Archive for June, 2010

 

TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever.

June 30th, 2010Posted by katiesol

“TLDNR” is a sign of everything that’s wrong with the internet; it marries poor grammar with downright rudeness and implies that any piece of writing over a screen’s length is not worth the effort of reading. An acronym coined by the kind of moron that hangs about online with nary a good word to say about anyone, TLDNR stands for ‘too long did not read’.

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Poor Stephen Dorff

June 16th, 2010Posted by katiesol

It has come to my attention today that everyone hates Stephen Dorff.
What is up with that?
He has many fine films to his name, including Blade (actually, I didn’t like Blade all that much) and, er, that Britney Spears video (hey, it was emotional! She tried to kill herself in the bath! Guys!). Ok, actually he [...]

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Attractive celebs talk tech, issue one

June 14th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Here’s what international silver-fox Keith Murray from We Are Scientists has to say about iPads and mobile phones and whatnot:
As a band we reject the iPad. We’ve picked them up at the Apple store and then immediately put them down again. It’s just an oversized iPhone that you can’t make phonecalls on. And [...]

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Paper and ink

June 6th, 2010Posted by katiesol

I inherited this copy of Romeo and Juliet from my gran who died earlier this year. On the first page she dated it January 1942, when she would have been 20 years old. And here I am, 68 years later, reading through it and feeling a connection with Gran through nothing more than paper, ink [...]

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Vampires, lies and videotape

June 2nd, 2010Posted by katiesol

Vampires in the bedroom and why Buffy, Bella and co are surely kidding themselves. Also any excuse for an R-Patz photo.

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Cheer up, love

June 1st, 2010Posted by katiesol

At the risk of going all ‘I feel blue! Look at me! Look at me!’, this clip from Amelie adequately illustrates how I’ve been feeling lately. Wish it would stop.

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