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late night ambient: "For You To Sleep" by the Swedes Michael Winnerholt and Brandy Wahlén. This music was originally released on two cassette albums in 1985-86 but has been remastered from the original reel to reel tapes by Geir Jenssen [Biosphere]" available on Spotify or from Bandcamp...

Prepare yourself to be recognised at the next gig you go to http://noisey.vice.com/blog/beantowns-big-brother "Using software provided by IBM that utilized existing security cameras throughout the area, the city tracked the thousands of attendees at the concert and in the vicinity, and...

Finished "Parades End" and read a little bit about Ford Madox Ford. Turns out he co-wrote books (the first one a "quasi-science fiction" - http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jan/14/joseph-conrad-science-fiction) with Joseph Conrad early on in his career -...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 Freitas is a wealthy businessman who, since he was a child, has been unable to stop buying records. “I’ve gone to therapy for 40 years to try to explain...

Vak Magazine - Norwegian fly-fisher mag killing all fishing mags I see at WH Smith in terms of paper quality, design and photos (the writing is a bit so-so, it's full of flyfishing snobbery). Probably a losing proposition long term, but bless the publishers for doing something like this. I get...

Great book (series), good movie. Read the first dozen off the Robicheaux-novels (the running, forever recovering alcoholic detective) but then dropped out of the series around 10 years ago. Like JLB's meandering language and use of dreams/half-reality as part of the story. Haven't watched TD...

This. Finished it earlier this year (not that the book is long at 330 pages or so). Marvellous. Naipul, Ford Madox Ford - well I also read what might be classified as pulp. Between I read the first two Jack Reacher books by Lee Childs (just wanted to know how it was - "effective hero/anti-hero...

I think you are right. KOK is not an elegant writer. I've read his debut novel 'Out of this world' (in my native Norwegian) and it's not well written at all. And he bored the hell out of me, but there were passages in it which showed promise. I have hard time believing he can keep up that small...

Well it's soon over and I will miss it. Not Brazil - but James of Colombia, Costa Rica's fantastic defence (think what they could have done with a proper striker?), Neuer's sweeping, the gone-missing long-range free kicks (the Brazuca ball's fault? or maybe it was ->), the stupid boots and...

Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End". Got a hundred pages or so left, hope to finish that off within a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade's_End John N. Gray calls it the "the greatest 20th-century novel in English". The writing is in parts sublime. People who hate semicolons and commas will...

Thanks Sufi, Owncloud looks promising.

I would only go for one of the two big ones for external file backups (proper backups with incremental, system images are a different matter) - Google or Microsoft (or possibly Amazon if they were to offer this for individuals), Google's $2/month for 100GB extra seems one of the best offers out...

Heads-up: Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Jonathan Meades http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vrphc Sun 16 Feb on BBC4: "Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he sees a brave, bold...

The Caterham Bourne is missing (woud have been a stippled line to the Wandle at Waddon Ponds). No wonder as it rises from the deep only when the conditions are right, but buoy are they right now. http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Widespread-flooding-follow/story-20566809-detail/story.html...

saw this guy on the History Channel or Discovery the other day - historical weapons expert Mike Loades: http://www.mikeloades.co.uk/cms/index.php (time for a suitable names thread?)

Sir Geoffrey Nice - prosecutor -http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/geoffrey-nice "led the prosecution in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague"

There are two things that are known to work and approved by the FDA: Minoxidil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoxidil (mostly known as Regaine in UK) and Finasteride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finasteride yeah - getting a bit thin myself and I've just sort of accepted it (runs in the...

I guess a "standard" is not strictly speaking (?) a cover song, but boy are there many versions of "Gloomy Sunday" aka the "Hungarian Suicide Song"- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday I'm prone to The Associates version, but this 1959 version in Finnish is suitably down (even looks like...

The Door's "People are strange" - get's transformed to nocturnal listening by Stina Nordenstam (who sadly seems to have stopped recording, and only seems to turn up every four years or so to record vocals for David Sylvian's projects):

The Bob Ezrin produced version of Peter Gabriel's "Here comes the flood" is good, but overproduced and wouldn't have been out of place on an Alice Cooper record: and ended up on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album in a stripped down and much improved version (still sung by Gabriel)...