notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

2012-01-16

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guardianFront by magCulture on Flickr.I’m hardly the first person to remark on the Guardian’s front cover reworking, or the amusing juxtaposition (someone give those editors a bonus), but I thought I’d like to record it anyway.

guardianFront by magCulture on Flickr.

I’m hardly the first person to remark on the Guardian’s front cover reworking, or the amusing juxtaposition (someone give those editors a bonus), but I thought I’d like to record it anyway.

2011-12-08

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It’s the jumper that makes this.

Allan and Dinah Procter with their white wyandotte bantam hen which won first prize for its breed at the Poultry Club’s 2011 national show in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

It’s the jumper that makes this.

Allan and Dinah Procter with their white wyandotte bantam hen which won first prize for its breed at the Poultry Club’s 2011 national show in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

2011-11-12

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The Disney Wonder, looking all Hiroshi Sugimoto in this Guardian photograph, used on their front page to promote Jon Ronson’s story about cruise ship disappearances.
(Unfortunately the Guardian doesn’t credit the photograph and I can’t find it using Google’s image matching or Tineye. Sorry, anonymous photographer.)

The Disney Wonder, looking all Hiroshi Sugimoto in this Guardian photograph, used on their front page to promote Jon Ronson’s story about cruise ship disappearances.

(Unfortunately the Guardian doesn’t credit the photograph and I can’t find it using Google’s image matching or Tineye. Sorry, anonymous photographer.)

2011-11-11

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“ Imagine going to the pub with a sufferer from square bracket compulsive disorder: “Two pints of Kronenbourg [lager] and a packet of [sea] salt and [balsamic] vinegar crisps, please. Oh, and can I have a dry [house] white [wine], a [Cornish] pasty and a packet of dry roasted [peanuts]? ”
David Marsh in a post to the Guardian’s style blog about the use of square brackets.

2011-09-22

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“ Some locals called for fees for non-resident vehicles, while others demanded that satnav companies omit the neighbourhood from their systems. ”
Hollywood sign neighbours voice anger as tourism grows by Andrew Gumbel in The Guardian.

2011-08-24

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“ Tseëlon, a social psychologist specialising in visual appearance, says the British devotion to uniform reflects “a general etiquette towards children” defined by power, control and a lack of trust. ”

2011-08-02

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From How to draw … bunnies by Simone Lia at the Guardian.

From How to draw … bunnies by Simone Lia at the Guardian.

2011-06-07

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“ Of the 11 films the BBFC has banned, eight have since been passed uncut, among them Tod Browning’s Freaks and Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ”
Catherine Shoard in the Guardian: The Human Centipede sequel just too horrible to show, says BBFC. The horror film has become the latest of those eleven.

2011-05-30

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“ The email accounts of the Guardian, Times, Financial Times and Telegraph are all managed by Google. ”

James Ball in the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Give Twitter credit for trying to stand up to the courts – unlike others.

Is it really true that four of the five old broadsheets have outsourced email to Google? It’s both plausible yet, somehow, deeply worrying.

2011-05-19

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The Guardian’s Farringdon offices, just before the newspaper took occupancy in 1976. They were still there into 2009, when they moved to King’s Place. (from The Guardian 190th anniversary – in pictures).

The Guardian’s Farringdon offices, just before the newspaper took occupancy in 1976. They were still there into 2009, when they moved to King’s Place. (from The Guardian 190th anniversary – in pictures).

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