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Distracted
Apr 18, ’08
5:06 PM
So, no real bloggy-news for quite a while. Sorry about that. Well, actually, no, I’m not.
It’s just coming to the end of the Easter vacation. Term restarts on Monday; I’m heading up to Durham on Sunday. My Finals start in just under three weeks’ time. I have three essays due by the end of next [...]
You know it’s gone to far when…
Apr 11, ’08
1:16 PM
…the Channel 4 News gets rickrolled:
Bizarre. See also this terribly earnest BBC News report…
Proust
Apr 8, ’08
4:13 PM
Don’t get me wrong: Marcel Proust was a genius. His works are terribly important in the context of literary history. But what the Dickens is he on about here..?
But, when nothing of an old past endures, after the death of the people, after the destruction of the things, alone, more frail but more [...]
Gah
Apr 2, ’08
10:44 PM
Having just got Mika out of my head, I’ve now got Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Nnow” stuck in there.
Cadbury’s: I love you, you know I do, but if you must continue to produce those awesome adverts with annoyingly addictive music, I may have to end it. Don’t push me.
Debate hijack
Apr 2, ’08
7:26 PM
Not entirely sure what’s going on here… but it’s worth a watch.
Sergey Brin, utterly bemused, in the background – quality.
Flying penguins
Apr 1, ’08
10:27 AM
When the BBC decides to do an April Fools joke, they don’t take any shortcuts. This new trail for the iPlayer, for example: Terry Jones discovers flying penguins in Antarctica.
Beautifully shot, seamless CGI, tongue firmly in cheek. A true successor to the legendary spaghetti trees. I love the confused toucan.
Even better, I think someone at [...]