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Projects
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01.30.05SmooochBack once again, revamped and revulsed for 2005: VD cards. Mwah.
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01.02.05Twenty Words for 2004Chilly walks, wedding, work, sea swimming, view of Africa, anxiety, old/new job, driving lessons, cat, more love than ever.Mayfly returns.
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12.03.04Deck the halls'Tis the season returns for 2004
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07.04.04Album Cover FrenzyAlbum-Cover-Challenge-Tastico: Seven - count 'em, seven - brand spanking new (well, five of them are, anyway) full album cover challenges. As Beyoncé might say, I don't think you can handle this.
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02.12.04Ironia di stampo britannicoYeah, that's me. Must have been a slow news day. Also spotted in Vietnam and on CNN (thank Reuters for that)
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10.14.03The LimeyYou know what I find funny? The life-cycle of a popular link. The Album Cover Challenge has been up for a couple of weeks now. I originally put it together using albums which were recommended to me on Amazon.co.uk, the recommendations off those recommendations and the listmania lists which surrounded any suggestion. It started out relatively small. A few people in the UK linked to it, and there was a steady stream of guesses and requests for the answers. And then suddenly, over the weekend, it exploded. Hundreds of guesses. Hundreds of requests. Metafilter. Number #11 on Blogdex. Some South African radio ...
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09.30.03Album Cover ChallengeNew and improved!The challenge is this: there are now nine challenges, each containing thirty album covers - some better known than others, but none willfully obscure - from which the artist and title information has been removed. Can you identify all the albums and provide the missing information? There's no prize, except the smugness of knowing you're a total knowitall muso. Send answers to the usual address (given on all the challenge pages) stating which challenge you're attemtping, and I'll send you the answers. Pitiful begging via email may also elicit a similarly beneficent response. Maybe. Click here to begin.
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02.16.03The Mayfly ProjectIn December of 2000, I met an old friend for dinner. We hadn't seen each other in nine years, and hadn't been in contact for eight. With only a few hours on a chilly evening in London to catch up before his plane left for Canada, we shared our stories in breathless bursts. So much had happened. We had to narrow it down to the essentials. When I got home, inspired by my evening and the biography of a mayfly, above, I asked readers to sum up the last year of their lives in twenty words or less. The Mayfly Project ...
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02.16.03Be My Anti-ValentineThe history of a little project that got very very big.In 2001, my then-flatmate Dave and I created a range of humourous and slightly cynical anti-valentines, which bore slogans such as "Oh my god. I'm thirty and still single" and "Destined to die alone and unloved in a room heavy with the tang of cat wee". Pairing classic movie still images with slogans, the cards were available for download - but not automated sending. The project was well-received by the UK Blogging community, but didn't perform spectacularly well.In 2002, we resurrected the project with a new (pink!) interface, redesigning many ...
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02.05.03An ickle list...of my ickle submissions. Money Spiders Liechtenstein Petit Pois Prince Full Stops Capers Buttons Janette Krankie Little Ted Navel Lint Pubes Mrs Pepperpot Possums Chopped Parsley Iona Seconds Papercuts Splinters Nokia 8210 G-Spot Brussels Sprouts Contraceptive Pill Finger Bobs Caps Lock Key Ronnie Corbett In-Ear Headphones Teeny Padlocks Viruses Rabbit Poo Crumbs Sunflower Seeds L'Espion Smints Spectacle Screws Tips Sand Postcards Phrasebooks Quails Eggs Lilliputians Pine Needles Stocking Fillers Pudding Sixpences Cracker Favours Sugar Cubes Forget-Me-Nots Actually, that's quite a big list. Writing small is fun.
