“If that underclass increases relentlessly over time, and if you start seeing more educated people getting dragged into it, then we are going to have a huge problem. I think that may happen as mach...
Image via Wikipedia There are, believe it or not 600,000 Freesat users in the United Kingdom. In the run up to Xmas there will be a renewed awareness campaign for the free-to-air satellite c...
The BBC has launched a new web site dedicated to live and on demand coverage of the UK’s national political institutions and the European parliament. Interesting to launch at a time when our faith ...
via designboom.com The humble analogue cassette continues its rise as a cultural design icon even when its functional use has declined. Posted in Design, Random, Technology Tagged: analogue, ...
I caught this amusingly creative trailer the other night about an upcoming series called Electric Revolution on BBC Four which apparently will examine Britain’s current love affair with technology....
The hedgehog hotel that I DIYed a couple of years ago needed it’s inner wall bolstering too keep out the inquisitive cats of the neighbourhood. An old shelf bracket and a couple of old gutted VHS t...
via coolest-gadgets.com Clocks come in all shapes and sizes. This 35mm film canister styled clock evokes those dwindling days of film photography. In the future will any possible memory card styl...
A piece of software called Wine lets linux users run a small number of software applications that ordinarily require the Windows operating system. PlayOnLinux is a free application that puts an ea...
Rupert Murdoch has signalled his intention to begin charging for on-line news content. In the UK this should mean that the Internet editions of The Times and The Sun will now ask for some kind of p...
A change for yesterday's dream about a fabric covered world. Last night's dream consisted of me watching television in the 1980's (very mundane). As usual many elements were a bit mixed up with...
Posted in Random, recipe Tagged: apple galette, cooking, Dessert, French, pastry, recipe
Image by brilarian via Flickr The streets this morning were full of school kids carrying fake babies. Mostly in hand-held baby carriers slung over the arm like a shopping basket. I didn’t se...
Image via Wikipedia “You’d have to have so many people involved in the security services that I’m not sure what anybody else in the country would be doing” Sir David Pepper former director o...
Image via Wikipedia A bad week for wine drinkers this, since it was the first one in living memory in which there has been no story in the papers asserting either that (a) red wine has life-...
Smaller sized high quality AAC+ encoded* version available here Ogg format here More audio doodles (*AAC+ audio files require this Plugin(Win) or a compatible player such as Songbird(Win,Mac,Linu...
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