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New definition of ‘teenage’

A somewhat novel definition of teenage, on the BBC news website.

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2009 07 21 james media Comments (0)

Language FAIL

The joke langauge madness continues, on Flickr:

2009 06 03 james geek Comments (1)

Found in my FaceBook news feed (not in the right-hand advertising bar): Marking for the social networking generation! Who clearly all shop at M&S. But wait, there seem to be some missing options: Over-packaged, pretentiously named products Makes Waitrose seem like good value This is not just marketing, this is really annoying marketing Do feel free to [...]

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2009 02 10 james Comments (1)

And worse still.

This is for my brother, and everyone else who really likes Top Gun. Update: even more awesome:

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2008 11 21 james films
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It gets worse

One for Ali. Still waiting for Backstreet’s Back to come on license.

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2008 11 21 james music Comments (0)

It’s hard work and sacrifice

My fault, mostly:

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2008 11 17 james code
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Skype profiles

Interesting use of capitalisation. Also, presumably the person responsible really does live in Stevenage – I can’t imagine anyone making that up.

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2008 10 21 james Comments (0)

Stupid Squared

The BBC has a charming story about Birmingham city council cocking up and using a photo of Birmingham, Alabama in a leaflet sent to residents. Oh, those silly councils, etc. But, this was to thank the residents for the city meeting its recycling targets. Because nothing says ‘environmentally conscious’ like posting a leaflet through 720,000 people’s door. [...]

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2008 08 14 james Comments (0)

Bump

The last second of the Falcon 3 launch video is just about the most expensive ‘fail’ footage ever shot, I suppose. But it’s still awesome – a beautiful launch, wonderful climb out and pitch over, with the atoll vanishing below, all looking very smooth. There’s a visible plume change at MECO, followed by, the, uh, [...]

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2008 08 07 james aviation
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Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne is great, especially for a fiver. Playing to the huge main space at Assembly on the Mound, packed out with people. All new material compared to what I’ve heard before, and showing excellent observational skills – he doesn’t need to head off into the elaborate or fantastic to find humour, but seems to snatch [...]

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2008 08 05 james Comments (0)