How can you tell?
OK so this headline appeared in last week’s Sunday Times: This is like publishing a headline which shouts: “EXCLUSIVE: McDonalds sells hamburgers!”. Where’s the news here??? Just saying.
Bill Bailey Thank God for Darwin
Dylan Moran I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
OK so this headline appeared in last week’s Sunday Times: This is like publishing a headline which shouts: “EXCLUSIVE: McDonalds sells hamburgers!”. Where’s the news here??? Just saying.

One of the panellists I listened to at SXSW put a slide up containing the world’s shortest sci-fi novel: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” (sidebar – this is actually pretty flawed as a novel, making the sexist assumption that the last man on [...]

(This is a piece I did for the M&G Podcast this week) I’m in Austin, Texas. Well, that’s true but not absolutely true. I’m at South by Southwest – a week long orgy of a conference that spans the triple disciplines of interactive, film and music, and all the grey areas in between that they [...]
Right now I’m glad I don’t work here….

Ok so having overcome the numbness I got in to the Razorlight concert – eventually. Great venue, great show. Johnny Borrell is a manic madman and great showman. And at $7 a beer I left sober, cheapskate that I am. Sadly my phone camera isn’t great at taking pics in low light, so the pics [...]
…the Chelsea Hotel. Leonard Cohen fans feel free to use this as your wallpaper.

So it’s cold. Damn cold. And I’m standing in a queue in the Meatpacking District of New York…not, however, to pick up my weekly pork (although judging by the salacious looks I’m getting anything is possible). I’m queuing to see a concert. Of a band. Called Razorlight. You may have heard of them. Most New [...]

Ok I’m not the first person in the world to take a pic like this, not by a long shot. But it’s the first time I’ve taken it which makes it cool enough to post here. Why do they call it Times Square when, um, it’s not actually square? Just asking… (and I’m testing this [...]