World-O-Crap (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma tonight: either my pain meds are making me queasy, or it’s this column by RenewAmerica rookie Russ J. Alan (Some fear no backlash against Muslims). Since I’ve already ingested the meds, and I can’t seem to stop reading Mr. Alan, there’s no way to scientifically determine [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Attack of the Hyperdimensional Juggernaut-Men A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra dimension".… What is your recession sales strategy?
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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Edward Michael George (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(Sorry to those of you who are sick of the sight of Katie Price's jugs --actually, cisterns is maybe the better word. I am too. In fact I feel positively alienated by them, and haven't visited EMG for days as a consequence. Moving on then ...) Damian Thompson takes issue with the Edenbridge Bonfire 's choice for this year's celebrity effigy--Katie Price, coincidentally enough--suggesting that there...
The BritcherBlog 2.0 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Just what is it about fast food? Difficult as it maybe to believe if casting more than a cursory glance in my blancmange of a body's direction, but I eat very little of it. Maybe once a month tops. Yet today, for example, reminds me of why I hate it so. Without wishing to bore for Britain on the reason, we had fish and chips tonight. It smelt great...looked good...cost a ruddy fortune...and the first...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
John Lydon of Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited spoke to The Guardian about some of his favorite records. Among them are albums from The Kinks, Roxy Music, The Raincoats , Can, Kate Bush and Talvin Singh. He also takes a moment to share more of his thoughts on Green Day saying: The blancmange that is Green Day, where you have a Johnny Rotten first verse, a Billy Idol chorus and a Sham 69 second...
GRUMPY'S DAILY GRUMP (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
It’s not often that I find myself at the wheel of a truck on a Saturday, as the company I work for has a very enlightened policy towards weekend working – the gates shut on Friday night and re-open Monday morning (except when a fly lands on the perimeter fence and sets off the whole alarm system, but I live too far away for that to concern me). Today, however, was different – I was...
The Constant Gardener (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Back to the grindstone: you may remember I had a two-inch layer of MOT on the path which once I'd got the capricious and frankly malicious whacker plate under some semblance of control I managed to compress to a pretty good solid layer.Step 5: start mixing your mortar. I went for a 1:4 mix of cement to sand which seemed to work pretty well. You slosh a bit of water in and then squirt some washing
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus , did you know that the entire Python collection is now available through the iTunes store? So why not download some content to keep you smiling as the nights draw in? Just click on the link contained in the widget below for parrot, fish, blancmange and spam-related madness:
News from Buttercup Miniatures (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Although not so popular today jelly and blancmange have been made for many years. Today jellies are more often associated with children’s parties and the nursery rather than their rather grand beginnings. Blancmange or ‘frummery’ had much more humble origins (see http://www.historicfood.com/Jellies.htm)and is more like a set custard today. As the preparation of jellies was [...]
Animation Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I’m a bit wary of presenting explanations of films I don’t understand. "Sanitkasan is a stridently contemporary story about the self-destroying mechanical character and pathological voraciousness not only of cyber civilisation but of our society in general. It transgresses extensively the established forms and is an entrance to the true world of animation ” (Petr Zvonicek) As...
Capitalists@Work (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The events of Friday 16 October illustrate vividly just what a gelatinous, quivering puddle of blancmange the government has become: Item : they throw £ 60 million to the luvvies. (" without the prime minister's backing, this wouldn't have happened ”, gushed Ben Bradshaw ) Item : they do not vote on the Goldstone Report in the UN, but are at pains to have us know this was not anything...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
"It's worth bringing a head torch," I was told, "and a hat to sleep in, especially if you feel the cold." As I approached my shelter for the night – a dome of snow rising like a blancmange on a large white plate – this ominous warning came back to haunt me. Sleeping in an igloo had seemed such a good idea at the time: a way of pushing the boundaries, doing something...
Red Cook (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on about durian it’s the odor. Not only is the odor strong and distinct, it permeates through layers of packaging and lingers interminably. Airlines and public transport authorities in Asia ban durian in the aircrafts, subway trains and buses. Hotels in the region similarly prohibit it in their rooms. To foreigners not familiar with this fruit...
17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The latest issue of The Wire arrived today. Maybe it was the appearance of Julian Cope on the front - but my brain suddenly started obsessing about the Roland 303, that legendary squelchy synth, responsible for some of the best bass ever that wasn’t played on a, well, bass. The Wire does some wonderful primers that [...]
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prit | 05/29/2009
Kavya Shivashankar won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after spelling her final word A spelling bee is a competition where contestants (children), are asked to spell English words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and is usually perceived to be a solely English language practice. Today, National Spelling Bee competitions for English are held in the United States, United
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