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Modern Masters
on Oct 16, 2009 in Celebrities Engineering Humour Music Video Further to my rant about clueless DJ’s replacing proper producers, here are a couple of funny little animations about the horrors of being a mastering engineer to today’s “talent”: Mastering: The Movie Part One...
National Stereotypes
on Oct 15, 2009 in Afghanistan Europe Searches Warfare I have just searched Google News for “Afghanistan”. The top three stories are, in order: 500 more British soldiers will go to Afghanistan—[report] Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan—[report] France will not...
v v good fun
on Oct 13, 2009 in Brentian Man Humour Music UK United States Video This [HD YouTube video] is a bonkers slab of wonderfully British-sounding soul-pop from V VBrown. Shame about the over-compressed production/mixing/mastering that turns every peak into white noise. This [HD YouTube video—censored vers...
Statistics Is Fun
on Oct 12, 2009 in Football Graphics Mathematics Medicine Have a look at this elegant illustration of the relative safety of one cervical cancer vaccine. Read this intriguing blogpost about how the appointment of bean-counters at Premiership clubs might well have made league games even more exciting to...
Evans, Dear Boy, Evans
on Oct 6, 2009 in Celebrities History Newspapers Politics TV Via Paulie’s “Shared Items” feed at Never Trust a Hippy, I read on the Democratic Society Blog one of the best “Did Magna Carta die in vain?” comments ever [see foot of the post I link to] and, on Tory Troll, an account...
Single Transferable Mope
on Oct 6, 2009 in Afghanistan Brentian Man History Language Warfare I picked up this Prospect blogpost, via the magazine’s twitter feed, where it carried a headline that falls into the Kamm/Rentoul category of “Great Historical Questions To Which The Answer Is ‘No’.”: “Is Afgh...