xkcd

If you are not familiar with former Nasa robot engineer Randall Munroe‘s webcomic xkcd check it out now. If you are, I hope it’s at least bookmarked. in addition to some of the most fatastically geeky humour ever, he can sometimes extrapolate a perfect nail/head interface when it comes to the human condition. Like today.

Brighton (or, yet another Spookey related post) Pt2

Bleary headed (not least of all due to the hostels very accommodating policy towards residents in the bar) we eventually surface on the Sunday with a plan: Breakfast, find the pub that’s showing the Celtic match, Meet M&S there, drink, go see Spookey, drink some more. J’s scouted the area and found a cafe that

Brighton (or, yet another Spookey related post) Pt 1

OK, I’ve posted stuff about the wonderful Spookey probably more than just about anything else. And, I suppose there’s only so many ways in which you can explain just how wonderful the experience of seeing them live is or how brilliant their recordings are. But, they have been back in the country. I saw them

OMG! WTF! JHC!

I have literally just broken a toe by curling them so violently.

That Radiohead thing

As everyone should know by now (even if you don’t know who they are) Radiohead have decided to sell their latest album in a very sensible, sorry, weird and wacky bring-down-the-music-business way. You will be able to purchase the album as a download or mega-bucks big beautiful collector/fanboy box set (with regular CD release reported

Un-pimp my rice paddy

Following from an earlier post, Pink Tentacle has photos of them dismantling the fantastic art paddy field. On September 30, about 900 volunteers participating in a hands-on rice farming tour began the annual harvest of the Inakadate village (Aomori prefecture) rice paddy art, which this year depicted a pair of famous Hokusai woodblock prints created