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30/05/2014

The Six O’Clock News: Smart Videos #2

Doing this on a superduper tight time limit so let’s just watch and enjoy – or not – these gems. Thank you to Jacki for showing me this – it’s definitely made me think about public perception and domestic violence. I think it’s called the Kitty Genovese effect when nobody in a group helps an… Continue reading

Internet, May 2014, Pure Insanity, The Six O’Clock News, Videos

domestic violence, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Lupita Nyong’o, Nigel Farage, The Six O’Clock News, UKIP, videos, YouTube
11/03/2014

Spoon Keyboards and Snakes Being Freaky

I am typing this on my new computer and using an ergonomic keyboard which is curved like an upside-down spoon. It has lots of short cut buttons that I’m eagerly anticipating using in my quest to become a Serious Writer Person… new computer, new start and all of that. Except I don’t have Microsoft Office… Continue reading

Animals…, Internet, March 2014, Photogenius, Pure Insanity

alligators, BBC.co.uk, crocodiles, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, keyboards, new computers, Pixel Scum, snakes eating reptiles, spoons
07/01/2014

Internet Stuff and Stuff

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(All Hail) Creation, Art, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, January 2014, MCRmy, Paywall, School

bedtime please, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, panel discussion, poem, poem about school and ‘Sherlock’, Shorty Awards, The Webways, Twitter
03/01/2014

The Eleven O’Clock News: TV Reviews Are Funny (and so is the fact that this took ten hours to make)

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(All Hail) Creation, Complaints, DISCUSS., Funny, Internet, January 2013, January 2014, Newspapers, Paywall, Scriptures, TV

‘Sherlock’, ‘The Guardian’, BBC, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dan of Geek, fan site, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Martin Freeman, review, Sherlockology, televison, The Daily Mail, The Eleven O’Clock News, The Webways

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When I began this blog in 2009, I was a teenager. That’s why you’ll find some posts have been hidden behind a paywall. I was an incredibly different, less eloquent person when I was a teen, so if you want to read the thoughts of that teenager, you can join the No. 1 Readers’ Club for access.

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Internet

The Six O’Clock News: Smart Videos #2

Spoon Keyboards and Snakes Being Freaky

Internet Stuff and Stuff

The Eleven O’Clock News: TV Reviews Are Funny (and so is the fact that this took ten hours to make)