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January 2012

Michael Gove wants us to ask him questions on...

I’ve just seen this press release that’s being circulated today: —— Education Committee Select Committee Announcement 23 January 2012 For Immediate Release: ORAL EVIDENCE EDUCATION COMMITTEE WANTS YOUR TWITTER QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL GOVE EVIDENCE SESSION What one education policy question do you think the Committee should ask Michael Gove? On 31 January the...

Deletionpedia – an archive of non-notable culture

Deletionpedia is an automatically generated site which archives pages which Wikipedians have decided are not notable enough for their encyclopaedia. As someone who has had enough of their contributions deleted that they really can’t be bothered anymore and whose interests tend towards the non-notable by any reasonable definition, I find the site delightful. Check out the Pages on Wikipedia for...

Frank Sidebottom Statue Fundraiser

Frank Sidebottom Statue Fundraiser with THE WOLFHOUNDS LAETITIA SADIER (STEREOLAB) POCKETBOOKS plus guest DJS on Thurs 8th March, 8pmat Buffalo Bar, right next to Highbury & Islington tube, London N1 1RU £5 advance / £6 on door All proceeds go to the statue fund so fantastic frank sidebottom fans get along to this event, you know you should, you really should and you can get you...

A Softer World: 758

back buy this print digg facebook reddit stumbleupon next from A Softer World http://bit.ly/zK8Br3

“I’m Against the Eighties” | The Alternative... →

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September 1933: Football coach Arthur Grimsdell...

September 1933: Football coach Arthur Grimsdell teaches a boy in the art of trapping the ball during a training session organised by the Corinthians Football Club, and held at Highbury in north London. from The Football Archivist http://bit.ly/zctwJD

GIF: Recursive Maru

Love cyoot and funneh animal gifs? Check out our brand new gif site! from Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? http://chzb.gr/xxtxm2

AUDIO: Birmingham visit 'beats space'

Nick Bailey, professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Westminster and Jon Bounds, Birmingham writer talk about Birmingham and Glasgow being named as must-see places in 2012 by the New York Times. … from Jon Bounds - Google Blog Search http://worldnewsreport.biz/audio-birmingham-visit-beats-space/

The Sanitised City: How public is public space?

Birmingham Salon – a friendly bunch who take ideas and debate seriously – has invited me to speak at their upcoming event “The Sanitised City: How public is public space?” […] what could bring our sanitised cities back to life? What represents acceptable behaviour, and who should decide and how? Is the way forward to be found in better design and new models of ownership? As from Cairo to...

This is one of my favourite movie dance scenes...

This is one of my favourite movie dance scenes ever! from Unicorn Flakes http://bit.ly/yVDtSs

December 2011

Jorge Luis Borges’s lost translations

Jorge Luis Borges’s lost translations | A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo. from { feuilleton } » {noted} http://bit.ly/rA4FaH

bohemea: Winona Ryder

bohemea: Winona Ryder from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/uyr3aj

b3ta_links: Here's your Jonathan Meades Christmas...

b3ta_links: Here’s your Jonathan Meades Christmas present.: I would’ve bought you all something but quite frankly I’m n… http://t.co/UrYoh1dO from Twitter / b3ta_links http://bit.ly/twCMQy

Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes...

Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.” “Portlandia,” which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire. It’s about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label. Many of its characters...

Red Panda Pop-In of the Day

Red Panda Pop-In of the Day: Slide over, Napping Seal Pup — there’s a new adorable home invader in town. A family from suburban Leshan in China’s Sichuan Province was enjoying a meal outdoors, when it suddenly spotted a red panda climbing down a nearby slope. “We approached it slowly, leaving the door of our house open, and then the red panda suddenly rushed inside,” the homeowner told local...

b3ta_links: What parents think dubstep sounds...

b3ta_links: What parents think dubstep sounds like: Not a shabby post i hope..watch your volume. http://t.co/j49BQwdo from Twitter / b3ta_links http://bit.ly/tDzED7

Winter reads: A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin |... →

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It’s Sundog! [thanks sprixels!] Tagged: doggeh, Sundog from The Daily What http://chzb.gr/uJKWwp

Jane & Serge. from the impossible cool. http://bit.ly/w2BHs2

Debbie Harry from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/vqUNSv

Elvis Presley from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/rKLPl0

Kate Moss photographed by Arthur Elgort for Vogue...

Kate Moss photographed by Arthur Elgort for Vogue Italia, October 1992 from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/u25jA7

Look At This Puppy-Eyed Dog of the Day

Look At This Puppy-Eyed Dog of the Day: Doggeh sez, “I had a working leg, but I broked it.” [reddit.] Tagged: doggeh, Look At This Dog from The Daily What http://chzb.gr/rEdyW2

Part 2 of the Timeline of Leftist Social and...

