January 2009
Norn Iron
The long-suffering Mrs Brssndn originally comes from Northern Ireland. One of the ways she has enriched my existence is in the many linguistic contributions she has brought with her to what I like to remind her is the mainland. Quite apart from her Ulster brogue, which in the early part of our relationship rendered conversation between us almost impossible, Her Indoors regularly, even now, comes...
LENIN'S TOMB: BBC: keep the pressure on →
Let’s see: we have a campaign of protests and returning license fees. We have the initiatives of celebrities (see David Soul, Ursula Le Guin and China Mieville on the Stop the War website). We have had three BBC HQs occupied, the latest of which was BBC Manchester. There was also a new protest outside BBC Scotland yesterday. We have 112 170 MPs backing a motion to force the BBC to change...
feastingonroadkill:
The Mekons: ‘32 Weeks’
The...
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people... →
butterflyeffects:
feastingonroadkill:
“France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce.”
Bloody hell. Read this.
So what are the rest of us...
I had an entire bag of potato chips for breakfast.
frangry:
But they were organic, so it doesn’t count.
So, our little girls are growing up...
…and one of them takes delivery of her first MacBook tomorrow. Being the picky type she is, she hates the cases that she sees, being either “generic” or “covered in spots or flowers”. Anybody know of any cool/original MacBook cases that aren’t either made of wood or stupidly expensive?
As much as I'd hate to admit it....
kapi:
Tumblr is slowly becoming a part of my real life.
Weird. For the rest of us, so-called “real life” is slowly becoming part of Tumblr.
“I coined the term “Generation Jones” for this large cohort born between 1954 and...”
– Jonathan Pontell (via azspot)
On the one hand, this fondness for bracketing people based upon an arbitrary period during which they weerre born is patently nonsense. But on the other hand, as one born in 1961, I certainly feel the same antipathy towards the Boomer generation as those born later...
snuh:
The Clash: Julie’s Been Working For The Drug...
A relatively large number of feeds?
azspot:
Daring Fireball: NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data
As you might imagine, I subscribe to a relatively large number of feeds — 155 as of today — some of which I read religiously, but many of which I only scan, looking for anything that stands out. The integration between the Mac and iPhone versions of NetNewsWire goes through NewsGator: with syncing turned on, you get the same list of...
fledglingdesign:
Fever Ray - I’m Not Done
“How...
Big internet penises
fatmanatee:
First of all, there are other things that have been going on in my life, I’m not getting into it here, but it was a perfect storm of bad. So know that I’m going to keep stuff hidden and that is all.
I have a big enough ego for a normal sized human, maybe too big. It’s one of the characteristics that I despise about myself, and it’s something that I have trouble dealing with in...
“Economies may fail, banking systems may collapse, but we’ll always have Davos,...”
– Marina Hyde. Here (via feastingonroadkill) (via mabelmoments)
feastingonroadkill:
Keith Leblanc puts Malcolm X...
30.01.2009
aatw:
I’ve started a daily world news summary blog. My first post:
In Sri Lanka, the country’s army has “[made] significant territorial gains” against the Tamil rebels in the north of the island. What’s interesting is the rebels’ ingenuity. The army seized three partially completed armour-plated submarines made by the rebels.
In Pakistan, three citizens have been arrested on the charge of...
Anybody else labouring under the misapprehension... →
“Samantha Power’s conclusion is that the U.S. policy toward genocide has...”
– Edward S Herman: The Cruise Missile Left
“Nihil affirmo, quaero omnia.”
– Cicero, saying “I assert nothing, I examine everything” and quoted by the ever-excellent Superfluidity. I think this ought to be one’s basic intellectual posture, and when one does assert something one should not be personally attached to it. We are not our ideas.
And furthermore, any act of...
“Mr Ryder, speaking as strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers erupted...”
– Union leaders condemn delegates on crisis response - Times Online
in other news, dry ammo passes up gold in cost per kilo
(via dhk)
anjuman muzareen punjab →
salonika:
Anjuman Muzareen Punjab is a movement of 1 million landless tenants based in villages stretching over 10 districts of the Punjab (Okara, Khanewal, Multan, Lahore, Vihari, Sahiwal, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Pakpattan and Sheikhupura and so on). In these districts of Punjab landless tenants settled this uncultivated land with their hard labour and they have tilled the soil for over a century....
National Spare Room Database
Hugh Abbot MP: All right, so, what the hell am I gonna say is the reason for me summoning all the nation's major news organisations to a school in Wiltshire?
Oliver "Olly" Reeder: So you want something sexy and eyecating and that is free and universally popular and instantly applicable, no-one can possibly object to it?
Glenn Cullen: Yeah.
Olly: Right.
Hugh: Yes.
Olly: OK. Well, really you should have said something Glenn, because I've got a file about that fucking thick of that back in the office, absolutely huge, those the sort of policies are ten a penny...
Glenn: Olly!
Olly: Our entire manifesto is more or less made up of them.
Glenn: You know, it really doesn't help if you get cynical. You should think of this as an opportunity.
Olly: It's not that easy to come up with Das Kapital in the back of the cab, Glenn.
Hugh: Olly...
Glenn: What we need is something that the public want, is incredibly popular and is free.
Olly: Return of capital punishment.
Hugh: That's a joke, right? You are joking, yes? Obviously, come on Olly, come up with something.
Olly: National Spare Room Database.
Hugh: ...
Glenn: ...
Hugh: ...what about zoos? My kids went to a zoo, you know, the other day and they said it was fucking disgusting, y-y-you know, the state of it... that's shit isn't it?
Glenn: No, b-b-but, there is an idea there because in the middle of the city you've got wild animals.
Olly: Pet ASBOS? Dy'a remember that, ASBOS for pets?
Glenn: Well, you see that sounds potentially ludicrous but then pet passports, that was a, that was a goer...
Glenn: What if, everybody had to carry a plastic bag, by law, you know the identification cards are coming in...
Olly: Yeah.
Hugh: You've fucking cracked. Are you mad?
Our TV critic adds: Notwithstanding the high proportion of kiddy-fiddlers among the cast, The Thick of It, from which the above is extracted, is one of the funniest British TV shows in many years (knocking The Orifice, for example, into a cocked hat).
Iceland Appoints Prime Minister Johanna... →
liana:
Like President Obama, Sigurdardottir also signed her first bill into law today. This measure, which allows for fresher honey roasted peanuts and more legroom, is coincidentally known as the Lilly Legbetter Act.
TV by numbers
If you’re prone to suicidal tendencies, then don’t switch over to BBC Four right now. You’ll be treated to something called Style On Trial, in which a mob of TV faces-for-hire act as a jury while one of their number “takes the stand” to put a case for the fashions of a particular decade of the 20th century. Cue old clips and talking head inserts, before the...
“Think of Microsoft operating systems as the American economic model - pervasive,...”
– Microsoft, FDR And Escaping The Prison Of The Past
“This is why our problem is not just economic; it’s spiritual. We have mistaken...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via blakeley:lilyb) (via spiegelman)
I hereby announce Andrew Sullivan’s induction into the Jhn Brssndn Hall of Cunts, of which you will soon be hearing more.
And yes, I got as bored with writing in French as you did reading in it, so what?
Formidable!
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