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I’ve been Bosewatched

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:28:51 -0500

The Metrotwin 15 – Harper

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:43:18 -0500

After a rather vanity riddled start to the Metrotwin 15 – a new feature where we ask fifteen deep, probing questions of extreme significance to some of our contributors – it seemed only right…

Remember Remember

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:08:44 -0500

Remember Remember:

“Remember remember the fifth of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason,

Should ever be forgot”

And for those looking for festivities here in New York…

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot…

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:26:27 -0500

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot…:

We Brits do choose to celebrate in unusual ways. I suppose it’s quite nice that 400-odd years after the event we still celebrate a failed plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by, erm, letting…

See you at the Crossroads

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:09:02 -0500

See you at the Crossroads:

After a couple of months of disruption, the £5 million ‘Japanese style crossing’ has finally opened in Oxford Circus. Most boring blogpost ever? Bear with me…

It’s called ‘Japanese style’ because…

We’ve been nominated for a BIMA, and now we need your votes

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:57:02 -0500

We’ve been nominated for a BIMA, and now we need your votes

Day of the Dead

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:48:05 -0500

Day of the Dead:

Although this is informally what I call January 1st, the day of inevitable hangover after New Years celebrations, the actual Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican festival of the dead occurs on the 1st…

Look Into My Eyes, with Twitter Lists

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:06:21 -0500

Look Into My Eyes, with Twitter Lists

Hallowseve

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:08 -0400

Hallowseve:

Trick or treat Metrotwinners. Aye! The most betwixting of days is this Saturday (and we all know how long we have been waiting for Halloween to land on a Saturday). So where will you be for this…

Wish You Were Halloweeny

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:21:19 -0400

Wish You Were Halloweeny:

We’ve mentioned the Newburgh Quarter’’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ swap of London and Lower East Side boutiques before, but this is the last weekend it’s in town and they’re planning something pretty…

Looking towards more flexible web-based editorial design

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:04:21 -0400

Looking towards more flexible web-based editorial design

Neighbourhood Tales: Archway

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:16:29 -0400

Neighbourhood Tales: Archway:

I recently downloaded NotForTourists’s new London Iphone app, which was ace, except for the part where it defined an area near to me – ‘my manors’ if you will – as ‘next on the bulldozer…

New York’s Lifeline

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:47:56 -0400

New York’s Lifeline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v700R2jkvjw

Behold! Oh, the rivers of New York! From the Hudson to the East, along downtown Manhattan to the edges of Brooklyn, from Governor’s Island to…

Happy 10th Birthday Jake!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:16:35 -0400

Happy 10th Birthday Jake!:

You might have heard of Jake. The social network for gay professionals has over 30,000 members worldwide and has written some great recommendations and lists for our site in their time too.

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toot toot New Feature Alert: The Metrotwin 15!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:26:00 -0400

*toot toot* New Feature Alert: The Metrotwin 15!:

As you will notice from the right-hand column of this blog and the many great recommendations on the site, we have a lot of cool people who contribute to Metrotwin, experts who know and love their…

Twins of the Sea

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:49:12 -0400

Twins of the Sea:

Oysters are an aquired taste. Some people like pouring living, wriggling blobs of aquatic snot down their throats…other people are me! Then again, I actively seek out and consume…

Grow a spine you wimps: Are you as tired as I am of these people...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:10:33 -0400

Grow a spine you wimps:

Are you as tired as I am of these people who whinge on about the Web being too big and free and open and rich for their fragile little brains to cope with?

After centuries millenia of restricted access to knowledge being something every hipster should be heard moaning about, it’s now suddenly cool to complain that there’s just ‘too much information‘ out there and that you can’t cope. Yeah man, it’s just too heavy. It’s like you could spend all day every day online, but you still can’t take it all in and it’s completely ruining your life, and making you feel worthless.

To be fair, it’s the same type of people now complaining that there’s just too much knowledge who always tell you – unprompted – about the the unearthly hour they got up as a way of asserting their moral superiority over anyone who got up at a more sensible time. They’re the same people who never miss an opportunity to tell you how many days they’ve had without any sleep because they are SOOO busy, and how little they’ve eaten… ever. Now, the Web offers these idiots a new opportunity to demonstrate self-worth – through another melodramatic and yet pointless piece of self-denial. But it’s better than that, the Web also provides a massive new audience of gullible fools people to bore on to.

I had to check to see if this article from the NY Times website was some sort of hoax – it’s called “Stop Your Search Engines” (headline writer possibly suffering from Continual Partial Attention disorder). In it, they describe an Apple Desktop App called Freedom - created for people who feel the need for a “strategy” to help them deal with the temptation of the modern world’s super-abundance of knowledge.

It works like this.

I can’t believe anyone wasted any valuable moments of their lives programming Freedom. Your modem and your system preferences will both do this. You do not need an App. And there is also this button on all computers that just turns them off. If you that’s not good enough for you but you live inside the M25, then why not DM and I’ll come round your house with a baseball bat to smash your equipment up.

I call this programme of self-realisation ‘Total Freedom’ and it costs £50 a pop. Drop me a line.

Get Excited And Make Things

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:14:54 -0400

Get Excited And Make Things

Ode to the Odd

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:54 -0400

Ode to the Odd:

In response to Anya’s latest blog on an “intriguing and unusual exhibition to visit” in London, New York has some “art in odd places” to visit this weekend too. Exploring the “odd,…

On the Outsider

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:52:32 -0400

On the Outsider:

As a philosophy student I sat through many an earnest debate on ‘the nature of art’, and outsider art was always central to the argument. Were the daubings of a chimpanzee art? A visually…