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Spotted H+ Magazine the other day and it’s an interesting read.
Some fascinating articles, great design and production. If you don’t know much about transhumanism, get stuck in and read something.

Found this great documentary playing free on Google video. A great insight into faith and the lack of it, in a slightly less confrontational style than the brilliant but marmite-like Richard Dawkins.
Anyway, here is part one, I’ll add the others at some point this week.
Part I - Shadows of Doubt Jonathan Miller visits [...]

Had a a stinking cold for the last week so I’m in a generally grumpy mood…
Anyway, here’s the best short zombie film you’ve probably never seen:
I Love Sarah Jane
A different kind of Zombie Film. A short film selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Jimbo is 13. All he can think about is one girl, [...]

Neil Gaiman is currently touring to promote his new Children’s novel “The Graveyard Book” and at each venue is reading a different chapter.
The readings are being recorded and posted here so that the entire reading of the book can be watched for free.
I don’t know much about the book but I’ve never been dissapointed by [...]

Love this scuplture by Jean Shin.
Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims to physically manifest the ephemerality of music as well as one [...]

As it’s getting near to that time of year….
Check out Mark Gervais’ cool flash animations he projects onto his window. Damn good idea which now gives me ideas for several nasty pranks.

You can buy the DVDs but not here in the pleasant green land it seems

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

I love this but mostly from about 3 and a bit minutes in…made me laugh anyway.