I love the film Kes (1969). It was still modern when I went to secondary school, nearly ten years later - some local authorities were still trying to get it banned when I was teaching in the 90s, and it’s still modern now. This scene, where the poor messenger boy from the second form gets [...]
Tag Archives: humour
Well, It made me laugh
February 4, 2008 – 11:55 am
Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me:
The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster.
Directive Number One
January 18, 2008 – 1:30 am
Many thanks to comrade Mayfield for his excellent presentation to the collected officers of the Social Media Commissariat … sorry Club, this evening.
To cut his talk short, he’d been thinking about the parallels between the birth of social media and the birth of print itself, as described in Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The printing press as [...]
Turquoise is the new… uh, never mind
November 6, 2007 – 10:22 am
The latest edition of the fantastic Trendwatching newsletter hit my mailbox this morning with a surprising sartorial tip for future-gazing fashion fans:
…read our lips: TURQUOISE.
Now, don’t ditch your black turtleneck just yet: it won’t be until Fall 2011 that turquoise will have its moment. Why? As trend analyst Tyfion Tihslub of the Ingleton Economic [...]
Not an Original Idea Between Us
October 5, 2006 – 4:25 pm
Former humourist and Daily Mail correspondent Keith Waterhouse makes friends with the blogosphere:
Seasoned googlers, of whom there is already a vast tribe, are nerds, anoraks and braces-wearers of the worst sort who spend every working moment searching the infernal engine for other people’s blogs.
They are descended from a generation of titterers, pranksters and spokespersons of [...]
