Watch this. Alan Watts explains life much better than I can.

And here's someone who danced whilst the music was being played. (I was shown this video today by a friend, but I suspect most of the rest of the human race has already watched it. It's pretty lovely, in a rather unexplainable way.)

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(I believe baron_scarpia (or someone) has reported on this phenomenon before, but I thought I'd add my own experience. People need to be told ( Read more... )

The BBC's Have Your Say pages are, as I have noted before, a veritable haven for the very biggest and most prolific wankers in the UK (and the world), and if you ever want to be very, very scared then just take a look at the debates. All of them, predictably, end up being religion/immigration/race rants, and the current "Do you love thy neighbour ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who finds the concept of April Fools Day sinister? Or at least irritating ( Read more... )

So this Monday my beloved L went off to China as part of a mission funded (AFAIK) by the Welsh Assembly Government to promote Welsh culture in the land of the Qin. ( Adventures in an oriental clime )

Ooh, BBC Online have changed their look. Now it's like Facebook. Good thing: I can bring "this day in history" box to the top of the page and find out that 1620 years ago Theodosus effected the creation of the Catholic Church, and that some centuries later, the predecessor of the Labour Party was formed. COINKYDINK ( Read more... )

Recently dyddgu directed me to a wonderfully acerbic cite called Speak You're Branes, which essentially highlights the worst offenders on online "leave a comment" fora, particularly BBC Online's "Have your [probably racist] say" pages. Whoever runs the site then calls the culprit a "walrus minge" or something, which frankly never ceases to be amusing ( Read more... )

This column (from the Grauniad) by the incomparable Charlie Brooker laments the general crassness of the Christmas adverts by big chain stores (Asda, M&S etc.). The Argos one is the worst, mainly because it implies that there is something really "Christmassy" about ordering shit from Argos and having a lorry put it through your letter-box. Also ( Read more... )

Things that irritate me. In no particular order ( Read more... )