Every now and then, I'll compose music while I sleep. For whatever reason, my dream will require a snatch of song, or a burst of melody or something musical and my sleeping mind will just make it up. On these occasions, my memory of this dream-song melts as soon as it is exposed to consciousness, leaving me with a vague but unshakable belief that I ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, I've tended to stifle sneezes for most of my life, only really letting the full force of the sneeze overwhelm me when I'm alone. I suppose I stifle them when around people because of a subconscious fear that something will go wrong with the sneeze (I'll get my hands caught in my pockets or something) and will end up coated in ( Read more... )

CONTEXT: Support for the South Dakota "law" which bans abortion in all circumstances where the pregnant woman's life is not threatened - including rape and incest.

The rape of a woman can never be erased from her psyche. An abortion won't change that. If anytthing, dare I say it'll haunt her even more. Society likes to ignore the lifelong ( Read more... )

During an idle moment earlier today, I visited some blogs I've bookmarked as a way of keeping in touch with what's happening on the grime / dubstep front in Berlin ... and I am so glad that I did! Turns out that Skream is in town tomorrow night at a venue not far from here. Ordinarily, I find out about this stuff a day after the event ( Read more... )

On the whole, Berlin is lighter on the advertising than London. For one thing, there seem to be more small businesses here - and fewer big-name chains - so I'm assuming that the advertising budget is smaller. There are certainly fewer posters on tube trains and in the underground stations. But when building facades are being overhauled, they tend ( Read more... )

Ants are classified as a family, Formicidae, belonging to the order Hymenoptera which also includes sawflies, bees and wasps. At the last count, there were 43 trillion ants in the world. Ants have colonized almost every landmass on Earth and can constitute up to 15% of the total animal biomass of a tropical rainforest. Typically they will also ( Read more... )

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"I may not like the KKK but then they at least respect and learn the language and respect the law of the land as it is and do not try to impose their own laws and such upon the rest of us, yes they have their opinion and point of view but then thats what this nation is all about, freedom of association, freedom of opinion, speech and freedom of ( Read more... )

I'm writing an article about the use of psychometric tests in the workplace and I'm finding it hard to remain objective. In fact, it's driving me crazy. The tests themselves are like the grown-up version of the personality questionnaires that you find all over the internet (and which, prior to the advent of the internet, existed solely in the pages ( Read more... )

There were 1200 copies of this available last summer. It passed me by. I found out about the track in November. It had sold out everywhere and 99% of all references to it online were from people bemoaning the fact that they hadn't been able to get a copy. Earlier this year, word spread that the distributor had been persuaded to do a limited repress ( Read more... )