Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Small Fuzzy Thing in the Night Sky
That would be Comet Holmes. Elementary.
Belgium still up Merde Creek without a paddle. (This might be a no.94 tram.)
iPod-alotry
"Slow Country" - Gorillaz
"The Bends" - Radiohead
"Serenade" - Arab Strap
"So Long, Lonesome" - Explosions in the Sky
"Axis '67, Pt.2" - Bobby Conn
"Organum" - Max Richter
"Marathon" - Vic Chesnutt
"Car" - Built to Spill
"A Good Friend is Always Around" - The American Analog Set
"Starcleaner" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Motorbus" - Fridge
"Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers Mix" - Primal Scream
"First Hits" - Don Caballero
"Mr President" - Clinton
"Mr Lucky" - John Lee Hooker
"Revenge of the Black Regent" - Add N to (X)
Labels: astronomy, belgium, daily bollocks, iPod
:: Posted by pete @ Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Olympian Effort
Defended the corporate line: yeauch!
Overslept: but still feel knackered.
Creative: used artistic endeavours to brighten up the workplace.
Get your chocolate fix and save the environment. Green & Black's anyone?
Olympic Legacy: a 25,000 seat athletics stadium that no one needs (and without a "anchor" tenant); a crumbling Crystal Palace "National" Stadium; a shocking lack of swimming facilities in London; a hardcore of displaced people; a huge debt for London taxpayers (possibly). But, the opening ceremony will be breathtaking no doubt including "entertainment" luminaries such as Sting, Suggs and the Spice Girls and Seb Coe will flash his boyish smile.
"Ebb's Folly" - Will Oldham and Jim O'Rourke
"Piano" - Tricky
"E-Pro" - Beck
"Graine De Beaute" - Monade
"This is Why You Love Me" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"7:25" - Mogwai
"Renaissance Man" - Sebadoh
"Loaded" - Primal Scream
"Sell Me Back My Soul" - King of Woolworths
"Slip Inside This House" - Primal Scream
"Paro Fadeout" - Microstoria
"Easy Money" - King Crimson
"Anamorphose" - Stereolab
"Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yrself Than Ruin Me" - Kid 606
"End of a Century" - Blur
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy hair - Led Zeppelin
Labels: daily bollocks, iPod, olympics, Work
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Isn't Nature Wonderful
Horse hanging out in the neighbourhood.
Cow having a pee.
Big ol' mushroom.
Watched: greedy middle class people taking advice from a women with an ample bosom and a penchant for tight clothes.
Ate: Apple Crumble
Boredom at Work: half-day workshop (sic)
Irritation of the Day: alleged professionals breaking the brand
iPod-alotry
"Come on You Slags - Aphex Twin
"The End and the Beginning" - The Devics
Tenskwatawa" - Songs: Ohia
"Little Eyes" - Yo La Tengo
"When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" - Jeff Parker
"Off To Mars" - Mike Ladd
"Part 2" from The Three Cornered Hat - Manuel De Falla
"The Incredible He Woman" - Stereolab
"Stratum" - Rod Cooper
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - The Beatles
"My Heart Might Stop" - Black Heart Procession
Brandenburg Concerto No.4 - J.S. Bach
"Annabelle" - Gillian Welch
"Mickey's Mother" - Arnold
"Russian Orthodox" - Delgados
"Schon Sehr Viel Telefuniert" - To Rococo Rot
Labels: Buckland Brewer, daily bollocks, iPod
Friday, November 02, 2007
I'll Have the Herring
...with New Potatoes and Salad...
World Toilet Summit: "An estimated 2.6 billion people, or about one-third of global population, do not have access to a proper toilet..."
Standby: "Wasted energy from appliances left on standby...accounts for 4m tonnes of excess CO2 each year."
