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✒More on Spike Milligan. Jim McLean emails: "I was in Spike's office in the mid- 60s with Dominic Behan. Someone in the office asked him what was the population of London. Spike opened the window, looked out and started counting, 'one, two, three …'"
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[/caption]The most widely known version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts:A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever", said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"[1]
The origins of the turtle story are uncertain.
BBC News - Known criminals targeted in Cleveland Police operation
Police on Teesside are planning to carry out more than 40 operations over the coming week as part of efforts to target known criminals.
Officers from Cleveland Police will focus on domestic violence, anti-social behaviour, drug dealing and shop crime during Operation Tornado.
via BBC News - Known criminals targeted in Cleveland Police operation.
[/caption]The day video almost killed the Subbuteo star
The arrival of video games in the 1970s saw the slow demise of table football, cricket and rugby and with it the end of an era when sportsmen looked like your uncle Len
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China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video/
The new home shirt - which will also feature a welcome return to a more traditional design - is to be revealed later this month.
[/caption]We first mentioned this one almost a year ago (08.11.2009 NEWS: STATION TO STATION FOUR DISC SET DUE NEXT YEAR) and it is with much pleasure that we are now able to exclusively announce the release of EMI's 3-CD Special Edition and 5-CD, DVD and heavyweight vinyl Deluxe Edition of David Bowie's massively influential 1976 album, Station To Station ...along with the much bootlegged fan favourite: Live Nassau Coliseum
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Stoke's Dave Kitson leads call for non-league youth investment
West Ham's Jack Collison and Aston Villa's Curtis Davies have joined the striker in asking for money for grassroots football
From the Guardian
West Ham's Jack Collison and Aston Villa's Curtis Davies have joined the striker in asking for money for grassroots football
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Caught this last night (available on on iPlayer). Still very funny in that gentle way.
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As covered widely in the press & on the web - today is the anniversary of the peak of the NASDAQ tech stocks."On 10 March 2000, the Nasdaq index of leading technology shares spiked, bursting the Dotcom bubble."
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Looking geek chic, Computer Engineer Barbie® wears a t-shirt featuring binary code and computer/keyboard icon along with a pair of black knit skinny pants. Computer Engineer carries a Barbie® smart phone, fashionable laptop case, flat watch and Bluetooth earpiece. With stylish pink-frame glasses and a shiny laptop, she is ready to conquer the day’s tasks on the go or from her desk.
![[The space suits have] also been updated with several improved components to ensure the team is completely safe when its time to leave the capsule—if they dare.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s1sT68rmlrLgznQfjiRwgr6Z0yxCqlQns6HjpoVhwmHIjXbf7lP1_NPcXlKRj-m8JUbYafwqms-zy5v0UaUlPOUvC-dN8wtW-SUAN_dvbNl3aBaG018yXYs4JSLdnyBgduOy9BG91zFMgmMvqA=s0-d "NASA Bowie Mission")
Lovely - real fans will spot all the references:CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—NASA officials announced today the successful launch of the new shuttle Moonage Daydream, marking the beginning of a long-anticipated two-week conceptual mission inspired by British rock star David Bowie.
[set on a british inter-city train] a passenger gets a cappuccino, a cheese and tomato sandwich, a packet of crisps and a Kit Kat and hands over payment, saying: "I'm sorry, I've only got a twenty-pound note."
The buffet car steward replies: "Well, you'd better put the Kit Kat back then."
[/caption]"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."
''Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity,'' he added. ''So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen.''
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Originally broadcast back in August to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Miles' Kind of Blue album, I finally got round to listening to this today (whilst cleaning the kitchen). It's a good one hour doc presented by Brit trumpeter Guy Barker with plenty of clips of the record, interesting comments and historical interviews. I have a copy in mp3 if anyone's interested.
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[/caption]The sun shines high above
The sounds of laughter
The birds swoop down upon
The crosses of old grey churches
We say that we're in love
While secretly wishing for rain
Sipping coke and playing games
September's here again
September's here again
tres tres coolifique! - Alternative Music Distribution: Moldover’s CD Case as Circuit Board Noisemaker http://bit.ly/UHN1j
[/caption]"Disfarmer was an outsider artist who became famous for his Depression-era photographs of families, farmers, and individuals around his hometown of Heber Springs, AK"
[/caption]http://manafon.com/ (official site - samples, interview and more)
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Did you catch this on BBCR4 Today this morning...? I thought it was very moving... lyrics inspiredby Harry Patch's own words from an interview in 2005.
You can hear the original interview and the full song at the Today Page here and you can pay a pound to download an mp3 from Radiohead's store site (Proceeds to the Royal British Legion) and Thom Yorke blogged about it here.
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