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Edwin Starr and Blue Juice
Watching Blue Juice again the other night, I noticed that Edwin Starr took the part of Ossie Sands whose “Price of Pain” had been sampled—and mangled—by Josh Tambini. At the end of the film, Starr sings (as the credits roll) a cover of “Movin’ on up” by Primal Scream. While I quite like the original,… — read more
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Lost in snow
And you thought you knew about snow. More great pictures of snow, ice and archaeologically buried cars here. — read more
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Warfare as hunting: a Byzantine strategy
Warfare should be viewed like hunting, according to the old Byzantine text on the art of warfare, the the Strategikon has some useful and timely advice on how really to conduct war: Warfare is like hunting. Wild animals are taken by scouting, by nets, by lying in wait, by stalking, by circling around, and by… — read more
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The third space
Dan Hill’s City of Sound is probably the blog I’ve been reading most consistently and longest of all. He always writes interestingly, sensitively and with an alert intelligence on all manner of things, though mostly connected with ‘urbanisation’ in its broadest sense. In a recent post, he writes persuasively on how Apple’s iPad will find… — read more
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Ski kit that worked: “Pick me!”
On a trip to Courchevel recently, I took three new bits of kit. First, the Mammut Laser hooded softshell jacket, a fantastic item that appears to be sadly hard to find now. Made of Schoeller WB-400 “with Nanosphere technology” [huh?] it is extremely hardwearing and water-resistant (quite fun to pour the dregs of a glass… — read more
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Small mercies
Sometimes life smiles unexpectedly. I went out this evening to cycle home from the office and found that I’d locked Pedro — except that I hadn’t looped the Abus chain around the stand, so in effect he’d been lean-locked all day. Idiocy. Especially as I took the time to think “shall I lock the frame… — read more
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A personal London
I think the London I live in is the London of my past. I live in my memory of a place, rather than the place itself. My London has wharves and docks in the east of the river, no Westfield, plans for something called the Fleet Line, buses you can jump in and out of… — read more
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Fly-fishing in the High Tatras
I was looking to see if there’s any fly-fishing in the remote part of Slovakia containing the High Tatras. This website tells me that It is forbidden in the trout water * only fishing with one fishing rod * use living fish like decoy * use another like artificial flies not more like three by… — read more
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Films to watch
Just a note to the future self to keep an eye out for: — Clash of the Titans – swords and monsters, with Sam Worthington — A Prophet. Don’t even know what this is about, but the mag reviews say one of the greatest crime films ever. — Food, Inc. Documentary by Robert Kenner exposing… — read more
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Swiss minarets
What an odd bunch the Swiss are. 59% have voted in favour of banning minarets. I can’t quite see why banning minarets is deemed the same as cracking down on “Islamisation” (whatever the hell that is) and it seems that the SVP’s agenda is one of more-or-less overt racism under the guise of preserving the… — read more
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