Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Not about Mark Littlewood

Merely a website tip.

I bring you, with heavy recommendation...


Have a butcher's, it be verrrry funny.

Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Climate change protesters - naked policy must be questioned


Why are only the women wearing pants?






Source

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Caribbean percussion band play Joy Division's "Transmission"

Utterly superb - watch...


Friday, 10 July 2009

Obama in G8 Photograph controversy


Guardian has the story (so much as there is one).

Thursday, 9 July 2009

London in 1903

Courtesy of the BFI, this footage is quite remarkable. My grandparents, one of whom is still breathing, had almost been born at this time - as children in the 1910s, the city was still fairly similar - a thought that I find difficult to fathom, such is the distant era nature of this clip.

As a Conan-Doyle-reading kid I had trouble imagining many of the scenes involved - these films help, and certainly reveal the extraordinary progress we've made through technology and wealth-creation in the last hundred years, in spite of the effects of two world wars.