...are always the simplest:
http://www.sensibleunits.com/

...for the new single Pork and Beans is a big old Youtube pastiche/parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI

Caught these guys last night at the 13th Note. Playing some beautiful shoe-gazy tunes reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine and Boards of Canada. http://www.myspace.com/keserofscotland

How true:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4008461.ece

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa74/harrowlawl/sciencevsreligion.jpg

Much as I generally loathe the Eurovision and everything it stands for, the French entry, which has something to do with Daft Punk, I am lead to believe, is pretty damn good. A proper pop record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJqO1bzrCg

Go to Japan and get free drugs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7419969.stm

This reminds me of the case that BIll Bryson wrote about where an American airport security dept. lost explosives in a similar test.

This is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. I'm glad it has an end to it or I would play until I died:
http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE=WebGamePlay&WGID=94

An awesome compendium of fails:
http://thermalreaction.blogspot.com/2008/05/epic-fail-video-collection.html

Set aside a few minutes to watch as the best is at around 3:20 (Office worker staple/tie prank)

http://yourmonkeycalled.com/post/34502241

...plays the blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZBevXohCI

...bang on as usual:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=947&Itemid=59

Some amazing footage of Jack Kerouac reading from On the Road:
http://www.thelandsalmon.com/lifestyle/jack-kerouac-explains-on-the-road.html

Mucho coolness going on over at http://fontstruct.fontshop.com

I've always been a big typography fan and getting to create your own fonts in such an easy manner is cooooool.

This blog wasn't set up with the purpose of ranting, but I need to vent. Taxi drivers, who rip you off by choosing the long way round, need massive violence rendered upon their persons. Arghh. I gave one of the fuckers two chances to choose a better route tonight and he chose the third, which with the roadworks, added a whole bunch of money to the price. Arghhhh.....and in that annoying British way, I didn't even complain....

Slow motion photography and raspberrys...superb:
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Flappy_Lips

The Fuckin' A Team
http://www.myspace.com/88thrash

Strangley compelling....
http://www.peterbeste.com/news.html

Fear of opening my mouth by Collapsing Cities: http://www.myspace.com/collapsingcities

Including the lyric of the week "If I'm still a telemarketer next year, I think I'll kill myself". I've certainly felt like that....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7376919.stm