Situationist grafitti, Menton, Occitania, 2006 (the 1968 slogan “It is forbidden to forbid”, with missing apostrophe). “In its early years, the art of the Situationist International advocates the use of any medium not as art, but to reproduce a reality that doesn’t participate in capitalism.” Quoted from G. Roger Denson in Part 2 of the Timeline of Leftist Social and Political Art...

Iain Sinclair Podcast!

We’ve been promising this for a long time, and now at last we are beginning to make available online recordings of the wonderful talks we’ve put on over the last few months. This means that those of you who live abroad, missed the talk or can’t get to London can now benefit. Let’s start here: […] from The Idler http://bit.ly/s7827P

Christmas family portrait of the weekend.

(click image, via) Red turtlenecks for everyone. Floating cat head is floating. Previously in creepy family portraits: • kinda nsfw. • the creepiest ever. from copyranter http://bit.ly/vcAXlA

Comic Books #34: Josie & the Pussycats in A...

If you haven’t seen the movie (or read the book, heaven forbid), this will make no sense whatsoever. My only wish is that I had more time to waste spend and see the story to completion. Que sera, sera. Enjoy what little I had time for. from Retrospace http://bit.ly/rxGQVa

November 2011

This accidental optical illusion will blow your...

(Click photo, via) You see it. You don’t see it. YOU SEE IT. YOU DON’T SEE IT. AHHHHHHHHHH! Related: the best optical illusion ad ever, for a Hemp Store. from copyranter http://bit.ly/t2gti5

Music industry declares victory over home taping

After 30 years of bitter struggle, music industry representatives today claimed victory for their campaign ‘Home taping is killing music - and it’s illegal’. No C90 tapes at all have been sold at WH Smiths this year from NewsBiscuit http://bit.ly/szEXdD

Benetton wants the world to UNHATE

A new campaign from Benetton recalls the brand’s controversial heyday. A series of posters features world leaders with lips locked to launch the UNHATE project Benetton, says the accompanying press material, is inviting “the leaders and citizens of the world to combat the ‘culture of hatred’”. The UNHATE campaign is the first initiative from a new Benetton...

ARE YOU OLDER THAN JESUS? No. ARE YOU OLDER...

ARE YOU OLDER THAN JESUS? No. ARE YOU OLDER THAN PLASTIC? Yes. DID YOU INVENT PLASTIC? No. WILL YOU THROW THE RINGS FROM PLASTIC SODA BOTTLES AT ME SO I CAN PLAY WITH THEM? Yes. I LOVE YOU. from ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS http://bit.ly/usVuV7

PSA of the Day: Samuel L. Jackson has had it with your motherf*ckin’ blame on your motherf*ckin’ mother in this appropriately intense anti-gun-violence PSA. [thd.] Tagged: PSA, samuel l. jackson, Say Blame Again from The Daily What http://chzb.gr/uLKApR

HORACE, TODAY I WISH TO VIEW THE WEST GARDENS. IT...

HORACE, TODAY I WISH TO VIEW THE WEST GARDENS. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE RAINS WILL REMAIN AT BAY. YES, QUEEN MUFFINS. AS YOU COMMAND. THE WEST GARDENS IT IS. I ALSO WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF KIND SERVICE, HORACE. YOU ARE A MOST VALUABLE MEMBER OF MY RETINUE. I SERVE AT YOUR PLEASURE, MY QUEEN. YOU ARE A FAIR AND JUST RULER OF THESE FARMLANDS. BLESS YOU, HORACE. YOU MAY HAVE YOUR...

Cattache, A Great Way To Let Your Cat Out of the...

The stylish Cattaché is great way to let your cat out of the bag. via Megan Leet & Gills image via buddysfriend from Laughing Squid http://bit.ly/tcwwFb

The Manchester Review →

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from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/rGVxP6

Brooklyn Brewery Beer Soap

Beer Soap from Brooklyn Brewery is a line of beer-infused soaps sold in a 3-bar ‘flight’ which is “made using a different Brooklyn Brewery style: Lager, Brown Ale, and Black Chocolate Stout style beers”. Who knew beer made great soap? But it does. via Coudal from Laughing Squid http://bit.ly/vBlcTb

Audrey Hepburn from Suicide Blonde http://bit.ly/tRUpA5

Mark Steel: How to be a giant and still second... →

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Another example of why it's important to get a...

(click image, via reddit) Another example. posted on copyranter: http://bit.ly/u0s8DU

Hardy. posted on the impossible cool.: http://bit.ly/uaQGeQ