Posted at 10:54pm on Friday, August 4th, 2006
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.
Posted at 4:12pm on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
I’ve just started commuting on a bike, rather than using the car. Having worked from home for 9 months I thought it would do me a bit of good to actually get some exercise, rather than return to the ludicrously short drive that I used to make every day at my last place.
I was feeling rather good about it until I read this rather well argued case that cycling is in fact worse for the environment than cars…
The environmental benefits of human power are, however, strongly coupled to the environmental costs of increased population, due to increased longevity of those who engage in physical activity. Paradoxically, increased use of human power for transportation is unlikely to reduce substantially the use of energy because of this second-order effect.
Posted at 10:34pm on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
I wonder how the stock markets will react to the news that Bill Gates is to step away from Microsoft? We were always told it would be badly…. If that’s true now is probably not the time.
Posted at 11:35am on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
I wonder if we could get one of these slapped on the nutters that spend all summer in the centre of York?
ASBO for Oxford Street preacher
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Posted at 6:31am on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I guess it would be inevitable that this would happen, but the speed with which it happened and the crass purchase attempts make it a very modern tale…
News wire photo of Katrina relief card causes widespread online fraud.
Found at Raw Feed
Posted at 5:43pm on Monday, September 19th, 2005
Just got a mail from my mate Paul:
How’s it going? Apparently you can transplant faces now:
US Doctors prepare for first face transplant
But apparently it fucks with your mind. Well d’uh!
Posted at 11:12am on Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
DrugScope report that clubbers are turning to Ketamine - their survey apparently shows Ketamine on sale in 50% of towns surveyed this year when it didn’t appear at all last year. WTF? It’s been a pretty regular feature of nights out everywhere I’ve been for, well, years… I’m sure I first saw it in regular use in the early 90s. On the same note - street prices across the UK. Things just keep getting cheaper, don’t they?
