http://www.joyfeed.com we have accepted the terms and conditions Mon, 05 May 2008 19:49:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The theme for All The Rage this month is Age and Maturity. Here is more or less what I wrote: Hair My hair is going grey. Mainly around the temples, but generally all over, strand by strand. I quite like this. Maybe I’m turning into David Byrne, whose hair seemed to change ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2008/05/on-age-and-maturity/ The inspiration for these pictures came from a number of things, but they were definitely influenced by Forced Entertainment: specifically Emanuelle Enchanted, and the Cardboard Sign Photographs they made with Hugo Glendinning, but there's a little bit of Speak Bitterness in there too. http://www.joyfeed.com/2008/04/we-are-mediocrity-part-two/ Please, if you have not already done so, could you make your way to the site of my hitherto secret counting project. Thanks. http://www.joyfeed.com/2008/04/an-announcement/ This piece originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of All The Rage. It is about "space".   SPACE: A non-exhaustive list with asides.   1. Outer Space. In particular, as I type, being a little closer to it – around 38,000 feet / 12,000 metres[i] above the Indian Ocean, between ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2008/03/space/ We have accepted the terms and conditions We have done the Maths We have been woken by car alarms We have allowed our membership to lapse We have looked, but we have not touched We have forgotten to buy milk We have used milk that has gone past its sell by date We have stopped opening our ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2008/01/we-are-mediocrity-part-one/ During some routine research into oral hygiene technology today, I stumbled upon this mutant toothbrush. Like something out of The Fly. You know, for kids! I can also imagine the creative discussion that led to this rascular innovation. A: Increasingly, consumers are becoming concerned with their tongues. B: If only it were possible ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2007/12/a-clever-invention-part-three/ Here is another numerically ordered piece, originally published in the December edition of the hip, gunslingingly pdf magazine All The Rage.   Before climbing back into bed after going to the toilet in the middle of the night, he would habitually check the time on his phone. In that half-asleep state, ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2007/12/how-time-works/ A few days ago, I dropped a newly-opened 500g tub of Flora margarine, and it landed, openside-down, on the kitchen floor. When I picked it up the entire polyunsaturated block decided that it quite liked it there, and came clean out of the tub. 1. I found that I was, in ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2007/12/a-restoration/ Borderline humorous froth 1. Things to do before you digress Thinking of straying off course, conversationally? 2. Things to do before you dilate Do not even think about widening any sphincters before reading this 3. Things to do before you dilute It's about more than just running the tap 4. Things to do before you dive How ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2007/11/eight-lists-to-make-before-you-die/ I'm getting to know the tree quite well now. Three* times running this week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the train slowed, and finally stopped completely right alongside the tree. On one occasion for about ten minutes. I must have been sitting in the same place on the train, as ... http://www.joyfeed.com/2007/11/time-flies-by/