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Tuesday | 17 June 2008 | 09:39 PM
David Davis for Freedom
David Davis (and some other people too) for Freedom It will surprise none of you to know that I was one of the (reported) thousands of people who emailed David Davis to offer their support after his shock resignation...
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Wednesday | 12 March 2008 | 09:16 PM
Best. Video. Ever. (or for a while anyway)
I was a fan of this song first time round, but this video more than justifies the re-release. At 2:07 it BLOWS MY TINY MIND. I have other news, but it's too traumatic for the moment....
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Saturday | 17 November 2007 | 12:34 AM
Why I love The West Wing
Sooooo many great moments but this one's up there with the best. The character of Jenna Jacobs is based on God-bothering U.S. radio talk-show host Dr Laura Schlessinger (yikes!). Bartlett's pummelling of her comes almost word for word from...
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Thursday | 15 November 2007 | 11:58 AM
MORE Kittens!
This is Kitten 'A' Grace*. She's the girl. Originally we were going to take a different female from the litter, but this one won us over by clinging onto my leg and refusing to let go. Smart girl. This...
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Sunday | 4 November 2007 | 10:59 PM
Nicked Clegg
As someone who has consistently bored friends and family about how I'd rather go to prison than accept mandatory ID cards, it's nice to see it said by someone who's not so easy to dismiss as a self-important crackpot....
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Friday | 19 October 2007 | 09:56 PM
The best thing for being sad is to learn something
Norm at One Good Move has posted this wonderful quotation from T. H. White's The Once and Future King: "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only...
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Tuesday | 16 October 2007 | 11:33 PM
"Look. Look. Keep Looking. Keep Looking at them. LOOK."
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Charlie Brooker is a god. Here's the direct link, for those of you unlucky enough to be using Internet sodding Explorer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRmE0_n0K4...
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Sunday | 30 September 2007 | 01:19 PM
Liberty Loves Justice
I love this picture. Think it's originally from here, but I can't be sure....
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Sunday | 9 September 2007 | 10:04 PM
A fox in a box
Sibby and I went to the Animaline animal sanctuary in West Sussex today. It isn't usually open to the public as its primary mission is to provide a safe haven for its animals, most of which have suffered the...
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Thursday | 6 September 2007 | 07:17 PM
Wiser words ne'er were spoken
We can dance if we want to, We can leave your friends behind; 'Cos your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine. aah, that takes me back. The Safety Dance - the...
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Friday | 31 August 2007 | 12:40 AM
Young Folks
I like this song an awful lot....
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Monday | 30 July 2007 | 10:14 AM
Political Therapy
When I'm on a downswing, I find it bizarrely therapeutic to curl up with my boxed set of the West Wing. It somehow restores my faith in the world. I know it's a liberal fantasy, but still, the writing is...
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Wednesday | 6 June 2007 | 06:50 PM
Taking Liberties
I went to a screening of the new film Taking Liberties last night. It's an important film - laugh out loud funny in some parts, utterly chilling in others; the previously unseen footage of heavy-handed police action against peaceful (not...
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Tuesday | 6 March 2007 | 05:22 PM
Cat Proximity
Another gem from xkcd, creator of my all-time favourite cartoon, Schrodinger's Comic....
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Wednesday | 21 February 2007 | 10:25 PM
The Long Man of Wilmington
Last Friday, Rowan and I went to see the Long Man (or Lanky Man) of Wilmington in East Sussex. And very impressive he was too. Very little is known about him - I'd rather assumed that he dated back...
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Wednesday | 31 January 2007 | 01:54 AM
The Singing Detectives
© CBS Television Gil and the Doc get down over a cadaver. This is why CSI Vegas wipes the floor with the spin-offs; you won't catch Horatio Caine or Mac Taylor larking about in the morgue like this. The...
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Sunday | 7 January 2007 | 11:43 AM
The Trial of Tony Blair
As is no doubt obvious given my last rant, I'm really looking forward to More4's upcoming satirical Blairfest The Trial of Tony Blair, with Robert Lindsay reprising the role he played in A Very Social Secretary. There's a funny preview...
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Wednesday | 3 January 2007 | 10:24 PM
Soon to be heard everywhere
Mika's Grace Kelly - Oh my sweet dolly partons, it's a camp classic!!!...
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Monday | 2 October 2006 | 02:34 PM
Going pink for October
As the owner - not so much proud, as resigned - of a burgeoning pair of manboobs, and an avid supporter of breasts in (and on) women, I am supporting breast cancer awareness by going pink for October. I...
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Sunday | 24 September 2006 | 01:43 PM
MySpace without Murdoch
It's early days yet, but first impressions are favourable on Six Apart's new blogging tool, Vox. It looks like this is their answer to MySpace, which is great, because although some of the features of MySpace looked great - like...
