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August 2009

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) → last.fm
  1. Alfred Brendel (20) 
  2. The Antlers (19) 
  3. Radiohead (15) 
  4. Frédéric Chopin (12) 
  5. LCD Soundsystem (12) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers → slate.com

This is so true. I’d genuinely get a lot more work done if all my work emails just came into my Gmail account along with everything else.

Aug 28, 2009
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” —Andy Warhol, The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol
Aug 28, 2009
State of the Art - A Leap Forward With Snow Leopard → nytimes.com

David Pogue’s Snow Leopard review in the New York Times makes it sound well worth £25.

Aug 27, 2009
Baltimore upon Thames? Not true, that → guardian.co.uk

Good response to Chris Grayling’s comments on The Wire from Misha Glenny who’s actually watched it and also looked at crime stats in the UK.

Aug 27, 2009
Aug 27, 2009
Podcast: Kennedy → thomyk.podbean.com

In which Thom and Michael “report” “live” from the “Edinburgh” “festival”, discuss their recent Prom experiences, establish their knowledge of LEGO giraffe anatomy, and seek answers to the eternal question, “What’s wrong with the muppet’s eyes?

Aug 26, 2009
Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing → splicetoday.com

US-centred, but it’s pretty on the money for the UK as well.

Aug 26, 2009
An uncreative solution to online piracy → timesonline.co.uk

An excellent article on Mandelson’s file-sharing fiasco by John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the OU.

Aug 26, 2009
When poodles turn into peacocks → guardian.co.uk

Human beings are weird creatures. That said, I quite like the buffaloodle (to coin a term).

Aug 26, 2009
Heresy Corner: The Koran: not a patch on the Bible → heresycorner.blogspot.com

Interesting, and well-argued post, based on Sebastian Faulks’s description of the Koran in the Sunday Times.

Aug 25, 2009
“It is possible that a few thinking viewers, after experiencing a season or two of The Wire, might be inclined, the next time they hear some politician declaring that with more prison cells, more cops, more lawyers, and more mandatory sentences that the war on drugs is winnable, to say, aloud: “You are hopelessly full of shit.” —David Simon (for Chris Grayling)
Aug 25, 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) → last.fm
  1. Talking Heads (19) 
  2. Raphael Saadiq (14) 
  3. Dirty Projectors (13) 
  4. Florence + The Machine (12) 
  5. Laura Marling (12) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 24, 2009
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Aug 24, 2009
Sexy A-Levels → sexyalevels.tumblr.com

Since we all know that only sexy young women take A-Levels, and when they get their results, they do a lot of jumping.

Aug 24, 2009
Aug 24, 2009
Jogging

I’ve recently been looking through some pictures my dad took of me as a child. In one I must be about 5 or 6 years old. I have orange, amazingly curly hair and I’m wearing a t-shirt that just says ‘jogging’. Whether this was an attempt by my parents to change me into the sport-loving fitness freaks that they weren’t, or whether it was a t-shirt bought already dripping in irony, I really don’t know, but it’s turning into one of my favourite pictures of myself.

You’ll have to get an invite to my flat to see it though.

Aug 24, 2009
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