Despite the injection of cowbell-nitro that The Mooney Suzuki gave me, I think that "Mr. Blue Sky" might be my ideal starting track for keepin' it steady.
Flocking algorithms
A bit like those “If Cavemen had machineguns” comics
this is an interesting thought:
"In the absence of weblogs and flickr tags and the whole electronic buzz that surrounds major events in the modern age, the Dome quietly foundered in a swamp of bad publicity, with no grass roots campaign or web presence to speak of, no online previews by insiders, no weblog accounts of family days out, no flickr pools of the shows or pavilions. We reckon the Festival of Britain has a stronger online presence than the Millennium Experience, which is danger of slipping into digital oblivion. Just as 'you're nobody in America unless you're on television', its absence from the web has effectively wiped the Dome from the collective memory."
I never went to the Dome… I had to stay at work or was traveling when the office visited
I love the adbusted oxford circus
I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't the ads back after the maintenance is done.
I never thought I would have said that a tube station felt like the calmest place in the city, but mentally, it has an enormous calming effect to not be surrounded by messages.
I wonder if the "Journal of the Mental Environment" has documented the place???
I guess, being cynical, the first brand to pay for keeping the place brand free would get loads of great advertising/brand value (ahem, cough…) from doing so…
Oh my.
Coffee fool!
Much as I complain about it, I think I'd miss eating in canteens in Finland, just for moments like this.
Meet the G who lactose-free'd me!
Song of the year, so far, hands-down: ‘Standing in the Way of Control’ by (The) Gossip
Bought it, and put it into heavy-rotation a couple of months ago, but it came on the radio on the way into the city this morning, and still sounds poundingly-good.
The soundtrack to the gritty, urban, soulful, sexually-free, action-packed, anti-establishment, Grant-Morrison-scripted, teenage-freedom, Michael Bay summer blockbuster that was never made.
Yet.
Fantastic.
But is it Gossip?
Or The Gossip?
QotD: Wise Words
What's one of your favorite quotes?
Submitted by Georgie-boy.
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas" – Linus Pauling.
“We are here on Earth to fart around”
Doc Searls channels Vonnegut on conferences and workshops:
I've been amazed lately at the growing difference between conferences and workshops. Conferences are like television: everybody in the "audience" faces speakers and panels that comprise the conference's "program". In workshops, everybody participates. They get together in rooms and around tables and talk about common interests with purposes in mind. Progress usually happens. Stuff moves forward. It's amazing how well this works.
You have to do workshops in person. Kurt Vonnegut writes,
Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals.
How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
Richard James/Turntable Cafe: A Noson Llawen
We just came back from a performance by Richard James and supporting band at the Purcell Rooms, organised by St. Etienne as part of their "Turntable cafe" events.
It was a special Welsh-themed event, with screenings of vintage Welsh pop TV show "Disc-A-Dawn" preceding the ex-Gorky's Zygotic Mynci member's show.
In a word it was lovely, especially for someone extremely jetlagged. It would be kindest to say that the lyrics were undemanding – but his guitar and banjo playing more than made up for that.
I walked out with the album, and also the Welsh Rare Beat compilation compiled by Gruff Rhys, Andy Votel et al.
Also walked out with a conviction to get back to my schoolboy standard of Welsh-speaking before next St. David's Day…
Many thanks to Russell for turning me on to the event. Cracking stuff.
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