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Orwell in Tribune: As I Please and Other Writings 1943-7 The Gift: David Flusfeder The Bandini Quartet: John Fante The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change:Robert Hughes (not really started on this one yet, but the Beeb aired one of the episodes of the TV series with the same title on...

No. I just like the concept, the clothes are almost too British though. They remind me of that bloke (Guy Hills) cycling on his old-school bike wearing 30s style clothes on "British Style Genius" (a silly title for what was en excellent series). I could not find the cycling bit, but his approach...

old-town.co.uk: "using British cottons, woollens and linens wherever possible". I guess this is where Billy Childish gets his clothes

aha. that is a look I sported back in the 80s. Original B&L Wayfarers (this is before they started printing Ray-Ban on the outside). Got the original glass taken out and had them changed for my prescription. Everyone thoughts I was nuts back then as well, so welcome to the geek squad. Also -...

Haven't read the Deakin mentioned yet, but went through his "Waterlog - A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain" a few years ago and "Haunts of the Black Masseur - The Swimmer as Hero" by Charles Sprawson. Both great if you like a bit of lidos, cultural history, Byron and swimming. Think I...

Dilbert author finding and then tracing his spasmodic dysphonia (no I had no idea what it was until I read the piece) using Google and Google News alerts, My cure came via the internet. About a year ago I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything...

From the Beeb, a few more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7644238.stm

True that as they might say. Lester comes across as a totally non-corrupt and straight as a plank maverick detective in the previous series. That he joins McNulty's slapstick schemes is totally out of character and it annoys the hell out of me. I just don't believe in it. And what made The Wire...

got this yesterday. A nice little athmospheric app (for Apple iPhone/Touch). The guy on the video is using his fingers too much, it's better just to give the screen just a few taps or it gets too "non-ambient". <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param...

No mouse gestures, no good - so I have uninstalled it (Opera has had them built in since 2001 and there are plugins for Firefox). Once you have used mouse gestures there's no way back.

http://www.thegreatestmusiccollection.com/ We are not worthy.

let me put in a word for the Bernard Szajner/Zed records "Visions of Dune" and "Some Deaths Take Forever". Both has been re-issued on CD and there's a couple of tracks on youtube (a real one and the track "Welcome (To Death Row)" ripped with some documentary footage on top).

I've followed Japan and Sylvian since ca 1980 (I used to play Polaroids/Quiet Life to death over the speakers in the record shop I was working in at the time). And I am probably the only one on here who found Blemish a disappointment. I just found "Blemish" too bleak and too foggy when it...

I haven't been a gamer since my teens, but I picked up Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare on Friday (for the PS3). Some of the levels are simply awesome (sniping, Tsjernobyl, rescuing your injured commander by carrying him on your back, shooting from a gunship chopper, night goggles etc). This is...

or that the Cult Movies books by Danny Peary cornered the pre-everyones-got-net access area? Ie when (most) cult movies still where something you really had to make an effort to see and get hold of. These days Film Threat is a website, John Waters is on the BBC's culture show as everyones...

or Zaha Hadid's concept car as seen in the London Design Museum a few months ago.

"the greatest" is not that bad. the girl can sing, there's some good songs on there, nice production etc. it might not belong on a 1000 albums list and what have you, but this list is pretty much like that japanese list (where are the solo albums albums from the YMO members? why is not...

Droid has informed me that my Blogariddims 31 is out (aka "It's so different here vol 1"). Tracklisting: [00:06-03:56] Kakonita (Deathprod Mix) - Nils Petter Molvær (2001) [00:33-04:44] Croydon Streetnoise (phonography, soundtransit.nl) [00:39-08:19] part 4 of interview with Stockhausen...

anyone got some Video podcasts to recommend for the commute, not over 40 minutes and not too hardcore (I am going to watch this in morning ...). The only ones I subscribe to at the moment are the Smartphone Show and TED talks podcasts (ted.com, but available through iTunes) and these have been...

I asked some med student friends about this when I studied (ages ago) and they basically said that the body is very good at picking up what it does need and getting rid of what it does not need and there's no harm in taking vitamin pills. Now they might have been indoctrinated and what have...