August 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Daft Punk (16) Bellowhead (6) Washed Out (6) LCD Soundsystem (1) John Grant (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Aug 26th
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Facebook, Sentencing and Moral Luck
Following the riots, many people have been disturbed at the sentences handed to a couple of men who posted messages to Facebook encouraging people to start rioting during the recent, short, period of UK city riots. One of them went so far as to arrange for people to meet in a particular place, ready to riot, and was arrested by the police when he got there. People make the point that neither of...
Aug 26th
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Aug 25th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Bon Iver (20) Eric B. & Rakim (20) Lauryn Hill (17) Suede (11) Radiohead (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 24th
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Civil disorder and looting hits Britain: We have... →
Excellent article in the Economist showing that there is nothing new either about civil disorder, or knee-jerk reactions to it.
Aug 19th
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Thunderball by Ian Fleming
God I’m bored of this story. If you read the James Bond books, and see the James Bond films, you end up getting this story three times. This is one of the earlier versions, but it’s the last I’ve come to. After Thunderball the film (which is Connery’s third-weakest film), and Never Say Never Again (which is Connery’s second-weakest) I read this bored with the tedious...
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Riots & Archbishops
Damien Thompson, The Telegraph’s Religion correspondant writes: Maybe I’ve missed something, but I can find no reference anywhere to the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster, respective leaders of the Anglican and Catholic Churches in England, condemning the wicked looting and violence of the past few days. There is nothing on Dr Rowan Williams’s website. And nothing on Archbishop...
Aug 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Suede (12) Beirut (9) Bon Iver (7) Pulp (7) Bellowhead (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 8th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Bon Iver (7) Dan Benjamin & John Gruber (2) Nicola Roberts (1) BBC Radio 5 Live (1) Low (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 3rd
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Another day in the outraged existence of Paul...
The Daily Mail are outraged today. Apparently, children as young as five are being treated for anorexia. “Many idolise ultra-slim models and celebrities they see in magazines and on TV, and try to slim in the hope they will look similar.” In other, entirely unrelated news, they discuss which skinny celebrity has the best bikini body. Oh, and here are a couple of their columnists...
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