Occasionally, a musical evening is particularly special to your humble blogger and this is one of the few. It’s from a tour just before the artist died, at the Museumplatz in Bonn and there are far too many tracks up on youtube to include.
Without further ado – Mink de Ville’s best known track, [...]
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What’s the future of transport? Is it, in the city environment of personal transportation, this little number by Honda?
The 3R-C seats one driver in a near-vertical position, with the clear canopy covering the cockpit when the vehicle is parked but turning into a protective windshield when the vehicle is moving. Honda says the [...]
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Jenny Riddell takes a tougher line. “All secrets tell you something about yourself.
Even the most superficial lie has a story behind it that is representative of a deeper truth. Some people lie about things like getting a parking ticket or breaking something precious, because they are scared of their partner’s anger, so why then [...]
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Feminists like to claim Kate Bush as one their own but of course they’re wide of the mark. She is, in fact, a perfect example of a painful truth – that it’s quite possible to be a straight, faithful partner, a mother and a creative and independent woman without having to be a carping [...]
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Could you spare 12 minutes and 30 seconds of your time?
60 mins: Help me out here – how does that make sense? For the lender, it would seem to be reckless in the extreme.
Witney Tilson, investment adviser: It was but the key assumption underlying the willingness to do this was that home prices [...]
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Time, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in [...]
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Sorry about the image quality on the above but the music was too good to go past.
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Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at CalTech. Great job if you can BS your way into it. His latest ruse? Thinking about time:
One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by [...]
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Inevitably, in the UK, one has to consider the BNP, particularly in working class inner city areas. The opposition to their politics is well known, from the Nothing British campaign through to every other party and within many groups.
Wiki says:
In the 2005 General Election, the British National Party stood 119 candidates across England, [...]
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… you’re sure of a big surprise. Keep an eye peeled for the wildlife.
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Power 2010 – An Apology
By Toque – Posted on 26 February 2010
David Rickard (aka BritologyWatch) has an article on Our Kingdom entitled “And then there were three: the Power 2010 pledge“, it’s well worth a read.
In regard to the “three” I feel that I have an apology to make to [...]
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