Archive for September, 2008
My favourite lounge electronica heads Thievery Corporation are back with a new album, Radio Retaliation.
Radio Retaliation
Nothing particularly innovative, just the usual effortless beats they seem to churn out every so often. If you want some polished, easy listening you can’t go far wrong with this.
Free to stream or download with adverts at we7.
September 30th, 2008 | Posted in Media, Music | No Comments
You might not have heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, they are a hateful bunch of people calling themselves a church who base most of their belief system around hating other people, primarily homosexual people it seems.
They picket the funerals of dead soldiers holding signs saying things like “God Hates Fags”, “Homosexuality = Death,” “Fags [...]
September 29th, 2008 | Posted in News, atheism | 1 Comment
Saved my PC from certain death and now back with a fresh OS install so I can once again resume my meaningless rambling.
Service will resume shortly.
September 28th, 2008 | Posted in Misc, News, Stuff | 1 Comment
“It’s PC gawnn maadd innit”…
Why do I keep hearing variations on that vacuous statement, even from people I thought were rather more rational.
Political correctness where it even exists is basically a way of stopping bigoted twunts (and those old people who don’t mean to…bless ‘em) from calling people names. It hasn’t “gone mad” and in [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Misc, Stuff, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
From The Times:
Hammaad Munshi, who was taking his GCSEs when he was arrested, was part of a cell of cyber-groomers which set out to brainwash the vulnerable to kill “non-believers”. He was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of making a record of material likely to be useful for terrorism over a guide to the manufacture [...]
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Misc, News, Stuff | 1 Comment
I’m currently enjoying this free album from Singer/Songwriter Sean Fournier. It has a really nice laid back feel to it which is suiting my mood tonight.
Go listen to it, download it, spread it around. He is clearly trying to get some recognition and publicity by giving his work away free and since it [...]
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in Media, Music | No Comments
Part of the governments plans to tackle obesity is a to concentrate more on cooking skills for school children, which will ultimately mean compulsory practical cooking lessons in secondary schools from 2011.
With this in mind they have released a free cookery book aimed at 11-year-olds, which can either be downloaded and printed or hard copies [...]
September 14th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Media | 1 Comment
I love this but mostly from about 3 and a bit minutes in…made me laugh anyway.
September 10th, 2008 | Posted in Media, Video, atheism | No Comments
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhhhh, my 360 hates me
September 8th, 2008 | Posted in Misc, Stuff | No Comments
Following on from his last giveaway, where he made his novel American Gods available to read for free online for a limited period comes this new promotion.
This time it’s the turn of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, which is the book I voted for last time as my choice of books to give someone who had never [...]
September 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | 1 Comment