Facebook RIP

The great thing about social networks is they’ve made communicating so much easier…

via happyplace.com and Bethany Black.

Futureman. Is that a Jewish name?

Here’s a thing I wrote for the Jewish Quarterly.

Congratulate me. I’ve just written a whole sheet of A4 by pen. After years of computercentricity it felt weird, foreign, as unwelcome a throwback to the 1980s as news that The Tweets have reformed so we can hear the “Birdie Song” live again (ah, “The Tweets”. Now there’s a name that finally has meaning in this social network age). As I heaved the pen clumsily across the paper, sweat pouring from my brow, Repetitive Strain Injury gathering in my freaked-out forearm, I felt like a man trying to plough a field with a… well, with a pen. (more…)

Clegg’s new look/Where’s Cleggy?

I’m liking the proposed new look for Nick Clegg’s front bench return.

And if you were wondering where he was during Cameron’s Euro-statement, then why not play Where’s Cleggy?

with thanks to chigwiri.com