September 2007
43 posts
BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple iPhone warning... →
meatROBOT on XBox Live →
“I love the smell of broken servers in the morning. Smells...”
– Me
“I love a Desperate Dan sized portion.”
– Nigella Lawson
“Nigella Lawson - when you look at her eyes, it’s almost as if she...”
“Gordon would you … take me away from here? Take me with you, where there aren’t...”
– from Werewolf by Moonlight by Guy N. Smith
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | British blamed... →
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -... →
“A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay...”
– BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Man admits urinating on ill woman
“ ”Dearest little asstunnels, Let me start off by thanking you for your...”
– Forum user to MediaDefender as they tried to get leaked emails pulled
“When you make an assumption out of the return value from a function you make an...”
– The Wistow
“iPhone for UK launched in London. Generates 1025 stories on Google News. Still...”
– Londonist
“Is there a substance within cream that can rise to the top of itself? This...”
– Tycho, Penny Arcade
“…and that’s what the future is all about - doing exactly the same...”
– me
“‘Skeeter and Mothra are cousins, brother and sister and husband and wife,...”
– Warren Ellis, [BAD SIGNAL], 17th Sep 2007
Beer of youth
Drinking beer from a can in the street after the lamps are lit is not the same as drinking the same beer elsewhere. Outdoors, not at home, almost hiding from others. Walking along, swigging, dangling the can from your hoody clad arm. It’s the taste of youth, the taste of rebellion. But not when sharing a Tenants Super with your dad.
Paleo-Future →
French prints showing the year 2000 in 1910.
Ballet shoes →
Example of the public acceptance of that previously thought of as “kinky” - ballet shoe fetish legitimised through flickr.
Tube Etiquette
After passing through the barriers, one man taps another on the shoulder and passes him a small printed slip of paper, folded precisely in half.
”Push in front of me again and I will cut out your tongue”
He walks on.
A moment later he is tapped on the shoulder by his new acquaintance and handed another small printed piece of paper, folded precisely in half.
”Hand me a...
“…as attractive as a turd-smeared cache of Jim Davidson videos.”
– Londonist
Daytime tv is shit Donny Osmond just walked on to a stage shouting “Yeah BABY! YEAH!”
There is just no need for that.
“Cor, darling, you really like shoving it in don’t ya”
– Ainsley “Filth Monster” Harriot
The Ape and the Child →
Vladimir Demikhov →
“An Englishman proposes when he runs out of other conversation…”
– LJ
“If you have to move your head to see the corners of your TV screen, then...”
“A leitmotif (IPA pronunciation: [laɪt məʊ tɪəf]) (also leitmotiv; lit....”
– Wikipedia
Node →
pre-release Spook Country annotations with context and images.
Basement wife
Can’t stay late, got to get home to my basement wife. She’s like a normal wife but I keep her in the basement and feed her left over vegetable peelings. She sometimes gnaws on bones, but I don’t want her to get fat. Nothing weird or anything.