Archives for the 'politic' Category
so michael moore
Thursday, November 4th, 2004
look Bush, this is what you did
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
This guy wrote an applet for Gnome which tells you the current ‘Homeland Security Threat’ on your desktop.
let me take my bicycle on the train
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
It was with great pleasure that last week I announced the launch of the new web site for the North Somerset Cycle Campaign, hosted here at 4angle. Today I’m going to mention the Wessex Trains cycle ban campaign. For those who don’t know, in May this year Wessex Trains altered their cycle policy, banning cycles [...]
bikes against bush
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
possibly the coolest form of direct action i’ve ever seen was just brought to my attention by mr_h.. bikes against bush have developed a ‘wireless-enabled’ bicycle, complete with laptop and mobile phone, which allows you to text messages to the bike. the bike then uses a custom-built device to spray paint the messages to the [...]
lost the pub?
Sunday, August 8th, 2004
The BBC report that a pub has been ‘lost’. What does that mean? Well, it was dismantled in the 1970s in order to build a road, on the condition that it would be rebuilt elsewhere. Unfortunately, the pieces of the pub have now been lost.
european parliamentary elections..in a nightclub?
Saturday, June 5th, 2004
so, after much anger for about 1 hour that i wasn’t going to be able to vote in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, it turns out i can. a voting card popped through my letterbox this afternoon. oddly, our polling station is the hanbury arms ballroom, kemp town’s very own nightclub.
fit fat
Thursday, June 3rd, 2004
When I was at school I never really thought about the crazy Walkers ‘sports equipment for schools’ offer, which effectively means you have to eat loads of crisps in order to get a free cricket bat or something for your school. The idea of advertising sport with fast food is pretty scary, as in Sarah’s [...]
pasting
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
living in brighton i forget what it is like to see fly posters in every direction you look. the council cracked down on it a few years ago apparently, and hence there are just no flyposters in brighton. the telegraph today reports that Sony and BMG record label (advertising) executives face jail threat for flyposting. [...]
August 2003: 596 Brits killed by ozone?
Sunday, May 9th, 2004
According to the Observer article, Summer heat will cause deadly ozone, as many as 596 people are believed to have died in Britain during August 2003 as a consequence of high levels of ozone. Is that a scary stat or what?
degrade as you like
Sunday, May 9th, 2004
create your own degrading image…