I think I've jabbered before about the media's unconscious response to people pointing out that it is structurally sexist, which is to portray middle class white males as essentially useless ( Read more... )

Warwickshire's very green. Apart from the fields of oilseed rape. A bit of a contrast with Coventry, which could almost make a chap weep for the victim of high explosive urban renewal.

That was fun and now I am slightly broken.

(Via bOing^2 and Coop)

Some tractor-puller with more Sherman engines than he knows what to do with builds one into a Mustang. An all-ally 1100 cubic inch plant that's coming out not much heavier than a blown Hemi...

Especially choice is the Youtube link to someone else's Sherman motor. Now that's Industrial music ( Read more... )

I've just been watching a splendid film in which Ian Curtis rebuilds a bull-nose Morris, aided by a beatnik child. Meanwhile Zefram Cochran, disguised as a rag and bone man, attempts to steal some of the parts in an odd kind of cross-dimensional scrap redistribution plan. At the climax of the piece, Ian drives the newly restored Morris to the local ( Read more... )