August 2008
52 posts
“This is America. Pick a job and then become the person that does it.”
– Bobby Brown — Mad Men Season 2 Episode 5.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Pink Martini
John Mayer
BBC Radio 4
Blonde Redhead
Josh Ritter
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Workplace safety
As I speak (write) two noisy and small children are rampaging around our garden beating each other over the head with large sticks. To whom do these children belong? Why, to the tree surgeon who is cutting our yew hedge with a big chainsaw within inches of his own offspring. Dangerous or what?
On a side note the surgeon had no PPE on at all. No gloves, no hat, no goggles. All that whilst 10 foot...
English weather
ideasarelikestars:
In deference to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Royal Commission for Political Correctness, it was announced today that the local climate in the UK should no longer be referred to as ‘English weather.’
In order to avoid offending a sizeable portion of the population, it will now be referred to as ‘Muslim Weather.’
In other words - ‘partly Sunni but mostly Shi’ite.’
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“If God is an option He should be the only one.”
– The Doctor in Of Love And Other Demons
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17) →
Camphor
BBC Radio 4
Adele
Chris Marquardt
Natalie Imbruglia
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London Beer Flood →
The London Beer Flood occurred on October 17, 1814 in the London parish of St. Giles in the United Kingdom. At the Meux and Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, a huge vat containing over 135,000 gallons of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 gallons of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer...
DJ Shadow - “Building Steam With A Grain Of...
“Today the Brits didn’t win a sausage. Not that sausages are the...”
– Heard on Radio 4’s PM.
“I don’t think of this as a bridge but as a pier with two ends.”
– Kevin McCloud on Castleford’s curved bridge.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10) →
Morcheeba
BBC Radio 4
Zero 7
Gwyneth Herbert
Dan Benjamin and John Gruber
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“Tumblr is the new Saturday papers.”
Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-3) →
Miles Davis
Pink Martini
Jack Johnson
BBC Radio 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The Radio Four UK Theme — for Emma and all...
WatchSuperb! Who said scientists couldn’t rap. A great solid explanation to go with it. A must see for particle physics virgins.
patrickcassels:
The Large Hadron Collider, history’s biggest particle accelerator, will be switched on in 7 days. This means great leaps and bounds in the realms of physics and understanding the way our universe operates. It may, however, also mean the end of the...
