September 2008
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“Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands… The industry...”
– Muxtape is gone as we knew it; hopefully it can become something even better with the new focus on bands rather than mixes. I do wish the music industry would catch up, even if there still has to be insane copyrights etc (insert gratuitous plug for Creative Commons). Mixtapes are awesome.
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A silver lining in the global financial market... →
Web Directions’ John Allsopp muses. I agree that there has to be one - so why not one that focusses us all on buying and living locally?
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garden working bee, number one →
This weekend’s amazing weather destroyed any possibility of us not making it into the garden. There was just no way!
[Read more at diy.dontcom.com]
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Dear Barack Obama,
GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist?
— Aaron Sorkin, as Jed Bartlet
I love this. Why can’t life be more like...
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Haven’t we seen this election before? →
The BBC’s Janette Ballard on how TV’s The West Wing has already pitted a charismatic, non-white Democrat against a maverick, experienced Republican.
is this a case of life mirrors art?
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garden projects →
So, spring has sprung - and although I haven’t written about the bathroom OR the laundry renovation I’m still feeling kind of exhausted about them. An update will come at some point.
[Read more at diy.dontcom.com]