Archive for January, 2010

A group of homeopathy sceptics spent the morning outside Boots in town, attempting to overdose on the fake remedies sold therein. They all look line to me, well as well as they did before.
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Russ picks out "lots of things", although nothing's striking me a brilliant — have a look and see if you think differently.
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A "public information exhibition on potential redevelopment options for Paradise Circus" at Paradise Forum Tuesday 9th February 2010 12pm – 7pm Wednesday 10th February 2010 7.30am – 2pm not to be confused with paradisecircus.com Paradise Forum ■ Birmingham B3 3HJ
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So I spoke to the Editor* about what to write about this week and he gave me this, probably to wind me up, which suggests that ten people are responsible for most of the graffiti in Brum. I knew my feelings on graff have been documented ad nauseum in other places. Also I find...
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Not to save or refurbish, but a step in the right direction: "The Friends of Moseley Road Baths has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund Your Heritage grant of almost £48,000 to undertake a three-year project researching the history of the Edwardian Grade II* Listed swimming baths"
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wevee is a site that a tempts to do something with the vast amount of old film — and there’s a lot of stuff of the Midlands on there. The interface is very slick — you can trim the ends of the clip and place them together on a timeline (very much like simple...
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The council have got a wee bit of publicity for announcing that they're going to take reports of potholes via Twitter (to the press office account, oddly) – "It just makes sense to use it," said Council spokesman Geoff Coleman. Have to say it would make a lot more sense to use fixymystreet.com which...
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Anglo-Saxon England was a horrible violent place with different kings and fiefdoms slaughtering for land, old gods, and, when the Danes landed, shits and giggles. Not unlike Newtown (except the bit about the Danes – I’ve never seen a Dane  in North Birmingham). Another thing worth stabbing your neighbouring villagers up the arsehole for,...
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A BBC/BMAG project to identify ten items that tell the history of the World with some Brum connection.
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