I shot this last year, when it was very summery in Oakwood. It’s one of my fave images to have as desktop wallpaper, I find it very calming and cheery. Feel free to download it and use it similarly yourself. It leaves space for your desktop stuff if you’re using OSX but you can always [...]
Archive for January, 2005
If you’ve sent me email recently, whether from the ‘About’ section here or independently, and I haven’t replied… well maybe I did. I’ve had a lot of outbound email go missing lately. I only know this because a couple of people have re-emailed me about work-related stuff, wondering why I hadn’t replied. So I got [...]
…we are in the process of commissioning an expert review of all the academic and clinical evidence of the link between cannabis use and mental health, particularly schizophrenia.
“There is medical clinical evidence now that there is an important causal factor between cannabis use and schizophrenia - not the only factor, but an important causal factor. [...]
Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces may be responsible for up to 60% of conflict-related civilian deaths in Iraq - far more than are killed by insurgents, confidential records obtained by the BBC’s Panorama programme reveal.
(Source: BBC News)
Again, more proof that what we see on our tellies is pure US government propaganda. Ask the average [...]
I love getting CDs in the post. Wake up and there’s a little pressie on the doormat.
I got these a couple of days ago. They’re all completely excellent in varying ways. And I wouldn’t have bought three of them if I hadn’t downloaded them first. (I have Radio Three to thank for putting me [...]
“To date, there have been a total of 179 major human rights violations of Coca-Cola’s workers, including nine murders. Family members of union activists have been abducted and tortured. Union members have been fired for attending union meetings. The company has pressured workers to resign their union membership and contractual rights, and fired workers who [...]
Have you noticed that there’s suddenly loads more armed forces recruiting ads on telly? It feels like they’ve quadrupled the amount of ads, perhaps even more than that.
Could it have anything to do with this?
This week’s top new tune is ‘I’ve Been Thinkin’ by Dor. It’s a solid, thumping hip hop track that instantly grabs you with the sample hook and then the lyrics kick in. But am I talking absolute shite? Make up your own mind by having a listen to it here. I think we’ll be hearing [...]
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It’s of a little Iraqi girl. Her parents have just been murdered, shot dead by US soldiers. Their crime? Failing to stop at a roadblock. Maybe you’re asking, ‘why didn’t they stop?’ I don’t know. Maybe they were scared of getting hauled off to Abu Ghraib and tortured to death like their fellow countrymen. Maybe [...]