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Charlie Brooker on Kerry Katona’s meltdown
Brilliant: If you look down on the genuine misery of those you consider beneath you, you’re not just being an arsehole, but a snooty one to boot. The very fact that you’re willing to get so annoyed by an irritating celebrity that you’ll gleefully jettison any notion of sympathy is surely a bright scarlet warning…
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Three-word videogame review: Dead Space (Xbox 360)
Scary. Gory. Excellent.
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Campaign posters: too much information?
These posters are on pretty much every bus stop in my town: I’m sure you’ve seen them. The series includes a poster with girls drinking, another one with a couple snogging in the back of a cab, one showing a girl wearing a low-cut top, etc etc etc. The idea behind the campaign is laudable…
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Here come the Terminators
Eek! What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.
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Baby Bigmouth is a year old today
I know what you’re thinking. Will there be jelly? Yes. Yes, there will.
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Get a free Eels live EP (if you do it before the 28th)
Want a free Eels EP? Of course you do. So click on this link and give them your email address before 28th October. The 4-LP Deluxe Vinyl Ltd Edition set of Blinking Lights – which this EP is promoting – is a thing of beauty, and I’m sorely tempted to buy it even though I…
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What’s wrong with the Daily Mail (typography)?
Is it just me, or does the typeface used for the bullet points in this boxout (from the Daily Mail) really suck? It’s used for body text in lots of the paper, and it makes my eyeballs bleed.
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Bad Science: buy it, read it, send it to Gillian McKeith for Xmas
Ben Goldacre’s book, Bad Science, is superb fun. It’s not just about the Gillian McKeiths of this world, although of course they’re in there; he’s equally good at giving both barrels to big pharmaceutical companies – companies that, as Goldacre points out, often make the very “alternative” supplements the anti-Big Pharma crowd are always blabbing…
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iTunes: now it’s making graphic designers redundant
What else could explain the sheer half-arsedness of these album covers, from Sugababes and Girls Aloud respectively? Presumably the record industry has thought “hmmm, everybody downloads or rips now, so covers don’t matter. Let’s sack all the designers!” Future pop album covers won’t have images at all. They’ll just say “Fuck you, Steve Jobs” in…
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Passports and PAYG phones: if you tolerate this your email will be next
The government wants to stop people from walking into shops and buying pay-as-you-go mobiles; in future, you’ll have to produce your passport. If you don’t have a passport? Tough shit. The reason, inevitably, is that of the millions and millions of PAYG customers, a handful are – yes! – terrorists and organised criminals (two groups…