{"id":441,"date":"2013-08-16T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2013-08-16T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:21:06","slug":"subjects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/all-posts\/subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 1.17em; line-height: 1.4em;\">Rally<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2013\/05\/things-i-have-learned-from-following-sport-specifically-from-watching-rally\/\">Things I have learned from following sport (specifically from watching rally)<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">What that drink is in the rustic looking cup with the metal straw that they drink in Argentina.\nSee this video from Best Of Rally Live of shakedown for Rally Argentina 2013 \u2013 it opens with some atmosphere setting shots of a spectator pouring water onto some dried herbs in one of these cups, then we ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/10\/top-ten-gingers\/\">Top Ten Gingers<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">Top 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.\n10. Paul Collingwood. Now who doesn&#8217;t love Colly? As I thought. We love his tenacious batting, and we love his fielding. Durham&#8217;s finest ginger.\n9.  Street ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/nokia-and-the-wrc-the-end\/\">Nokia and the WRC: the end<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">An update to my previous post on Nokia&#8217;s woes, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor.\nLast weekend&#8217;s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor.\nWe have still heard nothing at all from the FIA regarding new sponsors, new funding, a new promoter, TV ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/04\/nokia-ai-jumala-nokia-oh-god\/\">Nokia, ai Jumala! (Nokia, oh God!)<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">At the end of the 2011 World Rally Championship season, the WRC had a global promoter: North One Sport. All seemed reasonably well \u2013 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&#8217;s parent company, Convers Sports ...<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pop Culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/11\/another-email-to-david-robey\/\">Another email to David Robey<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">Still confident you made the right decision?\nOf course it&#8217;s better to ditch a cheap team who aren&#8217;t on contracts than to look at places where BBC radio could save big money. Of course.\nListeners think you&#8217;re an incompetent cloth-eared fool. But that&#8217;s OK! You didn&#8217;t need to do any tricky HR procedures, just say &#8220;contract&#8217;s over&#8221;. ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/11\/an-email-to-david-robey\/\">An email to David Robey<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">Dear Mr Robey,\nThe 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.\nYours with deep disappointment,\nGemma Hallam\n<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/10\/top-ten-gingers\/\">Top Ten Gingers<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">Top 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.\n10. Paul Collingwood. Now who doesn&#8217;t love Colly? As I thought. We love his tenacious batting, and we love his fielding. Durham&#8217;s finest ginger.\n9.  Street ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/09\/the-best-brian-ever\/\">The best Brian ever<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">My favourite Brian ever, ever, EVER, is Brian Wilson.\nBrian Wilson has written and arranged music of sublime beauty. He is a genius. It&#8217;s an overused word, but I don&#8217;t misuse it here.\nIf you don&#8217;t understand or appreciate the Beach Boys, it&#8217;s probably because you haven&#8217;t really listened to the Beach Boys. Once you do, you ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/07\/top-ten-brians\/\">Top ten Brians part 2<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">5. Brian Johnston, &#8220;Johnners&#8221;, cricket commentating legend. Co-creator of one of the funniest moments in all sporting commentary.\n4. 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&#8217;d take a few breaths, loosen my shoulders and get ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/top-ten-brians-part-1\/\">Top ten Brians part 1<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">10. Brian the Snail from TV&#8217;s The Magic Roundabout. Annoying, people say. But the right kind of annoying. The endearing kind of annoying.\n9.\u00a0Brian from &#8220;Monty Pythons Life Of Brian&#8221;. He isn&#8217;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 ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2011\/12\/market-segmentation-gender\/\">Market segmentation and gender: a tale of fail<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">We&#8217;re market segmenting ourselves to destruction but if you don&#8217;t have much imagination, or can&#8217;t be bothered faffing about with any database themed bullshittery, what might you do?\n Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2010\/06\/an-encutment-of-hair-male-rock-stars-go-long-to-short\/\">An Encutment Of Hair: male rock stars go long to short<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">Long hair on a man. Yeah, we know all about that. Let&#8217;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 ...<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Hedghoggery<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2011\/12\/posh-hedgehog-restaurant-menu\/\">Posh hedgehog restaurant menu<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">\nTo begin:\nA single Vietnamese white woodlouse\npoached in a delicately flavoured broth.\nA plate of earthworm charcuterie\nA piquant selection of South American ants\nFinely shredded carrot, coriander and chervil, topped with an earwig\n\nMain courses:\nRoast water beetle with its own pond water reduction\nScrambled pheasant egg with shaved black and white truffle\nWhole Hungarian millipede, served in a coil with paprika ...<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Sport on Telly<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2013\/05\/things-i-have-learned-from-following-sport-specifically-from-watching-rally\/\">Things I have learned from following sport (specifically from watching rally)<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">What that drink is in the rustic looking cup with the metal straw that they drink in Argentina.\nSee this video from Best Of Rally Live of shakedown for Rally Argentina 2013 \u2013 it opens with some atmosphere setting shots of a spectator pouring water onto some dried herbs in one of these cups, then we ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/nokia-and-the-wrc-the-end\/\">Nokia and the WRC: the end<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">An update to my previous post on Nokia&#8217;s woes, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor.\nLast weekend&#8217;s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor.\nWe have still heard nothing at all from the FIA regarding new sponsors, new funding, a new promoter, TV ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2011\/12\/market-segmentation-gender\/\">Market segmentation and gender: a tale of fail<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">We&#8217;re market segmenting ourselves to destruction but if you don&#8217;t have much imagination, or can&#8217;t be bothered faffing about with any database themed bullshittery, what might you do?\n Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Uncategorized<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><\/strong><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2013\/05\/judging-an-app-by-its-icon\/\">Judging an app by its icon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\"> I&#39;m using this blogging app for the iPad, called Blogsy. It&#39;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.\nBut look at this app icon. ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/03\/viking-tart\/\">They just want our butter, the lazy Viking tarts.<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">I&#8217;m way late with this post, which is in fact little more than an excuse to share some jokes I made on Twitter.\nFirst, 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 ...<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"lcp_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2010\/02\/hello-world\/\">badhedgehog&#8217;s actual own blog<\/a><\/span><span class=\"lcp_content\">\nI&#8217;m interested in a bunch of stuff. I comment on a bunch of blogs.\nObvious missing thing: own blog for public consumption (and that).\n<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in a bunch of stuff. I comment on a bunch of blogs. Obvious missing thing: own blog for public consumption (and that). &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/all-posts\/subjects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions\/447"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}