Blandlands
Aaron Valdez is blogging a series of action-free videos of suburbia, which is really atmospheric and thoughtful: Blandlands. Reminds me of Frank Breuer’s photographs of warehouses and logos.
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Model railway sex
The Register
TV station idents
A great selection of old TV station idents, recreated in Flash, here.
Right like me
An American writer tries to live for a week with only right-wing media sources. Link.
Business-class flying pickets
A German firm is renting out photogenic youths to protest
organisations, to swell the numbers at their marches and
demonstrations. One critic quoted in the
In need of an asylum
I’ve often wondered whether the Express and the Mail are cynical or stupid in their coverage of asylum seekers and immigration. A strong voice for the ‘stupid’ lobby comes from a Committee hearing in Parliament, at which the editors of those two soiled organs gave evidence. The Express’s
Madness, just madness
US columnist slams the Weather Channel as part of the great liberal conspiracy (via MeFi).
Tip us over 3,000
Remember that survey I mentioned on the Democratic Society’s website? You know, the one that would help us map how different political opinions relate to each other? Well, we’re up to 2,990 responses – and you could be the 3,000th respondent. Not that you’d win anything.
Garry Trudeau interview
The creator of Doonesbury interviewed at length in the Washington Post.
Comment is free: The West Loathing Question: Tam's complaint
A comparatively uninteresting article by Iain McWhirter on the Guardian website provokes an interesting set of responses on devolution and nationalism from the CiF crowd.