January 2011
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The brilliance of the Better Touch Tool
And the joys of gesture controls
Prepare to be geeked out… just a warning.
I want to talk about gesture controls and multi-touch gestures.
A while ago I bought a Apple touchpad. I did so in part because I was no fan of Apple’s multi-touch magic mouse or whatever the shit it’s called, but partly because, and I know this sounds weird, I actually like controlling a computer with...
One minute hate: Your gap year photos →
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Just a little list feature on Stuxnet and the top 12 computer viruses of all-time.
lostintransgressions asked: Hey man,
Loved the Coffee rant! Asylum UK looks like an ace website, i'll start frequenting it.
Loved the Coffee rant! Asylum UK looks like an ace website, i'll start frequenting it.
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Michael Wolf plunges Google Maps
If nothing else Michael Wolf’s new exhibition at La Galerie Particuliere in Paris proves that women can love bald men… or kiss them at least… Not that we know for sure this was done with her consent. I’ve just realised I’ve made a series of cognitive extensions based on a photograph which may have no basis in reality.
Which is actually the thing I found interesting...
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Things I've written today: This →
It’s a rant about people who try to prove how important they are by tweeting about much coffee they drink.
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Natalie Portman's golden globes laugh
Stop ruining our pan-dimensional future together
At first I tried to pretend this made her more adorable. I was all like ‘hey, Natalie Portman is person after all — in a way I guess that makes her even more attractive.’
I was in fact lying to myself. I’ve already got plenty of women I have crushes on who I know full-well are real people. That space, is pretty-well...
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Comedians columns are the bane of print journalism...
I’m no fan of this trend of just giving comedians columns in national papers. All too often they seem hamstrung by a desire to remain acceptable, and more importantly, bookable, for the plethora of panels shows which pay for their food and socks and stuff.
You can’t exactly blame them for it — why would you put your livelihood at risk for something that is almost just a hobby...
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The Daily Mail -- And why it's time we should just...
The Daily Mail has become something more than a newspaper, it has become a standalone antagonist for the educated classes who abhor its editorial backbone of prejudice and carcinogens. “Mail readers” has become a catch-all term for intolerant, right-wing morons — a phrase that immediately undermines someone’s opinion, disregards them and serves only to reinforce their...
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This week's band
Coachwhips — You Gonna Get It
Bah bah bah bah, mea mur mea.
This song is amazing and it makes me leap around like my feet are allergic to the floor. I know people prattle on about how amazing the British music scene is — but everything I listen to these days seems to be coming from the American west-coast. Coachwhips, Wavves, Health, No Age — it’s all so so good. If I...
WatchOwn rules
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Quite proud of my first par and headline here →
Oh and not to blow my own trumpet — by which obviously I mean: I’m about to — check out the third par for a piece of economic but still humorous news writing. That’s a lot of information for four lines and one, admittedly, preposterously long sentence.
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A United vs Liverpool derby to savour
Most Manchester United Liverpool matches are 90 minutes to be savoured. And though classic encounters have been a rarity in recent years (since Gary Palister’s brace of headers in reality) it’s still the first clash most fans of the respective clubs look for when the fixture list hits. Tomorrow’s FA Cup tie was hardly filling me with excitement. But today’s events, the sad...
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