“Groovy Motherfucker”

Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.

“People in Scotland drank 25% more alcohol per head of population than individuals in England and Wales.”

Is it wrong that I read this and felt a sense of nationalistic pride?

“Lajeunesse initially had hoped to conduct the research with men in their twenties who had never seen porn. “We couldn’t find any,” he says.”

Grisly snippets of 1930’s Detroit newspapers. Disturbingly gripping.

Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.

Interesting attempt by MSNBC to visualize (their own) RSS feeds.

Site which scans the MP3s on your hard disk, then builds you a custom RSS feed of news, tourdates, etc based upon your “favourite” artists. Taking this for a spin too. Update: The user experience on the site is horrible — It freezes your browser for a few minutes with almost no feedback, then finds barely any of the many, many artists on my computer. Not recommended

Too old to get a job, but not old enough for social security? “Rob” a bank, and get the state to provide your food and shelter.

Auntie’s 24-hour international news channel will hopefully start appearing on US TVs soon. Hooray!

Tube station shut down because of man “acting suspicously” (wearing an overcoat and sending text messages, apparently). Police arrest him and confiscate lots of computer/electronics equipment from his house. They eventually drop charges (although they don’t return his property). Unfortunately for them, said man has the skill and contacts to get his story told on the front page of The Guardian. Feeling safer, Britain?