Year: 2010
‘The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks’
Yo, listen, I've just stopped by Blather's Arctic office for about 12 minutes on my snowscooter, I've got...
Patternicity
(photo by Cennydd, used under a CC license) "Patternicity: the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningless...
Pareidolia
(image by Nuco, used under a CC license) From the kindly bots at Wikipedia: Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/ pa-ri-DOE-lee-ə)...
Friday Choon: Peter Gabriel’s ‘Mercy Street’ by Elbow
From Peter Gabriel's 'Scratch My Back' project, this is Elbow's version of Gabriel's Mercy Street, from the 1986...
Japan: officially, property of the USA (updated)
'Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apologised for not keeping an election promise to move a US military...
Gavin Kelly’s ‘Avatar Days’
'What happens if Dublin is invaded by zombies?' Utterly, utterly wonderful! Irish film maker Gavin Kelly's Avatar Days....
Man With A Movie Camera
From Wikipedia: Man With A Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and...
Database to be Erased
At last it's time to take a long, luxurious shit all over David Blunkett's political grave. The new...
Friday Choon: ‘Couldn’t Get It Right’ by Climax Blues Band
(image by jrbrubaker, used under a CC license) A 70's gem for you this week, from the Climax...
Remember that Blather.net Declared Jihad?
You may recall that back in January, Heinrich Bivouac, head of PR at Blather.net, declared jihad. This was...