Keeping up a fine tradition, I went to 3 of the 4 Mirrorball programmes at the Edinburgh Film Festival this year. (The 4th was sold out, boo!)
For the uninitiated, the shows are themed collections of the best music videos of the year and tend to range from the fantastic to the WTF? This year’s shows [...]
For the record, on my personal list of non-favoured ways to die, “Killed, eaten and turned into a habitat by your own collection of highly-deadly creepy-crawlies” features quite prominently.
Digital Journal - 03/08/2007
Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in his Dortmund, Germany apartment. His body was draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several [...]
A co-worker who was at the festival the week before me told me I had to go and see the Circus of Horrors. I don’t know whether to be relieved or disappointed that I didn’t go:
A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to [...]
From David E. Ross via JWZ:
The elimination of leap-seconds is being promoted by those who are too lazy or too incompetent to code time conversions correctly. This situation arose because the long-term slowing of the earth’s rotation (which creates the need for leap-seconds) failed to occur for several years, eliminating the need for leap-seconds for [...]
You know you’ve been to the Edinburgh festival too often when: Walking down the Grassmarket, you hear an atonal, arrhythmic, percussive cacophony start up. Instinctively looking around for the inevitable body-painted, dreadlocked, slightly-whiffy tribal drum band, you are confused when the street seems entirely devoid of buskers of any sort.
This confusion lasts for a few [...]
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Guardian - 16/08/2007
This map shows air pollution around London, where dirtier air is red or yellow, and cleaner air is blue or green. Hopes that an interactive version could be put online have been dashed by Ordnance Survey.
After a year of negotiations, academic geographers have conceded defeat in their attempt to find a way to [...]
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