Sunday, 15 June 2008

Cans Festival of stencil art in disused former EuroStar access tunnel

A photo collection by Herself.

Happy Magna Carta Day

Granted, Habeus Corpus existed prior to Magna Carta, and that document did not initially provide any protections to anyone other than the very powerful, but Magna Carta has provided a powerful deterrent against arbitrary detention of civilians for nearly 800 years.

So, well done to New Labour. The House Of Commons passed a motion to extend detention without charge to 42 days earlier in the week. Who needs centuries of a basic human right to continue when the approval polls need a bump.

Is the Trust the BBC's worst enemy?

Says Steve Bowbrick

The Beeb’s top managers must fear a drip drip drip of negative reports and impossible-to-ignore prescriptions. Legislators hostile to the corporation for various reasons must be rubbing their hands at the prospect of lots of new ammunition for their causes. As the Trust’s reports pile up on the DG’s desk, each demanding an expensive response and quite possibly deep and structural change (like, for instance, spinning off and funding Scottish and Welsh mini-Beebs), it might look increasingly like the corporation is tearing itself apart.

Ryan: Staffers Rejoice as Tank of Piranhas Named New Walrus Editor-In-Chief

Suffice it to say, the Walrus has not lived up to its promise.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Company will email your friends and family post rapture

For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when — according to Christian end times dogma — Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a global government headed by the Antichrist.

Dear Heathen,

Na na nyaah na.

- Stella

What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web

Summed up: You have links. Use them.

Slideshow of phone sex operators

Very nice stuff from the Morning News

Saturday, 7 June 2008

Fill it to the rim. With Brim? Oh, ha ha ha

Interesting article about company that buys the rights to forgotten brands and re-introduces them, sometimes in a completely differnt form than the original.

Brand equity has value on its own, but it can be grafted onto something newer and, perhaps, more innovative. “Consumers remember the kind of high-level essence of the brand,” he says. “They tend to forget the product specifics.” This, he figures, creates an opening: it gives the reintroduced version “permission” to forget that decaf-only limitation as well and morph into a full line of coffee varieties. “ ‘Fill it to the rim with Brim’ stands for full-flavored coffee,” Earle says, with a chuckle. “Fill it to the rim — it’s great stuff!”

Who remembers that Brim was decaf?

London's Lost Rivers

Great find from Strange Maps, illustrating 15 rivers that once flowed through London and are now completely underground.

Sex & The City stylist Patricia Field started out dressing trannies

I am shocked—shocked—to hear this. (From the June 2008 Evening Standard Magazine)