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Far be it for me to add to the exponentially growing hysteria surrounding this current swine flu outbreak - really, I just wanted to make a picture of a pig wearing a mask. So I did
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Far be it for me to add to the exponentially growing hysteria surrounding this current swine flu outbreak - really, I just wanted to make a picture of a pig wearing a mask. So I did
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This type of thing would probably be sufficiently covered in a simple tweet but TweetDeck just spazzed out on me so I thought I’d take it back to the old school and briefly blog about…

So, a while ago, before people like Benni Benassi and Eric Prydz started relying on tits, sweat and slow motion tits and sweat in their promotional material, dance music videos used…

Last night, BBC Radio 1 & 1xtra broadcast 5 hours of hip-hop as part of their celebration of ‘30 years of hip hop’. It was alright.
Most of the quality came from an hour long mix…
^ That is a blue whale’s eye, at actual size. Courtesy of the WDCS.
They’ve made this piece of flash that lets you float around the whale’s ample body - life sized. It’s huge but…

I stumbled onto these videos by Keith Loutit sometime last year and thought I’d blogged about them back then. But apparently not. I should’ve done though, because they’re great. Then I saw…

A little, previously unknown and quiet Buckinghamshire village by the name of Broughton has hit the news for ’standing up’ to Google in the latest example of hysteria surrounding their…

(photo from here)
* or, most of the ones that end up on TV are
Firstly; protests should happen. Protests can be good. Get out there and get heard. etc etc etc. But do it properly.
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Saw this today and marveled at the genius of it for a while. Thought I’d share.
It’s basically a collection of songs that have been produced from audio snippets off of YouTube - and the…
In case you missed it, for about a week at the start of the month, England went through a ‘big freeze’ where we had some snow (and sleet and ice. And sludge). Schools closed, offices were…