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We know people are using social networks to get laid. We know people are using these tools to gather random banana waving hoards. So it comes as no surprise that they’re also using them to coordinate after school punch-ups.

After having Rob Manuel’s ‘The Bumper Book of Sick Jokes” on my desk for a while I’ve become quite partial to a quick sick-hit in the mid afternoon lull to get the energy levels up. As I’ve now reached the end I’m very happy to have found Sickipedia a bottomless resource for those in search [...]

The age of the static brand is coming to an end. Organisations, companies, institutions, even charities are realizing that having identity schemes that ‘flex’ and adapt to circumstances are more appropriate in the multi-channel, multi-lingual world that brands now inhabit.
And this is just what’s happening on the surface.
Article here

Beautiful. Thanks Iain

So many mobile apps are brilliant but not actually that useful. Given that most US city authorities don’t seem to think public conveniences are necessary, it’s alway a bit of a challenge for anyone the wrong side of 15 cans of diet coke (which most people are most of the time). So MizPee is actually [...]

For Jimmy’s leaving present we have him some Nike i.D. sneakers. All Pokers got to choose a colour which is why they are so disgusting.

This is my interview with faceless, middle-class, underground, notorious graffiti artist, tagger, scrawler Light Sabre Toothed Tiger. PEACE

See how a thing online relates to other stuff online with TOUCHGRAPH

This kind of thing seems a bit old fashioned but I really like The Age Project. Guess their age, it’s harder than you might think. Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to be a landlord trying to guess who is and isn’t of legal drinking age. I like to be reminded what a poor [...]

CDs are now engineered to be extremely loud. Sound quality suffers. This brief video shows the “before and after” effects of industry standard post-recording processing. It’s extremely disturbing what it does to your music.
The general term for this is “Dynamic Range Compression” and actually it has nothing to do with MP3 or AAC data compression. [...]

Another great Photo Essay from Time. This one is food around the world.

I greatly enjoyed these tattood pigs from artist Wim Delvoye. I don’t know why. But i like them. I found them on a Belgian blog called Stuif-Meel that I frequent because it’s really rather good.

Walkit is a nice little web app that shows you the shortest route across town for walkers. Gives you some useful info about your planned route too:

Oh and other news…..
A friend just started HorseBus. Horse Bus is a horse transportation company based in St Albans that serves the surrounding area including herts, beds and bucks [...]