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Berlusconi’s got the moves

On May 29 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

via time.com

All the teenagers want an improper relationship with Silvio. Can’t imagine why.

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BBC News fail

On May 29 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Firstly BBC News covers the story of a Welsh family who found the image of Jesus Christ in the lid of a jar of Marmite:

"People might think I'm nuts, but I like to think it's Jesus looking out for us."

Wouldn't he get a better view somewhere else, like, [...]

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The mystery of the Phibbs plaques

On May 29 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

From this morning's Metro, in case you don't read it, the story of commemorative plaques being found on benches all over the country dedicated to relatives of Croy Devenish-Phibbs, a 103-year-old silver surfer.

Plaques include messages such as 'Barbara Devenish-Phibbs' dying wish was that we got a bench [...]

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Typography makes the news

On January 4 2009 · 4 Comments · In Diary

When something serious happens in the news…

News website headlines get big.

Maybe they think they’re still newspapers. Or they need to make words bigger to remind us how serious it all is.

Let’s look at some examples of how big letters add gravitas:

Israeli troops push deep into Gaza

Earthquake strikes Indonesia

Aliens land [...]

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The news is broken.

On September 3 2008 · 3 Comments · In Diary

Can someone please ban the phrase ‘credit crunch’? I’m thoroughly sick of hearing it. The news these days seems to get marketed and dumbed down to the extent that it seems we can’t be told anything unless it is phrased using catchy alliteration or less syllables that the title of a Steven Seagal film. Credit [...]

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All the news is new and approved

On May 9 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Cambodia, Diary

I get to see the news every so often, not that often. The TV news is CNN or BBC World, so it’s quite US-centric, or in the case of BBC World a procession of B-team news readers and dull-as-ditchwater business reports I swear not a soul watches, interspersed with adverts for Rolex watches and how nice [...]

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