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Israeli stoners against Hizbullah.

If it wasn’t already very silly, this definitely takes it over the edge.

Gorgeous.

What a farce. I don’t see how the ICC can stand behind Hair any more. They should have handled his feud with all teams Asian a long time ago, but now it’s come to this. His behaviour today was inexplicable and inexcusable and has brought about the worst day in test cricket history. He has to go.

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I am seriously excited. Usually the projects I work on for large corporates don’t really have the capacity to fire the public imagination. It’s not that they’re not interesting projects, but (say) building a project management portal for a large retailer or building a corporate website for a property development company just isn’t going to get anyone other than me, the customer and my bank manager excited.

This current project is completely different. We are working on an R&D project, looking to develop a new consumer service. It’s exciting for a whole load of reasons:

• We started with a single paragraph description of the project. Nothing more
• We’re using the Agile development process in its purest form
• We’re using Twisted in anger (something we have known is the right solution but to a problem that no-one has asked us to solve before now)
• It scratches a very personal itch
• We’re doing it in the open, warts and all (not an original idea, I know, but we think it’s worth us doing it too)

The project blog is here. The first cut of the application will go up (very) soon. Join us - either participate or just watch; it should be an interesting journey.

And exactly how it tastes….

Monty is best in world - Fletcher

For reasons that will become abundantly clear over the coming weeks (hopefully) or months (probably) I have gained a sudden interest in food on the Internet. So, let this be a first post in a new category of food related linking…

Jared’s excellent food blog makes me very very hungry.

Star Trek inspirational posters.

Americans just aren’t gullible enough to believe that they came from a fish

Arthur Lee died yesterday from Leukemia. Forever Changes still hits my stereo most weeks. The outtakes from “Your Mind and We Belong Together” on the 2000 reissue are simultaneously both blistering psychedelic rock and ludicrously funny. I’m truly saddened. I genuinely love Love. It is a sad day.

Only last month there was a series of concerts called “For The Love of Arthur”, intended to raise money to aid his recovery (he was without medical insurance when diagnosed with the disease). God bless the power of YouTube yet again, for hosting a whole host of key moments from the gigs.