Clack-clack-clack, the dominoes fall, and not all of them are actually dominoes. Heath Robinson machines (Damn yanks, he predates your plagiarising Rube Goldberg) of this type can take any form and it’s always damn fun to trace the threads of seeming causality and see if you can spot an origin. For example, look at Vietnam;
Which Champion Are You? | Champions Online Official Site I’m not handling PR for this particular MMO (though I am for its predecessor, City of Heroes), but I’m interested to see how it goes. They’ve got a nice What Hero Are You generator on the website, though it seems to have read me rather too
Ask OxSciBlog: Higgs Boson – University of Oxford As you’ve been busy sending in your questions for Oxford scientists I thought we ought to start giving some answers: First up is a question from Daniel Griliopoulos which is answered by Alan Barr from Oxford’s Department of Physics. —————————————————————————————————————- Q: What’s going to happen if they
BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston Then there’s the plight of all those overseas businesses that manufacture cars in the UK. They’re being mullered by a massive contraction of available credit and a collapse in sales. (My emphasis) The premier journalist for these days of collapsing economies, Robert Peston, uses a phrase I’ve
This is rapidly becoming my favourite daily website. These things are straight out of Dan Dare: Peering into the micro world – The Big Picture – Boston.com
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2156713&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1A Sea Biscuit’s Life from Bruno Vellutini on Vimeo. Also, this is cool: an image of the relative occurence of words in my blog… Jew seems to feature quite strongly…
I stopped blogging for a long time, I don’t know why, comfort perhaps. Stimulus to restart? “Holocause is Coming”, “All Jews Must Die” and “Juden Mord” written in chalk on the road outside my house in Golders Green – not targetted at me, but at the local community. I thought our area was wonderfully mixed
westboro baptist church and me, originally uploaded by Burstein!.
Auden is darkly, depressibly comic, eloquent, concerned both about the wider world and the horrible authorities in it, and with the very, very personal and embarassing. He’s like an Elliot without the unnecessary stretching for benchmarking references… It’s a sad poem, of a man past his prime or never in it, lusting in the carefully-instituional