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.)

Obvious gag, I guess, but I still laughed at this review.

These are beautiful, amd several of them are even practical. Someone get me a set at once.

Well fuck me running. A Tory MP has done something that means I’d vote for him like a shot, if given a chance. Well done, David Davis. I may disagree with most of his party’s platform, but on this I agree entirely, and I applaud the bold move.

Good fucking grief. Insert Orwell references here. Is there any English speaking nation I can get into that isn’t getting increasingly fucking Big Brother, please?

A senior government official says: “There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.” This may be as many as 8 million people.

Interesting map showing the most popular social networks around the world. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of some of them.

It looks like these people now deliver to my place, which rather expands my options in a takeaway. Result!

I can’t decide if this would be hell or something I could cope with quite well.

I own a dozen or so of them, and if I can get them of emusic, I might start working my way through some of the others – I tend to listen to jazz in the summer, and this might be a fun way to find some new stuff.

I appear to have been mugged by a musical toy. Still, this ought to be fun.

I don’t really care, except that there’s a line there at the end that says “European dates to be announced shortly”. All digital extremeties firmly crossed…

Can’t do this at the moment, since I’m not using one of these routers, but in the event that I need to replace mine at some point, it might be worth bearing in mind.

In a similar vein, despite the fact that I loved my finepix, this will probably ensure that the next point-and-shoot I buy will be a Canon. Ace.

Previously unreleased photos taken in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Hugely moving photos that convey the human cost of the atomic bomb. Should be in every history textbook, under the heading “there can be no excuse”.

“Not even twelve pygmies have the strength of a single Boris Johnson.”

Well, that’s half my evenings this week gone. Some of these sound fascinating. (The other half, like total waffle-shop bilge, but let’s focus on the positive, shall we?)

Given away at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1995, the postcards with text by Moore, and art by a number of utterly splendid illustrators now change hands for absurd sums. Or you could just read them on-line.

A really compelling account of the effect that his battle with mouth cancer, the experimental treatment he got, and the effect it has had on his life, and his cooking.

Interview with the guy that came up with the designs for the UKs new coins. Insteresting insight into the design process, and how some of the initial ideas were refined and improved (or even just unworkable).