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Sunday | 10 September 2006 | 12:42 PM
Celebrating 40 years of gallant buffoonery
So, Star Trek is 40 years old. Awesome. Inspirational posters from http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html Here's to another forty, and to the introduction of Vulcan as the official diplomatic language of the UN....
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Friday | 21 July 2006 | 04:26 PM
Supermania
I saw Superman Returns on IMAX yesterday and it was like being a seven year old again. Sooooo exciting! Spectacular sequences (in 3D no less), a genuinely evil Lex Luthor, and countless clever and affectionate nods to the Christopher...
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Monday | 17 July 2006 | 10:23 AM
What DO you do when the music stops?
Pull shapes, apparently. I hereby announce that this summer's ubiquitous pop smash has arrived. They are The Pipettes. Great teats. The album's perfect as well, lord help me. I should know better, but the pop has taken me over....
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Saturday | 1 July 2006 | 01:06 PM
These are the times that try mens' souls.
Three hours to kick-off, and the pre-match nerves are already setting themselves up in the pit of my stomach. Come. ON. England. This team really has a chance, which almost makes it harder to watch. Please, England, please show everyone...
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Monday | 12 June 2006 | 01:54 PM
Irrepressible
Visit http://irrepressible.info/ to find out more about this campaign from Amnesty International and what you can do to support it....
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Saturday | 1 April 2006 | 01:39 AM
Z is for Zappa
I have a new hero. His name is Frank Zappa. This TV debate on censorship was filmed in 1986, and even then he was right on the button about America's drift towards fascist theocracy. Click to watch the clip How...
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Thursday | 16 March 2006 | 03:49 PM
Anthropological cosmology gets a leg-up
I've only recently discovered Tipler and Barrow and The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, so not yet made up my mind on it all (plus it's a hell of a book to get through). I'm also not convinced that the universe being...
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Wednesday | 15 March 2006 | 12:43 AM
Dr Wafa Sultan on Al-Jazeera - WATCH THIS
[direct link to file] Courtesy of OneGoodMove, whose original post also links to a New York Times profile of the good doctor....
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Monday | 13 March 2006 | 05:13 PM
Our Muslim Heritage
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Wednesday | 1 March 2006 | 04:15 PM
Suspension suspended
"I've been rude to journalists all my life and they richly deserve it." Hooray, hooray, hooray. I was so angry when this all blew up last year, and even more incensed when the complaint was upheld. As far as...
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Friday | 17 February 2006 | 12:42 AM
Politics, baby
This is why I love This Week. It takes the most weighty political issues of the day, and turns them into arrant nonsense....
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Saturday | 20 August 2005 | 04:54 PM
MT Upgrade: I have returned
Well, that was incredibly easy. Well done, Six Apart!...
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Saturday | 18 June 2005 | 01:31 AM
REM@lancashirecricketclub.gig
Good gig. Here's a snippet (needs DivX play bundle). No-one, not even Kenneth, ever found out what the frequency had actually been....
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Friday | 17 June 2005 | 12:44 PM
That's me in the corner
Or at least it will be in a few short hours when I'm watching these chaps at Old Trafford Cricket Ground. Zutons and Feeder too. Very exciting....
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Saturday | 11 June 2005 | 10:55 PM
Arise, Sir Terence of Wogan
"I put it all down to clean living and plenty of roughage." And quite right too; I can't think of anyone I'd rather see knighted than the smooth-talking scourge of Eurovision. Can't wait to hear the ribbing he gets...
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Tuesday | 24 May 2005 | 08:58 PM
Oh My Google!
They've done it again, gawd bless 'em...if you're a gmail user, have a peek. Personalised content on Google using My Google...
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Wednesday | 30 March 2005 | 04:52 PM
Ich bin ein Berliner
Excitement is building. In a little less than 24 standard hours I shall be in Berlin, the official city of Emily's 30th birthday. I know very little about Germany, and next to nothing about the city itself. Apart from the...
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Monday | 28 February 2005 | 12:09 PM
Johnny4
Johnny4 are a new, disconcertingly young-looking band from Chichester. Today sees the release of their first single, Born Without, which you can hear along with some of their other tunes on their website www.johnny4.co.uk.If you like it, buy it and...
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Tuesday | 1 February 2005 | 02:29 PM
Castles in the air
This place is real, kids. I shit you not. If, like me, you thought of Bavaria as the epicentre of beer-swilling, lederhosen-clad Germans and curiously well-muscled women, it seems we have been doing them a grave disservice. As this...
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Saturday | 29 January 2005 | 04:27 AM
Make poverty history in 2005
If you don't already know about this, visit the website and sign up. It is a joint effort of about 200 charities (including Oxfam, Comic Relief and UNICEF) who are working together to target unfair trade rules, insufficient aid,...
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Thursday | 13 January 2005 | 01:08 AM
You wash your face in my sink?
