dark looks

So the coalition has released its agreed priorities with admirable promptness. Glad I didn’t bother with the manifestos; now I can read two at once. Disclosure: I am a non-politico, but I have friends with strongly held views across the spectrum. And I also understand the difference between a stated intent and an executed policy, [...]

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OK, so I don’t do the whole body-adornment thing, mainly because in respect of me, it fires up the sense of the ridiculous well before my sense of the aesthetic. On the other hand I could be persuaded to do certain things to myself, including this absolutely stunning Dr. Teeth tattoo… via boingboing.net

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First there was Selleck Waterfall Sandwich, now there’s Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza — when shall we ever find a boundary to this celebrity-chocolatebox-foodstuff combo madness? It’s wild. (Thanks to boingboing for the tip off)

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I’m not generally speaking one to take up a dogmatic position on this sort of thing, but the more attention you pay to DRM and the way it doesn’t work, the more convinced I am that there are whole industries here set up around deliberately shooting oneself in the foot.

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What you always knew happened in the dealership

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A selection of phrases which have flitted through my mind but not made their way into actual verbal expression for one reason or another today:

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If Bluebeard was Lear, and Cordelia was Cinderella, or vice versa, and you added in some iron shoes, metamorphoses, the worship of stellar bodies, and then wrapped the whole thing up in a sort of para-parable about the nature of, and boundaries between, faith, fate, fidelity and trust (not to mention love, or perhaps better [...]

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Sunday morning discovered me slumped in front of the goggle box after a splendid bash, looking for something I could use to keep my eyes occupied for ten minutes. I found a curious factoid-laden thing about Dolly Parton, which as you would expect mentioned Dollywood. In my hypnagogic state, my mind wandered off after the [...]

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I’d quite like this image taken from my online banking thingy to be a lot more accurate than it really is… USians will call this a trillion, UKians who’ve been paying attention will have been calling this a trillion since 1974, and all you lovely Europeople will call it a billion. When I hit refresh, [...]

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In an exciting new piece of research reported today, but without any link to any substantive facts, journalists learned that men look at ladies. By drawing lessons from life (in the form of a series of photographs of shapely ladies), reporters discovered that attractive women sell papers, at least to their leering colleagues. Astoundingly, men [...]

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