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03.10.08Favour? Please?A few weeks back, I attended a Flickr minimeet at the London Transport Museum and took a bunch of photos which you can see in this set on Flickr. Now, the nice people from the LT Museum would very much like to feature a bunch of photos from the event on their site, and yet cannot decide which of the 680(ish) taken on the day (or rather, uploaded to Flickr from that event) should make it onto their site. Which is where you come in. I've written a blog post about my experiences at the museum over there on the event site, and ...
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02.03.08Truly, Madly, AntiI'm chuffed to bits to announce the relaunch of the Anti-Valentine cards for silly season 2008. There's been a lot of work behind the scenes by the lovely P to make the card-sending functionality scale, which hopefully means that this year there'll be no server drama (just the ginormous bandwidth bill, as usual). You'll notice, too, that I've revamped the card designs, so they're clearer and bigger than before. The old designs had been cobbled together so long ago (2001!) that it was definitely time for a fresh coat of paint. The keen-eyed among you may also spot that I've removed some of ...
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01.11.08Roses are red, so is this rashI know it's a bit early, but I'm too excited to hold it in any longer. Those of you who have been coming here for a while will no doubt be aware that every year towards the beginning of February, we launch the latest batch of antivalentines so that the internet public can send each other messages of aconsumerist adoration (and also cards about cat wee) while simultaneously causing my server to melt. In fact, when various media outlets ask (as they inevitably do, in interviews about the project): "...and what will YOU and your HUSBAND be doing for Valentine's Day?" ...
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12.15.07Mayfly resurrectedOr rather, a new mayfly project for a new year. What will your 24 words be?
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12.08.07‘Tis back. Ish.Being bonkers busy this year with jobs, kittens, sinuses and international jetset travel, the various contrubtors to 'Tis the Season in previous years aren't publishing quite so often this time around. If, in fact, at all. But in the spirit of regifting, we've packaged all the previous year's fun up in shiny new wrapping paper and are going to pass it off as being brand new. We're all about recycling. Click the recycled tree to get a random tis post from years gone by...
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03.16.07Funny-Ha-Ha, not Funny-PeculiarIn 1989, I made a birthday card for the second red nose day, and ran around collecting signatures and money for it, with visions of being able to present the card live on air - you know, like they do with those big charity cheques. (In this archive photo, above, you can see me aged 15 - I think Red Nose Day was actually on my birthday that year, which is why the birthday card seemed appropriate), my friend Melissa holding the card, and my sister Anna (who would have been 12), raising money by being sponsored to wear her ...
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02.13.07Take part in the Redspotting ChallengeI like a challenge. And you do, too: I know you do. So here's one: You've got 24 hours to spot and collect photographs of as many red things as possible, then assemble them into collages (using Picasa or FD's flickr toys or whatever) and then submit them to this Flickr group. Why red? Well, because it's supped to be the colour of love and passion - and February the fourteenth is supposed to be the day of the same. So why not? Last year, a bunch of people took part and the results were quite striking. We got featured on ...
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02.13.07Anti-Valentine Cards: breaking downIn case you come over here wondering what's going on with the VD cards: Basically, we're having some issues balancing the load on the server because the site's suddenly getting floods of traffic from all sorts of places. We're doing our best to get it up and keep it up (oo-er, missus), but service may be intermittent. But hey, you get what you pay for in this life - and the cards cost nothing. Which means...well, we're doing our best. For the record, I just want to point out that my hosting company, Pair.com are being very helpful (as usual), but it's always ...
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02.10.07Anti-Valentine Card BreakdownSo, the Anti Valentine cards have been flying off the server since we launched them again a week ago. As is customary at this point, before the big week and associated traffic arrives, I thought I'd put together a little graph to show what's happening. This is a breakdown of the cards being selected and sent out by users. As you can see, the most popular card (as in previous years) is "Fat. Naked. Dangerous." closely followed by the one with the anti-consumerist message. However, in a radical departure from previous years, we can clearly see "destined to die alone and ...
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02.04.07Hearts, flowers, cupid etc etc yadda yadda yaddaGiven that we're now definitely well into February, I thought it was about time we brought back the biliousness of the season, in the form of the infamous Be My Anti Valentine site, now back for 2007. Huzzah. Still full of snarky, sarky cards to send to your loved ones and people you know, it's much the same as the site you may remember from years gone by, only this year (hopefully) with added stability. Massive kudos and a cast-iron promise of precisely NO pukesome pastel toys holding heart-shaped signs saying "wuv oo!" in Comic Sans to the lovely geek ...
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