photo by Alex Brenner
Helen Arney by Alex Brenner
photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
  • What is the difference between a category and a tag?

    What is the difference between a category and a tag?

    Category

    Categories are meant for organizing your posts like a filing system. They are typically broad terms like “Recipes” or “DIY Projects”. These are your general topics that you write about. Typically you’ll have a few of these.. maybe 10 of your primary categories. Don’t get to specific with your Category titles like “ground beef”.. that is what tags are for below.

    You can also do sub-categories where you have categories listed under a primary category. An example of this is “Recipes > Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner” Where breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all sub-categories of Recipes. This option doesn’t have to be used, but if you need to break your categories down a bit further, this is how you’ll do it.

    Tag

    Tags are for describing very specific details of your blog post. These are used to micro-categorize things. For example, you could use “ground beef” as a tag, and then anyone who wants to look at all posts that mention “ground beef” those can be found.

  • BBC Newsnight, and vote Ugly Animals!

    pandacamcropIf you were falling asleep in front of BBC2 on Friday 9th August around 11pm, you’ll have seen me talking to Gavin Esler about the Ugly Animal Preservation Society and all those endangered species who are blessed with neither large numbers nor classic good looks. 

    I’m the one on the right in this screengrab…

    UAPS is actually a real thing – and right now, with the help of NSEC, we’re asking the public to choose a new mascot for 2013 and you can vote for it now!

    Watch the trailer, or just go straight to vote for my animal of choice, the Awesome Axolotl. Click “like” by 5pm on 11th September and my rare little reptile could be in with a chance.

    You’ll recognise a few comedians and friends in the other videos, like Paul Foot, Ellie Taylor, Sarah Bennetto, Steve Mould… if you’re London-based and want to see us pitch our animals in a live comedy night at the Natural History Museum, save 22nd October in your diary and check my gig list for tickets during September.

     

  • Time for the Fringe!

    Last news-post until September… as there won’t be much going on in my life except for the Edinburgh Fringe, all the way through to 25th August.

    I’m in two shows this year:

    FESTIVAL OF THE SPOKEN NERD – Full Frontal Nerdity – Assembly George Square, 6.10pm (tickets)

    DOMESTIC SCIENCE – free DIY science party – Canons Gait Inn, 12.10pm (info)

    Check out the sexy images for each below, and hope to see you there!

     

    Spoken Nerds by Idil Sukan
    Spoken Nerds
    Domestic Science
    Domestic Science