through time or space.
(Thanks to Tim Hopko for his archival striving here)[…]

The Naomi Watts starring indie Ellie Parker is pretty hard going. Shakey-cam exploits of the lives and loves of a no-hope actress about Hollywood it spends an awful lot of time on whimsical self-indulgent scenes and not enough on comedy. Because this[…]