A fellow LUG member on the power of using Linux: I think Linux is like a power-tool. In the right hands and with plenty of practice it can produce beautifully crafted custom-built furniture but many people would just damage themselves trying to use it without instruction. Linux is for people who are willing to go …
Bugger me. Somebody built my Info Pimp Force Diagram.
From an e-mail received by The Gutter, regarding Google’s logo tweak to celebrate the birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright: Telling people you’re an architect and having them say they like Frank Lloyd Wright is like telling them you’re a novelist and being told they like Steinbeck. It’s like, um, okay… The only thing worse is …
Another Peel related entry: I was lucky enough to see a Half Man Half Biscuit gig this week. It’s Peel related because it was he who revitalised my appreciation of them years ago when he played their Paintball’s Coming Home one evening. Years before that I’d only heard Trumpton Riots, but it was through Peel …
The program for the opening day of Architecture Week here in the UK just landed in my inbox… Architecture Week Launch Trafalgar Square Saturday 11 June 13.00 – 17.00 FREE music * performance * installation * demonstration — Freeness (13.00 – 14.00 and 15.00 – 16.00) Bringing us tracks created by African, Asian, Caribbean and …
I effectively turned my back on Radio 1’s evening schedule after John Peel died. It turns out that was a big mistake. Stuck in traffic after a late night at the office last week, I caught some of Annie Mac’s show and the opening few tracks on the following show hosted by Rob da Bank. …
juxtaposition “…the direct relationship between two categories, village and countryside. The unequivocal character of both is brought sharply together, there is no fluffing.” (see also: part 1)
Aforementioned t-shirt is now in the washing machine, in preparation for a visit to Will Alsop’s soon to be completed building THE pUBLIC in West Bromwich tomorrow. The open event runs from 11am to 3pm; families and kids welcome, hard hats will be provided. Anyone want to come with me?
On a day when I have little more than 24 hours to finish two major urban regeneration reports (1, 2) and getting any sleep tonight is looking increasingly unlikely, this morning’s postal delivery couldn’t have been more timely. Thanks go out to Nicole over at Archinect.com – the first t-shirt got lost in the post …