Daily Kos reports that all phone lines to Teheran have been cut and Mousavi has been arrested. The BBC and CNN both seem to be igonoring this.
Is citizen journalism finally overtaking the big beasts?
Mousavi arrested?
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Category Archives: Messaged from the Outhouse
Ipod touch +Last.Fm + Revo iBlik Radiostation = Excellent Entertainment
So, you have a Last.fm account, but you don’t want a computer in the living room. Well, if I say “want”, I mean ‘Not allowed’. No, not even a small one (women can detect even the smallest aberration in their interior design). But you were allowed to buy that nice Revo iBlik Radiostation, because it looks so stylish and it fits rather fetchingly into the modular book case. And you have of course a nice high speed wireless connection. It would of course be a wonderful idea if the iBlik would offer a Last.Fm plugin, but it seems that the Scottish electrosmiths at Revo are more interested in design then advancing their software (has any iBlik or Pico owner ever had a software update??), so the Last.fm connectivity has to come from somewhere else. Enter the iPod touch that you still had lying around somewhere, and tadaa: one click and you have one lovely sounding (I have a set of smashing active monitors hooked up to it) and acceptable looking Last.Fm living room entity. I always knew that the IPod touch had more to offer than just watching ‘Lost’ on the train.
Dear Gordon,
I was delighted when you succeeded that belligerent twerp Tony Blair. I was hoping for a thoughtful, intellectual, measured, competent technocrat with the social conscience of a presbyterian minister and the economic prowess of a long term chancellor. I would have voted for you back in 2007 if you would have given me a chance.
Unfortunately you turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.
While still able to lead on international subjects, you completely lost it in the domestic arena and surrounded yourself with a bunch of incompetent yay-sayers. Your thoughtfulness turned into dithering. You turned out to have the political response time of a galapagos turtle. You have been eclipsed in every aspect of domestic policies by the Tories and gave the BNP the chance to poison the minds of the very electorate that you should be able to bank on, the white blue collar worker.
I’ve had it with you. Please save this country from the BNP and the Tories and leave now. Let the smoking remnants of the Labour Party go into a coalition government with the LibDems and let the healing begin.
I wish you all the best in your future career as a visiting professor for economics at the University of St Andrews and hope that your life will be a fulfilled one. It’s probably the best for us all.
Sincerely,
FB
AF 447: a metereological analysis
For those of you with an interest in aviation and weather, have a look at Tim Vasquez’ analysis of the weather in the intertropical convergence zone that AF447 had to fly through. Immensely educational and interesting.
Link here.
Garfunkel and Oates
May I please make you aware of the homepage of the most entertaining songstresses since Siegfried and Roy: Garfunkel and Oates make lovely, lovely songs with hilarious lyrics. They of course get extra special bonus points for perusing the Ukulele and singing about Sex with Ducks.
Take a break and enjoy this lovely song about that face you make when you get an ugly sweater for christmas (it has happened to me, you know. I was thirteen and wasn’t pleased a bit).
Messaged from the Outhouse 