Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Grope in the dark

 The Glothongis a very Spinneyhead piece of apparel. It's a thong, with.... bits....... that glow.

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100 Other Things

 Leading scientists have drawn up their own list of 100 things to do before you die.

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Picture This

 For those of you who are just starting out, to those of you who are experts, picture that.

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Survival of the fittest, the fattest and richest

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Bush Green Watch

 Tracking the Bush Administration's environmental misdeeds.

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Monday, November 29, 2004

Want One

 Honda VTEC powered (old style) Minis.
Performance from 1.6 litre engine in Mini Saloon:
175 bhp or 195 bhp Honda VTEC - 0 - 60 in 5.0 seconds - 135 mph


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Take My Breath Away


At last I have managed to export the Take My Breath Away video. I've created a .torrent file that you can access using BlogTorrent at this page. Obviously, I'd prefer if everyone downloaded it that way, but as there's only one seed (me) at the moment, and my computer doesn't play well with BT, you can also download it by right clicking here and saving as...(62Mb). If you can then go to the BT page and log on as seeds it would be greatly appreciated.

If all goes well, I may put a larger and smoother QuickTime version out as a torrent.

Update If you do decide to seed the file, please leave a comment saying so. I'd like to see if we can reach a critical point where the file can be downloaded entirely by Torrent.
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Sunday, November 28, 2004

Sunday Morning


For the last few weeks I've been ferrying drunken students home from the Union on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not quite a living, but it is money (and they finally paid me up to date today). The bus is used by various other societies and groups and, though I can take it home at the end of the night for my own safety, some times it's needed quite early the following morning.



So it is that I've discovered the beauty of the city centre at nine on a Saturday morning. Or, today, ten on a Sunday. As the streets wake up and the shops open for bleary eyed business I can wander around with that light, didn't- quite- get- enough- sleep- last- night fuzzy feeling and a tune on repeat in my head.



I love the European/ Christmas markets. They just feel so damned civilised. Slightly shaming too, because the German sausage vendor knows far more English than I know German and I could have a conversation with the little French lady selling bread, but- for her- it would be a lot like talking to a six year old.



Poor language skills aside, I enjoy the whole feeling, which I also get from Venus, of shopping in a foreign country. It's like a little commercial peek at another culture. Plus, it reinforces my feeling that Britain should be more European. At the very least, we want to be tied to the Euro when the dollar crashes and dies.




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