WHAT’S A GIRL LIKE ME DOING AT A RINK LIKE THIS? – The Other Skate Nation
I often ask myself that too. Especially on “Adult nite” (Thursday), which is like a singles bar — except that there’s no booze allowed and they play too much Motley Crue and everyone’s on quads...
View ArticleJohn Otway At Glastonbury – Beyond The Fringe
John Otway plays every year at Glastonbury in the Cabaret tent, but no one ever goes to see him. He had a novelty hit single called ‘Cor Baby That’s Really Free’ in the late ’70s and has reputedly been...
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Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group 8
Introduction & Nos. 20-16 Welcome to the Eighth Freaky Trigger pop music Focus Group. What’s all this then? We took twenty recent hit singles and got a focus group to rate them each out of ten and...
View ArticleGlastonbury Review 2003
Tom Ewing’s Bit THE RAPTURE Almost everybody else I was with hated the Rapture. I loved them. I know the songs on the much-leaked album quite well, but that wasn’t why. The thing was, by Sunday...
View ArticleTHE SQUARE TABLE – What Is The Square Table?
It’s a rotating panel of Interweb pop pundits – they get sent an MP3 by me (that is, Tom) about once every three days and they comment on each one, giving it a mark out of ten. The collated comments...
View ArticlePopular ’64
Will you still read me, will you still tick me, now we’re ’64? Expect a new Popular post proper presently, however we’ve had a call for another year poll, and the 2d10 came up with 64. So, Tom’s...
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Come and Get It – Rachel Stevens Mysteriously unsuccessful album of the year 2005 Amazon»
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Song 2 in 1 minute on accordion Martin White’s 60 seconds on Radio 4′s “28 Acts in 28 Minutes” more on his site
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Websites as Graphs Pretty java graphical representation of a website. The process of drawing is prettier than the result. Wish it told you more about what the nodes represent.
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List of Fictional Curse Words A cleaner, geekier, telefantasy-biased, version of Rogers Profanisaurus. You fracking knuckleheaded McSpazzmatron.
View ArticlePopular ’68
I AM THE GOD OF POLL-FIRE AND I BRING YOU… tickboxes. 44-year-old tickboxes. Mid-August 68 and the TODALLY bonkers world of Art Brown was here, soon giving way to a string of killer Bs, Beach Boys, Bee...
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National Talk Like A Pirate Day The Internet’s own version of April Fool’s – but on September 19th. How long can we manage to keep our Pirate Filter in place…
View ArticlePopular ’69
Back in the Summer of 69. And the Spring, Autumn and other bits too. A missing Popular year poll for you to keep your spirits up while Tom regroups. Tom’s standing orders are: I give a mark out of 10...
View ArticleFT Archive Resurrection – C90 Go!
C90 Go! – a series of seven long essays about mixtapes sent through time or space. (Thanks to Tim Hopko for his archival striving here)
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Strange statues around the world 77 of the oddest civic sculptures scavenged from the net. Some might be considered NSFW, but well worth the risk.
View ArticleAnother great FT milestone: 100,000 spam
About the same time we passed 5000 comments*, so 20 out of 21 comments are spam**. Nice. Many many thanks to akismet.com and the “Worst Offenders” plugin. Free fun FT fact: we are now mobile phone...
View ArticleAdmin: listen up, all comment crew
I was hoping that the lovely Akismet filter (200,000 spam caught and rising) would be updated to have an option to never mark logged-in user’s comments as spam. No such luck, so i’ve had a go myself. I...
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icanhascheezburger.com lolcats with tags for your convenience, all categorised and everything in a blog-a-day.
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Vote Saxon “Finally we can usher in a new age of prosperity, no more artificial politicians pretending to be someone they’re not!”
View ArticleSorry about the technical problems we’re having
I have no idea what might be causing it. My current theory is that a bit of the Apache server has gone mental (perhaps mod_rewrite) but it could be something in our WordPress setup too. For now, I have...
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