Blog: Binky The Doormat

I'm having a bit of a play with the new WordPress interface, and I'm just writing this to see what it would look like. How are you? Are you well?

Binky now lives here: www.binkythedoormat.com.

I skipped up to Bambrough last weekend and discovered a fantastic second-hand book store that had a big collection of old Penguin books. After banging on about how brilliant There Will Be Blood (based on Upton Sinclair's Oil!) is to all and sundry, I thought I ought to buy this. A harmless impulse-buy? No. History will [...]

In my ongoing quest to spend every penny I have on Apple products, I've finally got myself iWork [www.apple.com/uk/iwork], and I love it. I'm currently designing a range of publications that contain a lot (and I mean a lot) of visual data - bar graphs, pie charts, that sort of thing. The original manuscripts arrived with [...]

Up until yesterday my office computer was a white 203 iMac. As of today I'm now working on a gleaming behemoth of a Mac Pro. Apparently it's more powerful than our server. I have the most powerful machine of any kind in our building. Crikey. Some minor quibbles: It's more powerful than my iMac at home, thus [...]

Me And My Imagination by Sophie Ellis Bextor's legs. With Every Heartbeat by Kleerup feturing Robyn Björk having a chat about her new album Volta. Real Girl by Mutya

The scroll-ball in my Mac "Mighty" Mouse went completely doolally last week - first it stopped scrolling down, then wouldn't scroll up. Being an Apple product, it's completely impenetrable, so cleaning it is a bit tricky. Apple's official suggestion is to hold the mouse upside down and give it a good vigorous scroll. Nothing happens. Various [...]

This will be the last ever post on this version of Binky the Doormat. Basically I'm starting anew. I started Binky in 2004 as a place to rant about films and link to MP3s, and it's kind of evolved/devolved over time into something else far more erratic and unfocussed. I'm now in a position where I [...]

Coversourcing is a competition (run by publisher Random House and everyone's favourite squaregazine Creative Review) to design the cover of Crowdsourcing, WIRED editor Jeff Howe's upcoming book about the new internet revolution driven by the masses. To go along with this ideology, all entries are open to a terrifying public voting/commenting process. So Here's my entry. [...]

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Even though it isn't out until next year* I'm am getting really excited about the forthcoming film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. Not only is it directed by Spike Jonze from a script by Dave Eggers, but it'll have music from Karen O (according to CHUD). Plus the kid playing the lead role [...]

Want to know how many burglars designer Nicholas Feltron encountered las year? Or which taxi routes he took? Or maybe you're intrigued as to his 2007 karaoke habits? Then you should check out his latest Annual Report, which is becoming a something of a January highlight.

Interesting piece at Gizmodo about the influence of 60's Braun hardware on Apple.

Do you remember that cartoon from Sesame Street with the pinball machine counting up to twelve? If not, you haven't lived my friend, you haven't lived. Either way, check out this genius Seven trailer from Cinemashups [Warning: it takes an age to load, but it's well worth it]. If you saw this in a cinema, you'd [...]

Is it just me or does Uwe Boll's new film Fellowship Of The Two Towers Of The Returning King look rather good? Just me? Thought so.

Sometimes you think the typical view of all Americans being fat lazy buggers is a bit unfair and racist. And then you see this: KFC's Famous Bowl. KFC don't do it over here in the svelte UK, so I was blissfully unaware of it's existence until I read this review by Patton Oswalt. More [...]

I bet they're all on eBay now... Spotted at Neatorama.

New TV series Terminator: Let's Just Pretend That Third Movie Never Happened looks quite promising, particularly due to the presence of Serenity nutjob Summer Glau as a friendly lady-bot. Of course, if it is any good, it'll be axed halfway through the series, like 90% of all decent American TV programs... [...]

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