January 2010
78 posts
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WatchPeter Serafinowicz’s take on the iPad.
Laugh. Out. Loud.
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Are you talking about erections?
“Are you hard at work?”
“No, I’m in the pub relaxing with a semillon”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Doctor Who (19)
Bananarama (14)
Jamie T (10)
Bombay Bicycle Club (8)
Eels (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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I've gone off milk gags.
One is about how it smells.
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You know what's weird about milkmen's feet?
They lactose.
AWESOME live version of My Baby Just Cares For Me... →
Just listen to it. What a star!
The Guardian - Aliens visiting Earth will be just... →
Chris Morris talks to Film 4 about Four Lions
CUT AND PASTED FROM HERE
Director Chris Morris, in conversation at the Sundance Film Festival, answers questions about new comedy Four Lions, which premieres at Sundance How did the film come about? I was reading about a plot to ram a US warship. In the dead of night with the target moored just offshore, the cell assembled at the quayside, slipped their boat into the water and stacked it with...
Thinking of getting a new nickname? Contact...
Things that look like penises are in fact...
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Head to head between AC Grayling and Tzvetan... →
Clip from Chris Morris' Four Lions - jihadist... →
It doesn’t look like we’ll be disappointed. Hilarious.
Wordcount.org →
littleorphanammo:
afghanibanani:
WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more...
Pupils forced to listen to Mozart →
(via @charliebudd)
“These are the disrupters of learning, not the smokers, the truants or the people who are late - they are dealt with through other procedures.
“It’s those who have slowed the learning process in class for everyone and I won’t have that, because it is robbing the rest of opportunities.”
So I’ll punish them with more opportunities for them...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Jamie T (52)
Herbert Lippert, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Etc.; Michael Halász: Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Festival Chorus (20)
Classic FM (15)
Erykah Badu (15)
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JHE's Guide to Getting a Book Deal
jeanhannah:
When the marvelous Rachel Hills asked me to contribute to her post about how to get a book deal, I got a bit overexcited and basically wrote an essay. So it wouldn’t go to waste, I decided to post it here.
Disclaimers: I used to work in publishing, and I keep up to date on the industry for my blogging purposes (and personal interest), and I do a little critiquing of new writing on...
Not your average paedo fun article
First off, look at this article.
Next, imagine the reason you read that article is because you recognise that face.
Not as someone you sort of know from about town, or know as a friend of a friend, but someone pretty important in your childhood.
So I read this article on the tube about this guy. He’s a family friend, bought me Christmas/Birthday presents. Regular visitor for tea.
So,...
Five emotions you never knew you had →
victoriaisamess:
Some emotional states only have names in particular languages. Here are some examples:
Fiero (Italian): contented pride in achieving something just for oneself.
Amae (Japanese): the sweet feeling of being dependent on someone else.
Naches (Yiddish): the glow of proud pleasure that only a child can give to its parents.
Schadenfreude (German): the feeling you experience when...
Your mum's so old she's old enough to be your...
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The Telegraph | Waterstone's returns to its roots →
They've discovered the Sea Slug is half-plant,... →
theoriginaljoefisher:
Head explodes.
Kafka was a prolific Czech writer.
Probably explains his poverty
'In theory: The Death of an Author' by Andrew...
Full article on Guardian books blog here
Introduction:
“Ecclesiastes famously warns us that “Of making many books there is no end” – the same, of course, applies to book commentaries. George Steiner has long denounced the “mandarin madness of secondary discourse” which increasingly interposes itself between readers and works of fiction. For better or worse, the...
Google to end censorship in China | Technology |... →
(via magicrob)
And a thousand media students have to stay up all night rewriting their essay.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Erykah Badu (76)
Sigur Rós (51)
Eels (38)
Karen O and the Kids (31)
Jamie T (27)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sleep Talkin' Man, Jan 11 2010
Mah new favourite daily blog….
Cut n pasted from here:
“Your mum’s at the door again. Bury me. Bury me deep.” “Yeah, keep looking. It doesn’t get any better than this.” “Shhhhhhhhh. shhhhhhhhh. I’m telling you: your voice, my ears. A bad combination.” “You’re pretty. pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty…. [long pause]...
