Posts from ‘September, 2008’

I didn't really plan for Open House properly this year (although I did much better than last year), which as just as well, because the transport was so screwy last weekend that I would never have made it in time to half the things I'd planned to see. Instead, I picked a list of things [...]

Last weekend there was a Festival of Food on the South Bank, in celebration of slow food, which was quite cool. I happened across it on Friday afternoon, in time to watch a soup cooking demonstration which ended with cups of soup being handed out to the audience. I am "the Queen of Free Soup" [...]

"How do you feel about big furry animals?" – Dubious, to be honest.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me over the weekend. Thanks to your appreciation of my artistic talent (or, more likely, my bribing you all with free fruity drinks), my photo was picked as the winner of the "best bunting" category. This means I now get a crate of twelve one-litre cartons delivered to me [...]

The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah – This is such a great story. (Dare I use the word "feelgood"?)

Tweet Clouds – funny to see things that come up together:
"bloody+boiler" brings back bad memories of no hot water for 3mths earlier this year.
"going+home" is a nice pairing.
"london+looking+looks+lost" "listening+makes+man"
"epic+everyone+fail" (oh dear)
"watching+wondering" (could be my motto)
"everyone getting head" (snerk)
"time+today+tomorrow+tonight+totally" (new t-shirt slogan?)
Quite good fun — works better than Wordle did with my Flickr tags…

Ooh, goodies! We like goodies over here at Mondo Towers. We like good news, too, and this particular bit of news is rather nice. Apparently, one of my photos has been shortlisted in a competition to win a whole year's supply of smoothies from the Innocent drinks company.
This is a good thing on two [...]

snaptrip – neat tagging app from Paul. Unfortunately, I haven't actually taken any trips actually listed on Dopplr yet so I can't test it out on my own stuff, but it works in the same way as Darren's simplrfy tagging app at http://simplrfy.boncey.org (which is bloody brilliant)

cowfish » Toast – Billy outlines the pros and cons of printing on bread products. I still think printing the news would just end in cold toast and unreadable headlines, but the porntoast idea is quite good.
Edit to add: the comments over on his LJ are worth a read, too.

This weekend just gone was the annual Thames Festival, which seems to get bigger and bigger every year. On Saturday, there was also the second Feast on the Bridge, where Southwark Bridge is closed off to traffic and turned into a banqueting area, with tables and chairs stretching the length of the bridge. There were [...]