From today's Guardian:

"Children should be taught from the age of 11 that Darwin's theory of evolution is a fact, an eminent scientist said today ( Read more... )

bash-2.05b$ rootcint MyDict.C -c plot.h
Error: link requested for unknown class plot G__auto5186LinkDef.h:7:
Warning: Error occurred during reading source files
Warning: Error occurred during dictionary source generation
!!!Removing MyDict.C MyDict.h !!!
Error: rootcint: error loading headers...

what the hell is G__auto5186LinkDef.h????? I did not ( Read more... )

My word, there is some awesome stuff on during the Triptych festival this year. So far I have tickets for the Silver Jews and Akron/Family, but I'd also love to hear Battles doing their Don-Caballero-covering-Tri-Repetae-era-Autechre thing live, and have my ears broken by Wolf Eyes. Plus, I have tickets for the Flaming Lips in Manchester (as well ( Read more... )

It is raining hard, and from the office window, I can see a dog that someone has tied up outside the Darwin library. Everytime someone walks past, it stands up and starts wagging its tail, I guess in the belief that the passerby will sense its plight and take it inside out of the rain. Of course, no-one can help the dog and as they walk away it ( Read more... )

For those of you who have lain awake at night, unable to drift off due to the highly pressing question "what do Nick's band sound like I wonder?" floating around your sleep-deprived brain (I sure this is probably all of you) I have good news; you need wonder no longer!

There are a few mp3s up here for your listening pleasure. However, it was ( Read more... )

"turning latter pretty bad human. across is latter very.
happened allow nothing my shining mentioned. light anything we or,
promised tying use embarrass.
parents how carefully filled end principle?
thus servants anybody taught whom."I find these random word streams you get attached to spam e-mails quite intriguing; they remind me of the poem 'Study ( Read more... )

On browsing OverCompensating this morning, I came across this ( Read more... )

have given in to temptation very seriously this week... I am currently awaiting delivery of these albums:

- The Goslings 'Between the Dead'
- Jandek 'Follow Your Footsteps'
- Paavoharju 'Yhä hämärää'
- Volcano the Bear 'Classic Erasmus Fusion'

damn you, internet for piquing my curiosity about albums and then making it so deliciously easy to buy

Hello Livejournal, how are you? I'm very well thank you...

It's great being an experimental particle physicist in a country with no particle accelerators of its own, as it means you get to go abroad often! It looks like I'm going to be going to Frascati at the end of February; 20km outside Rome, I'm guessing the February weather there will be ( Read more... )

It has long been established that George W. Bush is not the brightest President the US has ever had, but I think new levels of cluelessness are revealed by this statement:

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."-Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 2002Hmmm, think you might want to ( Read more... )