The Twentieth Century Society is planning guided tours of the ugliest buildings in Manchester. They don’t put it like that, of course. It’s a tour of historically significant post-war architecture (which just happens to be horrendously ugly and deserves tearing down.)
Swedish art terrorists kidnapped and dismembered one of Stockholm’s cows.
Ickle mentioned this last week, but he doesn’t have permalinks, so I couldn’t point at it.
The Ultimate Cheese album is out.
I just wonder how many of the songs Griff hasn’t got already.
A new page of Deputised Experts is up. Don’t forget to vote-
This week’s subject is modern. I wanted to juxtapose new and old, so here are a couple of stainless steel sculptures that recently went up outside the Corn Exchange (aka Triangle. Why are Manchester developers so scared of the city’s heritage? Ancoats is becoming New Islington, the Corn Exchange became the Triangle. The Printworks is the only exception I can think of offhand.)
Introducing the newest branch of Spinneyhead. A sort of super special, extra geeky shop. Only one product there at the moment, but there are more to come.
You are a XSYG–Expressive Sentimental Physical Giver. This makes you a Sex Bomb.
Many Trek fans are unhappy with Enterprise and the general state of the Star Trek franchise but Activision are going one better and suing Paramount over it. They say that Paramount’s neglect of Star Trek means they can’t sell games under the (rather expensive) exclusive licence they bought back in ’98 when DS9 and Voyager were still running.
A rather lush Flash trailer for GTA: San Andreas is now online.
Pre-order the game from Amazon. You know you want to.
The argument against extreme weather as evidence of global warming is that we’ve had floods before. A fair enough point, but they are becoming more regular as the system heats up, and thousands of small pointers tell us the scientists are right.
I want one! Designs have been drawn up for self sufficient buildings which utilise materials and technology from space exploration. This link is for my sister, who’s looking into low impact/ eco housing at the moment.
The technology could be used in a German Antarctic base. Check out this hi-res image of a concept model, complete with Pingus.
via BoingBoing
The top ten sci-fi movies, as voted for by real scientists–
1. Blade Runner
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
4. Alien
5. Solaris
6. Terminator/T2: Judgment day
7. The Day the Earth Stood Still
8. War of the Worlds
9. The Matrix (The Ultimate Matrix Collection is a ten disc set!)
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Apparently, Sheep suffer from separation anxiety
Amazon even have a book called Sheep for beginners!
Apparently, this is theweirdsite’s pic of the week.
Update: Speaking of weird, Cat Yoga
Having only today taught my phone to say odeon, this may be the last chance i have to see a film here.
Why did we have to choose catwoman?
George Lucas could be thinking of making Star Wars episodes 7, 8 and 9.
I have found, via Salon’s Wednesday Morning Download, a treasure trove of free MP3s.
Beach Volleyball is a real sport. And it can get very exciting to watch. I finally worked out the rules yesterday whilst watching the men’s semi-final. (via Ben Hammersley)
Dressage is not a real sport. Disco dancing horses? Really?
Meanwhile I’m learning all manner of new and interesting track cycling events, notably the Keirin and Madison.
Say what you like about Tony (and I regularly do), but only one of Thatcher’s kids could be arrested for their part in an attempted coup.
Dna has many uses it seems. Not content with being the building block for the whole of the creatures on this planet, it is also being used to help in the fight against spam
