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Anti. (Taken with instagram)

“But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google. Refresh was clicked, again and again, but still did Internet Explorer 6 not load The Google. Perhaps The Google was broken, the people thought, but then The Yahoo too did not load. Nor did Hotmail. Nor USAToday.com. The land was thrown into panic. Internet Explorer 6 was minimized then maximized. The Compaq Presario was unplugged then plugged back in. The old mouse was brought out and plugged in beside the new mouse. Still, The Google did not load.”

Great letter from Popjustice that is, of course, partially about Lana Del Rey, but mostly about alternative music writers.

An old photo, but I can’t wait to be heading off there again in a fortnight. (Taken with instagram)

Islands by The xx

Great song, great video.

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Aldwych. (Taken with instagram)

Shut Up And Play The Hits Trailer

A documentary about LCD Soundsystem’s last gig last year might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but is so my cup of tea that it’s even got right amount of milk in it and is in my favourite mug just cooling to the perfect temperature.

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8-Bit games based on Greek myths. How many times will you try to get Sisyphus’s rock to the top of the hill?

Boardwalk Empire Special Effects

And, while we’re at it, here are some similar videos from Boardwalk Empire. Again, I had no idea quite how many effects shots were in this show.

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Breakdown of the some of the special effects shots in Game of Thrones

Clearly I was aware of the fact that there were special effects shots in the show, but I wasn’t quite aware of how many.

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Great hit rate on the Awesome People Hanging Out Together blog:

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono, John Lennon & Roberta Flack by Bob Gruen, NYC, 1975

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London sunrise (Taken with instagram)

Twelve years old, but still one of the most cutting reviews I’ve ever read:

“What sets Thackara apart is quite a simple fact. He can’t write. After a while, the incredulous reader starts to play a game: to open the book at random and try and find a tolerable sentence. Save your effort - you will never win. Thackara is always ahead of you, with his uncanny knack for the not-quite-right word and the yer-what turn of phrase. “You could not see his parents’ intricate cultivation, nor that the ball was in the Palazzo Farnese, just after the war.” “Justin’s friend was not in the courtyard, but the fountain was.” “The Hanoverian battery commander, Egbert, was as delighted as a music conductor to show off for his guests behind the embankment wall.” These examples are taken entirely at random. It is all at least as bad as this, and some of it is worse to an unspeakable degree.”

UPDATE: If you want to know what he thinks of himself, his own website and clearly self-authored Wikipedia page are quite absurdly terrible.

On the currently rather quiet Five Chinese Crackers, the way in which Toby Young will defend David Starkey’s, but not Diane Abbot.

Ed Whitfield’s take on the ‘modernising’ of A Scandal in Bohemia and the changes to Irene Adler’s character in the Steven Moffat / Mark Gatiss rehash. I think it’s a fair point.