Nick Page

Say what you like about the iPad, but try doing this with a netbook or a laptop. Genius. iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. And according to this blog, transparent velcro is also available.

Quench Bookshop invites you to an exciting Book Evening with Nick Page Books by Nick Page include The Tabloid Bible, Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant, The Big Story and The Longest Week. His latest book The One-Stop Bible Atlas is published in July by Lion Publishing Tuesday 15th June 2010 at 8.00pm [...]

Torygraph has some nice arguments for convinving your spouse or boss that you need an iPad. I particularly liked the argument that ‘It’s cheaper than a laptop, if the laptop is made of gold.’ Actually, I didn’t even have to convince my spouse that I needed one. She fell in love with the iPad the [...]

They’ve been breaking up the protest camp in Parliament Square. Can’t have the people take over a public space, after all. And it might upset the Queen as she drives by. Might scare the horses. But what is the point of Parliament Square if not to provide a place for alternative views? Boris Johnson, Mayor [...]

The Independent newspaper has an announcement today about changes to its comment section: Websites have been encouraging cowardice. They allow users to hide behind virtual anonymity to make hasty, ill-researched and often intemperate comments regardless of any consideration for personal hurt or corporate damage. There is a certain irony here, in a newspaper accusing others [...]

Last week the wife and I went to Leveller’s Day at Burford. The event is held in commemoration of the Levellers killed there by Cromwell in 1649. This year the theme was about food sustainability and the speakers gave some fascinating facts. Here are just a few of the thought-provoking nuggets which I jotted down. [...]

What every iPad needs: a duct-tape sleeve. There’s something very cool about this. Especially using the empty tape roll as an iPad stand as well. See here. Meanwhile, this is the kind of thing I wish I could do with an iPad were I geeky enough.

One of the books in the Bible which has always generated a lot of controversy is the Letter of James. Luther called it a ‘right strawy epistle’ mainly because he couldn’t make it fit in with his theology. Its outspoken condemnation of riches and wealth cannot have made easy reading in the corridors of Christian [...]

I was watching the BBC Formula One coverage and I saw that Jake Humphrey was using an iPad. This, my friends, is the future of TV presenting. No longer will you get news readers hiding behind their laptops. Now they’ll all be clutching iPads. And standing on boats.

Someone was accusing me the other day of losing objectivity. Quite right too. Accusing me of lacking objectivity is like suggesting that World War 1 was a bit noisy. I don’t like objectivity. I can’t, in fact, be objective about it. Give me passion any time. What this person specifically said was that my latest [...]