An internet phenomenon landed on my desktop last week, and I didn’t even recognise it. It’s a game called FreeRice, where you are given a word and four possible interpretations. If you choose the correct one, ten grains of rice are donated to the United Nations Food Programme by the generous corporate sponsors of the […]
I don’t know if this photograph is genuine or a bit of photoshop wizardry, either way it’s quite amusing.
Thrill Jockey Anniversary shows, 12 November, 2007. KOKO, Camden, London.
Yesterday I went to Camden’s trendy KOKO venue for the first time for a showcase of bands on the Thrill Jockey record label. We arrived at 3 pm, in time to see the last band - an old fella with a long grey beard on […]
I’m not really the sporty type, and definitely not a cricket type, but over the last two days I’ve become slightly obsessed with a lesser known piece of cricketing history: the first ever international cricket game. It all started yesterday at work when I had to research the Scottish football team and found on wikipedia […]
