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Came accross this in my favourite Sydney bookstore, Ariel, the other day. A pretty novel concept – combining two of our favourite things in the world: Art and Eating. The author put this book together over a great excuse for a trip around Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York. His road-trip rules [...]

With the tagline “Ideas to live by” this self styled “Cultural enterprise” offers an interesting range of services including: evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of literary consultancy service called bibliotherapy. The school operates out of what looks [...]

The latest in the now global Interesting nights is being held in New York this weekend. The premise is simple – a range of speakers have 3-10 minutes to talk about a subject they are passionate about. The bite-size talks combined with actively encouraged audience participation makes for a rather entertaining experience. Previous events in [...]

Why Advertising Sucks is calling bullshit on the London 2012 logo and has launched a contest to create a better one. Send your entires to them at adssuck@gmail.com for your chance at blog stardom (there is no mention of a prize). Thought Gadgets has a warning on these type of free user generated content type [...]

Yet more Olympic flavour, but hold on! It’s not Beijing related bitches and there ain’t no basketball involved – it’s protest art for London 2012. Apparently there is a massive blue fence blocking off places where Olympic construction is underway in London, an eyesore described by Iain Sinclair in the London Review of Books thusly [...]