Bloody hell, it's glitterboy1 's birthday! It seems like only a year since the last one.

Happy birthday, you glittery chap you!

The original 1963 Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the Doctor Who them just cropped up on my iTunes. Christ, it really does piss all over anything Murray Gold has ever done, doesn't it? Musically brilliant, unearthly, and scary.

We're a broadly social democratic European nation, with a few nutters for comic relief.

A few weeks ago, I was having a beer-fuelled debate with my brother Jamie. He was insistent that political parties need to make proper use of social networking, viral marketing and all that jazz. I agreed in principle, but had to point out that getting that sort of thing to take off is really, really hard and no one really knows how to do it ( Read more... )

Looking for a particular quote from Karl Marx, I came across this one that I hadn't read before. It starts off as a vigorous statement of 19th century feminism, but ends up... well, see for yourself:

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured ( Read more... )

You know, I like Gallifrey Base most of the time, for all its faults. But this evening, coming across a thread arguing whether Amy Pond is sexy or not, I posted without further comment the following picture:


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David who?

( SPOILERS for Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour )

Disjointed thoughts on the end of an era or two:
( SPOILERS for Doctor Who: The End of Time part 2 )

Merry Christmas to all of you out there in LJ land!


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I caught this lyrics meme from glitterboy1, and though it started well, it quickly entered more troubling realms ( Read more... )