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Global warming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teS11jE95WM What's the next step after twitter?

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Curiosity 'interrogates' Martian rock with laser - CNN.com Cooooool.

MIKE BLOOMFIELD (1965) - YouTube I love that 47 years later, YouTube commenters are still debating the wheres and whys of whether Dylan should have gone electric or not. "They say sing while you slave... I just get bored."

Horror movie festivals, how I do love ye. Monster Brawl, not so much. It's a fun (if not original) idea on paper, having all the classic movie monsters - zombies, vampires, wolfmen, bog creatures, Frankenstein, etc - face off in a battle to the death to see who remains standing. But while there...

Karen Russell's Swamplandia! sputtered to life just as I was about to toss it aside permanently. It's still a poorly paced novel, occasionally overwritten, which doesn't quite manage to balance its two main storylines and could probably have used a last retrofit to set up some of the ideas it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCasuaAczKY&feature=player_embedded 2 years in prison for a 40-second song. Damn. I'd hate to be a prog rock band in Russia.

Isn't that kind of like when David Cameron claimed his favourite band was the Smiths? Except Tom Morello's reply is a lot more eloquent than Morrissey's was, AFAIR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRbeHyIomk

German readers are now so desperate to read more crap Scandinavian crime fiction that they've come up with a brilliant solution: Write the novels themselves and publish them under a fake Swedish pseudonym, complete with a fake backstory for the supposed author - who, of course, "doesn't do...

Mona Lisa looks a bit like a lion?

They're almost always great. Though occasionally not very funny.

Every now and then I binge-read A Softer World

EL James launches official Fifty Shades Of Grey clothing line

Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography is stunning.

RIP Harry Harrison. Haven't read him in years, but I have very vivid memories of bringing home bagfuls of his books from the library in my teens. Maybe about time to reread him.