24 Aug 2010
Daily MPfree: Everything Everything Album Mashup
Here’s a “glitch mob” mashed up one-track advert for Everything Everything album, “Man Alive”. It’s a pretty great pop record stuffed with insistent earworms, all of which are present, if not correct, on this mix.
Everything Everything – Man Alive – The Glitch Mob Album Mash Up by EverythingEverything
24 Aug 2010
Jon Stewart: Fox News accidentally fingers major News Corp shareholder as 'terror mosque' funder
Hilarious. The Rhodes scholars at Fox & Friends, Fox News’ morning show, in their continuous coverage of the so-called ‘Terror Mosque’, identify Saudi Arabian prince—and Savoy Hotel owner—Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz as a major funder of ‘extremist’ madrassas the world over, and a funder of Park51. Fox & Friends neglected to mention that he is also the largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent company, News Corp, after the Murdoch family.
Warning: this video has a voice over by some ass who can’t stop inserting his own ‘Whoo! Yeah!’ comments every few minutes. Save yourself some aggravation and start 60 seconds in.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is on More4 Tues-Fri at 8:30pm. This episode will air this evening.
24 Aug 2010
Soho public baths re-open after 13 years
After extensive renovation, the 80-year old bathing beauty has returned to service. The Spectator has a nice history, noting that the original design contained a first and second class pool.
24 Aug 2010
Boris' State of London debate cost £250 per attendee
Only 231 people showed up for this year’s State of London debate between Mayor Boris Johnson and the great unwashed at a cost of £58,000. (Via Adam.)
24 Aug 2010
Daily MPfree: Salem
We’ve some dark, heavy USA dance shit for you today. John Doran, editor of The Quietus, had this banging out of the Green Man ‘fun bus’ last weekend and I was utterly taken with it. Brilliant stuff, and ironic that the best discovery of the festival happened on the way there.
23 Aug 2010
Middle England Report: women and cats
- Coventry woman picks up Lola the cat and drops her in wheelie bin [Coventry Telegraph] (Via)
- Google map of the Henley Big Cat [Henley Standard] (Via)
- Police seek out Wendy Lewis, 32, who was caught on security cameras relieving herself on Blackpool’s Cenotaph, before performing a sex act on a man nearby. [AFP]
23 Aug 2010
Defence secretary wants Medal Of Honor video game banned
Liam Fox, the defence minister, says that it was shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers Medal of Honor, to published by Electronic Arts in October, is based on the Afghan campaign and allows multi-player gaming, which, by definition, means someone has to be the bad guy.
23 Aug 2010
Where are the most-frequently 'checked-in' places in London?
The Hospital Club and The Breakfast Club (presumably the next morning) are London’s most-frequently checked-in locations on Foursquare. Foursquare, of course, is that service that allows members to ‘check in’ when they arrive at a location, thus notifying their friends that they are at somewhere cool instead of the crap location that said friends are currently occupying.
Topping the list of pubs are The Dove and The Old Fountain
23 Aug 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
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