Orchid Watch
iPod-alotry
"You You You You You" - The 6ths
"Glasgow Mega-Snake" - Mogwai
"The Apartment Song" - Do Make Say Think
"Assassination on X-Mas Eve" - Archers of Loaf
"Mirror Ball - Buffalo Daughter
"Ode to Louis Hardin" - Tele:Funken
"For a Moment" - To Rococo Rot/I-Sound
"Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Part IV" - King Crimson
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekehard Ehlers
"Love is No Big Truth" - Kings of Convenience
"Hassle" - Sebadoh
"23kid" - 65 Days of Static
"Decoration Day" - John Lee Hooker
""The Streets Where All I Saw" - Dakota Suite
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, energy, environment, iPod, orchid watch, seagulls, toilets
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
"If a Cow* Can't Eat It...
...I won't play on it," as Dick Allen, anti-establishment baseball star, famously said about artificial turf.
Although the press tried to pre-cook an excuse for English failure - the artificial turf in Moscow - it was instead was if you believe England "coach", Steve "Steve" McLaren, the usual scapegoat. The referee.
"The penalty was a disgrace, it was outside the box, the linesman didn't give it, it was the referee and he was very far away."
Sorry "Steve". That just about balanced England's offside goal.
The hapless grinner went on to add: "...I can't fault the players."
Well, if that's not the case, one might assume it's the coach's fault.
Dick Allen also earned infamy by scrawling messages in the infield dirt (see above) and commenting on the "boo birds" of Philly: "I can play anywhere; First, Third, Left field, anywhere but Philadelphia."
Looks like England should start scrawling help messages.
As for "Steve" McLaren, he can coach anywhere: Man United (as No.2), Middlesbrough, er Oxford, Derby, anywhere but [for] England.
To quote Allen: "Boo!"
iPod-alotry
"Snow is Falling" - Movietone
"Absolutely Sweet Marie" - Bob Dylan
"Drink DJs" - Alog
"Oh How I Miss You" - Broadcast
"Hub 100" - King of Woolworths
"Bones of Her Hands" - Archers of Loaf
"Sunday Morning Traffic" - Pullman
"Call of the Wild" - Jimi Tenor
"Foaming Love" - Bedhead
"Remember" - Experimental Pop Band
"Spiral" - John Coltrane
* - some sources say Allen said horse instead of cow.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Autumn leaves
Autumn kicks in along the River Taw.
Great football kits of our time.
Great football quotes of our time:
"...[Avram Grant] is in a no-win situation, unless he wins..." - Graham Taylor
iPod-olatry
"Rain King" - Sonic Youth
"Tak" - Kim Hiorthoy
"Lewis" - Yo La Tengo
"Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása" - Sigur Rós
"New Adventures" - Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia
"Love Detective" - Arab Strap
"That's the Way" - Led Zeppelin
"Big Boss Man" - Grateful Dead
"Solitaire" - The Notwist
"Tjed" - Tortoise
"De Gal Komt in mijn Mond" - Silvester Anfang
"You Set Off My Brain" - Simian
"Afterwards" - Arab Strap
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, football, iPod
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Running on Empty
Nearly came a cropper: just about wheezed into the filling station this morning on fumes of ethanol.
Ahoy there! Today is/was World Maritime Day. Support your local Flag of Convenience.
Whither Belgium? The centre of international co-operation is also the home to a dysfunctional domestic federation.
Axis of Evil Updates
"You arrogant renegade, your accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon!"
(Ironic) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an unintentional comedian:
An Iranian-American journalist asked him to clarify his extraordinary claim on Monday that there were no gay people in Iran, pointing out, "I know a few myself."
"Seriously? I don't know any," the president replied, in apparent surprise. "Give me some addresses so we're able to go to visit them and learn about them."
Given that sodomy is a crime punishable by death in Iran, it was a particular chilling offer.
iPod-olatry
"The Bereaved" - Experimental Pop Band
"Have You Passed Through This Night" - Explosions in the Sky
"1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to be)" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Nailing Honey to the Bee" - Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Harold Budd" - Rothko
"Neon Golden" - The Notwist
"Personal Stereo" - Appliance
"Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II, Tropical Storm" - John Adams
"Zebra" - The Magnetic Fields
Labels: belgium, daily bollocks, iPod, iran, irony, north korea, petrol, shipping
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Offside
On the radio the first Tottenham goal looked onside to me.
