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August 31, 2004

“The biggest c*nt in Manchester”

The Libertines Crack Up by Tony Wilson

“WRITE a piece about The Libertines? Give me a break. I don’t care about The Libertines. But a piece about drugs and music. Where do I sign up? When I say I don’t care for The Libertines, I’m not being controversial for the sake of it. I often am, though not this time. I find the darlings of NME insipid and drab. And I feel bad about that because I have enormous respect and even love for the two Lib champions, Rough Trade owner Geoff Travis and Alan McGee, the Scot who discovered Oasis.”

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August 28, 2004

Reading 2004

I can almost see the festival from my room.

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August 23, 2004

“The meaning of life is that it ends.” - Franz Kafka

Fear Itself - Learning to live in the age of terrorism

“So here’s a question: Would you ride a bus in Jerusalem? Right now? Here’s your 5 1/2 shekels, go take a bus to market, buy some figs. Pick a bad day, after the Israelis have assassinated some terrorist leaders and everyone is waiting for the second sandal to drop. There are lots of buses in Jerusalem – the odds are still long in your favor. Do you take that dare?

A few weeks ago, I did just that: boarded a bus on just such a day, and rode for nearly an hour. I did it because I wanted to better understand the psychology of terror. Not the psychology of the terrorist – the psychology of the terrorized.”

(via MeFi)

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August 20, 2004

recess monkey - blogging for an mp

“A young intern was recently seen entering a lift on a Friday at the same time as an MP. Although it was a Friday, this intern had taken the idea of dress down friday to new lows. The following dialogue between the MP and the intern ensued.

MP: (jovially) I know it’s a Friday, but shouldn’t you be in your suit?

Intern: Yeah, it’s a Friday. Shouldn’t you be in your constituency?

MP: (not jovial anymore) ”

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August 19, 2004

The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.

Toogle is a text version of Google Image Search - check out the Wright and the Sheppard. Aces!

(via MonkeyFilter)

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August 18, 2004

that’s just ghey

News just in:

“This email has been sent to confirm that paul@linkmonkeys.co.uk has been subscribed to UK GAY CHAT.

Soon you will receive messages and pictures from other users and can even get kinky using your microphone and webcam! We hope you enjoy this exciting new service.

To unsubscribe, at any time, please call 0795 837 3420″

So, if I want to unsubscribe from the UK GAY CHAT email list I have to ring a phone number? A phone number that in all likelihood is at least 50p/min?

What a sad, sad scam. If you know of ways of reporting this number please let me know (email, not comments).

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August 12, 2004

Wenn du mehr als 18 Sekunden schaffst, bist du ein Phenomen.

Escapa!

“Click and drag on the red box. Avoid the blue boxes and the wall.”

Tricky.

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August 9, 2004

“Four long days of absolute slavery.”

The virtue of idleness; an extract from How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson.

“God himself set a good example, argues Paul Lafargue, the socialist campaigner and son-in-law of Karl Marx, in The Right To Be Lazy: after working for six days, he rests for all eternity.”

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August 5, 2004

“can’t you just compromise? be a millionaire artist or something?”

from how to be creative:

9. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.

You may never reach the summit; for that you will be forgiven. But if you don’t make at least one serious attempt to get above the snow-line, years later you will find yourself lying on your deathbed, and all you will feel is emptiness.

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“And we’re changing our ways…”

Bossanova Joy Division and Clash. Surprisingly good.

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she’s run, run, run, run….run….

Construction / Deconstruction flash video of an acoustic version of Radiohead’s Creep. Spiffing.

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August 4, 2004

where’d the mountains come from?

Some people merely watch TV to pass the time, others observe like a hawk. The result? A map of the entire of Springfield created from cross-referencing episodes. It’s the kind of thing I really should do when I watch Simpsons One all Sunday afternoon.

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PrezGeorgeW.typepad.com

CIA Asks Bush To Discontinue Blog:

“I would hate for the president to inadvertently put American soldiers at risk,” McLaughlin said. “We work hard to maintain the integrity of state secrets. When we see the president posting details of troop movements, international counter-terrorism negotiations, and even the nuclear launch codes, as he did on Monday, we have to step up and say something.”

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August 3, 2004

*smile*

The Naked Face - Can you read people’s thoughts just by looking at them?

A fascinating article on how the face emits emotional information about a person, even “microexpressions". People spotting just got that little bit more involved.

(There’s the pdf version from The New Yorker if you want to print it out to read.)

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August 1, 2004

“This judge will surely side with me!”

Publisher peeved at political parody

“TRO believes that the Jibjab creation threatens to corrupt Guthrie’s classic – an icon of Americana – by tying it to a political joke; upon hearing the music people would think about the yucks, not Guthrie’s unifying message. The publisher wants Jibjab to stop distribution of the flash movie.”

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