pootling

Lego monkey & banana collection. (Taken with instagram)

Yes It’s You by Sweet Charles

What I want to know is how anyone could write, produce and record a song that is so mind-blowingly brilliant, and then end up with it being so astonishingly difficult to track down in the early 21st Century. What the hell happened?

Still, love this. Wow.

Let’s be fair to Jules Stenson here, he makes it very clear that he didn’t go on Newsnight to talk about the terrible things that he, personally, was responsible for. He didn’t go on there to defend the newspaper that he worked for who hacked into the voicemails of a murdered teenager in order to try and make money. He went on Newsnight to try and make the Guardian look bad by quibbling over details of things that he hadn’t actually looked into properly. And who can blame him for that, eh?

(Source: youtube.com)

So, I went here today. (Taken with instagram)

Gran Torino in Lego (by -derjoe-)

Lovely scene, elegantly executed by -derjoe-. (via)

Brixton bus crash. Oops. (Taken with instagram)

The remains of the Streatham Leisure Centre. (Taken with instagram)

At the Coliseum to see the Nutcracker. (Taken with instagram)

Font geek Glenn Fleishman on the new fonts available in iBooks.

Hitchens on the festive period.

“To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of “dissenting” bravery.”

Christmassy South Bank. (Taken with instagram)

Huge Covent Garden Christmas tree. (Taken with instagram)

“I’m a fan of Apple’s work because it’s great. I suspect my peers he would criticize would say the same thing. I’ve been a fan of Apple’s products for about 6 years now. Before that, I didn’t own one. You could even say that I hated Apple products back in the 1990s when I was going to midnight launches of Microsoft products. Why did that change? It’s not some spell or some bullshit marketing. It’s all the hard work and attention to detail Apple put into their products during the second Jobs reign. I wanted the best, Apple made the best.

If Apple’s products start slipping again, I’ll drop them again. The loyalty isn’t to some magical unicorn tear voodoo — it’s to the best products.”

Exactly.

The London Eye from St James’ Park. (Taken with instagram)