What is the top item that you think Motorway Service Areas should try to improve? Show your MSA dinner, too! But, where's Taunton Dean(e)?
Bog Roll: artistic use of the humble toilet paper.
"Best" blog on the web.
Last night at the Spitz: get there if you can and support the cause.
iPod-olatry
"King of Nothing Never" - Lambchop
"Pushkin" - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Trumpcard" - Jimi Tenor
"The Swarm" - Simian
"I Ain't Crazy" - Brute
"Darkest Dreaming" - David Sylvian
"Bittersweet Me" - R.E.M.
"Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach Orchester
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekkehard Ehlers
"One Chance" - Modest Mouse
"Bill's Mom Likes to Fuck" - A Minor Forest
"It's All Around You" - Tortoise
"Roman Candle" - Bedhead
"Tired Hippo" - Yo La Tengo
"Lyasnya" - Pullman
Labels: daily bollocks, iPod, motorways, music, toilets, Tottenham Hotspur
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pay Day
£500,000 (or about 105,000 dozen donuts) for a new playground. Hope the kids enjoy it.
Times are hard. At the end of the pay month, there was enough money in the account to buy about three-and-a-half dozen donuts.
Radiohead playing games with fans.
50 years ago (yesterday): dem bums play the last game at Ebbets Field. By the time I turned up on Long Island, Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds (home of the New York baseball Giants) were memories, though much fresher than now.
I saw all my baseball games at the Big Shea (including a "home" game for the briefly itinerant, hated Yankees). Dodger and Giant series were the big tickets given that both teams had only just left the area. Add to that, there were a couple of favourites from the 50s, like Wille Mays and Don Drysdale, still playing for those clubs.
My first game at Shea was to see the Dodgers on a hot Sunday afternoon in June 1968. We got held up in traffic and missed the first few innings. Sat in the upper deck, which was so high we could touch the sun. Or to be precise, the sun touched us with a severe burn. I did not have a beer (being slightly under age at the time).
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer
Think Rheingold whenever you buy beer
That plastic batting helmet was still around in my parents house in the 80s.
iPod-olatry
"Niger" - Mali Music
"Brandenburg Concerto No.1 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach-Orchester
"Shadow Pugilist" - June of 44
"Run! Christian, Run!" - Super Furry Animals
"Vent" - Tricky
"Bird in the Hand" - Sebadoh
"The Girls Want to Be With the Girls" - Talking Heads
"intercourse" - Techno Animal
"Our Way to Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Trick Bag (Shoppin' for My Tombstone)" - John Lee Hooker
"Falling" - Julee Cruise
"Man Research (Clapper)" - Gorillaz
"Inside Elevation" - Pan American
"Send a Message to Her" - Beck
"Shoes" - Atmosphere
"Leaning Against the Wall" - Kings of Convenience
"Mr. F" - The Sea and Cake
""Peace - a Theme" - King Crimson
Labels: Barnstaple, baseball, daily bollocks, iPod, money, radiohead
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Rainbow
"Red sky at night/sailor's delight/Red sky in the morning/sailor take warning"
Can't remember the rhyme for rainbow. Maybe it was this:
Up above the streets and houses,
Rainbow climbing high,
Everyone can see it smiling
Over the sky.
Paint the whole world with a rainbow.
Or maybe it was: "pete gets soaked walking to work"
The US Defense Department is to hold a Q and A session on a $1 million contest to build a lightweight, wearable battery power system for US forces. Wage war and save the environment. Cool.
