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January 8, 2010

Snow across Great Britain

Fab satellite shot from NASA.

October 23, 2009

Classic Album Covers stamps

Man, nothing would make me send more letters than being able to put a Screamadelica stamp on the envelope.

September 10, 2009

Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PM | Number10.gov.uk

Official apology from Gordon Brown for the way Alan Turing was treated until olde British homophobic laws.

July 6, 2009

One & Other

A fantastically brilliant, stupid, and downright British arts project. Every hour, a different Briton stands on the “Fourth Plinth” in London’s Trafalgar Square and does whatever they want. The live webcam is somewhere between fascinating and deathly dull. In summary: Amazing.

February 17, 2009

Amanda Palmer: On Abortion, Rape, and Humor

Amanda Palmer on her song “Oasis” being rejected for airplay by the British music media. While I could understand the “mainstream” (Radio 1, MTV, The Box) knocking it back, it’s sad to see that 6 Music, NME et al are also afeard of perceived offense.

October 21, 2008

Campaign: Atheist Bus

In response to offensively fire-and-brimstoney religious groups’ ads on the sides of London buses, a comedian started a campaign to run ads saying “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” After 24 hours, they’ve exceeded their desired £5,500 goal… by almost £40,000!

October 19, 2008

The Bugle

WHY was I not aware of this sooner‽ A *THOROUGHLY* splendid satirical weekly podcast featuring John Oliver (off of The Daily Show) and the man who I described as his “erstwhile” UK comedy partner (until I discovered they were doing this podcast together), Andy Zaltzman. Absofuckinglutely fantastic.

June 3, 2008

Video speech matching (TheyWorkForYou.com)

TheyWorkForYou has a crowdsourcing project matching the Hansard transcripts of parliamentary debates to BBC video. It’s pretty easy work if you keep going through one debate (and you get to watch a little bit of politics in action). Fancy taking a half hour to help them out?

May 28, 2008

chumby > london tube status

Even though I don’t live in London, I like having this pop up on my Chumby. It’s just a nice way to feel ambiently connected to the UK.

May 20, 2008

Doctor Who - Steven Moffat Takes Charge

This is amazingly good news. Steven Moffat (writer of Coupling and Press Gang, as well as the best episodes of “new” Doctor Who) is taking over as lead writer. I’m giddy at the prospect of what’s to come.

April 9, 2008

Absolutely Everything DVD Box Set

The superb 90s sketch show Absolutely is finally getting a complete DVD release. Hurrah!

April 2, 2008

The Royal Mint: The New Designs Revealed

The new UK coinage is wicked cool — the individual coins are part of a larger picture.

November 20, 2007

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday

Danny outlines the achievements of the Open Rights Group in the political and media spheres in the UK. I’ve been proudly sending them my £5-a-month since they started, and consider it a bargain. You should join them too.

November 6, 2007

'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News

Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren’t particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? “I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”

November 5, 2007

spEak You're bRanes

Highlighting the best of the right-wing hystericals who post to the BBC News “Have Your Say” boards.

September 20, 2007

BBC NEWS | TV cat poll was fixed, BBC says

I can forgive TV companies for running crooked competitions, or faking phone-ins, but overrulling the viewers’ choice for the name for the Blue Peter Cat? That’s just EVIL!

August 26, 2007

The London Evening Standard Headline Generator

“QUEEN’S CHICKENS STABBED TO DEATH”, “TV CROCODILE AND CAMILLA TO WED” and other randomly generated news-stands.

May 4, 2007

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos

Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah!

March 20, 2007

BBC NEWS | Judge rules against cheap CD site

A British online music store is being banned from purchasing cheap (legal) CDs in Hong Kong and selling them to British people cheaper than the “official” British release. How in the name of sodding fucksticks is this “copyright infringement”?!

January 29, 2007

Apple (UK and Ireland) - Get a Mac - Watch The New Ads

The Mac & PC on British TV are played by ace comedy double-act Mitchell & Webb. Genius!

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