Thursday, March 31, 2011

Downtime


Not so well at the moment, posting is liable to be light for the foreseeable future.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Caspar Babypants: Free Like a Bird

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Cheep, cheep!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Dark Spring


The New Yorker magazine's latest cover; timely and apposite, it's by Christoph Niemann.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Deolinda: Parva que sou!

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

How dumb am I? Portuguese fado for contemporary times. . .


English subtitles included
Update: click on arrow to right of '360p' then click on 'cc'

Friday, March 18, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945


by Isao Hashimoto
(Things start slowly, but, unfortunately, soon speed up)

Thanks, Lincoln!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan earthquake 2011: online donations

So much damage. So much destruction. So much loss. So much grief. So many tears.


Donate to Hong Kong Red Cross: Japan earthquake 2011

Elsewhere: google crisis response

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Benga & Coki: Night

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Some South London dubstep/grime . . .



Thanks to smogsblog.wordpress.com for pointing out the earlier and now deleted weekend post was a duplicate! D'uh!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ezra Pound: Selected Poems and Translations (1908-69)

In A Station Of The Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Ezra Pound, writing in the devil’s metres: NewStatesman

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Women hold up half the sky

International Women's Day (8 March 2011). . .

Monday, March 07, 2011

Saturday, March 05, 2011

John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett: Class

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Tales from the motherland. . .

Friday, March 04, 2011

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Tuesday, March 01, 2011