Unreliably Witnessed

2009

June 84
May 67
April 45
March 84
January 78

2008

June
May
April
March
February
January
Mrs Slocombe's Pussy Quotes
Jul 1st
“At some point before the program concludes, pour a glass of...”
— Hydragenic | The Breakdown
Jul 1st
Warch Watch
Isao Hashimoto: 1945–1998 - “A haunting visualisation of the 2053 atomic explosions that...
Jul 1st
“… there were 10 to 15 times more complaints from...”
— The Guardian
Jul 1st
twitter666
Jun 30th
Wanna Speak With Commons People
Jun 30th

Eight five seven nine nine nine two...

I have now been listening to recordings of Numbers Stations for two and a half hours. I think it...
Jun 30th
Listen Listen
For your uneasy listening pleasure, there’s four CDs’ worth of Shortwave Numbers...
Jun 30th
Album Names and Cold War Games: A History of...
Jun 30th
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
Jun 29th
[via]
Jun 29th
Councillor's ban over gay remark
Jun 28th
Delinquents, 1972 [via] Or maybe it’s just a...
Jun 28th
[via]
Jun 28th
Not too far from the truth of what British tabloid...
Jun 27th

Unfortunate names for software #1

Even amongst the catalogue of ridiculous sounding titles for desktop and/or mobile Twitter...
Jun 27th
Listen Listen
Weather report. It is hotter than Satan’s underpants. I feel like I am about to melt into...
Jun 27th
“Iranian state television’s Channel Two is playing a...”
— Slashdot Idle Story
Jun 26th
Warch Watch
Michael Jackson being impersonated by a 6’4”, white, upper middle-class Englishman. I am...
Jun 26th
[via megpickard / simondoggett / picturesforsadchildren.com]
Jun 26th
“We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields,...”
— BBC News: ‘Stoned...
Jun 25th
Warch Watch
Cardiacs: Big Ship (live in 1990) - And more sad news, this time that Cardiacs insane genius Tim...
Jun 25th
Why sports anoraks are all genital sniffers
Jun 25th
Swells Dies. Caps Lock Buttons Sigh In Relief
Jun 25th
“Writing a blog post is a lot harder than posting a status...”
— The long tail of blogging is...
Jun 25th
They may not have had the internet on which to showcase...
Jun 25th
Networking Tips for the Introverted
Jun 24th
Get it off your chest: The slogan T-shirt has...
Jun 24th
Yes, we know that pornography only truly entered the...
Jun 24th
Dench swearing prompts complaints
Jun 24th
Disabled woman sues clothes store
Jun 24th
In Which We Can Go To An Island Far Away!
Jun 23rd
Listen Listen
Momus: A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy, Parts 17-24: a bedroom electro-pop classic from 1988,...
Jun 23rd
[via whyem and il bambino e il suo bosco 2, 2005]
Jun 22nd

Please shut up, because I am now going...

Whenever I glimpse yet another of those interminable articles - and I do mean glimpse, not read,...
Jun 22nd
Warch Watch
The Michael Nyman Band are more rock ‘n’ roll than countless musicians with amps that go...
Jun 19th
Warch Watch
Adam Curtis (again). ‘The Rise and Fall of the Television Journalist’, aired on Charlie...
Jun 19th
W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood,...
Jun 19th
Warch Watch
It’s all in the timing. Having only referenced him a couple of days ago, documentary...
Jun 19th
Warch Watch
The Fall: Big New Prinz - “Check the record, check the record, check the guy’s track record....
Jun 19th
Mark E. Smith and the missus, Brix, in their drop-dead cool...
Jun 19th
If only I had a cat … [suyhnc]
Jun 18th
“It is an interesting divide, somewhat, in that the authors...”
— Blake Butler
Jun 17th
Warch Watch
Talking of which …
Jun 17th
Warch Watch
Mainly because, I must confess, Brian Eno’s piece of music The Big Ship always reminds me of...
Jun 17th
Warch Watch
New Order and Blur members form Bad Lieutenant. Hmm. Not convinced. Drearily acoustic and...
Jun 15th
russell davies: adam gopnik on darwin
Jun 15th
A Twitter client for the Commodore 64
Jun 15th
bacteria colonizing on a petri dish «...
Jun 15th
xkcd: Addiction
Jun 15th
Dream debut for new singer Pixie
Jun 15th
Warch Watch
This is only from 1993, yet it looks absolutely historic. And I don’t think it’s just...
Jun 14th
Lady Thatcher treated after fall
Jun 12th
Type Tart Cards [via pandemian]
Jun 12th
Listen Listen
A.C. Newman: Take On Me - yes, the A-ha song. Sniff. Sigh. Whimper. Etc. [via rejecter]
Jun 11th
“I think this is my first time on a Routemaster. For the...”
— shrinkwrapped
Jun 11th
I think I just imploded with sheer, unadulterated lust....
Jun 10th

Coffee with a shot of nihilism, please...

[A follow- on from this post.] Same branch of Starbucks. Same early morning. Same much-needed...
Jun 10th
Listen Listen
King of the Slums: Up the Empire / Balls to the Bulldog Breed - “Under the auspices of...
Jun 9th
‘Nice people take drugs’ ads pulled from London...
Jun 9th
Behind the Scenes: A New Angle on History: “Never...
Jun 8th
UKIP beats Labour to second place
Jun 8th
“Untwisting and bending, he fashioned a wire coat hanger into...”
— Through the Bed Clothes by Ani...
Jun 8th
BNP secures two European seats
Jun 8th

I knew it would happen one day

And it finally has. It’s finally happened. The internet is suddenly, on the spur of the...
Jun 7th
Gordon Brown’s fingernails showing the strain [via[
Jun 7th
Warch Watch
The Cesarians: Woman - and this is my new favourite band exercising their Birthday Party side, I...
Jun 5th
Warch Watch
The Cesarians: Flesh is Grass - a mix of The Birthday Party, Brecht & Weill, you say? With no...
Jun 5th
BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Three...
Jun 5th
“What the fuck does this have to do with the Shipping...”
— Hydrogen Jukebox: This is a...
Jun 5th
Wise advice that I really should follow. [via Mirthful...
Jun 5th
Readers, if you love me - if you really, really love me -...
Jun 4th
[via theduty]
Jun 4th
“Many creative people don’t restrict their questioning and...”
— What is the True Value of...
Jun 4th
Listen Listen
pandemian: Don is growing a very long beard this week. June 5th, 1944.
Jun 4th
Charles Darwin [viasuddenly]
Jun 3rd
Warch Watch
I know it’s incredibly juvenile, but out-takes of usually dependable and respectable...
Jun 3rd
The world needs more Scrabble-based messages. Particularly...
Jun 3rd
[via nevver, It wasn’t meant to end like this]
Jun 3rd
[via suyhnc, tomisima, Thom Puckey]
Jun 3rd
Revealed: Labour rebels' timetable to unseat...
Jun 3rd
[via aboyinmidair, brampitoyo, minusbaby]
Jun 2nd
Warch Watch
Oh yes, that’s better. I needed that.
Jun 2nd
Ah, the blissfully happy days of watching Call My Fuck - er,...
Jun 2nd
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no...”
— Somerset Maugham
Jun 1st
“People Who Capitalise Every Word When Leaving Comments On...”
— Born Under Punches
Jun 1st
I'm staying on as PM, says Brown
Jun 1st
British are 'barbarians' - Paxman
Jun 1st