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The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google censors itself for China This is a very disturbing news story indeed, and is starting to convince me that maybe MJR is right… The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn –…

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not…

Great article on Google by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books: Google is the only multi-billion-dollar company in the world that is also a spelling mistake. Back in the palaeolithic era (that’s the palaeolithic era in the internet…

A quick note for anyone who uses the Grisoft AVG Free anti-virus package. I tried to run an update this evening which kept failing. I then downloaded the programme and installed it again, and it now works fine. There was…

Things have been pretty quiet over here recently. I guess I have just been concentrating on other things. First up, I have started to host the Impnet forums – a site for fans of Lincoln City Football Club. This has…

Ryan Adams, along with Nick Cave, is just about the only musician whose new releases I bother with these days. I know what I like, alright?! Anyway, here’s a quick round-up of his solo career. I don’t know a lot…

Today we visited Lake Vyrnwy. Around the lake are a load of different trails to walk on, one of which leads to an area full of slightly mental wooden sculptures.See the flickr set for them in their proper sizes. Worth…

My list is depressingly parochial, and short: Norwich  Peterborough London Cambridge Chester Amsterdam York Bristol Birmingham And in the rough order than I visited them. Hopefully, others on Palimpsest will have added their’s soon.

MJR thinks of an explanation for the proliferation of cup upsets over the last week: England’s football fans had the pleasure of random football scores last weekend: the FA Cup. Why is there so much expectation of upsets? I think…

…right now. This is a seriously temporary list! 1. Gmail – never have I stuck with an email system or even address for so long. Quick, easy to use, almost perfect. 2. Newsgator – you could possibly substitute this with…

Which I left in drafts until now… Knifing Charles: Was this Daisy McAndrew’s First Scoop? Sniping from the sidelines at Google Pack

It’s a Saturday, so not a lot going on, despite the Google announcements. Google Pack – hasn’t everyone already got this stuff? Politics: Charles Kennedy resigns at last (aside from whether he should have done so, whether now or months…

Books and Desk Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle.

This one is better I think: more pics at a smaller size. A tip for when pasting in HTML from flickr into WordPress 2. the editor is supposed to pick up HTML and work it out for you, but for…

  Created using the Flickr toys at Flagrant Disregard.

Much planning is being done over at Palimpsest for the second Big Day Out, which we have all been looking forward to after the success of last year’s. It seems like a few new Palimpers will be coming along, which…

My local council has a forum which no one uses. Well, I thought I would give it a go, largely because I was so annoyed at how long it took me to find out my local councillors’ names and contact…