Rally

• Things I have learned from following sport (specifically from watching rally)What that drink is in the rustic looking cup with the metal straw that they drink in Argentina. See this video from Best Of Rally Live of shakedown for Rally Argentina 2013 – it opens with some atmosphere setting shots of a spectator pouring water onto some dried herbs in one of these cups, then we ...
• Top Ten GingersTop Ten Gingers: featuring red-headed old lady fashionistas, orange cats and SPORT, SPORT, SPORT. The top three in this festival of the flame-haired are all rally-related. What a tremendous shock. 10. Paul Collingwood. Now who doesn’t love Colly? As I thought. We love his tenacious batting, and we love his fielding. Durham’s finest ginger. 9. Street ...
• Nokia and the WRC: the endAn update to my previous post on Nokia’s woes, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor. Last weekend’s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor. We have still heard nothing at all from the FIA regarding new sponsors, new funding, a new promoter, TV ...
• Nokia, ai Jumala! (Nokia, oh God!)At the end of the 2011 World Rally Championship season, the WRC had a global promoter: North One Sport. All seemed reasonably well – Nokia had been signed as title sponsor, and surely more sponsors would follow soon. Not so long afterwards, all fell to rack and ruin. North One Sport’s parent company, Convers Sports ...

Pop Culture

• Another email to David RobeyStill confident you made the right decision? Of course it’s better to ditch a cheap team who aren’t on contracts than to look at places where BBC radio could save big money. Of course. Listeners think you’re an incompetent cloth-eared fool. But that’s OK! You didn’t need to do any tricky HR procedures, just say “contract’s over”. ...
• An email to David RobeyDear Mr Robey, The Danny Baker show is the best show on radio. Yet you are axing it. As a listener, I find this unacceptable. Please reverse your bizarre and perverse decision. Yours with deep disappointment, Gemma Hallam
• Top Ten GingersTop Ten Gingers: featuring red-headed old lady fashionistas, orange cats and SPORT, SPORT, SPORT. The top three in this festival of the flame-haired are all rally-related. What a tremendous shock. 10. Paul Collingwood. Now who doesn’t love Colly? As I thought. We love his tenacious batting, and we love his fielding. Durham’s finest ginger. 9. Street ...
• The best Brian everMy favourite Brian ever, ever, EVER, is Brian Wilson. Brian Wilson has written and arranged music of sublime beauty. He is a genius. It’s an overused word, but I don’t misuse it here. If you don’t understand or appreciate the Beach Boys, it’s probably because you haven’t really listened to the Beach Boys. Once you do, you ...
• Top ten Brians part 25. Brian Johnston, “Johnners”, cricket commentating legend. Co-creator of one of the funniest moments in all sporting commentary. 4. BRIAN BLESSED. When I worked in a college bar which was not equipped with a bell to ring for last orders, I used to shout last orders. I’d take a few breaths, loosen my shoulders and get ...
• Top ten Brians part 110. Brian the Snail from TV’s The Magic Roundabout. Annoying, people say. But the right kind of annoying. The endearing kind of annoying. 9. Brian from “Monty Pythons Life Of Brian”. He isn’t the Messiah. And neither are you, just in case you were suffering from that popular delusion. Brian is, however, a very naughty boy. I ...
• Market segmentation and gender: a tale of failWe’re market segmenting ourselves to destruction but if you don’t have much imagination, or can’t be bothered faffing about with any database themed bullshittery, what might you do? Continue reading →
• An Encutment Of Hair: male rock stars go long to shortLong hair on a man. Yeah, we know all about that. Let’s revise what we know in a brief burst of self-indulgence. Back in the 1960s, when long started at the lugholes, it was all about rebellion: a conscious decision to reject the cultural norm of a good short neat haircut kept in order by ...

Hedghoggery

• Posh hedgehog restaurant menu To begin: A single Vietnamese white woodlouse poached in a delicately flavoured broth. A plate of earthworm charcuterie A piquant selection of South American ants Finely shredded carrot, coriander and chervil, topped with an earwig Main courses: Roast water beetle with its own pond water reduction Scrambled pheasant egg with shaved black and white truffle Whole Hungarian millipede, served in a coil with paprika ...

Sport on Telly

• Things I have learned from following sport (specifically from watching rally)What that drink is in the rustic looking cup with the metal straw that they drink in Argentina. See this video from Best Of Rally Live of shakedown for Rally Argentina 2013 – it opens with some atmosphere setting shots of a spectator pouring water onto some dried herbs in one of these cups, then we ...
• Nokia and the WRC: the endAn update to my previous post on Nokia’s woes, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor. Last weekend’s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor. We have still heard nothing at all from the FIA regarding new sponsors, new funding, a new promoter, TV ...
• Market segmentation and gender: a tale of failWe’re market segmenting ourselves to destruction but if you don’t have much imagination, or can’t be bothered faffing about with any database themed bullshittery, what might you do? Continue reading →

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• Judging an app by its icon I'm using this blogging app for the iPad, called Blogsy. It's functionally pretty damn good. Works with all kinds of blogging platforms, your Wordpress, your Blogger, your SquareSpace, your Moveable Type, et cetera. Gives you a nice WYSIWYG posting area with a nice clean top menu bar for formatting. But look at this app icon. ...
• They just want our butter, the lazy Viking tarts.I’m way late with this post, which is in fact little more than an excuse to share some jokes I made on Twitter. First, I need to lay you out a little backstory. You may or may not be familiar with the story of Tom Martin, a student of Gender Studies at the LSE who undertook ...
• badhedgehog’s actual own blog I’m interested in a bunch of stuff. I comment on a bunch of blogs. Obvious missing thing: own blog for public consumption (and that).