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Pups totally wasted

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Posted 25 September 2008 † Stuart § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Snag this

Thanks to Dalai’s PACS blog, which I still follow despite a change in jobs, I came across this great free film service where you can watch documentaries for free called SnagFilms. Yeah, and share them web 2.0 style. Except I can’t as the widgets won’t display.  

Posted 27 July 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Getting Foxy at FF3 party

Seems the party did the trick, with FF3 downloads breaking the world record for most in 24 hours.

Posted 02 July 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

When comics were scary

Read more: “The stories in these [comic] books, says David Hajdu, author of the new book, “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America,” were unlike anything kids had seen before. They told tales of superheroes, but also of murder, crime and illicit romance. The illustrations could be shocking, and sometimes, [...]

Posted 11 June 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

It’s like printing money

It just occurred to my trivia-obsessed brain that I work just round the corner from the Bank of England (see front) and live just round the corner in Barking where Elizabeth Fry is buried (see back). Five pounds please.

Posted 12 May 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

A simple flaw in so-called feminist theory?

It struck me on the way to work this morning that what a lot of women hate more than being seen as an object is being seen as invisible. Obvious really, pardon the metaphoric joke. Personally, I much prefer to be invisible (well apart from this blog, but I get very few comments;-) to being [...]

Posted 02 May 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Camp Robin Hood gets hit by the snow

Just heard that Camp Robin Hood in New Hampshire where I worked in the kitchens back in 1986 has been hit by the snow so bad it demolished the dinnign hall. Of course for those of us who worked in the kitchens the fact it was on a different level, with a nice wlak up [...]

Posted 24 April 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The film ‘21′

Having seen ‘21′ I enjoyed the references to basic maths, changing variables, and non-linear solutions in a cultural (as opposed to a maths) way. Also loved the bit at the end where Laurence Fishburne is in his retirement gear, poolside, reading the newspaper upside down. On a lateral note it struck me this could be viewed as [...]

Posted 14 April 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry

OK, I thought punk-inspired ‘Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry’ was an interesting film. Here’s the interview from 2002 with director Paul Tickell.

Not just another day at the office.

Posted 11 February 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Camila & Ricardo

Friends Camila & Ricardo ‘do’ Holland:

Posted 27 December 2007 † Stuart § Brazil § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °