I can’t believe I only just found The Fail Blog.
This is the greatest photograph ever taken.

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I thought about scaling this one down to fit this site, but it wouldn’t work. You’ll see why.
Click.
And as usual, don’t forget to mouseover the cartoon and read the popup. From xkcd.com.

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The description next to this video is, “Cuz somebody had to do it.”
This is Daft Hands remixed and it’s very well done.

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I watched this yesterday arvo having heard good things about it. The Kingdom itself is the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the country from where most of the 9/11 hijackers hailed.
It’s a good film, although you could argue that the film itself doesn’t quite live up to the excellent opening titles, which give the viewer [...]

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That’s the title of a talk at TED University.
My favourite is:
… which isn’t really dangerous at all but is something I’m very much looking forward to doing with our children, God-willing.
The bloke giving the talk (Gever Tully - where do Americans get these names) doesn’t have kids, and although I like most of what [...]

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I just discovered the artwork extras on the B-sides CD that comes with the 12″ version of In Rainbows.
Here’s the text of the ReadMe.txt in the artwork folder.
this CD contains some photos and some pictures.
the photos are by jonny & colin.the ones with an SK in the filename are by steve keros.the pictures are [...]

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We stumbled on this list of Newtown restaurants last night. Diners have left their own reviews and you can sort by rating, price, name etc.
Good to know that Thai Times Nine takes the crown for Thai in Newtown.
We’ve had Pizza from Basil Pizza and Pasta a couple of times recently, and I can highly recommend [...]

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This is great. Radiohead play the whole album in their studio. (52min)
You can download the file in .flv format here (121MB). Shame it’s on YT, because of the quality hit they make you take. If anyone knows where you can get a hi-res (even HD) version of this, let me know.
Via Dan G.

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Ok.
I really didn’t expect that.
(Sally got me the 12″ In Rainbows for Christmas and it just arrived yesterday. If you have the means, I highly recommend it. It is so choice.)
PS: Going to the cricket today. Bring it, Tendulkar.

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I never saw Julius Sumner Miller’s actual show, but I did watch many of his Cadbury ads in the early to mid 1980s: “Why is it so?” Eggs going into bottles and a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk etc.
Youtube has all his greatest hits, of course, including this beauty about [...]

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We just got back on the Interwebs after moving and going on holidays (where we are now - blessed with sweet, sweet broadband). Whilst catching up on surfing, I came across this YT vid, through Time Magazine’s massive list of Top Tens.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw&rel=1&border=1]

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