(Or Nostalgia Night, Part 2) Also spent a happy hour or two perusing the iTunes Essentials collections, and discovered some classics of yesteryear that have left my aural cavities untickled for at least a decade. Rockin Over The Beat by...
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...and Brenda's probably dead.
(Or Nostalgia Night, Part 1) Courtesy of BBC1, I have just been treated do the unadulterated joy of the Babysitting Blues scene in Adventures In Babysitting. We used to love this film when we were growing up - must have...
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Wednesday | 12 January 2005 | 02:30 AM
The Perry Bible Fellowship
These are from the absolutely inspired Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon series. Click on an image to see the full strip....
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Friday | 22 October 2004 | 12:30 PM
A star is born
A baby son, Sam Ebbrell, was born at 9.30 this morning to proud and hirsute father Graham, and exhausted but happy mother Kerry. The nipper weighs 8lb 4oz, and both mother and baby are doing well. Mosseltoff!!!...
A star is born&bodytext=A baby son, Sam Ebbrell, was born at 9.30 this morning to proud and hirsute father Graham, and exhausted but happy mother Kerry. The nipper weighs 8lb 4oz, and both mother and baby are doing well. Mosseltoff!!!...">
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Tuesday | 19 October 2004 | 08:25 PM
The Second Coming
Gray's wife Kerry went into labour this afternoon. Last contact was a text from him saying he'd shat himself and was preparing for a long night ahead... Best of luck, guys. !!!--BABY UPDATE - 20/10/2004--!!! Turned out to be a...
The Second Coming&bodytext=Gray's wife Kerry went into labour this afternoon. Last contact was a text from him saying he'd shat himself and was preparing for a long night ahead... Best of luck, guys. !!!--BABY UPDATE - 20/10/2004--!!! Turned out to be a...">
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Friday | 15 October 2004 | 01:40 PM
Coming soon from the creators of South Park...
Team America - Saving the world from terrorism (again). I'm sooooo excited about this I can't begin to tell you. I hope it's as good as it looks......
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Thursday | 14 October 2004 | 03:53 AM
One of God's special people
This is Sarah Jane Newbury. Reportedly Britain's most famous virgin, in my opinion she is much, much more. Sarah Jane is an example for us all Browsing through her site has certainly helped put my life in perspective. I'm sure...
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Tuesday | 5 October 2004 | 08:28 PM
Has Been
This is inordinately exciting...previews of the new tracks, with commentary from Bill himself! Confused? This might explain (if not excuse)....
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Wednesday | 22 September 2004 | 12:46 AM
Holy Shit
Never trust a lawyer. Ever. Bloody hell - just saw the final episode of The Lyon's Den. I did not see that coming. What a twist. Elevates a hitherto mediocre programme to greatness. Potentially....
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Monday | 13 September 2004 | 12:40 AM
An embarrassment of Richards
We celebrated my birthday this weekend. A meal at the wonderful Sasso, followed by presents, booze and spacecakes back at Em & Mel's. Sasso can't be recommended highly enough - beautiful atmosphere, really good food, mucho boozo, and the staff...
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Tuesday | 7 September 2004 | 10:57 PM
Bushwhacker
How to start your day on a positive note: Create a new folder on your computer desktop. Name it George W. Bush. Send it to the recycle bin. Empty the recycle bin. Your computer will ask: "Do you really want...
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Saturday | 4 September 2004 | 01:11 PM
Cutest ever
How adorable are these little things? They're called Bilbies, they live in Australia, and I want one. The Bilby - created when the Almighty was in one of his more whimsical moods....
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Friday | 3 September 2004 | 01:27 PM
To boldly go where no-one in their right mind would.
Modern Poet Modern Prat Bill Shatner has now reached god-like status in my eyes. If you don't believe me, then listen to his cover of Pulp's Common People. This is a man who can truly appreciate, and...
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Thursday | 12 August 2004 | 01:40 PM
More Larkin About
Irrepressible northern comedian Morbid northern poet I'm inordinately excited about this. There's always room for more moping about the inevitability of death. Hooray!...
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Wednesday | 11 August 2004 | 08:01 PM
Goldflapps
At Melissa's request, a picture of her obsession, Alison Goldfrapp. Not being as rabid a fan as her(no-one is as rabid a fan as Melissa), I can only recommend that you visit this site if you wish to develop your...
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Monday | 9 August 2004 | 11:16 AM
A Star is Born
My brother's going to be famous! Hopefully. Filming starts on the pilot of Andrew's self-penned sitcom Clubbing in a couple of weeks - here's the poster. Without doubt it'll be snapped up by some hungry production company within nanoseconds of...
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Wednesday | 7 July 2004 | 05:10 PM
Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Come in...
Well, here we go again - version 4 of slow|afternoon, now powered by Movable Type. Hopefully a little more lively than previous incarnations, I invite you all to join in. Hello? Are you there? Hello? Anyone...?...
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