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I've been having fun the last year or so making music but have more or less exhausted the pleasures of making a track, getting it sounding just right, putting it on Soundcloud and having one or two of my mates (and sometimes my mum) tell me it's kind of cool. What I want to be able to do is...

OK, so this is pretty weird. Presumably as a result of the squally weather and severe downpour this afternoon, the basil plant we'd left in our little back yard on a table had become bereft of its pot. The pot was eventually found several feet away. HOWEVER, the basil plant was still standing...

Anyone fancy seeing The Young Gods in Islington (O2 Academy) on the 15th next month? Should be a decent show... http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/YDH1512?brand=o2academyislington&camefrom=AMG_ISLINGTON_YOUNGGODS

Yep, fraid so. I always thought the old bugger was too cynical to die, but there you go. We Shall Not See His Like Again.

This thread is all about people doing mental things for no explicable reason. Cases in point: Elderly couple in Winchester baffled by delivery of 18th-century portrait of 'ugly woman' Yuri Geller (amongst others) puzzled by appearance of phone box on side of bridge in Thames village...

For various reasons we haven't made any firm plans to go away yet this year, but milady and I have got the second week of September off work and are thinking about a last-minute trip to the Baltic. Thing is, beyond the fact that the cities there are meant to be very beautiful and historic...

This one's for Craner. So which couldn't you go without: grain or grape? Let's have at it!

OK, so that's a bit harsh. Of course some old people are great. But. Some of the worst instances of rudeness, assumed privilege, willfully infantile selfishness and general ASB I've ever encountered have come from the superannuated, so why is it that 'everyone' (the popular press, received...

So is this, like, a known thing? Picking up from some of the chat about Muslimgauze vs. Vatican Shadow on the BEB thread... Aww Nein posted this, which I hadn't heard before but which is quite cool I guess: And, um, this... :D Any more worthwhile examples? And is there anything...

Pretty neat... from http://englishrussia.com/2008/10/30/the-soviet-mayan-playing-cards/ Possibly related to the fact that the man who first deciphered Mayan writing was a Russian, Yuri Knorozov, whom you'd be forgiven for mistaking for the Evillest Man In The World:

http://pitchfork.com/news/48689-andrew-wk-named-cultural-ambassador-to-the-middle-east-by-us-department-of-state/ What the actual fuck? Seems legit, they're covering it on HuffPo. Maybe he will really bring about world peace a la Bill And Ted, who knows? <iframe width="640" height="360"...

Now I've lured you in with my intentionally provocative thread title... I went to Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago and had a look around a very large, nicely appointed museum of modern art (the Stedelijk, if anyone knows it). Every few months I go somewhere like this in the vague belief or hope...

Another one bits the (moon)dust: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098

U heard it here 1st (or not, as the case may be) OK, 'whups' is a bit strong - 52% vs 48% in the second round - but still.

Right, well this is the fruits of an idea I've been playing with for a while now - a few of you have heard the first draft - and here it is. My first real attempt at anything like this so just bear that in mind! Hopefully it will appeal to fans of ambient weirdness, sinister pop, dub(step)...

Don't really have a great deal to say about this except the painfully obvious point that it's just incredibly depressing. Despite Sarko's statement that Merah "represented nothing and nobody", it's obvious the far Right are going to make capital out of this. But... ...even when presented...

There, I said it. But you were all thinking it anyway.

So who's heard of this? It could almost have been created specifically to puzzle and delight Wikipedia addicts six hundred years after it was written. Maybe it was. Anyway, for those who don't know it's a largeish manuscript created somewhere in Europe in the 15th century (both the vellum and...