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  • Pauperism: 339. Anatomy: 611. Butter: 637. Dancing: 793. Greenland: 998. Mortality: 312

    A long time ago, I worked in a library and one of the joys of the job was the Dewey Decimal classification system – a Victorian wonder of such arbitrary beauty that it often left me speechless in awe of Mr Dewey’s simple ambition: to assign all of human knowledge (with some room for growth)…

  • Good radio

    A couple of outstanding BBC Radio programmes – Lionel Kellaway’s really thought-provoking Nature on the ecological value of so-called ‘brownfield’ land and the risks to the well-being of City dwellers of building over it (click here to listen to the show). Providing the five million or more new homes we need over the next twenty…

  • Social software in the real world?

    I’m sort of interested in social software and I’ve signed up for every networking site since MIT’s Firefly and Sixdegrees but I’ve always thought that it’s all a bit academic until we start to see some second-order networking applications – sites whose primary function isn’t just… well… networking… but something else, something more specific –…

  • Cafe fame

    The lovely New Piccadilly cafe in Denman St, W1, beloved of students, tourists and formica fanatics alike (and, of course, Russell “Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans” Davies), makes it into the sidebar of a piece about Gordon Ramsay’s favourite greasy spoon in The Observer. Russell and I met there only last week – me: steak,…

  • The wisdom of the EPG

    Admirable prescience from someone at Tivo about last night’s England France game.

  • So sue me…

    Listen, I’m a parent. I’m going to do this from time to time: three pics of my beautiful children.

  • Going to the zoo…

    Yesterday I cold-called London Zoo about their online marketing. We love the zoo round here – we have an annual pass – best private club in town, if you ask me – and I think these guys could really make good use of some decent online marketing. I can’t think of a better way of…

  • Middle management anarchists

    Notcon was, of course, splendid. I didn’t see enough of it to provide much of an overview (so you might want to read these guys: Wired News, David Brake, himself, Will Davies) but I so enjoyed the two presentations in my own session (the.. erm… ‘business’ strand) that I wanted to link to them for…

  • Vine again

    We got to Stella Vine’s opening at Transition early enough to meet the artist properly and to see all the work before the celebs showed up. Brilliant. I took some polaroids. Jules wrote about it and edited some of my other photos into a 3-minute movie – Quicktime: 640×480 (11.3MB), 320×240 (8.4MB), 240×180 (4.1MB).

  • Stella Vine at Transition

    This evening we’re going here to see this and we are very excited (we don’t get out much) – and last night we watched this video from French telly (or is it Swiss telly?) too.