This has to be the perfect web story. It involves Britney Spears apparently dumping her Birmingham bred boyfriend Adnan Ghalib by bunging his iPhone in a swimming pool. For why I’m mentioning it please see the comments at the end of this link.
Tag: Birmingham UK
Podnosh is based in Birmingham in the UK, so often we write about exciting things that are going on near us.
Pre-Pixelated Clothing
For those planning to appear in an observational documentary you can save producers thousands in post production by buying logo’d clothing pre-pixellated. From Ironic Sans with thanks to BSAG.
Birmingham Wifi Names from Jon Bounds
Jon Bounds has a curious and creative mind. He’s made this for these reasons.
Since I’ve had my iPhone I’ve become interested in the names people give their wifi networks, the way that the phone brings them up for you as you walk around made that inevitable. So I took to writing them down – I found that I was interested in what it said about the thoughts of who set them up. ‘Secure’, ‘Home’, or peoples names – or those who cared so little they left the default on. I collected these ones here on my normal travels around Birmingham (UK) in January and February of 2008 – the larger ones in the ‘cloud’ do represent multiple networks with the same name, but I haven’t done that scientifically.
I think it works quite well as a poster – I uploaded the graphic to a cafepress store so I can buy one when I get some royalities of some of my other shops.
Jon has also just begun writing for the Birmingham Post’s new blogs in the Lifestyle section. I reckon the poster above is a perfect form of lifestyle journalism. So who is shakespeareshirley?
Wikidemocracy "starts" in Italy.
Will any UK political party be curious enough to allow it’s policies to be developed by wiki? From this link to Wikidemocracy.org it appears that various parties in Italy are up for it. Via.