A looped online recording of Sailing By, followed by the Shipping Forecast, so you can listen all day, every day. If you want to. Which I think I do. [Warning: please don’t tune in if you happen to be operating industrial machinery, as it may induce drowsiness. Also best avoided if you need the forecast for genuine seafaring purposes, since you’re only ever going to get the outlook for Tuesday 24th February this year, which might be rather pointless in mid-December.]
View post →Portishead sign to Amnesty: This new song, Chase the Tear, has been released in association with Amnesty International.to mark International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of the United Nation’s historic Universal Declaration Of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. The UDHR set out for the first time in a single document the fundamental rights to which everyone, everywhere is entitled - including the right to life, liberty, security, the freedoms of opinion, association and expression, and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
View pozt →This short film by Joseph Pelling is proof, if indeed I needed proof, that I am entirely right to loathe and despise the phrase “thinking outside the box” [via It’s Nice That]
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A message that could only really be delivered in a dripping blood Gothic font. Oh yes. [via fecklesss / luxembourg / funeral / readingpretty]
View post →Possibly the most ridiculous headline ever. Never believe a minicab driver when he tells you that he knows a few good shortcuts. Never believe a minicab driver when he tells you that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction that could launch a chemical attack on UK targets within 45 minutes.
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