I’m setting myself a few New Year’s Resolutions for 2009. They’ll also be New Years’ Resolutions. Note the apostrophe placement because some of these things are just too good for only one year. One of them relates to email. Email is a blessing and a curse for me. Recently – OK, for the last few [...]
The Joy Collective is a rather splendid blog about music. It tends to focus on Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, which makes a lot of sense because all three are close enough to share their gig-going crowds. Plus, truly, they are among the UK’s best cities for gigs. Recently Will at The Joy Collective sent me [...]
Merry Christmas. This clip is from Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s very highly recommended The Gospel According to St. Matthew. The soundtrack is a version of the old negro spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child as sung by Odetta, who passed away this year.
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations. So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the [...]
Meet the Wordwhale. If you like solving anagrams, the Wordwhale is now pos(t)ing one daily. Follow @wordwhale to join the lexical fun. (You don’t need to be signed up to Twitter to try solving it. You can still view the webpage twitter.com/wordwhale to monitor what’s going on and try solving it. But if you’d like [...]
One video which I really enjoyed this year was this 20-minute talk about endangered languages. I wasn’t particularly following this subject in any great depth before. Let’s just say raw curiosity can take one to some unexpected places. You can open it in a new window here. Dr. David Harrison says: There are 7,000 languages [...]
Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance. Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing [...]
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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