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Re: Why I’m about to spend two weeks in a car in the name of art

Michael — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:02:41 -0000

Hey man, got to this page looking for the hash key on my mac and thought the page "whereisthehashkeyonamac" was genius, so refreshing and unassuming it made me smile and thank the nice people in the world for not shoving advertising down my throat. Thanks.
Looking forward to rummaging through your website when not on company time.

Regards,

Michael
micksmailbox@mac

Re: Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

DianaBol — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:10:06 -0000

so there are some areas with no pubs for miles :-( steroids

Re: Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

Jon Bounds — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:11:02 -0000

Data isn't perfect, no. Kinda the point for me, a map of everything isn't as interesting as a map of the stuff a group of people/a system supplies.

Re: Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

Russ L — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:18:32 -0000

There seems to be a bit of a gap around the Jewellery Quarter. I may be being blind and/or thick (both seem entirely likely), but I can't find The Rose Villa Tavern, The Lord Clifden, or The Red Lion.

Re: Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

hapdaniel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:41:21 -0000

I always remember (vaguely) an Andy Capp cartoon of a stranger asking directions. The stranger comes across the vicar who tells him "Left at St. Mark's, right at St. Paul's and then ask again". He then comes across Andy who continues the directions with "Right at the Horse and Jockey and left at the Rose and Crown".

Re: O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off

Jon Bounds — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:41:12 -0000

Head office were quite helpful when I complained via the website — gave me
£20 off next bill.

I'd think only a change in the UK's corporate culture to proper
responsibility rather than sales-driven bonuses would stop these sort of
things happening.

Re: O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off

Bob Henry — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:29:54 -0000

Same thing happend to me, the store is a joke and they said i could not get the insurance with my bank when i could,
For such a big store i wonder if the company knows what is going on!!!!

Re: Data Visualisation

Jon Bounds — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:34:46 -0000

yes

Re: Data Visualisation

andbwell — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:29:46 -0000

Is this to scale?

Re: The Passion of the Cripes

Jon Bounds — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:37:23 -0000

you gotta look to the future, Russ

Re: The Passion of the Cripes

Russ L — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:34:51 -0000

"blood David Mitchell, maybe he and Robert Webb could be twin raiding wing-backs."

Surely Skinner & Baddiel?

Re: World Cup Willies

Jon Bounds — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:39:26 -0000

It's just advertisers playing the percentage game. They've never been
able to get a handle on the passion or the art of fandom, nor pitch to
the people they've indentified. Sky and ITV are particularily bad at
this where football is concerned, witness continued harking to "that
night in Barcelona" when a vast majority have no interest in now
Newton Heath perform.

Re: World Cup Willies

Pete Ashton — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:43:43 -0000

Don't have a problem with people enjoying watching football. Have been known to enjoy it myself.

Do have a problem with the assumption that everyone in the country is sharing a moment though. The current Sky and Kit-Kat billboards are particularly irksome.

Not just football. Same applies to X-Factor, dead princesses, etc. "Nation united" is damn annoying when you know damn well it isn't.

Re: World Cup Willies

simon gray — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:19:51 -0000

indeed; i'm not desperately interested in they fitbah, but i acknowledge that other people are. it's the same as when twitter (or whatever) is overrun with discussion about the apprentice, doctor who, politics, the x-factor, the archers, whatever. it's all about cultural snobbery - 'my favourite leisure activity is high / noble / whatever, yours is silly / populist / base / whatever'. what depresses me is the propensity of people to post dozens of messages about the thing they're into whilst it's taking place, & then moan about other people posting dozens of messages about the thing they have no interest in. there you go - People Are Hypocrites(tm) ¬

Re: NYC Wifi

Carl Morris — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:08:36 -0000

Someone out there can write you an app which collects these wifi network names and plots them on a map...

Re: Haircut Menu

leolodreamland — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:48:31 -0000

number 25 - The Pie

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

leolodreamland — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:39:03 -0000

i reckon the term card implies some degree of authenticity, like ronnie corbett for example.
makes me think of this (from 0:50)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?g...

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

Jon Bounds — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:16:30 -0000

do they have identifying dress styles? maybe the "card" does in a
Colin Hunt stylee

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

leolodreamland — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:14:22 -0000

you totally forgot ragamuffin, vagabond, wag and card...

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

Jon Bounds — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:06:19 -0000

Who? It's generic hand-crafted pencil drawings to highlight species marks and features…

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

FionaC — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:32:42 -0000

This is great! Perhaps a caption for who's who?

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

Jon Bounds — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:19:01 -0000

I've always liked the idea of The Chap but found it very dull when
actually trying to read it.

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

Helen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:17:31 -0000

Have you been reading "The Chap" again?

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

ingridk — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:54:13 -0000

Russell Brand - Fop or roue?

Re: Dandies and Fops of the British Isles

Jon Bounds — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:38 -0000

try http://dl.dropbox.com/u/155344... (tbh you
probably won't know him anyway, he's a footballer type)