Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this

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into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this: (more…) Read more »
Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this

into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this: (more…) Read more »
This guy, Matt Harding, went travelling and shot video of himself doing a silly dance, that ended up on the internet. That ended up getting some chewing gum company’s attention, and they decided to fund him on a bigger trip around the world to do more dancing, which also ended up on the internet as “Where the Hell is Matt?”. Then he got lots of emails from people who wished they could have danced with them, so he asked the gum company to send him on another trip and they did. Read more »
Below is the official BBC teaser trailer for Season 4: Read more »
Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed! The song is “Deadly Animals”, by Australian comedy musical duo The Scared Weird Little Guys (aka the Scaredies), and it’s all over the Intertubes (my second cousin just posted it to us all on Facebook). I remember I was still living in Old South Wales the first time I heard this song (from a spot recorded for Live at Jongleurs). Read more »

Meme-tagged by MB: Read more »
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires.

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the reaction of the neighbourhood mooch-cat to finding that the interesting pile on the kitchen floor is only locks of hair from the buzzcut I gave my son this morning instead of something delicious. Read more »
Dame Judi has been made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
