Sorry to be so stereotypically blogger, but: heh, funny YouTube video.
Month: May 2006
Hassocks commuters are doing it for themselves
Ekas s’kcuf rof
70th most popular name for US girls is Heaven spelled backwards.
Eric Forth, RIP
Eric Forth, the right-wing MP for Bromley & Chislehurst has died. I didn’t follow his politics, but his performances in the House of Commons were always very witty and vigorous.
European Parliament petition
Euro-MP Cecilia Malmstroem has launched a petition to keep the European Parliament in one place, rather than have it move for its plenary sessions to Strasbourg. An eminently sensible aim, and if you agree you can sign the petition here.
Free WiFi in Central Park
New York’s main park (and some other parks) will have WiFi access by July, the NYT reports (via The Huffington Post). The article is silent on whether Central Park’s model, Birkenhead Park on the Wirral, will be similarly equipped.
Clutter for Mac OS X
Only about a year after everyone else, I have discovered Clutter, a Mac OS X program that quietly looks up the cover art for whatever tune you happen to be playing in iTunes. You can drag album covers to the desktop to create a visual link to the album in iTunes and – the best feature for me – copy the album art to iTunes with a quick key combination. Great for all that music ripped from my CD collection.
Travel notes: Manchester
An evening at the Marriott Victoria and Albert Manchester before a flight to Belfast. A lovely hotel, though rather out of the way, converted from a warehouse of some sort, and (as so often with Marriott) getting the fundamentals absolutely right.
Spinnerdisc.com
Excellent fun flash cartoons at Spinnerdisc.com. Check out penguin calls and jokes with Einstein. Via MeFi.
Contra-Contraception
An interesting article in the NYT Magazine about the spread of the anti-abortion movement into anti-contraception.