Make cities mobile: Severing car dependency
More silly environmental news: Surfers fear smaller swell as Atlantic wave farm approved. Tough.
iPod-dolatry
"The Waterfront" - John Lee Hooker
Mystery Bretheren Vironment - Mice Parade
"Charlotte's Mouth" - Seefeel
"I Couldn't Sleep, Either" - Montgolfier Brothers
"Lewis" - Yo La Tengo
"This Year's Girl" - Elvis Costello
"Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" - Bob Dylan
"Bonde" - Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
"Excavation" - Haruna Ito
"Emperor Tomato Ketchup" - Stereolab
Labels: daily bollocks, energy, environment, iPod, weather
Monday, September 17, 2007
Get Your V1agra Here
10 places not to take your hols
Iamadonut: guaranteed not unhealthy content according to the Chinese Government
It's EU Mobility Week: so get mobile, but preferably not using a car.
That Viagra e-mail? It is a scam.
England suck, England suck, England don't suck. Women to the rescue, as usual.
Suddenly, the Archbishop of York is an expert criminal investigator (or a stooge of the McCann media machine).
Make your opinion known, earn money (and earn me money): be a YouGov Panel member (sorry UK residents only).
WHOM have you slept with?
iPod-dolatry
"Epitaph" - King Crimson
"Tower of Our Tuning" - Broadcast
"When We Reach the Hill" - The Black Heart Procession
"Silver Rider" - Low
"California" - Low
"Sine Wave" - Mogwai
"Comely Row" - Solex
"Desert Chorus" (from Harmonium) - John Adams
"Rainy Day, Dream Away" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"The Story of Jazz" - Yo La Tengo
Labels: daily bollocks, environment, iPod, sex
Friday, September 14, 2007
Road Trip!! (Don't Try This at Home)*
Well, not really that exciting: driving from North Devon to Chandler's Ford, Hants (site of some excitement yesterday)**.
After farting around Bideford and Barn'aple on the A39 "Atlantic Highway", we push south-east on Devon's own la via della morte or A361 North Devon Link Road. Before the link road, these parts could be reached by dirt roads and tractor clogged single track lanes only.
The link road meets the M5 (and civilisation) near Tiverton Parkway rail station. We avoid hitting caravans and peel north on to the motorway.
Rover hits 85mph on the M5 or to give it its proper name - the Caravan Clogged Motorway.
Time for a pit stop at the delightful Taunton Dean(e) Services. As usual, Cleetus the Slack Jawed Yokel was serving at Costa Coffee, so instead of waiting 15 minutes we ploughed onwards.
Exit 25 - Somerset Cricket and cider.
The A358 brings traffic 24/7 to the otherwise pleasant village of Henlade. There's a roadside cafe in a lay-by before you enter the village - no entrance from our side. Carved wooden mushrooms are also available.
The home of dangerous driving: the A303 Ilminster by-pass. Three lanes, alternating passing lane every mile or so. This is road design crying out for head-on collisions.
50mph speed limit through Chicklade.
The wide expanses of the A303, running from the M3 in Hampshire to Exeter, it is part of the main route from London to the South-West though it places it resembles a country lane.
Back up to 80mph on dual carriageway near Wylye, site of The Bell pub - excellent beer and food.
Stonehenge lurking to the left. This bit of the A303 is notorious for traffic jams. Got caught here for half-an-hour in both directions on my last trip.
The bizarre A303/A34 junction. Going eastbound to southbound necessitates a hasty exit, apply brakes, negotiate mini-roundabout, under the both roads, past a pub isolated by main east-west/south-north highways, another mini-roundabout and a very short entrance ramp.
Merging with the A33 just before meeting the M3 near Winchester. Another notorious bottleneck. There seems to be a plethora of white vans.
A particularly grubby windscreen as we pass over what used to be Twyford Down, demolition of which was one of the grubbiest excesses of Thatcher's Britain.
Entering Chandler's Ford, there were signs saying "Road Closed Ahead". Thought nothing of it. Parked at Waitrose to pick up chocolate and flowers. As I got back in the car, I switched on the radio to hear: "second robber in Hampshire bank raid dies." Thinks: "Hmm, wonder where that was?" Well, it was here and I was here.
On the way home, this was supposed to be a photo of Stonehenge.
