March 2010
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@whenyougotback →
I guess it’s possible you haven’t noticed that While You Were Gone is now on Twitter. Irritatingly, @whileyouweregone has one too many letters, and someone already snagged @WYWG, so I am @whenyougotback. Go follow me it will be exciting I promise!
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“At 15, he took advantage of a practice of The Boston Transcript, of printing...”
– He also coined the word blurb.
It’s Gelett Burgess week on the Ragbag!
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“As with online music, I’m quite willing to pay for convenient access to a decent...”
– John Robinson
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Wales vs Italy
Wales! Italy! Surely that’s a recipe for rugby delight! We can’t win the tournament, but if we win this game, then we can still come… um… 5th? 4th? Ugh.
As always, this is me, [and this is Tom.]
In an interview in the pre-match build-up, whilst discussing what’s gone wrong this season, Wales manager Warren Gatland says that the best teams in rugby are very much...
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“Because what Apple has done here is nothing less than amazing: They have ignited...”
– David Whatley, the author of geoDefense, in a post about the 360IDev conference
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Worst Spam Ever?
A while ago, I received the following comment on this post:
i like it.
Bathmate
“Cool,” I thought to myself. “Someone out there liked my post!” And I naively wrote, “Thanks!” in response.
Months later, I stumbled across the comment again, and this time its phrasing struck me as a little odd. So I had a look at the commenter’s profile on...
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Newspaper Club →
Do you remember Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, the remarkably sexy bespoke newspaper that Ben Terrett and Russell Davies made just because they realised that they could?
Well, the fact that it was incredibly awesome appears to have inspired them to turn the idea into an online service, Newspaper Club, where you can design your own custom newspaper that they will then print off...
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Ireland vs Wales
Here is the fourth and penultimate entry in my series of zombieblogs of the Welsh campaign in the 2010 Six Nations championship. It is so late because [certain contributors] seem to have some trouble working to deadlines. We hope it was worth the wait.
Wales versus Ireland! I’m not all that confident we can win this game. Not confident at all. [But why, my pessimistic friend? No captain,...
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(via UnionVersity)
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So you think they can break-dance? →
Ignore the terrible headline. This article, by Jeff Chang, is by far and away the best article about breaking I have ever read in a mainstream publication. On the whole, it gets it right, and describes the dance and surrounding culture well.
But still, the passages where Chang actually describes the dance are terrible. The prose is awkward*, and worse than this, his use of terminology is...
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Wales vs France
Below lies the third installment in my notliveblogging of the Welsh campaign at the Six Nations. As in previous episodes, I am normal, and [Tom is all like this.]
As the national anthems play, I can feel the adrenaline. This despite the fact that again, I already know who is going to win, having failed—like the Likely Lads—to make it home uninformed.
Your commentators: Jonathan...
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