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:: Saturday, December 09, 2006 ::

Great Photo Opportunities I Have Missed #2

Driving along Bedminster Parade, Bristol, 2pm, Friday, scruffy looking middle-aged cyclist rides past in the opposite direction, one hand on the handlebars, the other clutching a half drunk can of Stella.

Labels: GPOIHM, Humour

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More good copyright news! What's going on?

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
It does propose harder inforcement of IP but proposes exceptions for back-ups of audio / MP3 players etc and "suggests that exemptions to copyright law should be allowed for 'transformative works'. This would permit the use of copyright material in new and creative ways, so long as it did not detract from the value of that material or offend artistic integrity. It calls on the EU to amend the law to allow for that exception. It would allow 'rappers' and other creators to rework old material."
[sources: Music Thing, The Times]

Meanwhile, musicians with their heads up their asses call for extension of copyright.

Edit: Zombies for Copyright Extension

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The Mighty Monkey God Manuman (of Monkey Steak) returns with the final(?) instalment of his mix trilogy:
Hanuman - Ornithology Mix [Webpage with 52MB MP3 & tracklisting]
Another great and varied mix. The two previous instalments are also linked on the page and there's a nice little interview with Jon there too.

E:LF - CHIPS N BITS MIX (HBMP302) [46MB MP3]
Electronic Lifeform collects together the best examples of 8bit audio destruction!
TRACK LISTING :
01 50 CENT VS C64 - JOSSTIN TIMBERLAKE
02 CHIPRAPE - STU DROPDABOMB
03 FAT BITCH - MERVNSHROOMY
04 PHONETERROR - PSILODUMPUTER
05 PS GENERATION - FIRESTARTER
06 DEFINE - DRX
07 IM SORRY EMINEM - CARL
08 CHECK THIS OUT - FIRESTARTER
09 ATARI UNDERGROUND CHIPTUNE RESISTANCE - STU DROPDABOMB
10 LEVEL 1-2 - ONE PLAYER GAME
11 PAIN SNAIL – HELLO

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Hahahahaha! Bolton resigns!

A little reminder of why this is a good thing:

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I had the idea of setting up a blog specifically for reviewing local news papers, but then gave up on it as it seemed like far too much effort. Instead, I think I'll post some random examples here now and again when I can be arsed.

Introduction

In his book Down Under Bill Bryson explains why he likes to buy a local news paper where ever he travels. He thinks the local interest and day to day mundanity are fascinating and can tell you something about a place. I always found this difficult to reconcile with my memories of growing up in Bristol with the Evening Post (colloquially known as the bog roll) dropping turd like through the letter box every evening and spreading its heavily biased opinions on the state of the city, scare mongering stories about youths roaming the streets, and some old ladies stolen tortoise with a Lego wheel in place on one leg. So how does the rest of the country fair?

Western Morning News – 11.11.06

This caught my eye in a petrol station in Worle. The front page story being the long running and bitter dispute about the origins of the pasty that Cornwall and Devon are playing out across the Tamar. The rivalry between these neighbouring counties always fascinates me. It seems like no long established Cornish tradition is safe from Devonian one-up-man-ship. Often on the flimsiest of evidence. And always invoking the ire of the Cornish who are fiercely independent. The debate over Devon's newly designed flag (which when printed in black & white in a local paper looked exactly the same as Cornwall's) was raging when I was holidaying in the two counties in 2003. The pasty story in particular is so good I've scanned it in it's entirety for you [900KB PDF].

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Now men are expected to look like skeletal models too?

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