what is it that you do

More Adam and Joe

Because their songwars are/were awesome. Here's one of my favourites - for the Quantum of Solace

I must say I prefer Adam's 

I'd like a quantum of solace, but no more than a quantum

I know they do big bags of solace, but I don't want 'em

Ace. Just bloody brilliant

Joe's ain't bad either...

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John Peel's festive 50

There were only 2 celebrity death's that affected me. The first was Kurt Cobain. I was 16 and picking up a friend on my way to the pub when his older brother told me 'that grungy guy had killed himself'. This was way before the internet so I refused to leave the house until I'd got radio news corroboration. No-one else in the pub had heard and I've never seen news spread so quickly. 

The second was John Peel. I grew up listening to John Peel when radio 1 was still worth listening to (save 6 by the way. I'll be furious if that get's axed) - with cassette recorder poised (record and pause) for the making of many a mixtape. I wanted John Peel to be my uncle at least (at least. sorry dad).

I downloaded the Festive 50 in it's entirety last week - and now have playlists rather than mixtapes. There were some treasures on there. Does anyone remember Credit to the Nation's 'Call it what you want'?

Do you take cash?

It's hardly surprising that whilst we pay for most of our transactions in cash the value of cash transactions pales against plastic. Interesting to see such an in-depth look at how and where we spend our cash in the UK. 
 

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Someone has put literally some thought into this. Maybe I'm just being a bit bitchy this morning. Moving on 

For years I had cupboards full of old tapes that I wouldn't throw out. How can you bin such carefully collected and annotated treasures? I used to label them by putting half a dozen together and making a small table of them. It's really hard to label vhs one tape at a time. 

to flash or not to flash

Over at OK Cupid they've done an interesting and enormously in-depth look at the relative merits of different sorts of profile picture. To kissy-face or not to kissy face. Flash cleavage or ab reveal. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/

There are some correlations with what you'd expect from the real world way of going about meeting people. If you show more flesh you'll get more attention but not necessarily anything meaningful. A girl showing what she's got is more likely to get more messages than a girl who isn't - but a lot of those are going to be fairly basic phwaoring. Show that you are into stuff and you'll get more chance of a conversation.

So online paramours have to decide what it is they want and have their picture reflect that. It's hardly rewriting the rules.

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if you are going to write a brief like this then it's probably best to be Mick Jagger. it's probably also best to send it to someone you have complete faith in being able to fulfill this sort of brief too. someone like Andy Warhol would probably do

this next picture i love because of the simple context of it. the same idea over and over and over again. if an idea is good enough it doesn't have to start from scratch. having said that originality is a wonderful thing - and we've all had goddamn i wish i'd thought of that moments

i think i'd rather be holding it up than pushing it down. i'm sure that says something about me

population of the dead

last year I asked some friends to send me some killer facts to form the basis of a presentation. one of the most awesome came from a couple of very trusted sources. it blew my mind. it seemed way to awesome to be true. because it wasn't. true. it was still awesome though rather less so than it was.

floating around the interweb and permeating the minds of many was this fact. there are more people alive today than have lived before in total and forever. 

i did some cheching around and found this not to be the case - and today i found this rather wonderful infographic from Jon Gosier, from Appfrica.com which shows quite how untrue it is.

it also shows how royally fucked we are in the event of a zombie apocalypse if the dead do rise

Spock rock

I was never into Star Trek. My geekery manifested itself in other ways. many other ways. I'm pretty sure that Spock and Hendrix didn't have that much in common - but in this clip Spock seems permanently on the brink of breaking into purple haze

The Orb obviously had better summers in the UK

than I did. Or these guys did. A very clever take on a very good song in the first place. Incidentally for years I believed that Jamie Lee Curtis was the voiceover in Little Fluffy Clouds. Wiki says otherwise. Wiki says it's Rickie Lee Jones who is a proper grown up singer. Which isn't as much fun. Which probably makes it true.