October 2008
63 posts
MTV MUSIC →
Every, Every! MTV Music video ever!
David Tennant quits as Doctor Who →
About Deep Impact →
on train heading to glasgow before flying to northern ireland.
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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Useful Bookmarklets →
Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity Tutorial: Turn... →
Minor characters - Simpsons Wiki →
Nerds rejoice
“Righteous anger wells up at this, and do not be in any doubt, there is an anger...”
– Sage advice from Louis
Wot is it?
Ian says:
With an average age of 57, and the stark fact that fewer than one in eight of its constituents are under 35, the organisation is in trouble! Furthermore, it is removed from youth culture, and in terms of it’s music, not where the majority of young people are. It is however making a real attempt to woo teenagers and re-connect with the youth of this country! Thought you’d be...
Radiohead's In Rainbows Outsold Previous Albums... →
dentist update-only 1 new filling. Pretty good for my first trip in 10 years!
10 years since the dentist update no.2 - the dentist is running 15mins late. My agony is prolonged!
right off to the dentist for the first time in 10 years . who wants to bet i dont have any cavities?
How To: How to Use Dropbox as the Ultimate... →
Common vs Universal Knowledge
Signal vs noise links to a NY Time piece about the difference between common & universal knowledge. The author David Pogue uses this story to highlight the problem:
I’ll never forget watching a book editor at a publishing house painstakingly drag across a word in a word processor to select it. After 10 minutes of this, I couldn’t stand it. ‘Why don’t you just double-click the word?’ She had...
“Reports claim the seven surviving actors who played The Doctor will reunite for...”
– http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/10/children-in-nee.html
Posterous - The place to post everything. Just... →
“All of it was a dream. All that crap we bought, all the bottled water and...”
– Charlie Brooker on the end of the world as we know it | Comment is free | The Guardian
enjoying a 1st anniversary night away at pittodrie house-where our wedding reception was
High School Musical vs Fame
Ian posts on the talent-without-effort aspect of High School Musical…
i.e how the character Zac could sing and perform perfectly despite never having done that before. Andy also contrasted this with ‘Fame’ from the 80’s and how that exploration of fame/success was focused around effort and discipline, “This is where you start to pay the cost!”
When our...
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I’m glad to see that a large proportion of Brits updates are to do with complaining about the weather - our national character has survived the information age!
Girls like guys with skills...
100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008’s Ultimate DIY List
Beckett, Nirvana & Barth
Ben Myre’s Faith and Theology bliog is a favourite of mine. OK it can stray to the wrong end of the pointless-theological-thought-for-the-sake-of-it spectrum but more often than not is an inspering and thought provoking read.
This mornings post was on three things that are important to me. He compared Beckett, Nirvana and Barth’s attempts to reinterpret what it means to do work in...
Songza: The music search engine & internet... →
off to bed…soon…no!…must turn off computer & go now…
Subtle it's not but its a fantastically well...
Go here : John McCain’s Record
As an aside imagine how a great an apologetics website of this sort could be. Oh if only I had some decent web design skills.
