I had a day off work today which, given how busy it's been in the office over the past couple of weeks, is a thing that is very welcome. Apart from dicking about with this blog — obviously — here are some of the excellently unproductive...

"It's too exciting and distracting online... There's always some button that wants you to click to cat porn. You try to read something, and it's flashing, it's telling you to go somewhere else." — Dave Eggers, in praise of print...

Following my usual timelapse of being about four months behind the rest of the universe, I finally got round to watching Inception just after Christmas. You know, Inception? It's a film. You may have heard of it.The surprising thing, I thought, was how very confusing I...

← I didn't write about Radiohead's King of Limbs at the time of its release a couple of months ago, mainly because I didn't have much to add beyond what seemed to be the critical consensus of 'Nice, but nothing amazing'. I can't say that the...