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The Rick, the Ferris, and MC H.P...Scooter! Back in the UK!
Back in the UK, living in a flat in Eastbourne designed for the older gentleman. It's owned by a charming duffer who's the spitting image of Prince Charles (who appears outwardly respectable but you're left with the sneaking suspicion he spends his comfortable Autumn years throwing darts at pictures of illegal immigrants cut out from the Daily Mail ( Read more... ) -
"There are too many ideas and too many people" quote from Adaptation
"Thereare too many ideas and too many people. And too many directions to go.I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to carepassionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to amore manageable size." - Susan Orlean (from Adapation)
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Round Trip
Orlando people: I'm back off to England for a few weeks to sort out some visa paperwork - probably gonna go to the Enzian tomorrow to see The Science of Sleep (new Michael Gondry film, ooo) at 6:30pm, then off to the airport. If anyone else wants to come/is going to that show, send me a text and we can meet up.
Brighton people: I'm coming back to ( Read more... ) -
Useful Things: FlashMute
FlashMute is a little program which lets you mute the Macromedia Flash plugin which is responsible for all the annoying noise coming from web ads/MySpace/etc when you're trying to listen to music. Works in all browsers (as the Flash plugin is it's own seperate process ( Read more... ) -
UN Ambassador for China Tells US to "Shut Up"
"The population of China is six times as much as that of the United States. So, it’s time for Americans to SHUT UP and keep quiet. They will be better off like this."
- Ambassador Sha Xu Kang, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva on The Interview, BBC World Service (23m10s)
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Nine Books
From starving_cynic.
1. One book that changed your life
Rebel Sell (aka "Nation of Rebels"), by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter (summary). Destroyed my thinking of modern society as divided between "alternative culture" which fought against "the system" and a corporate "mainstream". Everything operates within the (free market) system, "alternative culture" being ( Read more... ) -
Gunz Yo
How easy is it to get guns in America? We walked into a gun shop (sandwiched between a strip club and a dive bar) as foreign nationals who'd never so much as seen a gun before, paid $50 and were shooting within 20 minutes ( Read more... ) -
Internet begat the Radio Star
Stream WPRK FM, a local college radio station that starving_cynic and ilikemusic DJ on.
Makes a change from Japanese happy hardcore (like normal happy hardcore but twice as fast), faceless techno bollocks and faceless tekno bollocks.
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Oil-gopoly: Big Oil vs The World
Ever wonder how much the oil companies fuck us? Some interesting figures from the business pages...
Rise in price of crude oil [from this time last year]: 29%
Rise in price of petrol/gasoline: 35%
Oh no, oil crisis! Or is it?
Here's the interesting bit:Rise in amount of oil pumped: 6 ( Read more... )