Toilet break at the Little Chef near West Knoyle.
iPod-idolatry
"The Devil-Tips" - Arab Strap
"Pictures" - Mojave 3
"United Nations" - Bobby Conn
"Nobody's Fault But Mone" - Led Zeppelin
"Satan" - Orbital
"Providence" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"Erik's Budding Romance" - A Minor Forest
"The Bends" - Radiohead
"Candlewax" - Spooncurve
"White Worms" - Dump
"I Would Hurt a Fly" - Built to Spill
"Along the Route" - To Rococo Rot/I-Sound
"The Girl with the Flesh Colored Crayon" - Aix-em-Klemm
"The Keen Teen Skip" - cLOUDDEAD
"Make Your Move" - The Delagados
"Pilot" - The Notwist
"Happy Hour" - The Housemartins
"Missouri" - Low
"Simple Halo" - Shipping News
...and 30 odd more...
* - the author does not recommend taking photos whilst driving at excessive speeds (except for artistic purposes)
** - nothing to do with me guv.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Love is Like a Bottle of Gin
Police State Update: Proof positive (yet again), that judges are fecking out of touch with reality.
Drink irresponsibly: gin is "low" in calories, y'know.
Ah, Almaty.
BBC-South West was filming at the Village Hall last night for "Inside Out" about village shops.
Meanwhile, the BBC drops climate change programme due to lack of balance.
Rock Parque
The Big Match.
iPod-olatory
"Yasmin the Light" - Explosions in the Sky
"Soul Sucking Jerk" - Beck
"Love is Like a Bottle of Gin" - Magnetic Fields
"Connected by a String" - Devics
"Hindenburg" - Town and Country
"Keito" - Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
"Piazza, New York Catcher" - Belle & Sebastian
"Not Fade Away/Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" - Grateful Dead
"Robot Chant" - Mogwai
"Just Stand Back" - Low
"Easy Money" - King Crimson
"Shudder/King of Snake" - Underworld
Labels: Buckland Brewer, climate change, gin, iPod, kazakhstan, police state
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Kill All Hippies
Nice motor, Steve.
A night of committee-ing with the gardeners.
Not much else happened so here's a photo of beans and cuke.
iPod-olatory
"Pay No Mind (Snoozer)" - Beck
"My Father, My King" - Mogwai
"Distance Comes in Droves" - Archers of Loaf
"O Salutaris Hostia" - Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble
"Brandenburg Concerto No.1" (J.S. Bach) - Muencher Bach-Orchester
"Lament" - King Crimson
"Deepest Shadows Have Light" - Rothko
"Kill All Hippies" - Primal Scream
"Onions" - Do Make Say Think
"The Sewing Machine" - The Sea and the Cake
"The Slaughter of the Innocents" - King Crimson
"Helicon 2 (Max Tundra Re-mix) - Mogwai
"We're Pastie to be Grill You" - The Orb
"River of Bass" - Underworld
"Glue of the Otherworld" - Four Tet
(posted after the fact)
Monday, September 03, 2007
Just Do It
Rock stars (particularly Any Winehouse): do drugs, please or you'll end up like Chris Bloody Martin:
"...every culture needs a totemic figure who is prepared to go into the wilder terrain of substance usage, a place where the rest of us don't want to or don't need to go."
Don't write off the internal combustion engine, just yet:
"The use of solar power for cars will stay marginal until 2020-2025"
Higher river levels as more CO2 makes plants less thirsty. So I don't feel guilty about not watering the tomatoes.
iPod-olatory
"Bhajore" - Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra
"The Negatives" - Hood
"I'm Goofballs for Bozzo Jazz" - Don Caballero
"Vacuum Boots" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Eat Junk Become Junk" - Six by Seven
"Deep Down" - Calexico
"Rafters" - Moby
"Palm Trees in the Fecking Bahamas" - Don Caballero
"Addition" - Spokane
"Witness" - The Delgados
Labels: climate change, drugs, environment, iPod, weather
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
Thursday, August 30, 2007
80:20
Pareto Principle applied to the blogosphere: 20% quality, 80% filler.
