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, Spanish [...]
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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 vehicle [...]
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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 feminist. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 attempting [...]
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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 some of [...]
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The Albion Alliance front page says this: Political leaders say we can’t but … We Want Our Vote On Europe The Albion Alliance is not a political party, it’s not affiliated to any political party. It’s a cross-party movement which has two main objectives: 1. To address the democratic deficit in the current political system [...]
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Knitters at the Reykjavík City Museum. Photo by Páll Kjartansson. Here’s the next fad: There is significant interest among foreign knitting enthusiasts in luxury trips to Iceland where they can knit in an Icelandic environment. Knitting Iceland is a new travel agency offering such customized trips to the country. “It is a completely new target [...]
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H/T Mrs. P-J
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Thanks Welshcakes. Adriano Celentano:
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Greeks mention the war in bitter German attack The Aussie headline was good but the Telegraph put it better: Theodoros Pangalos, deputy prime minister, said Germany had no right to reproach Greece for anything after it devastated the country under the Nazi occupation, which left 300,000 dead. “They took away the gold that was in [...]
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Here’s the url you need. . Join DANIEL HANNAN MEP at the Brighton Tea Party at 5.30 p.m. this Saturday 27 February at the Best Western Hotel, 143-145 King’s Road, Brighton BN1 2PQ. The event will take place on the Conservative Party Spring Forum fringe, but is outside the secure zone, so all members of [...]
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This was a google ad on this site. . What chance Palin for GOP nomination? Huffington says Iowa might be the key to her chances. Vox Day had this opinion last year: I don’t pretend to know why Palin resigned. Not being a supporter, I can’t even say I particularly care. But I do know [...]
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This post comprises the comments section of a previous post on the EU. I’ve selected comments addressing the specific issue and these form the new post here. The comments section of the other post has now closed. First, from Damian Thompson: Friday’s New Statesman carries a ComRes poll that will make interesting reading for David [...]
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The one on the left was from Friday till Saturday evening and I cleared them. Next morning, there were another 198 but from two evening’s ago to last evening, I broke my record – 791 spam in one day. Beats stat porn hands down.
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Part 1 is here … Part 2 is here. There are reasons why Part 3 won’t alter behaviours but it will cause people to shut it out and send this blog to Coventry: 1. People have their own agendas and though the first two parts of this article might make sense, someone like Jailhouse Lawyer, [...]
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Part 1 is here … Part 3 is here. # What the EU costs us There are so many figures being bandied around that if I give a pot pourri here, you can make your own mind up.
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Part 2 is here … Part 3 is here # Introduction This is not an exhaustive document because that would take volumes; it merely points to certain aspects under the headings below and to why it is imperative that not only must the UK withdraw from the EU without delay, it needs the people of [...]
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Wiki says about it: Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women), but unofficially, nationally it has also more recently come to include the celebration of men as a whole, and to act as a counterpart of International Women’s Day [...]
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Blogging here was/will be non-existent light on the weekend/today/tomorrow for two reasons – birthday celebrations today and a longish post on “the EU and us” to answer the quite extraordinary statement by a deputy leader of one of the UK parties that the EU is no problem to us and there is no need for [...]
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Looks like China might be going the way of the world: China is facing a shortage of workers in the Pearl River Delta manufacturing hub in southern China. Expectations of higher wages and better working conditions from new workers are being blamed for the labour shortage. Migrant workers used to travel from all over China [...]
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I wanted to leave off UK politics today but browsing around the sphere just now [yes, I'll be inflicting myself on you soon but I'm still on the As and Bs, soon to go to the Cs], it became quite apparent that people are disgruntled. Let’s just take two blogs who ask: “Why cannot Dave [...]
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