December 2008
38 posts
Year In Cities 2008
Every place I spent at least one night during 2008:
London, UK n=277
Upavon, UK n=28
Maidenhead, UK n=21
Ars-en-Re, France n=10
Franchhoek, South Africa n=8
Argentiere, France n=7
Cairo, Egypt n=6
Istanbul, Turkey n=5
Oakridge Lynch, UK n=2
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Skaters Jump In as Foreclosures Drain the Pool -... →
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Top Ten 2008: Albums
I’m sticking to a strict methodology here, that precludes any posing or faux claims to obscure musical taste. This Top Ten is ranked on the number of plays for the least played song on each of these albums, divided by the months since I added it to my iTunes library. If you’d like to verify the findings, you can compare against my LastFM page. 1. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
This tops...
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Hores.
Left 4k Dead - awesome atmospheric zombie game... →
Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between... →
Achievement Unlocked - ultra meta flash game →
Word of the day: debu-neko, which is Japanese for “fat cat”, as in obese feline.
"Because here's something else that's weird but...
Little Brown are posthumously publishing DFW’s 3,800 word Kenyon Commencement Speech as a 150 page book. Yeah, I don’t get the maths of that either.
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“NEW YORK—In what many are calling the most comprehensive study of its kind,...”
– Staten Island Historians Piece Together Genealogy Of Wu-Tang Clan | The Onion
The Daily Otter →
Niche blog of the week. Didn’t even have to think twice before subscribing.
Elastica - Waking Up (I think I’ll still be...
“At first we were a bit stunned…when the raw translation of the first episodes...”
– Babbel Blog on the difficulties of dubbing The Wire into German
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STD Medication or Character From "The NeverEnding... →
WatchBitches Ain’t Shit A Cappella
Google Cliche Watch: Weapons of mass...X
Seduction =24,700 Construction = 20,800 Reduction = 14,100 Instruction = 10,900 Obstruction = 498 Deduction = 156 Conduction = 23 Abduction = 2
