Archive for the 'Conspiracy Theories' Category
I noticed during Eurovision the other night that the cosmonauts on the ISS were involved in something or other.
The picture quality, as it always is from space, was bad.
But then I thought, hang on, in 1969 we accepted a certain loss of quality for pictures from space, but nowadays, loads of TV pictures are [...]
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3 days of the condor
If it’s Thursday it must be a snow day, the third this week. I’m not keen on snow (not keen on much of anything), but since becoming a teacher I’ve learned to take it as a blessing. An extra day off work in the dark half of the year is not to be sniffed at, [...]
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Tags: snow days
Via BoingBoing, comes this great assessment of the state of the world by Bruce Sterling in Seed magazine. As you know, I love a good apocalypse, and I’ve been watching this one coming for a while.
Sterling focuses on seven reasons we should all be panicking: the climate; intellectual property; currency speculation; the insurance market; the [...]
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Tags: apocalypse, panic
It’s old news by now that the iPod’s shuffle algorithm doesn’t seem to be random so much as all-knowing and quite sly. On my recent seasonal trip to France, I experienced this for the first time as I tested out my Golf’s “iPod preparation” properly.
First of all, big disappointment: the Golf features the same standard [...]
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Tags: random, shuffle
Result!
A miscellaneous post, with three separate topics.
I’m enjoying Life, on ITV3, starring Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a cop released from jail after a miscarriage of justice. In spite of his huge compensation payout, he chooses to return to his job. He has survived his ordeal by adopting the precepts of Zen/Confucianism, and he infuriates [...]
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Tags: fuel prices, winter, woodburner
Yoiks!
Today’s Clarkson column in The Times is a pessimistic assessment of our current situation. In reviewing the Vauxhall Insignia (good car, badly timed), he basically advises us all to buy guns and plant potatoes. He’s clearly been watching episodes of Survivors. Snip:
I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple [...]
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Tags: credit crunch, economy, empires
Give us back our cod
Gordon Brown, says the Indie, is threatening the Icelandic government with legal action. It’s about time. The last major war between Iceland and the UK was over cod.
For a couple of years now I’ve been listening to Mickey Clark on Wake Up to Money, often discussing how Icelandic Financiers have been splashing the cash on [...]
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Tags: cod wars, economy, finance, iceland
I’m following the Olympics, of course, hoping for something exciting to happen, like a raised fist of protest, or a slogan scrawled on a teeshirt. So far there has only been a small war in Georgia, and a presidential resignation. To coin a paraphrase, the Olympics is a good seventeen days on which to bury [...]
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Tags: events, news, olympics, politics
One story (only one?) that’s driving me mad this week is the vehicle excise duty one. The government announced the new bands in the budget, saying that the “majority of motorists would be better or no worse off in 2009″. The tone of the reporting on this gives the impression that there has been a [...]
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Tags: excise duty, tax
rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
