November 2010
“The IEA has been producing annual reviews of the world energy situation for a...”
– It’s Official: The Economy Is Set To Starve - Blogs at Chris Martenson
Middle Age Suicide →
Midlife can be a minefield. For many people, the peak earning years of midlife offer a sense of competence and mastery. But for others, the middle years may be times of disillusionment and regret about stalled careers and stale marriages. This time of life can also be filled with anxieties about mounting debt, while putting kids through school and caring for aging parents. Plus, men at midlife...
“Tens of thousands of people who have never been political before are suddenly...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Biggest student rebellion since ‘68
“Of course, ‘austerity’ shouldn’t just be seen as a process dictated by the needs...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Ireland, in the eye of the storm (via Instapaper)
moorewr asked: My dad swore by Renaults from the Dauphin he bought to replace his Buick Straight-Eight till Renault pulled out of the country. My mother's parents drove imported Fords, Volvos, and a diesel MB. My dad was an early fuel economy enthusiast and could eek 30 mpg out off our Renault 16 on back roads. Dad was a ww2 vet & a malacologist, and my mom's family was Swedish. Malaise-era detroit...
BANKRUN 2010 December the 7th, 2010 Let’s... →
“I don’t think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us....”
– Eric Cantona’s call for bank protest sparks online campaign
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“Most computers use key strokes to enter instructions, but Macintosh replaces...”
– Playboy - Print Article (via iamdanw)
Because you're worth it →
How much we earn is still a taboo subject, says Oliver Burkeman. From milkman to pilot, MP to cleaner, we ask people to break the silence
£40-oddK.
feastingonroadkill:
Oh yes. Dub fucking reggae.
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SMOKING!!!!!!
Cigarettes 'to be sold in plain brown packs' →
“The government is considering forcing tobacco companies to package their cigarettes in plain brown wrappers in a bid to de-glamorise smokingand stop young people taking up the habit.”
It’s not the packaging, it’s what’s inside that counts, am I right, internet?
The Films of the Vienna Actionists →
pieto:
UbuWeb presents 35 films by the Vienna Actionists. The term Viennese Actionism describes a short and violent movement in 20th century art that can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop “action art” (Fluxus, Happening, Performance, Body Art, etc.). Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. As ...
You know the best thing about quitting smoking?
It’ll be five weeks tomorrow since I quit. But It’ll be two minutes NOW since my last cigarette. All day I’ve been thinking how delicious it would be to have a sneaky smoke.
It didn’t disappoint: succulent, exotic, like fucking someone you shouldn’t.
Bad news, internet
Skreemr, the Google of online mop3s, is no more.
“My first bite of meat after 3.5 years of veganism was both the hardest and...”
– A Vegan No More — Voracious
lol
Wait till you move onto Pig - the world’s most magical animal.
(via blaaargh)
Dean Carter - Jailhouse Rock
You know that Roots...
Saturday Night Live
Guilty for not having finished writing next week’s lectures;
Impressed by the quality of Jardine’s Texas Chilli, as I sit at my computer eating it, eyes, watering;
Wondering if I’ll ever need to buy another record now I’ve got the Roots of The Cramps compilation;
Concerned that sitting before the computer, Tumblring, is appropriate Saturday Nite behaviour for a man of...
Hungry ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“If this story were happening in Washington - an economy of 300m people on the...”
– BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: In other news…crisis in the Eurozone
If you’re not reading Paul Mason, how do you expect to understand where the crisis will go next?
(via Instapaper)
“Cometh a Tory government and a Royal Wedding and cometh Class War. London Class...”
– FUCK THE ROYAL WEDDING, WANKERS POSTERS, CLASS WAR and mucho more… « Ian Bone
vruz:
The Sex Pistols: ‘God Save The Queen’
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“A one-off 20% tax on the wealth of the richest 10% in the UK has been backed by...”
– This tax could wipe out our national debt - Daily Finance UK
