Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Uncovering the truly awful commercial uses of the blend, clone and other digital manipulation tools in Adobe Photoshop is the blog Photoshop Disasters. Their uncovering of Red Bull’s Hungarian advert caught my eye:

Red Bull gives you a bigger mouth as well as wings it would seem.

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This week the Britblog Roundup is hosted by Matt Wardman, who has very kindly linked to last week’s tasteless Politalks. If he thinks that’s bad, wait until this week’s is posted (hopefully later today).

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A group of disgruntled hacks, inspired by Nick Davies’ journalism expose Flat Earth News, have started a new blog: The Churner Prize. Dedicated to honouring those hapless hacks who find themselves regurgitating press releases and spurious surveys rather than investigating real stories, both the book and the blog are worth a read for those of […]

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Following up on the earlier post about the BNP and their dominance of the political internet traffic, another interesting excerpt from the politics and the internet report by the Centre for Policy Studies:
"Worst of all, say the critics, is the style of debate that this new arena fosters. The blogs are good at trashing things […]

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Serial blogger Tim Ireland has a bit of an ill-disguised vendetta "thing" for fellow serial blogger Iain Dale, which borders on, well, let’s put it this way, if they were in primary school now he’d be pulling Iain’s pig-tails and pushing him down right around now. It’s love, jealousy and hatred all rolled into one […]

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Thanks to Philobiblon for linking to my post on organ donation (part of the FFS It’s Monday series) in this week’s Britblog Roundup. I disagree, however, that "Gavin’s Gaily Gigest" is "taking alliteration just a little too far". I could’ve called this blog "Gorgeous Gavin’s Gaily Golitical Gigest".

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Various versions of this poster have been bouncing around in recent months, but this one probably hits the nail squarest on the head (following on from Guido’s assertions):

Hat-tip: Mike Rouse.

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Thanks to Jonathan Calder for linking to my post on party funding (part of the FFS It’s Monday series) in this week’s Britblog Roundup. The Realpolitik podcast also receives a much appreciated mention.

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Matt Wardman of the Wardman Wire has started podcasting his daily news roundup. He’s sent me code for a flash player that now appears in the left-hand sidebar of my site if you want to listen to it. It’s updated every day and is only two or so minutes long, so click play for a […]

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Justin McKeating of Chicken Yoghurt offers a counterpoint to Guido’s love letter to Drudge over on Liberal Conspiracy. I can’t read such a superb introduction without passing it on:
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of American blogger Matt Drudge breaking the story of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Things were never the same again. The world was […]

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