This is my main blog - it's been going since 2004. It was originally my personal diary but has expanded to something more sophisticated, thanks to Blogger. Most articles on this site are unfinished and remain so. I am trying very very hard to change this! I have a sidebar on the right - please scroll down - full great web sites, articles, podcasts, etc. The tone of this blog is mostly unfocussed, and long may it remain so...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Excrement From My Camera
Managed to cycle to work and back every day except one morning, giving me 95% - the best I've managed since before I was seriously ill at the end of last year.
Dunwich Dynamo - Bring it On!!
I've had a good week on the net - with the BT connection really doing it's job - full on Twitter and full on blog. Took to trying to find a backlog of youtube footage, mainly old music and live performances - I've got two years worth to catch up on, and have subscribed to all my fave podcasts. Now it's mainly a diet of news, science and discussion, plus film and music and quite a lot of comedy.
This week I mainly watched Sopranos (final season), Buffy (series 6), Weeds (series 2), Phenomena by Argento, and some Glasto footage - Pulp 1995 & Morrissey 2011.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Johann Hari: How to survive the age of distraction - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Hack charge teenager has Asperger's | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Friday, June 24, 2011
Don't believe the spin on thorium being a ‘greener’ nuclear option - News - The Ecologist
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports
Monday, June 20, 2011
The most unequal place in Britain' - The people of Tower Hamlets speak out
It's a good little film this. We all knew that once the cuts started to bite, the government would start to become increasingly unpopular. Today, in the Guardian
World's oceans in
'shocking' decline
"As we considered the cumulative effect of what humankind does to the oceans, the implications became far worse than we had individually realised.
"We've sat in one forum and spoken to each other about what we're seeing, and we've ended up with a picture showing that almost right across the board we're seeing changes that are happening faster than we'd thought, or in ways that we didn't expect to see for hundreds of years."
These "accelerated" changes include melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, sea level rise, and release of methane trapped in the sea bed.
"What we're seeing at the moment is unprecedented in the fossil record - the environmental changes are much more rapid," Professor Rogers told BBC News.
"We've still got most of the world's biodiversity, but the actual rate of extinction is much higher [than in past events] - and what we face is certainly a globally significant extinction event."
This is really bad news which adds to all the other really bad news we've been seeing on the environment generally. While we're dicking around putting in a solar panel here, and a windmill there, we are continuing to deforest, acidify the seas, melt the ice caps and generally fucking up the environment. All the time it seems most people are absolutely blind to this reality, and the abuse being meted out to environmentalists is unprecedented.
By Dose Is All Swollen Ub
[Follow Up - Tomlinson Faces Trial At Old Bailey ] <- watch this space
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Robert Fisk
Libya's civilian casualties have silenced Sarkozy's crusade | Nabila Ramdani
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Exellent Greenwich Blog
With Time On My Hands...
And the birds and the bees, and horses, especially horses, of Thamesmead
This fox was on my neighbour's garage for ages while I filmed, when the neighbour came out with great lumps of chicken and fed it:
Fallujah Revisited
Previous bloggings on Fallujah
Dreamland
Morrissey Review
Morrissey – review | Music | The Guardian
Friday, June 17, 2011
A Cycle Ride in Thamesmead and Thames Side
Thursday, June 16, 2011
BT Infinity
Cyclists using Olympic lanes risk £200 fine | News
Many key roads, such as the A40, Victoria Embankment and Marylebone Road, have been included in a 108-mile, £25 million Olympic Route Network.
Many pedestrian crossings will be shut, right-turns banned, traffic lights phased and bus lanes suspended on the network. Almost half of the roads will have their outside lanes designated "Games lanes", designed to shuttle 82,000 athletes, officials and media staff between venues."
Seems like for a few weeks the tube will be too crowded to use and the roads too dangerous to cycle on. It occurs to me though that this might be a good chance to really fuck the traffic up big time, after all, if we have to get out there with the big traffic, and if we get fined for giving way, then what option do we have but to keep pedalling away at 12 mph (on average) with all the buses, lorries, and taxis stuck behind us.
Should we have an anti olympics critical mass? Should we head out to Stratford to protest the gagging order in force around that part of London?
It could be fun.