Actual poetry, not an actual coroner ( Read more... )

The other day, I accidentally a fairly well-preserved 70/80s Falcon bike frame. There's surface rust and a 'Reynolds' sticker, but it looks straight and far too narrow of tube because I'm used to oversize ally and carbon frames ( Read more... )

It's already starting to be one of those weeks that are nothing but a cavalcade of tiresome ( Read more... )

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/know-your-place

It were all fields, collieries, locomotive works, brickworks and galvanised iron factories round here.

Poll Brian Clemens

What is the term for the concept that I can only describe as 'smoking a tab to make the bus come' ?

The performance of an act in order to make Sod's Law work in your favour. Or, if not in your favour then applying conceptual leverage in order to ensure the least unfavourable outcome.

Edit: ok, so it seems like I'm explaining this badly. Imagine ( Read more... )

In the future, hand-based foodstuffs (big sarnies, complex baguettes, tiresome burgers) will come with a small field-generator to ensure structural integrity and no sauce/dressing leakage.

When people say that they're about to sally forth and brave the elements, which elements do they mean? Sulphur? A nasty patch of low-lying Vanadium?

Splendid stuff.

The links in the comments are going to keep me busy for days.

Edit: For instance, this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/ Sheer bloody gold.

Things I found in my Useful Box of Cable-ish Items ( Read more... )

Poll Phaedra grey

Personally, I am very much digging more or less anything Michael Rother has had a hand in. The first (two) Kraftwerk LP(s) now have a lot more context, for instance.