(As opposed to 100 people on Twitter who are famous but who have absolutely nothing interesting to say, or famous people who have nothing interesting to say recommending other famous people who also have nothing interesting to say.)
1. A 50 pence coin
The voyages of an erstwhile 10 shillings through the fiduciary arteries of Great Britain.
2. A comma
How to deploy the world’s second most-ubiquitous punctuation point.
3. Some BBC sound effects
Beep-bip-bip-bip-beep-bip-bip-bip-beep-bip-beep-bip.
4. The moon
Everyone’s favourite one-sided dairy-based satellite.
5. A bench on Goole station
Photos from the same seating facility on the same platform, every day.
6. The second world war
Real-time updates on the bloodiest conflict in global history.
7. Bob Monkhouse
Everyone has to go sometimes. He usually goes during the adverts.
8. BBC Television Centre
Dour dispatches from one of the planet’s greatest buildings.
9. Adrian Mole
What Aidy is up to 30 years ago today.
10. The Office for National Statistics
Give me numbers.
11. The shipping forecast
Low German Bight 1007 and Biscay 1013 losing their identities by 0600 tomorrow.
12. The Hubble telescope
Watching you, watching it, watching you, watching it.
13. The Mass Observation archive
Watching us, watching it, watching you, watching out.
14. The BBC archive
Chris Serle’s sometime stamping ground.
15. Larry the Downing Street cat
REAL tweets from the REAL creature at the REAL heart of the coalition.
16. Big Ben
BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG.
17. Samuel Pepys
Comes to me Mr. Evelyn of Deptford, a good man; who is grieved for the times, and our ruin approaching.
18. Yes it’s number one
Indispensable gobbets of TOTP archivery.
19. Philip Larkin
It pleases him to stand in silence here.
20. Guardian style guide
Putting the world to writes [sic].
Boggenstrovia
March 23, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Well, apart from the contributors to this fine sight and other pop culture lovers of course. As they are all fine people to follow in themselves…
Applemask
May 11, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Gah! Would you people settle on a design already?