Archive for October, 2008

Donate to God-free laughs

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The campaign to sponsor an athiest message on the side of a bus has reached its funding target in less than 24 hours, says the Guardian. The £5,500 was raised through a justgiving.com page. In bright colours, the message being taken to Londoners reads ‘THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD. NOW STOP WORRY AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE’. […]

Street life

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I can get pretty zoned out in a supermarket. The process has removed grocery shopping to an almost televisual experience. We glide between the silent aisles, led from one colourful box to the next enticing package, before being spat out onto the street. It’s an advert break with no TV programme.
Push into a street-market and […]

Alive, alive-o

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Deptford can sound a little ominous. Perhaps it’s the word that sounds like just the place to find a pawnshop or loan shark, but then it could be the place’s reputation never recovered after Christopher Marlowe’s murder. That was 500 years ago, but I’d never visited before this weekend.
Autumn and I made a trip down […]

Wiki page traffic statistics

Friday, October 10th, 2008

There’s a new a gadget that shows you how many hits each wikipedia page gets built by a very clever developer fella by the name of Domas Mituzas. He says the program ‘access[es] statistics from wikipedia’s squid cluster’ and simply produces a visual representation of this ’squid cluster’, which I suppose must be a vast […]