Culture

Adolf. Not a popular name after 1940s.

We were looking around at the popularity of names the other night and amusingly stumbled across this graph. What’s weird is the change of heart around …

Where Old Media Go To Die

Take a trip down Memorex Lane with Cassette Jam ‘05. I remember these Teac cassettes well. I thought they were the word in their day. Thanks to Toby for …

Antirom at Videobrasil

I just got mailed by Videobrasil to say they have put together a database of all of their festivals. It was a very pleasant trip down memory lane to see the …

Nice Viral Big Ad Campaign for Carlton Beer

Continuing a very amusing trend for sending up crap advertising, Carlton Beer just released this Big Ad campaign. Visual effects by my old-flame (geddit?) …

London Bombs

Phew. What a weird 48 hours that was. As far as I know everyone I know is okay, though I have many friends in London that I haven’t heard from, so I hope …

Google Scholar increases book sales

I work at a University as most of you will know and the issue of “Google culture” amongst students when researching comes up all the time. So …

Flying Carpet

At last a decent carpet in an airport. I’ve always wondered who chose the hideous designs for public spaces, but this one by Iranian artist Seyed Alavi …