A brief list of some interesting articles I've read today: Skipping Ads? TV gets ready to fight back... -- Posted by Tom Coates to plasticbag.org at 1/12/2003...
A brief list of some interesting articles I've read today: Skipping Ads? TV gets ready to fight back... -- Posted by Tom Coates to plasticbag.org at 1/12/2003...
A brief list of some interesting articles I've read today: Skipping Ads? TV gets ready to fight back... -- Posted by Tom Coates to plasticbag.org at 1/12/2003...
I've been getting really behind with the stuff that I want to write on plasticbag.org recently, which probably explains why when I do write something it's...
Three things. A The first thing is that I'm going to send you all over to Sparky's house and remind you to make a donation to Sparky and Rooster's Big Gay...
Since I don't talk nearly enough about the trivia of my life on my site any more, I thought I'd briefly allude to my trip to Suffolk and put up a scant few of...
Often as I'm taking the bus home of an evening, I pass a man who looks a bit like a dynamic middle manager standing on Oxford Street near to John Lewis talking...
Are you children never satisfied? Do you find yourself buying them ever more toys that they seem to discard almost immediately? Do they have a strange menacing...
A few weeks ago there was an article on the BBC's site called The Formula for Happiness which explained that scientists had somehow managed to work out...
A good connection to the interhighweb and a love of computer games is all you need to appreciate the Jackass of X-Box gaming: Warthog Jump by Randy Glass ....
Two hundred-thousand people have voted. And the response should be - at the very least - sobering for the American and British governments. The question asked:...
The dream - the recurring one - is the one where I go back to school after my degree to do more A-levels, and have to wear the same school uniform and am older...
The dream - the recurring one - is the one where I go back to school after my degree to do more A-levels, and have to wear the same school uniform and am older...
I spent much of yesterday in a strange venue - a converted public toilet. In front of a Hawksmoor church near Spitalfields market in London is a small glass...
I can't quite believe that we're doing the rounds of You've Got Blog again, but ever since DiveIntoMark linked to it, I've been getting my share of referrals...
Being a set of links that I don't have either the time or the inclination to write up properly, even though I know no-one will actually click on any of them: ...
So Robbie Williams supports prostitution and organised crime? Well - according to the culture minister Kim Howells, he does... And why? Because he supports...
Thanks to Matthew Davis, George Wright and Tim Duckett for writing in with various e-mail addresses for Dr Kim Howells, the Minister for Culture who so...
Well the nominations have been announced for Bloggies 2003 and this year I've not been nominated for either "Best Poof" or "Best Eurotrash". It's always a...
I don't believe we ever needed more reasons to love Kurt Vonnegut. But if we did need more reasons, Matt Webb's extended quotation from the Vonnegut book...
According to Mr Webb and Mr Gyford (with whom I work), it is innappropriate web behaviour to have four full lines of bookmarks in your Mozilla toolbar, all...
There's no denying that 8 mile is a perfectly serviceable bit of cinema. And there's no denying that it packs a few punches and that Eminem himself pulls off a...
So here's a conversation that I'd love to have been party to: Douglas Rushkoff spends a couple of hours with Al Gore . And in his post about it, Rushkoff has...
Much to my delight, there's a picture of plasticbag.org in an article on "Undesign" in this week's copy of Graphics International: Lo-fi Allstars . If you want...
I've heard it before, and it's not a particularly stunning thing to say, and yet why do I still feel a weird rush of pride and enthusiasm when someone says...
A select few AIM bon mots about trackback from the last 24 hours or so that demonstrate that I have absolutely bugger-all idea what I'm doing on the internet...
I think it would be going over the top to say that the web has been rocked by suggestions that the Bloggies have been gamed by a group of Texan webloggers...
From What is a Designer by Norman Potter: "In the field of product design, the professional extremes might be said to range from studio pottery and textile...
I went to a tanning salon. Obviously I'm ashamed of myself, but rather than fill in my tax return I thought to myself, "You know what I'd like to do? I'd like...
As of PRETTY MUCH NOW, my RSS feed is changing location to http://www.plasticbag.org/index.xml is you want RSS 0.91 and to http://www.plasticbag.org/index.rdf...