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I could really do with something like this that goes all the way out to the M25 (and would even be prepared to pay a modest sum for such a thing), but this will do for a start.
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Oh, look, I found one. Handy. This is why people really ought to spend a bit fo time doing SEO work on websites – this was buried on the third page of my search results, despite being about the most authoritative result for my search.
Author: Alasdair
Plus c’est la même chose, plus ça change
I have just started re-reading HST’s The Great Shark Hunt (after finishing a book about him, I thought I’d re-read something by him), and I come across this piece of writing from “Fear and Loathing In The Bunker”, first published in the New York Times, talking about the Nixon administration.
“It has been a failure of such monumental proportions that political apathy is no longer considered fashionable, or even safe, among millions of people who only two years ago thought that anybody who disagreed openly with “the Government” was either paranoid or subversive. Political candidates, in 1974 at least, are going to have to deal with angry, disillusioned electorate that is not likely to settle for flag-waving and pompous bullshit.”
This would seem to me to be the difference between 1974 and now, politically speaking: I just don’t have it in me to be convinced that any US presidential campaign isn’t all “flag-waving and pompous bullshit”, or that the majority of the American electorate are clever enough to tell the difference between that and policy that will actually make a difference.
Links For Thursday 19th June 2008
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I finished “Gonzo”, a collection of recollections of Hunter S Thompson by those who knew him, on the bus this morning, so it was quite nice find this in one of my RSS feeds this morning – a short essay by his son about the things he learned from the man.
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My colleague on the usefulness of strace. Of absolutely no interest if you’re not a developer working on linux-based systems, don’t even bother looking. If you on the other hand, you meet that description, you should read this
Bored At Lunch
There’s a five questions meme doing the rounds. Ask away, if you can be arsed.
Foxes and Wildebeest
Firefox 3 is out today. I endorse this product, and as per, exhort you all to give up IE which will only give you scabies, and replace it with a proper browser. Added bonus for me – version 3 finally looks like a Mac app, which is nice, although I do not have to wait until all my extensions are upgraded before I can feel like my internet experience isn’t slightly crippled.
Dinner tonight was something I’d been looking forward to all day: wildebeest on ciabatta bread with balsamic onions and mushrooms as a sort of relish and mixed peppery leaves. Verdict: pleasant, but it turns out to be rather more delicately flavoured than I’d been lead to believe – I was told “gamey lamb with the texture of beef” , which is about right, but it kind of got swamped by the marinade, leaves and onion/mushroom not-relish thing. Too much going on. I’ve got another steak, also marinaded, but it’s too late to do anything about that now, which I’m just going to cook and eat on its own tomorrow, and see what I think then.
Space Juice
The Tate Modern has a “Street Art” Exhibition on at the moment, and as part of it, they’ve got a variety of artists to decorate the building, and various bits of Bankside. This is one of the pieces, that I just adored for the fantastic perspective, the way is makes one thing look like another, and just the beautiful 50s-SF feel.
Links For Tuesday 17th June 2008
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This lad is trying to get his personal posessions down to 100 Things. I was thinking about trying the same thing, with an “excluding Books/CDs/DVDs” caveat, but I’m not sure it’d be that hard. I might list 100 possessions, and see if I think I could cope.
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Somebody somewhere is writing this paring right now. I can only hope that they do, and then Ryan’s prediction comes true.
Links For Monday 16th June 2008
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Copright-violation-tastic, but still: the complete text of Alan Moore’s performance piece. Worth a read, and I’ll probably find it handy to refer to, but if you can get hold of the CD, that’s much better.
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This, and the next one, particularly need to be heard to get them right – they’re very rhythmic pieces and the formatting on these does them no favours at all. Still, handy reference if I need to quote them at some point.
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It’s a dreadful armpit of a place, is Highbury. But scratch the surface…
Do I?
I have decided I would like to go see a film this afternoon.
Should I:
- Go see Hulk?
- Go see Iron Man again?
Prace bets now!
Links For Sunday 15th June 2008
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If you can listen to this, and not be moved, not understand why he was irreplacable, then you are not human and I would thank you to leave the planet at once. (Link good for seven days. Use it. Yes, you.)