Sunday, February 03, 2008
Up the euro
With euros you can buy beer just about anywhere in Europe, except Britain.
Who cares about the economic effect, I want to buy beer in Europe!
:: Posted by pete @ Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Where There's Muck There's Brass (or Onions)
Bagging the homemade compost.
e-Bay fraud and how small-time fraudsters get away with it.
Plans to rejuvenate the Quartier Europeen in Brussels.
Glass and steel aside, there's a lot of grubby old buildings around Euro-Land
22 years in a Travelodge? Must be the complimentary biscuits.
Onions out to dry.
Labels: crime, daily bollocks, EU, gardening
Friday, August 31, 2007
Non, je ne regrette rien
Virtual Unreality: WWF (not that WWF) on Second Life:
"Pack your virtual suitcase and head for Conservation Island, a place where an orangutan will sell you an ice cream and a floating panda will be your friend."
Plate tectonics: Manchester hit by sixth earthquake in a month.
Health News: Drug addled elephant in rehab.
Light bulb update: "European consumers will probably have to wait another year before they see the prices of energy-saving light bulbs fall, following a Commission decision to extend anti-dumping duties on imports from China rather than scrap them immediately."
Arsenal bought by the Russian mafia.
On the radio: y'know, the theme from 2001.
Culture night per la famiglia "donut": un film.
iPod-olatory
"Everybody's in a Band" - Two Dollar Guitar
"Satan's Friends" - Experimental Pop Band
"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" - Genesis
"Twin Falls" - Built to Spill
"Wont' Get to Heaven" - Spriritualized
"Hum" - Bardo Pond
"Silver Rocket" - Sonic Youth
"Swastika Eyes" - Primal Scream
"I Won't Back Down" - Johnny Cash
"Expect Snakes" - The Anomoanon
Labels: daily bollocks, drugs, earthquakes, energy, environment, EU, films, iPod, music, second life, wwf
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Enjoy Your Pizza
Battle between EU Industry and Trade Commissioners over lowering the cost of energy-efficient light bulbs. German protecting his own industry at the expense of consumers and energy efficiency.
Bush pr0n
Another internet 10th anniversary. Yawn. Teh bloggers.
...the medium has radically changed publishing and communication. But not everyone is convinced ...For the blogging tribe, it's more like time to get out the red pencil, and dispute the premise of the anniversary itself.
Props to the Tottenham Massive.
Another football cardiac arrest? As Sevilla holds funeral for Puerta.
Rock Parque
Rubbish food: food rubbish.
iPodolatory
"Just Me and Phil" - Jah Wobble
"Dánarfregnir Og Jarðarfarir" - Sigur Rós
"Soot" - Sam Shalabi
"Cuban" - Sebadoh
"Worlds Melt Away" - Rothko
"Cadriopo" - Stereolab
"Buffalo606 - The Morning After" - Kid 606
"The Individual" - Spiritualized
"81" - The Marquis De Tren And Bonny Billy
"Knife Attack" - Timesbold
"Team Handed" - Mogwai
"Larks Tongue in Aspic Part One" - King Crimson
"Milkman" - Aphex Twin
"Threnody of Souls in Torment" - The Robert Fripp String Quartet
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, EU, food, football, internet, iPod, pr0n, Rock Park, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content