This pretty much sums up the reactions of large swathes of talking head commentators over the last week:


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As a result of their free membership offer, I joined the ERS in July, and received my ballot papers for their Council elections yesterday morning. Several people I know, including two old friends and a few new ones, are competing for my vote. So I need to think it through and prioritise people ( Read more... )

OK, so you're in the main train station, waiting for a train. Then a bloke starts beating a drum. And a flute joins in. And there's a bloke waving a stick, and more people just start turning up. Isn't this cool:

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The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra decided to flashmob the local station.


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  Disney bans Marvel UK from making comics. Yes, you did read that correctly
  OK, it appears to be that they're not going to take original content from Panini owned Marvel UK franchise, but ( Read more... )

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  A contrarian view: the rioters are a skilful mob « Patrick on the organisational skills of the looters
  Those involved are mostly skilled and organised. Shame those skills aren't being harnassed in a good way.
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  Rosamicula - most of the kids are alright ( Read more... )

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  xkcd: Password Strength-been meaning to redo my password scheme anyway
  I had the 8-10chars, some numbers, some punctuation jammed into me at work and elsewhere, it's become a habit. Anyone got a random word generator app? Suspect "correct horse battery staple" may become new 1234
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  Bad money thing make new scary time | pretty good summary of some of the reporting of the economic crash
  Noisy room where shirty men swap zeroes have frowny day as lazy bones in sunny places say no money now and be sad.
  (tags: satire economics)

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  ‪16 YEAROLD OLD GIRL ATTACKED BY TOTTENHAM RIOT POLICE!‬‏ - horribly grainy and doesn't show start, but FFS
  Fucking hell this is wrong. You can make out the police, surrounding a person on the floor and beating her while she's down.
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  Congratulations Maratai - yhlee joins #L5R story team
  Just as I'm thinking of starting play L5R again as well. Very good looking shop in Huddersfield, met the manager last weekend, nice bloke, also plays Warlord, which'll be nice.
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Overnight, the events in north London have, simply, been horrifying to watch. As news unfolded on Twitter I began switching from BBC to Sky and back again trying to see if anyone, at all, knew what was going on. News reports are concentrating, naturally, on the riots themselves and the shooting that's supposedly sparked them ( Read more... )