A professional photo retouching service has some before and after photos (click ‘portfolio’) of various celebs, some of which have gone through some fairly major retouching. via YesButNoButYes.
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LOLTIME
The old sobersides at Time magazine try to explain lolcats, I can has cheezburger, in ur base killing ur d00ds, etc.
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Obscene Interiors
A collection of online male personal ad photos (hem, hem), with the advertisers blanked out. Why? So you can critique the décor, of course. Via MeFi.
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We trust you, Gordon
The odd thing about the Conservative policy announcement today – where they pledged to match Labour’s public service spending over the next three years – is that the plans aren’t published yet and won’t be for a month or so. Talk about signing a blank cheque: if I were in the Treasury, I’d be tempted to put in a couple of joke commitments, just to annoy the Opposition. A gold statue of Kier Hardie, perhaps, or a really expensive metrication campaign. Right, Cameron, match that!
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Take my tip
Useful PDF guide to the polite amount to tip in various countries is here. (Via a discussion at Word of Mouth).
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The Bell Hotel, New Alresford
A dinner stop on the way back from Basingstoke at the Bell Hotel in the pretty town of New Alresford in Hampshire. Very friendly service on a quiet Sunday evening and OK food. Steak was nicely presented with good accompaniments, but was a very English medium. Tom had kid-sized cod and chips which looked properly prepared. Desserts: a bland chocolate pudding for me but a much better apple crumble and ice cream for the little one.
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Web 2.0: digital Maoism
Bloggers come in for a bit of French stick in a series of articles at Le Monde. Apparently:
Nous sommes victimes de “la résurgence d’une idée selon laquelle le collectif est le summum de la sagesse”.
and a lot worse besides.
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The rubber pierogi circuit
Ken Livingstone has been wooing London’s Polish community ahead of the elections next year, according to the Guardian. I may not be a Polish citizen (though it might come in handy if UKIP ever take over), but I’d think about voting for a man who offered pierogi.
Candidates in Brighton (Pavilion), take note.
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Military co-ordination
Interesting article in the Age, in which the former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser suggests that Canberra should never commit troops to a US-led mission unless (as happened with Britain in WWII) a senior Australian Minister can be resident in Washington DC and a member of the war cabinet.
Not a bad idea for us, either, seeing what’s happened in Iraq.