Great moments in Cardinals video clips

Munich Christmas Markets

NINETEEN NINETY-AWESOME

How good is Faith No More?

Jim Martin solo over SNOW SPORTS, FAIRGROUND RIDES, SMALL MAMMALS FIGHTING AND A GREYHOUND RACE, PEOPLE!!!1111!!

0:53 is totally Miranda July And 2:30 is Natalia Yanchak, for the keen-eyed. Cool makes sense to me now OK.

To where?

Direct translation of the names of some of Munich's U-Bahn stations

More cartographic goodness at bigthink strange maps

Dress rehearsal for the zombie apocalypse

Zombie Amy Winehouse

Zombie Colonel Sanders

Zombie Darth Vader

Zombie Gaddafi

Zombie soldier

Pressing time

I called up the co-op farm that pressed our apples for us last year. Their earliest available date was 27th October. They had a cider festival to organise, you see. Hurricanes several weeks ago off the coast of America translated to high winds in here in Sussex. Many apples fell from the tree because of this. If I wait for 27th October to harvest, I'll have little left on the tree, and rotten fruit on the ground. Iain and I pulled the apples from the tree, and I made a crude crusher with a door hinge.

MASH

Pulp.

2 hours later I had about 4 litres. The screws holding the hinge to the wood had started to pull out. Not good. There are some clever people on youtube with various mechanisms for crushing apples, some involving car jacks and frames and efficient-looking presses. My method was slow, tiring, inefficient and wasteful. In other words, in dire need of mechanisation

Cathedral, Mt Buffalo

St Kilda Harbour

clickable!

stopover in Brunei

mm, you can really taste the umlauts

Sometimes you get the impulse to cook stuff. This is (approaching) one of Pupienus Maximus' recipes

Meat left in a kind of brine for a few days.

And yes, I can make spaetzle. Just.

big party

>told by housemate he has a gig on saturday
>turns out it's actually his girlfriend's 30th
>gig is to be held upstairs at a pub other side of town
>dress (up) as hipster cowboy. Girlfriend says 'hey, you're not allowed to look better than me'
>check bus routes. My local bus goes across town and stops almost right out side the pub. awwyeah.jpg
>get there right as this guy gets on stage
>next band does note-perfect cover of 'Burden in my hand'
>Lou gets on stage to sing. Gets handed GIANT Tardis cake, all sing 'Happy Birthday'
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>wake up to find GIANT Tardis cake in the kitchen

Wine bottles and kettle on the right for size comparison

more on riots

Melanie Phillips from Quadrant has a great article.

-quote:

(...) Harriet Harman, was on TV last night preposterously blaming cuts in educational allowances, of all things, for the fact that teenagers and pre-pubescent children have been torching and looting shops and robbing and murdering people in the streets. It was Harman, of course, who was one of the principal forces behind the promotion of lone parenthood and the marginalisation of fathers as the only progressive position.

short break, then back to wood carrying

tsunami --> polar ice cap

From Bad Astronomy:

Image of icebergs broken off the Antarctic ice shelf after the March 2011 tsunami. Apparently the large rectangular bit is about 11km across.

good article at The Last Psychiatrist on internal validity. Internal validity means perpetuation.

Brits get some exercise and try their hand at a barbeque or two

In response to

we get

Levelheadedness as always from Harry Hutton

I propose the SCARECHAV:

original content

Photoshop looter is quite funny.

There have been increases in funding for social services over the last few years. However, social workers report that 75% of their time is spent in filling in paperwork. Is this partially a sartorial phenomenon? A rioter in a mob wearing a mask and a hoodie is afforded a high degree of anonymity. Anonymity absolves one of responsibility. Interestingly, most people are being caught by being identified by CCTV footage. Your thoughts, Banksy?

I propose that large Police vans with big speakers on the roof that play some Vivaldi or Bach will do more to disperse the looters than using water cannons. See Footscray. My girlfriend disagrees, and cites the fact that her cats stop their naughty behaviour and disperse very quickly when she sets upon them with a water pistol. Strange days indeed when South Africa issues travel warnings for people heading to the UK.

I suppose the problem with being a journalist is that you constantly have to have a ready opinion on whatever. Explanations range from welfare dependence, social exclusion (whatever that means. Socially deprived? Deprived of society?), lack of positive male role models, spending cuts (wrong. £8 billion worth of wrong), weak policing, racism (No. seven of the last eight people shot by British police were white), consumerism, opportunism, and social networking. To me, the strongest facet here is opportunism. Afforded by anonymity (see hoodie facial coverings, crowds, and untraceable Blackberry messages)

Girlfriend asked 'does this happen is Australia?'

'Not really. But when it does, it happens in Cronulla. It is racially motivated, and the Anglos throw sausages at the Lebanese'.

This is a piece of footage that I found odd. Is she advocating a monetary increase in benefits such that a family (second parent present or absent.. not clarified) can live in comfort thanks to the grace of the government purely through the virtue of bearing x amount of offspring? Sounds like well, what else do you expect from a  family of people who can't live in comfort purely on the government's benefits scheme? Riot ransom? 'Give me the benefits or I'll smash the windows of the electrical goods store!?'

Oh oh It's a very hostile environment around here

Oh oh It's the government's fault. It was good though.

I am tempted to draw false equivalences between Duggan's death and the woman who was shot in Victoria recently. 'Buildings in Tottenham and Croydon on fire? Ineffective police conduct? We're in the clear!' The more I think about it the more I get the notion that it was mostly opportunism that perpetuated the nights of crime. Not grievance.

Sunderland

No riots here

Durham

Picture is clickable for better resolution. No riots here.

Angel of the North

Other signs that teh Donalde has misread