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Archive for June, 2007

Death of the Internet?

This seriously scares the hell out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5RQrxkGgCM
 
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Save The Internet

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Warming up Paris

Naturally 7 singing live on a Paris metro train. Watch the Parisian guy who insists on continuing with his crossword throughout most of the band’s performance (he wasn’t fooling me).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-KagTq7qY

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Pure Genius

   I was having a quick look at the Estimated IQ’s of some of the Greatest Geniuses (as one does on a Sunday night, whilst waiting for the latest instalment of Big Brother 8) and became pretty fascinated by the story of (possibly) the most intelligent person who has ever lived: William James Sidis.
With an estimated [...]

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   So the mayor of Delcambre in Louisiana is about to sign a law making it a criminal offence to wear baggy trousers which expose the wearers undergarments. When I first heard about that, I thought it had to be some sort of a joke – criminalising people because of a fashion choice. In the [...]

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I’ve got a bit of a fascination with old photographs – not just family photographs which have some direct meaning to me but ‘lost’ photographs of anonymous strangers. I’m not much interested in formal portraits (though I make an exception with Disfarmer, who was a pretty unusual professional photographer) and prefer amateur snapshots and photo [...]

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Soul Food

What do you think of my new ‘header’ image? Pretty spooky but I like the picture — I took it in my garden last night, on the spur of the moment, just as the light was beginning to die. Doesn’t go with this blog, though, so I’ll have to change it at some point. I [...]

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