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Saturday, February 7, 2004 |
 Die Blogger, Die! What an incredible rant. Via marchdesign.You are all pretentious twats
Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky. Most of you think that you're writing original content and that you're making a contribution by licensing your spewings under Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved" licences, just because it's the hip thing to do. You think you know all there is to say about blogging because you understand the concept of HTML and CSS, but the horrible truth is that 40% of you are all using the same shitty default layout. Then you take pictures of yourselves looking pensive or making vague allusions to mythology...
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Friday, February 6, 2004 |
 London Town. Fabulous. This is derelictlondon.com. Via Supatyp.Derelict London is an unusual photographic portrait (of over 300 pics) of the nations capital. This is not a compilation of familiar tourist sights, as another of those is hardly needed, but a depiction of an (often un-picturesque) view of everyday life in London.
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Thursday, February 5, 2004 |
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Wednesday, February 4, 2004 |
 What a Gas! Groovy: a 60s slang dictionary.Bitchin(See also Twitchin'): Good, Exciting, Awesome.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2004 |
 John's got a Hump. He's great, he really is. More here.Hello, listen. I've given up far too much of my family and everything to put up with this monkey business from this bleep....this egotistical bleep fiasco - is really annoying me to the point of destruction. "Bleep off, Bleep off and listen to me. I'm not here to support a page three blow up balloon - right?! I bleep aint.You are taking the bleep mick and you know it. I am a piece of quality me - that ain't done bleep in its life -don't treat me like an idiot. I've played fair with you - no bleep more. Bollocks to you.
Welcome back Johnny.
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 Sniffin' Glue. Mark Perry, Alternative TV and his Sniffin' Glue Fanzine. More about the history of UK-Punk fanzines can be found here.Sniffin' Glue (And other Rock'n'Roll Habits) was the daddy of them all. No contest. Original and genuine. Produced by Mark P in South London along with Danny Baker (yes, the guy from the telly) way back in 1976. A classic Xerox job inspired by the Ramones first album.
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Monday, February 2, 2004 |
 That's Interesting. How to get spyware-free RealPlayer through the BBC. An anonymous reader sez, "The BBC made a unique deal with Real Networks which disposes of their spyware tactics. Basically, if a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC website, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuicance-free version of the player. It's because the BBC have such a stringent public service remit, that it was offensive to charge people a license fee for BBC content, then make them pay all over again for the facility to view/listen to it."
Link
(Thanks, Anonymous Reader!) [Boing Boing Blog]
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Sunday, February 1, 2004 |
 Trust me, I'm a Prime Minister. They're Back. Bremner Bird & Fortune series 5, Channel 4, every Sunday 20:00.There's not much for Rory and the Johns to get their teeth into this season, with just Lord Hutton's report, a crucial vote on top-up fees pitching Old Labour against New, the Prime Minister possibly resigning, the New Hampshire Primary kicking off the American election campaign, Parmalat, BCCI and the Bank of England embroiled in financial scandals, George Bush building a moonbase and heading for Mars, the poor old Beagle still not responding and Roman Abramovich buying anything that moves. And that's just show one.
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 Great Letter. Via Going Underground.A quick note to London Underground: the white fluffy stuff currently falling from the sky is called snow. It is not a rain of frogs, The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or Rodan the flying monster. Furthermore it is the right kind of snow (ie the kind that doesn't fall underground), so let's have the trains running properly, eh? And if you are really stuck, give the Swedish transport authorities a call and ask them how they manage to run a seamless, delay-free service through ice, snow and sub-zero temperatures. Anthony O' Neill, NW1
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 Civil War. The BBC's in deep shit.Some of the BBC's biggest names are considering quitting in protest at the attitude of its acting chairman and the greatest-ever threat to their journalistic independence. The corporation was on the brink of civil war last night as union leaders warned that Greg Dyke's resignation as director-general had split the staff from the governors.
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