December 2009
35 posts
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WatchHow have I not seen this before? Hilarious.
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Gadget of the Decade →
What else could it be?
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"16 social media guidelines used by real... →
greggyour:
rowank:
Great to see so much sense in various companies’ social media guidelines, including the BBC.
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“12
DID THEY HEAR THE DRUMS IN COPENHAGEN,
banging their warning?
On the...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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“11
WE PAID THE BLUDDY PIPER
fir ‘Royal Bank;
twa pipers each
fir Fred...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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“10
LORDS DON’T LEAP.
They sleep.”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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BUT THE DEAD SOLDIER’S LADY DOES NOT DANCE.
But the lady in the...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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ONE MILKED MONEY TO MEND HER MOAT.
Two milked voters to float her boat....”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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THE SWAN AT COCKERMOUTH –
of a broken heart, one half.
The Mersey Swans,...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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I BOUGHT A MAGIC GOOSE FROM A JOLLY FARMER.
This goose laid Barack Obama.
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– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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THE FIRST GOLD RING WAS GOLD INDEED –
bankers’ profits fired in...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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THE GRENADA DOVE IS CALLING.
The Condor calls from the USA.
The Wood Stork...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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“3
THREE FRENCH HENS –
un, deux, trois –
do not know
that French they are.
...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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“2
TWO TURTLE DOVES,
that Shakespeare loved –
turr turr, turr turr –...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
Electropop Legend meets Gary Numan →
Irony, Baz, irony. I’m sure he was honoured.
itsbaz:
hildrewmedia:
I wish I could embed the video from this page, but I can’t. Little Boots and Gary Numan covering Velvet Underground - amazing. Go see.
Shouldn’t that be Little Boots Meets Electropop Legend Gary Numan! OMG I CANT WAIT TO HEAR IT! GARY NUMAN IS A GOD!
To bad he’s working with little boots though, I would of thought...
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ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS,
a buzzard on a branch.
In Afghanistan,
no...”
– The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
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Electropop Legend meets Gary Numan →
I wish I could embed the video from this page, but I can’t. Little Boots and Gary Numan covering Velvet Underground - amazing. Go see.
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Twelve Days of Christmas
In the Christmas Radio Times, there is a specially commissioned poem by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Now, I think she’s amazing anyway, but I actually genuinely nearly cried when I read the first section. And it gets better and better. So I’ll be blogging one section every day for the next twelve just to share the genius - you won’t read a better worded summary of 2009, I...
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US students create iPhone orchestra
breaking-international-news:
An orchestra made up of iPhone’s has been created by US students by using seperate iPhone applications.
The group from the University of Michigan built the applications themselves as part of their studies and composed the music especially for them.
Some applications have unique noises whereas others sound similar to their real instrument counterparts.
Performers...
“But there are some general predictions that can be made. One statement I can...”
– The Days Of Mega-Riches In Music Are Over | MADE (via kvasir)
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Murdoch's diverting tiff with Google | Emily Bell →
(via megpickard)
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'Breaking Dawn' MUST be made into a movie!
youmeanddean:
Yeah, you heard me.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/21684/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-WHY-BREAKING-DAWN-MUST-BE-MADE-INTO-A-MOVIE/Page1.html
Fantastic. That would be one hell of a film. Great link, Dean!
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Murdoch vs Google - round one to Murdoch
Google’s Josh Cohen has announced a concession to Rupert and James Murdoch’s “No Free News on the Internet” campaign (it’s not called that really - but it should be).
Previously, Google would link to any site. Murdoch has threatened to take News International sites off Google altogether (including The Sun and The Times in the UK - please note I am hyperlinking to...
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Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to... →
bradwilliamson:
“I knoe bitches from oyg that would dead mob yah s—t in harlem”
Tweeted by: @SomeNerdyAssGangstuh
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Best TV Ads of the Noughties →
Dugald Baird of the Guardian’s OrganGrinder blog picks out the ten best ads of the Noughties for you to pick over, enjoy, and debate. Here’s my pick:
