The View From Here

On the stereogram:

I Am a Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass: A Tribute to the Music of Will Oldham

Luxury by Fantastic Plastic Machine

Neither Washington Nor Moscow by Redskins

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On the bookshelf:

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
 

8 January 2005

A search that Google doesn't do, videos. Go Yahoo!

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Swearing in Spectrum 48K text adventures:

"Theres a lot of websites dedicated to 8 bit gaming about. Some have shots from the game complete screens, whilst others have maps, cheats and interviews with grown men who at one point felt fit to use their mathematical expertise in order to make a worm simulator. I felt, however, that there was one thing which (as far as I'm aware) has never been celebrated.... swearing on text adventures."

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Great vintage State T-shirts. I like New Hampshire:

New Hampshire, Kinda Like Old Hampshire...Only Newer

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Great Grauniad article on an archive of lost films recovered in Blackburn, 28 hours in total. Most are 'local topicals', filmed on the same principle as exists for local newspapers, film as many people as possible and they will pay to watch themselves on screen.

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A massive list of foods that are no longer produced. Picked at random - what?! No more 'Flamin' Hot Funyuns'?

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Black Pete, or Who knew Santa had a Negro helper?

"While the legend of St. Nick made its way across the Atlantic and became a treasured staple of American holiday commerce, his black homie was left behind — and for obvious reasons. The concept of a black man swiping gifts and replacing them with coal, threatening bad white children with switches and kidnapping them simply wouldn't play well in 18th century America. Or 19th century America. Or, 2003, either. Besides, in this country, a black man on the roof trying to shimmy down a chimney is called breaking-and-entering."

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Vintage postcards from Florida.

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John Peel's death keenly felt amongst the music community in Wales. Great bit from Hue Pooh of The Pooh Sticks:

"Unfortunately his patronage dropped somewhat when I was quoted - incorrectly I stress - in NME saying 'John Peel is a bastard, blah blah blah'. His wife, Sheila, saw this and Peel read it out one night. Our new session was aired once, never to be repeated. A record that still stands I believe."

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