October 2010
18 posts
for all the ladies out there needing an idea for a... →
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charlie brooker is done with screen wipe →
i kinda like seeing people who you once enjoyed for their anger move past that.
greater manchester police incidents twitter feeds →
feed 1, feed 2.
a few read in passing:
call 2045 youths setting fire to roundabout in park in Middleton
call 2042 possible road rage incident. Men fighting in Whitefield
call 2025 999 call from mobile. No request for police. 19th call from this number
and others are setting up parody accounts.
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douglas coupland glossary of new terms for a... →
anyone familiar with douglas coupland’s generation x will have enjoyed his glossary of modern terms that accompanied the narrative.
in 2010 coupland has offered some new terms to add to the glossary.
Narrative Drive
The belief that a life without a story is a life not worth living - quite common, and ironically accompanied by the fact that most people cannot ascribe a story to their...
animal abuse in british abattoirs →
graphic and awful. government are calling for CCTV to be installed in 370 slaughterhouses.
via the guardian.
weezer 'offered' $10m to split up →
this is not from the onion.
A group of frustrated music fans want Weezer to break up, and they’re willing to pay them. Claiming the band has never improved on their 1996 album Pinkerton, the organisers of a new campaign hope to raise $10m to convince Weezer to pack it in and stop “disappointing” fans. “This is an abusive relationship,” the project’s creator...
ie6 effects →
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scale of the universe →
this was good too.
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