Adam J Taylor: Archive

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →

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Mar 31st

How To Make Good Tea →

Sadly nostrich gets this completely wrong. On a short leash at the moment (Cafe Nero’s exceedingly expensive WiFi to go alongside their exceedingly mediocre coffee) but will explain in length when back from darkest Kent: Marco wrote this excellent post on how to make great coffee, so I thought I’d complement it with a post on how to make great tea. Here goes. Insert teabag. Insert hot...

Mar 25th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →

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Mar 24th

Holiday DVD Selection

Off to darkest Kent for a week ‘en famille’ tomorrow. DVD selection to be taken as follows: 21 Gramms Walk The Line Gattaca Four dramas from the Stephen Poloakoff box set: The Lost Prince Perfect Strangers Caught on a Train Shooting the Past My darling sister will also be bringing along two classics (at least in our family): Ten Things I Hate About You Mona Lisa Smile. ...

Mar 20th

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This is extreme wine tasting!

Mar 20th

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Our Business is North

Today is the fifth anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq. To commemorate this event the BBC has been broadcasting a series of ten minute short films entitled ‘Ten Days to War’, each considering an individual event in the lead-up to the war. Last night, with one day to war, we saw Kenneth Branagh as Colonel Tim Collins of the Royal Irish Regiment and his, near iconic, eve...

Mar 20th

“Has anyone else come to the shocking conclusion that Bear Stearns was cheaper...”

– Caroline McCarthy

Mar 18th

Barcode-Sticker-O-Matic | Make QR Code Stickers →

megpickard: Make MOO stickers with QR codes on! Wonderful. Encode your contact details and let your associates do the decoding.

Mar 18th

Girl in Clinton ad supports Obama →

(via pinkhotel)

Mar 16th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16) →

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Mar 16th

“A really awesome day won’t start getting awesome until you put away the...”

– True. Very true. — Twitter / Merlin Mann

Mar 14th

Puttanesca gets you play ... for whatever that's... →

Nora provides a great story to go along with a great recipe. Thanks!

Mar 14th

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daryn: Josh Ritter - The River An excellent...

Mar 14th

The wonderful tuneage provides the perfect...

Mar 14th

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Mourning the loss of a national pride

I used believe that I could say I was to be proud to be British. Proud of what we are. I realised today that I was wrong. I am proud of what Great Britian was. I am hopeful of what we can be. I do believe in out potential. However, as a nation, culture, and people (however that is currently defined) we have failed ourselves. We no longer aspire to greatness but to mediocrity. We have become...

Mar 14th

“Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!?? I smell the blood of an Englishman! Bring him, find him...”

– Jack and the Beanstalk

Mar 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-9) →

Michael Nyman The Pipettes BBC Radio 4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Seth Lakeman Imported from Last.fm Tumblr

Mar 11th

daryn: The Watson Twins, most famous for their...

Mar 10th

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Apple March 6 Event Video →

camh: You can watch the event today. I recommend you do so, because aside from the SDK, you won’t get any of the cool applications demoed until June.

Mar 6th

Steve Jobs: No Flash for iPhone →

marco: Jobs used the Apple shareholders’ meeting to publicly dismiss the the full-blown PC Flash version as “too slow to be useful” on the iPhone…” (thanks, John) With this news one has to ask: How are the BBC planning on implementing their on demand service iplayer for the iPhone/iPod touch as discussed in The Guardian a few weeks ago?

Mar 5th

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Mar 5th

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“What repeatedly goes unrecognized by all of Mr. Obama’s opponents is that his...”

– Frank Rich (via johnbrissenden)

Mar 5th

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Le Roi est Mort

My venerable 20gb colour screen iPod has finally succumbed to a slow and painful hard drive failure. It just repeatedly crashes and boots into the ‘sad ipod’ or ‘exclaimed folder’ icons. Considering the number of times it’s fallen out of my lab coat pocket and onto the hard floor two and a half years isn’t a bad innings. This of course leads to the debate over...

Mar 5th

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”

– Bill Watterson (author of Calvin & Hobbes comic strip) — via jessicalindsey

Mar 3rd

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Jonathan Coulton with the TWiTs. Fantastic!

Mar 1st