nourishing obscurity

One of his classics for openers, just to get in the mood. To me, he sounds no older: Now, have you ever seen a band get more involved with its audience than in this next tube? Not bad, not bad at all. It’s pretty straight up to about 2:30 but when he goes visiting, the [...]

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Sigh. Ayalon, speaking at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry, said that Israel found weapons aboard the Gaza flotilla, which were used against IDF troops.

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Further to the post about Akermanis and his comments about gay players, the club has given him 24 hours to decide between playing for them OR keeping his media job [his family's future]. Responding to the media pressure, the club has caved in and there has been a massive response from the public. I know [...]

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If you already have the basket, then why the pannier rack? [2 more to go after this]

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Note the grip on the handlebars – five fingers over, rather than thumb and fingers opposed. [3 more to go after this]

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Certainly different.   Also, did I detect an Australian accent in places?  And why didn’t she sing in German? Well, he wasn’t too bad, the song was quite bouncy but those females – why does the UK think that slapper is the way to go and what were they meant to be doing?  Dancing?

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Sadly, Wolfie has given up on blogging, due to a small factor called Real Life but what he doesn’t put on his blog, he occasionally leaves in comments threads.  Does he, for example, have the gift of second sight? The current status-quo exists on a soft cushion of government created credit; when the waters recede [...]

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Abby Sunderland is having a rough time of it beneath Africa: There was a line on the top of the sail meant to help when pulling it down so I don’t have to climb all over the boom. While I was in Cape Town I think someone may have messed around with it a bit. [...]

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Mr Trappe said he had fulfilled the ultimate dream: “Didn’t you have this dream – grabbing on to a bunch of toy balloons and floating off?  I think it’s something that’s shared across cultures and across borders.  Just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space. It is unique. [...]

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Janet Tavakoli: So a lot of bad guys pulled a lot shenanigans using credit derivatives which increased risk in the system and increased people’s ability to borrow in a hidden way so that there was a lot of debt in the system that was invisible and banks themselves were often running invisible hedge funds … [...]

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Well, you know, it started out with yours truly checking out Boris youtubes and that led to Boris on HIGNFY and inevitably to Angus Deayton’s last show [part 1 above and you can follow the rest with the window at the end of each part]. For American [and other non-UK] readers, basically, there’s a long-running [...]

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Special Janina edition

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When the real problem is something only a minority in the community understand, then there’s trouble.  When this is coupled with a long, slow, inexorable process of weaning people off their protective mechanisms, then that trouble is compounded.  When there is the possibility that the situation is not accidental and is designed to obscure understanding [...]

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