Monthly Archives: September 2004

Reverse Speech – Voices From The Unconscious

Ah-ha! As I suspected. It seems that if you play back a speech in reverse you will hear the person saying what they really think. In fact, according to this site, children start talking backwards before they start talking forwards. … Continue reading

Posted in Media, Technology | Leave a comment

Madrid

I know I’m probably the last blogger in the world to have visited newsgaming.com. But I did today and played Madrid. If you haven’t played it you should, and September 12th as well. I was in Madrid on the day … Continue reading

Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

The Devil’s in the detail

Haven’t we been here before? It seems that the long-running story about the efforts of the Bush clan to keep their little boy out of danger during the Vietnam war is itself in danger; in danger of being discredited because … Continue reading

Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

Cluster Ballooning

Meanwhile, cluster ballooning is a fantastic idea. Floating thousands of feet into the sky with big bouquets of colourful helium-filled toy balloons.

Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

Look Back not in Anger

I suppose it’s the time of year for thinking about terrorism. There were a couple of programmes on television last night about the bombing by the IRA in 1984 of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative party conference. … Continue reading

Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

Michael Moore’s Blog

I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 a couple of days ago, on the 11 September actually but I only noticed the date afterwards. During a painful sequence showing pictures of Iraqi children hurt during the American bombing I saw an injured kid … Continue reading

Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

othermachines: august 2004

Ah, this site is looking so lovely these days. I’ve used Giles’ new ‘typestick’ program on my wardy site for some little labels. It’s dandy. othermachines.org

Posted in Art, Media | Leave a comment

Kraftwerk

I’m just reading a biography of Kraftwerk by Pascal Bussy. I was getting a bit disillusioned as I learned more about them. Like a magic trick it’s better when you don’t know anything about it. But their web-site has reminded … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Media, Technology | Leave a comment

Gmail is too creepy

This anti-gmail site is a bit woolly in its arguments, but I can see their point. Those of us using gmail may be being a bit careless with our data. Gmail is too creepy

Posted in Media, Politics | Leave a comment

Not every publisher is like Di$ney

What a relief! Sebastian Peake’s agent says that they are happy for my Figures of Speech site to stay up, as long as I acknowledge the new edition of the book on the site. So I’ve made an advert for … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Shopping | Leave a comment