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Monthly Archives: April 2004
Funky Security for Junior Citizens
Aparantly the both the German Nazi party and Stalin’s Communist party used to encourage children to become informants. Kids were encouraged to report anything suspicious looking to the authorities, who would send men with sharp sticks and guns to investigate. … Continue reading
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Linux and the iRiver iHP-140
I recently bought an iRiver iHP-140 pocket jukebox. It’s much like an Apple iPod except that it has both digital and line inputs and outputs, a built in microphone, FM reciever and can play Ogg Vorbis files. The 40Gb version … Continue reading
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Hot Smoke and Sassafrass
All this talk of sassafrass, but nobody mentioned this amazing video (Hot Smoke and Sassafrass by ‘The Bubble Puppy’), a feature of perhaps the most demented site on the Internet: paperrad. There is no end of good suff on this … Continue reading
Sarsparilla
Last night I had a dream in which I was helping Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer run their cafe/restaurant. Unpaid, I might add. One of the drinks we were trying to sell was Sarsparilla. This stuck in my mind upon … Continue reading
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Long filenames in Netatalk with OSX
This evening I re-encountered a problem I came across a while back. It all happened when I was trying to get some comprehensively-named choons by Liberation Jumpsuit from my Gentoo box onto my Powerbook via Netatalk. Despite having 10 tracks … Continue reading
Mysterious Cities of Gold binge
Last week I downloaded a bit-torrent of the complete series of ‘Mysterious Cities of Gold‘, an epic Japanise / French animation series from the 1980s. As a child, I allways regretted that when I was a child and this series … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday to me!
Approximately 29 years ago, a child was born, that one day grew up to be me. As a celebration of this coincidence, I have been showered with gifts aplenty (despite my insistance that 29 years old is not special because … Continue reading
The Exciting Hellebore Shew
The Hellebore Shew was a series of approximately thirty shows broadcast on London’s Resonance FM. This programme features original poems and music composed by Dan Wilson. I have built an incredibly detailed archive including downloads in both MP3 and Ogg … Continue reading
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The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese, the 1978 mercenaries-rescue-African-leader action-adventure film starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and more, has come out on DVD. It has received glowing reviews, the first and glowingest of which is by my good friend Olly Smith.
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Transport
To mark the successful flight of the X-43a, NASA’s latest jet, the BBC are running an online vote on the subject. Apparently, “hundreds of people sent in their own ideas for how we should all be getting around in years … Continue reading
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