June 2008
22 posts
Can I Get Some Help Here?
I seem to be having trouble finding good music to put on my ‘Best of 2008 (1st half) playlist. When I did one in 2006, I was battling to keep it short. I’ve only managed 6 tracks so far for this year.
The Rules: Only one track from each artist, and the album has to have been released in 2008.
MGMT: Time To Pretend
The Raconteurs: Salute Your Solutions
The Ting Tings: That’s...
Russell T. Davies is a B*****d
There. I said it. RTD is a horrible little man who delights in torturing small children. And me.
And he’s a genius. Such sweet sorrow that he’s stepping down from Doctor Who and handing over lead writer and executive producer responsibilities to Steven Moffat (of ‘Blink’, ‘The Girl In The Fireplace’ and ‘Silence In The Library’ fame).
Oh, and one...
“Kayleigh is a very skillful communicator, she is able to hold conversations and...”
– Kayleigh, summed up in two sentences on her ‘Progress Report to Parents’ from the nursery. They just missed out the word ‘constantly’ at the end :-)
“At Downing Street upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t Blair,
He wasn’t...”
– Anon. Cabinet Minister (via Coffee House)
Bill Gates on the iTunes Music Store →
In an email from 2003, Bill Gates gives a spot-on analysis of what the iTunes Music Store meant for the online music market. (via Daring Fireball)
Kozmic Bubble Goes Art Deco
As you may have noticed, I’ve spent a little time today on redesigning The Kozmic Bubble, with a new art deco-inspired look. Hope you like it!
In Safari or Internet Explorer 7 (I think) you’ll get the benefit of the beautiful Yanone Kaffeesatz type face from fonts.info. Since Firefox doesn’t support font embedding yet, you’ll just have to wait, I suppose. It’s plain...
Walks in the Peaks →
We’ve been for a couple of great walks in the Peak District in the last couple of weeks, here’s a web gallery of some of the pictures we’ve taken and the scenery we’ve seen!
Lisbon Treaty e-Petition →
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Respect the result of the Irish referendum and abandon the attempt to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.
Giles Fraser: Me and the secular police →
Guardian article by the vicar of Putney on why it is that music and readings with religious connotations are banned from civil wedding ceremonies - coming to the surprising finding that it’s the Catholics that are to blame.
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
I have listened to two songs so far and am declaring this album among the best of the year. For it not to make the top 5, there would have to be some seriously good music later on in the year.
It’s that time of year again - in the last month there’s been fantastic albums from The Ting Tings and The Zutons. Ting Tings has been my favourite album of the year until now, if the rest of...
Top This For A Speeding Ticket
The (possibly apocryphal) story of a speed trap that nearly went horribly wrong…
Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident, while checking for speeding motorists on the A-1 Great North Road . One of the officers (who are not named) used a hand-held radar device to check the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was...
“There has not been such a stubborn refusal to die in high politics since the end...”
– Hillary Clinton the last to admit her own death - Telegraph
Actually, it's a little disappointing...
Sky didn’t even put up a fight - a 15 minute phone call and my subscription will be gone in 30 days time. 0I just told them I wasn’t watching it and I didn’t want to pay them money every month any more… It’s an anticlimax.