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Is it just my filthy mind, or is Faithless’s new single...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:02:52 +0000

Is it just my filthy mind, or is Faithless’s new single cover a tad Goatse-esque? (I highly recommend not Googling any words you failed to recognise in the preceding sentence).

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:23:31 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:40:55 +0000

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love:

Ars Technica on ad blocking. Personally, I’ve always thought it a little strange that many of the people believing in ‘free’ content also block ads. At the very least it’s cheeky, at the worst, naive…

"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:04:53 +0000

““The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.””

- William Saroyan

thomyk Podcast 66: Trophy

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:55:00 +0000

thomyk Podcast 66: Trophy:

In which Thom and Michael try to get Chatroulette to work, while recording the podcast, without any success. They might well try it again - but it failed this time. Nonetheless, they manage to talk about why you should vote, even if you’re a disenfranchised teenager, television programmes that they have enjoyed, the Oscars, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They also touch briefly on the line-up for this year’s Latitude Festival, which they both are keen to go to!

It’s like a physical lesson in philosophy.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:46:53 +0000

It’s like a physical lesson in philosophy.

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

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:52 +0000

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

- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Exactly. All venues should have these signs.

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:02:02 +0000

Exactly. All venues should have these signs.

Don't blame us for political apathy

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:31:02 +0000

Don't blame us for political apathy:

This article annoys me so much. The lesson she needs to learn is that politicians don’t care if she doesn’t vote at all, they just care if she gets off her arse and votes for someone else.

thomyk Podcast 65: Precipitate

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:51:33 +0000

thomyk Podcast 65: Precipitate:

In which Michael and Thom emerge from some Heavy Rain, to find themselves in the National Theatre battling with failing batteries and frequent PA announcements.

Desperately Seeking Sam

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:16:51 +0000

Desperately Seeking Sam:

A long piece by Roger Boylan in the Boston Review remembering Samuel Beckett twenty years after his death

Samuel Beckett (via)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:50:54 +0000

Samuel Beckett (via)

"All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing."

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:04:51 +0000

““All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.””

- Samuel Beckett, The Calmative

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:32:16 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Want to read this article? Then enter your password

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:06:59 +0000

Want to read this article? Then enter your password:

Charlie Brooker on the serfdom of creating and remembering passwords.

Daily Mail in dumbing down backlash

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:06:59 +0000

Daily Mail in dumbing down backlash:

Oh, and if you’re compiling a multi-volume book on Daily Mail hypocrisy, here’s another example.

The Power Elite

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:06:59 +0000

The Power Elite:

David Brooks argues that as our elites have become more diverse and been populated by those who have got there on merit, we’ve lost trust in them. Interesting point.

Why other newspapers ignored the News of the World phone hacking story

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:06:59 +0000

Why other newspapers ignored the News of the World phone hacking story:

I suppose it’s rather unsurprising that NI titles ignored the phone hacking scandal, but the fact that most other sources didn’t cover it either is a lot more nefarious.

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:02:09 +0000

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

- Richard Buckminster Fuller, New York Magazine

Did Gordon Brown throw a tangerine into a laminating machine in a fit of pique?

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:07:06 +0000

Did Gordon Brown throw a tangerine into a laminating machine in a fit of pique?:

No. He didn’t. But that didn’t stop The Telegraph and The Sun reporting Robert Popper’s prank phone call to LBC.