Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall's blog

  • The seven kinds of blog post

    Wired’s Lore Sjöberg hits the nail on the head in typically amusing fashion… In the spirit of oversimplifying things so that you can smugly shove human endeavors into pre-labeled slots, I’d like to present my own, contemporary take on this premise: the Seven Basic Blog Posts.

  • Apple and music: good point, well made

    Mark Mulligan of Jupiter Research has written a short post about iTunes movies and what it means for music, and he makes an excellent point about music industry attempts to marginalise Apple: The labels already effectively killed off true-tone ring tones as a vibrant music format by demanding license fees that compelled mobile content providers…

  • iTunes movie store now in the UK too

    Apple has brought its iTunes movie store to Britain, making the Apple TV about a million times more useful and hammering another nail into DVD’s coffin. As ever, the catalogue’s a little sparse at launch – so you get I Am Legend but not No Country For Old Men – and like all legal digital…

  • Nyah nyah nyah, I’m in heaven and you’re not

    Do you think The Rapture is upon us, and it’s just a matter of time before you’re spirited off to Heaven? Want to ensure your smug post-Rapture emails annoy the people Left Behind? Then you need You’ve Been Left Behind, which enables you to store up to 250MB of documents for delivery when the Second…

  • “I am loyal and know when to keep my big mouth shut.”

    Weird, strange or funny things people have put on their CVs [via Metafilter]. Reason for leaving: “I thought the world was coming to an end.”

  • Rent-a-dog

    An MSP is horrified at plans for a dog rental firm to set up shop in Glasgow. “Dog renting is an idea which will horrify most dog owners and dog lovers. “Dog rental businesses encourage irresponsible attitudes towards dogs and encourage the use of pets as fashion accessories.” Mr Brown claimed the practice would cause…

  • DFS, dwarves and urban legends

    What’s your favourite urban myth? I was reminded of my favourite on Popbitch today, in a post by “onthehushhush”: i was told today that sofa firm DFS * uses dwarves** in their adverts to make their settees look bigger than they would normally. I don’t know why I found this so shocking/funny. ???????? Sadly it…

  • Hey! Let’s talk about smoking! Again!

    Hardly unpredictable I know, but the Scottish parliament plans to ban the display of cigarettes in shops in order to – yes! – protect the kiddies. The next step, apparently, is to legislate so cigarettes are sold in plain packaging. As ever, the online comments are lovely: this lot is from the Scotsman. Dacinda72 hasn’t…

  • Spam as an economic indicator

    Instead of the usual horse porn and herbal viagra, the last week’s spam crop has been largely about money: insanely high-APR car finance, insanely high-APR credit cards, insanely high-APR personal loans and the like. Most of it for UK companies. Anybody else noticing the same thing, or am I just lucky?

  • A right royal pain in the GTAs

    I’ve written before about the bad design decisions that can suck the joy from a game, encouraging you to put it back on the shelf and never return, and Grand Theft Auto 4 has a doozy: stupid bloody save points. It’s particularly noticeable on a mission where you have to trail a drug dealer’s car…