Moonshot and beyond (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
You see I'm living in a movie/but it just doesn't move me beedumbedum Things that scare me . Neko Case. Boredom . Buzzcocks The rich rule us. Minuit Utopia . Goldfrappe Reformation . The Fall Lost highway . Hank Williams Black Country Rock . Bowie To you . I am Kloot with Guy Harvey Remake/remodel . Roxy Music Train from Kansas city . Neko Case. Paul Chambers sextet 1956 . Future of the future . Deep...
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword P (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Constructor: Joe Krozel Relative difficulty: Medium-Challenging THEME: none Word of the Day: AHMAD Jamal (25D: Jamal of jazz) — Jamal was one of Miles Davis 's favorite pianists and was a key influence on the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet" (featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums). Davis had long admired...
Learning with 'e's (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
The World Wide Web may have connected many people together and made the world a smaller place in the short time it has existed, but it also has the potential to cause division and social upheaval. The web wars are hotting up. At a macro level, we have a nation state taking on one of the giants of the Internet. In the red corner, the People's Republic of China, and in the multicoloured corner, Google....
Independence Cymru (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Man Who Twittered He’d Blow Up Doncaster Airport Arrested For Thought Crime PAUL Chambers has been arrested at Doncaster airport on terrorism charges for “joking” on Twitter that he would blow the place “sky high” if his flight was delayed. Man Cleared Of Girls Aloud Thought Crime On January 6, Mr Chambers makes his aside. He plans to travel to Ireland on January 15. and...
Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Section: Haven’t caught all of the Gadgetell news this week? Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles! Asus DR-570 ebook reader to come sporting an OLED display and 122 hours of battery life ” Plenty of people were expecting Asus to show off some kind of ebook reader during CES, but unfortunately those people went away disappointed—but as of now there…”...
Cool toys and Gadgets (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Section: Haven’t caught all of the Gadgetell news this week? Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles! Asus DR-570 ebook reader to come sporting an OLED display and 122 hours of battery life ” Plenty of people were expecting Asus to show off some kind of ebook reader during CES, but unfortunately those people went away disappointed—but as of now there…”...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Briton Paul Chambers says he was only venting when he wrote on Twitter that he might blow an airport "sky-high." He's the first person arrested in Britain for a tweet, and he's banned for life from his local airport.
Dwell On It (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Earlier this month Paul Chambers was arrested, banned from Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster and suspended from his job. Why? He jokingly twittered a bomb threat. Has the world gone mad? Apparently some of it has. [...]
Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
The latest "House of Comments" podcast with myself and Stuart Sharpe of the Sharpe's Opinion political blog is now live. The website for the podcasts is here (cast your eyes in awe at the shiny new layout!) and the tenth episode which we recorded on Wednesday 20th Jan is available to download via this page here (raw mp3 file here if you prefer). You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
What is the most humourless environment in the entire world right now? We'd say it's a toss-up between Iain Lee's living room on a Wednesday evening and any airport terminal across the globe, with the latter this week seeing a stunning case of extreme job-doing by UK airport security staff. Silly man Paul Chambers made a joke on Twitter saying he would "blow up" Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport...
asap news (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
Earlier in the month, a British national was arrested after jokingly placing a statement on twitter, and has since been banned from a local airport. The UK’s The Independent reported that Paul Chambers, 26, wrote on his Twitter that he would blow up the airport if he could not fly out in a week’s time. The [...]
The Gospel According To Rhys (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
photo credit: danhodgett One story doing the rounds on Twitter & various other social networks is the story of Paul Chambers, 26, who a couple of weeks ago during the big freeze tweeted the following:- “Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise [...]
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
A British man has recently found out the hard way that threatening to blow up an airport on Twitter can land you in trouble. Paul Chambers was planning to travel to Ireland on January 15th, however upon hearing that his airport was closed he wrote this on his Twitter, “Robin Hood airport is closed,” and added [...]
TEFL and travels in China (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
An annoying rule of modern life is that you don’t make jokes about bombs. Ever. It’s just not worth the hours you’ll spend explaining yourself to some twitchy official, no matter how big the laugh you might get. Just as you would bite back the urge to say ‘How on earth would I know?’ when you’re asked whether anyone could have interfered with your bags without your...
200 Weeks (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
I expect there are lots of people cursing the recent snow. none more so that Paul Chambers who got himself arrested as an indirect consequence of the recent weather-related chaos in the UK. He was due to take a flight from Robin Hood Airport to Ireland when he found out there was a liklihood the flight [...]
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