January 2012
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30 mins with Lee "Scratch" Perry →
A remarkable interview with the presiding genius of the Saturday Morning Skank Spot.
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Alex James is a shit
Alex James is now the “food correspondent” for the Sun newspaper. In this capacity, he’s written an article about fast food chains. Here’s a taster:
“Next stop was a backstage visit to a McDonald’s in Leicester’s Fosse Shopping Park, one of 1,196 branches in the UK. Backstage was brilliant. There’s some fantastic gear there and in some ways...
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Sherlock: How did he fake his own death? →
I’ll have to ask JaneR for her thoughts on the matter. She’s always right about this sort of thing.
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Lobbying company tried to wipe out Stella Artois... →
“Now, inquiries by the Labour MP Tom Watson have revealed attempts by Portland Communications, which is run by Tony Blair’s former adviser Tim Allan, to improve the brand’s online reputation on behalf of its client, the brewer AB InBev.
Under the user name Portlander10 it removed reference to Stella Artois from the Wikipedia page entitled “Wife beater” and...
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Summer 2011
Made with the V.I.K.T.O.R. the Robot iPhone app which automatically makes a movie out of your selected clips.
December 2011
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Shake It!
I hope you’ll all follow the BeerLegKing’s cocktail shaking technique at your New Year’s Eve parties.
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Playing with kittens!! →
tarmaie:
The Oregon Humane Society lets you play with cats online using their robotic playroom, so that’s what I’m doing. I could be playing with my own cats but they’re indoor/outdoor cats and therefore deadened to the thrill of feathers attached to string. The kittens are adorable guys, go play with them
It’s an excellent idea!
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Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler: How we wrote Home for the Holidays
The story behind my favourite Christmas song from 2011.
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My Office Party Embarrassment
An Xtranormal re-enactment of my awkward moment at the workplace Christmas party.
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OnePot's Perambulations →
My old friend OnePotScreamer has recently turned into a gentleman traveller from the 1930s. His accounts of his travels by train and foot around England put one in mind of J.B. Priestley’s English Journey travelogue of 1934. It’s also worth reading OnePot’s account of his visit to the astonishing landscape of Dungeness in Kent.
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google "what defines an english person"
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