2008

links for 2008-07-24

Interview with Alan Moore in Entertainment...

Gig Reviews: The Futureheads and Justice

How to Neglect a Blog

links for 2008-07-23

“My father still reads the dictionary everyday. He says your life depends on your ability to...

The Sun goes in for some photoshop-based...

I don’t think I’ve seen such a reblogged image,...

Latitude Stage Prior to Punters: There’s a fair bit...

Death Cab For Cutie: One of the best acts on all weekend...

Millennium Falcon Cake

How to write with style by Kurt Vonnegut

“Marxism has led to Fascism and National-Socialism, because, in all essentials, it is Fascism...

Charlie Brooker on 9/11 and conspiracy...

Rowan Williams, the difficult times of the...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13)

T in the Park stabbing

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither...

links for 2008-07-09

Octopied Building (via Boing Boing)

Peer Pressure by Michael Jasper (via Vignette Bricks)

Top ten religious treats

A black version of the 10187 Beetle set that I’m...

Mermaid by Rocko

“If you aren’t rich you should always look useful.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine,...

“The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for...

This image was followed by an impromtu performance of the...

American Gothic in Lego

Extraordinary Rendition by Dunechaser Read his excellent...

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6)

links for 2008-07-06

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”...

Morning Sun Over Vauxhall: Taken from Chelsea Bridge.

Matt’s Focussed Face: Why his face is in focus while...

Matt Berninger in Blue

Matt Berninger from The National Clutches the Microphone:...

Matt Berninger in Green

You And Whose Army: Radiohead perform You And Whose Army...

Daily Mail lose laptop with thousands of...

links for 2008-07-04

“Without alienation, there can be no politics.” Arthur Miller, Marxism Today

Liz Jones (of whom many people say, 'who?')...

Letters go to music file-sharers

Darth Vader by Edulyoung (via The Brothers Brick)

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew” Henry Rollins

“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.” John von Neumann

How To Prank a Telemarketer

Singing In The Rain by mahjqa (via Brick Town Talk)

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” John Maynard Keynes

Delimitating Macrocosms (today’s Threadless purchase)

Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.

Making Mythology on Threadless

Amazon reviews of Denon's $500 ethernet...

Fabuland Star Wars (Brickworld 2008)

Started reading The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.

Finished Shakespeare by Bill Bryson.

Started reading Shakespeare by Bill Bryson.

Finished The Porcupine by Julian Barnes.

Zoe Williams complaining that the left don't...

“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have...

Interview with Alan Moore on Forbidden...

Stephen Fry on the BBC and the future of...

“Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.” George Carlin

Johnson aide quits over race row

Amy Winehouse 'has emphysema'

Warren Ellis writes a letter about Alan...

Ariane Sherine: Why should we put up with...

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” Albert Einstein,...

My del.icio.us tags in Wordle

The Porcupine

Blink (Penguin Celebrations)

Blink (Penguin Celebrations)

Blink (Penguin Celebrations)

Hammer of the Gods

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” Benjamin Franklin, Poor...

Purity

“There’s a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.”...

“The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral...”
— Noam Chomsky, Interview by...

Joe Moran: The myth of Top Gear

Metallica are idiots

“Width of life is more important than length of life.” Avicenna

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement

She Went Of Her Own Accord

Yahoo! mails out kegs of foul skunk beer to...

Haikus are Easy on Threadless

How to be a Responsible Parent in Public

A Twiddiots Guide to the Bible

Q and A: Celebrity guests at Hay ask each...

Basic Instructions: How to Insult Someone Without Offending...

“Hidden talent counts for nothing.” Emperor Nero

“This book, this page, this harebell laid to rest Between...”
— In Our Tenth Year by Simon...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8)

Stewart Lee on Political Correctness: http://tinyurl.com/3zvqnv

“It really worries me that 84% of this audience agrees with...”
— Stewart Lee, on political...

Marcus du Sautoy: Without the big maths...

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

Barney Ronay on Oxford's all-male Bullingdon...

Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk'

“Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.” Johann Most, The...

Stick Figures In Peril

Review: Public Enemy @ Brixton Academy

“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.” Mikhail...

“A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.” Joseph...

links for 2008-05-30

RED5 - Gadget Shop

Bon Iver @ Scala: And my what a gig. At the time of putting...

Chuck D and Flavor Flav: I spent most of the gig persuading...

Flavor Flav Hurls HImself at the Crowd: Feet first. Must...

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“Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time....”
— George Carlin

“Science is what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves about the way the world...

links for 2008-05-27

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” Friedrich...

Print your own money

Incredible Circus I voted this one into printing, so I...

A Birth Day Yet another Threadless purchase

Saturday Morning Reruns Another Threadless purchase.

A Picture Of Dorian Gray by Jukebox Jaw (via The Brothers...

links for 2008-05-25

Review on Bon Iver at Scala in the Guardian

MGMT @ The Astoria

links for 2008-05-23

Bidisha on the critics of female fantasy...

“There is only one better thing than music - live music.” Jacek Bukowski

links for 2008-05-22

You got a problem with that?

George Monbiot on Labour, the most right-wing...

Review: Bon Iver @ Scala

“Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.” Oscar Wilde

When the rapture comes, don’t forget your monkey by...

links for 2008-05-21

Charlie Brooker on being chatted at by dull...

Another article explaining that you can't cut...

Polly Toynbee on the dire place Labour find...

“Scientology … is not a religion.” L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of the Cult of...

links for 2008-05-20

Teenager faces prosecution for calling...

Review: Pendulum @ Brixton Academy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung

links for 2008-05-19

Martin Bell on the UK use of cluster bombs