Gril

  • Don’t Eat The Rich – Bleed Them

    Alistair Darling has announced a new top tax rate of 50% for those earning more than £150,000 from next April. Things we value; a stable society that produces the most happiness (freedom from suffering) for the largest number. Agreed? If not, no point talking. If so, read on. Equality of opportunity offers the most likely

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  • My Recent Photos

    Recent Images, originally uploaded by Hot Grill. 1. The White Horse of Billericay, 2. Too Many Signs, 3. The Gap, 4. Beautiful Big-Eared Piggles, 5. Freaky Teddy Bears & Doll, 6. 170309 105, 7. Worm, 8. Mannequin, 9. The White Horse of Billericay

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  • Oregon Trail iPhone Map

    I couldn’t find a map online for Gameloft’s excellent iPhone conversion of the 1982 game The Oregon Trail. You control a team of pioneers attempting to make the 5-6 month slog across the West to Oregon, battling bears, flooded rivers, broken waggons and , and meeting great names from the opening up of the west.

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  • Newswipe with Charlie Brooker News Clip

    http://youtube.com/v/l8rMYyegT5Y The UK news is not only voyeuristic, it’s also nationalistic and enormously biased towards the increased value of a white, English middle-class life. I’m rather tired of it.

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  • Beatiful Tilt-Shift Movie

    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. These are real people, the video’s just been sped-up and tilt-shifted.

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  • Found in a notebook

    In moments of solitude, my mind, once far-ranging, now only homes in on one phrase; “mi amo”. I don’t speak Italian or any of the Romance languages, save Latin, so I don’t know what it means, but I’ve a feeling that my hindbrain /thinks/ it knows what it means; “my love”. I mumble it to

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  • McGoohan, McGoohan, McGone.

    Just remembered that Patrick McGoohan died yesterday. Farewell childhood hero, our rebel without reason (but not without a cause), now you’re Number Zero. I’m currently listening to “I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape” by The Times. S’alright.

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  • I Won A Book!

    http://londonist.com/2008/12/prizewinning_medical_trivia.php Congratulations to Dan Griliopoulos, winner of our Medical London competition. We asked for a piece of trivia connected with medicine in London, and Dan provided this: “The premier London medical story has to be that of Samuel Pepys’ stone. Not the actual operation – which was long and painful (without anaesthetic) or highly dangerous

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