On a recent trip to Hammersmith, I saw something of a blast from the past. The cash machines in the Broadway advertise themselves as being available for customers of, amongst others, Midland Bank. So old was the sign that it had the griffin-in-a-circle motif rather. Midland was, as we know, bought by HSBC; before the [...]

I earn a decent salary - the first figure is a two and there are four numbers after it; according to GlobalRichList.com, it puts me in the top 1% for world earnings. Specifically, I am the 58,783,504 richest person in the world.
Of course, specifying things to that level is a bit of fun, but the [...]

Let us say that you bought a tube of toothpaste. You’d probably be pretty annoyed if the toothpaste company insisted that you used their toothbrushes. Equally, if you bought a toothbrush only to find that you were only allowed to use the toothbrush company’s toothpaste, you’d be a bit peeved.
That’s one of the objections - [...]

‘Paid for by the committee to elect Friedrich Nietzche’.
I almost wish I could do an American accent… we could have a lot of fun with these.
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Redemption Blues holds a particularly good Britblog Roundup, and comes up with one of the best one-liners I’ve seen: “the Sun + money + fear = the Daily Mail“.
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I used to think that Mr Eugenides would have been pronounced ‘you-jen-uh-dees’. It turns out it’s ‘you-juh-neye-dees’. Either way, I recommend his blog and, via Matt Wardman, his contribution to a podcast on the best blogs of the past week.
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75% of this chart resembles Pac-Man.
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Tom Watson links to a fascinating article on Rolling Stone magazine’s website about the deleterious effects MP3s are having on the quality of music, both in terms of fidelity and whether it’s worth listening to at all. The article, which is worth reading in full1, essentially says that people want to make music with more [...]

I hear from Ewan that Canadians, who are now heading south to the States to buy cheap goods after years of Americans heading north, are referring to the United States dollar as the ‘American peso’. I only mention it because a random search for the phrase ‘American peso’ brings up a particularly prescient article from [...]

Matt Wardman links to a particularly good cartoon blog, ASBO Jesus. It’s worth taking a look. I really like this one:

For me, it’s about God being an artifice, while, looking at the other cartoons, I suspect that the artist is thinking more about people ignoring God (which I think the artist believes to exist) [...]