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"It's clear now that the Labour government's approach to almost all issues has been precisely the same, whether it's benefit fraud or antisocial behaviour, terrorism or smoking in public places... Matters trifling, middling or massive, the response was identical. Just point out some bastards who everyone can agree are getting up to no good and taking the piss, frame it in the nastiest way possible to get us on board, then pass some wildly disproportionate legislation granting themselves executive power to do whatever they like."http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com/2008/06/from-there-to-here-guide-to-self.html
FlyingRodent collates all the news stories surrounding the Olympic protests, with some facts I can guarantee you didn't know.
"Hello, Is There Anybody There?" - Burma
Rangoon, Burma - Confusion reigned in Rangoon yesterday as the Burmese people began to ask where all that international attention had gone. "Uh, hello? Is anybody there?" asked the Burmese population, whose struggle for basic human rights and freedom of speech was briefly yet ecstatically popular in Britain just a few months ago. "Uh, we're still here," they said, collectively.
http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com/2008/04/olympics-protest-news-round-up.html
Reminds me of quite a lot of our politicians..
"After 15 years of utopian gibberish about the "internet as a platform" that (of course) "changes everything", the pigeons are finally flying home to roost. In 2008, IP networks look less like the future of media, and more like tarpits that promise to bankrupt anyone who tries to run one. Especially the middlemen - as the distributors look like going to the wall first."
Wonderous news! Some rich kid is heading off 'travelling' for two whole months (how tough that's going to be) and is writing a blog about it. What a bloody novel idea, well done to the Guardian for picking this up.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Iagree with the sentiment entirely. There are better, cheaper alternatives out there but Apple's marketing is too strong and people are too damn stupid to actually look things up for themselves.
Anyway, Maddox says it best...
Two songs from the Aiden set I recorded at the Camden Barfly in August last year are available now to buy on iTunes as part of the "Moment" EP. This is very exciting for me as it's the first general release work I've got, although I am dissapointed it's only available on line (and through crappy iTunes), it's still out there for anyone to get their hands on! Apparently, it is also Kerrang's "Download of the week", but I cannot confirm this and I'm sure as hell not buying a copy to find out!
Ok, it's not that much of a secret and it's not really that dirty, but talk to anyone about this kind of thing and you always get a weird, if not condescending, look.
Star Trek XI is a difficult subject for me, after the horror that was "Enterprise", I kind of hoped they'd leave it alone. That said, the films remained good up the end, and Nemesis was stonking. There is the interesting choice of Simon Pegg as Scotty, Silar as Spock and some guy called Chris Pine as Kirk with JJ Abrams with directing duties. On paper that could be a good combo, JJ has a knack for sci-fi with grit and his touch could be what the series needs to reinvigorate it. That said, I'm not too keen on all this jumping forward and backwards in the timeline, the only time that's ever been done well was in DS9 where they went back to the original series' Klingons, who were in essence just dirty humans with long hair and a bad attitude. Worf's comment of "we don't talk about it" was a brilliant way of hiding the disparity that special effect technology had caused.
Anyway, there is a trailer and it makes me very excited!
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