Tuesday, October 31, 2006

David Shrigley is a Cunt

There, I just had to say it.
Feels better.

And Francis Gallagher
please send me another copy of Fuck Scotland.
Someone made off with mine.

Monday, October 30, 2006

I am not done with my changes

Some poet or other said that.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Time to switch off and slow down

Time to switch off and slow down
By Kevin Anderson
BBC News website



The audience at the conference bristled with hi-tech gadgets
At a hi-tech conference bristling with bloggers constantly checking messages on Blackberries, smartphones, laptops and handheld computers, it is odd to hear a speaker suggest an e-mail free day.
But journalist Carl Honor�told attendees of the TED conference in Oxford they should unplug and slow down in a world that was stuck in fast- forward.
And for a wired world accustomed to having nearly unlimited information and the boundless choices of online shopping, it seems almost heretical to suggest that the infinite possibilities of the modern world leave us less satisfied instead of more.
But author Barry Schwartz told the conference that it was better when we had only a few choices of salad dressing instead of the 175 at his local supermarket.

'Roadrunner culture'
We live in a world where instant gratification is not fast enough, in a world of not only speed dating, but even of speed yoga, said Mr Honor�.
The author of In Praise of Slowness decided to decelerate after he found himself speed reading bedtime stories to his son.