Hey, all those floppies in your office? Well, them's f@cked. Kind of reminds me of the Led Zeppelin DVD released a few years back. Remastering some of the old videotapes required emptying out museums of their old tape machines.
This is terrible. Spitz, a small venue in Spitalfields Market is about to close. Saw a couple of brilliant gigs there: Chicago Underground Duo back in 2001 on a horridly hot and sticky July night and, possibly the same year, Do Make Say Think when someone I never met before and never since smuggled me into the tiny sold out venue. Please sign the petition and cough up some cash if you can.
iPod-olatory
"09-15-00 (Part One)" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"Lordy" - Low/Dirty Three
"Local Forecast" - Casino Vs. Japan Vs. Nudge
"Hani" - Ali Farka Toure
"Disco & Haze" - Do Make Say Think
"Houses of the Holy" - Led Zeppelin
"C. Of People" - Labradford
"The Swarm" - Simian
"Hot Wire My Heart" - Sonic Youth
"Harmonium: Because I Could Not Stop for Death" - John Adams
"A Tale of Apes, Pt 1" - Subtle
Labels: blogosphere, digital storage, iPod, london, spitz
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
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
A dead leaf trapped in the spider's web covering the rear view mirror.
Happy 10th birthday CSS: cascading style sheets what drives good internet style and what consigned flashing, nasty type-faced, table ridden web pages to the dustbin. Bring on True Type fonts and other aesthetic niceties. Or, perhaps we should concentrate on content that people will read.
The world's first ecologically sound prison. In Norway, of course. Prison should be about rehabilitation as well as punishment so a sustainable prison has a resonance to it. But, then I'm a limp-wristed liberal.
Berbatov is apparently staying at Tottenham, but JD on his way to AV.
Why we like chocolate.
British researchers ... found that the pleasure centres of chocolate lovers' brains lit up more strongly in response to the food than those who are less partial. "The take-home message is that if you want to limit [food] intake, you could limit the extent to which you are exposed to the combination of sight and taste. For example, you could eat in the dark"
Or you could eat dark chocolate.
iPodolatory
"Golfer Vrs Boxer" - Amon Tobin
"Camp" - The Anomoanon
"Anyway" - Genesis
"You Could Ruin My Day" - Four Tet
"Operator" - Grateful Dead
"Robot New York" - Add N to (X)
"Mogwai Fear Satan" - Mogwai (My Bloody Valentine Remix)
Labels: css, daily bollocks, environment, food, football, iPod, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Friday, August 24, 2007
I'm 100% Behind You ... (Pushing You Out the Door)
Oh shit. Tottenham Hotspur coach Martin Jol has received the kiss of death.
"Martin has my 100% support and I'd like the fans to understand that they need to take the last few days in the context of what we think has been significant progress over the last six years," [club Chairman Daniel] Levy said.
Well, that's that then. Spurs travel to Old Trafford for the annual 4-0 defeat to Manchester United. What, you expect Man U to avoid victory four games on the trot?
Gerry Adams airport hell. Yes, that Gerry Adams.
To quote a commenter: "I love post-mortems. The recurring death of English football is particularly entertaining."
More Steve "Steve" McLaren news:
"McClaren now has the worst record of any England manager after a dozen fixtures. It would have been folly for him to look full of good cheer when his side had just lost at home to an improvised Germany line-up but he hardly seemed traumatised."
Bused home via sunny Bideford.
iPod-olatory
"Exhausted" - Joseph Arthur
"Sim Gishel" - Autreche
"Foreign Hotel Garden" - Papa M
"Crest" - Tortoise
"Walk All Over You" - Mark Kozalek
"Valerie" - Broadcast
"Tomorrow is Already Here" - Stereolab
"First There was Jazz 2" - Wibutee
"Cody" - Mogwai
Labels: aviation security, Bideford, Gerry Adams, iPod, Martin Jol, North Devon, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur