Just Another Social Profile Really

I was recently tagged on a Facbook meme which asks you to note which of the 100 Greatest Albums Ever, as decided by Rolling Stone, you own. Because I know a lot of people don’t like being tagged in these sort of things, I thought I’d bring it out on to the open web, and [...]

Browsing through Twitter earlier I came across the rather splendid Apple Store Kid, otherwise known as Nicholi White or nicholifavs. It seems that he wanders into the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York and lip syncs to hip hop & R&B tracks, all the while looking pretty cool and then uploads them to [...]

Many of you may wonder what Dan, the chap who has been taking me on in the T-Shirt Tournament, actually looks like. Well now you know, as the picture above is of Mr Britton. The reason I’m showing you this isn’t simply because I want you to be able to visualise the man I’m currently [...]

Just when you think the interwebz can’t get any weirder a new meme comes along like no other you’ve ever seen before. Imagine that one where the guy who couldn’t speak English particularly well (because forigners are just sooo funny) invited people to be his friend. But now imagine it was filmed by a pumped-up [...]

Ahh, the internet: the fact that it has, as Clay Shirky put it, reduced “the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium” has meant that it has been responsible for more self-referential waffle than any other medium in the history of mankind. It’s almost like it was invented so [...]

I just had a comment pop-up on a post on my old Sample as that blog: the post was the one from a couple of years back about the meme where you put iTunes on shuffle and use it to create a soundtrack for your life. As 2008 has been quite a momentous year for [...]

I love the internet. It spawns utterly pointless memes that, more often than not, never make it off of the computer screen. In the case of rickrolling however it seems like this particular gag just keeps getting bigger & bigger. God bless whoever it was at Cartoon Network who decided to rickroll the famous Macy’s [...]

The Times have an interesting advertising campaign running at the moment. It started with very arresting posters which featured nothing other than eye-catching photos which had no branding of any sort on them. After a while the posters were replaced with exactly the same images, but with the words The Times added. The picture above [...]

I know that the main reason people visit this blog is because of the consistent high level of debate and analysis and so, with that in mind, I give you the video above which is a compendium of filmed FAIL moments. It accompanies a blog post on The Guardian, following an article in Slate on [...]

Quite a few people have been writing about Diesel’s XXX promotion recently (Miranda has the most detailed write-up). The video above, which turns a load of porn films into something that’s (just) about safe to view at work is probably one of the main reasons for that. However what I found interesting about the video is that Diesel actually [...]