Author: carlosfandango

Thomas Heatherwick on seeing his Olympic torch lit

Wonder if Bono hand writes a note with every CD order

The Queen has rock-solid genes, so I reckon the recent Diamond Jubilee
won’t be the last.

But look at the list of upcoming anniversary names. All boring.

I propose an alternative list:

70th Feta
80th Plutonium
90th Kryptonite
100th Di-lithium Crystal

We look on times gone by and are shocked at how things that would be
outrageous today were ok then – airing racist attitudes, smoking in
front of kids, drinking and driving etc.

I often wonder what things are socially acceptable today will shock
future generations. Some starters:

Dressage
– making horses dancing a sport

Home aquariums
– building tiny fish tanks into furniture as a novelty. Generally not
respecting living creatures because they’re small/mute

Separate Paralympics
– I bet both Olympics will come together and it will seem strange
they were ever apart

Red hair prejudice
– making fun of ‘gingers’

Mental health generally
– calling people nutters, people having to keep common issues secret
for fear of exclusion etc.

I love the mod-influenced logo of the Bradley Wiggins foundation

As Mo Farah wins 5,000m gold. Wonderful.

A few picks from our amazing trip to the Olympic Stadium. The whole thing was a fantastic tribute to modern, multicultural Britain. I’m an adopted Londoner, having lived here for nearly 25 years, and I’ve never been more proud of my city. 

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How awesome is this!? (thanks Fliss)

North Greenwich Arena. 30 mins to go.

One advantage of being based on a ship moored on the Thames’ Victoria Embankment is a first-rate view of anything that happens on the river. This was particularly special.

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It’s a fairly impressive but dry day at the Oval. The crowd are
filling the fun gap by creating huge stack towers of empty (plastic)
beer glasses.

The entertainment comes when the stewards, duty-bound, come to get
them, only for people to hand them off the other way,
piggy-in-the-middle style. Much cheering ensues.

It’s civil disobedience, the cricket way. I bet Boris would love it.

Euro 2012 car horns.m4a
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In, er, Lausanne

Emmental. 

Wow:

Satellite Eyes is a simple Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now

When I was a kid, it was supposedly German.

Now, apparently, Spanish is the popular choice.

It’s a bit Smart Alec to say this, but I think the most useful second
language to have would be HTML.