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2015

December

Suddenly, London

Suddenly, Britain

Suddenly, Durham

November

Suddenly, Atlanta

smartctl says no

This Week, I Have Mostly…

Congress of Berlin

A Small Respite

October

My Week In Lists (extended disco remix)

My Week In Lists

All Things Open & Spark

Escape From Columbia

September

Troubleshooting Apache Spark — GZ Splitting Woes!

Have You Ever Been Afraid of an Album?

All Apache Spark All The Time

Brown Butter Makes Everything Better

The Hot Take You've Been Waiting For

Bank Holiday Monday Till I Die

August

The World At War

Ian Is Always The Spy

Chicken and Biscuits

July

ETL Phone Home (And Go Away)

And That’s Why I Bought Resistance Avalon

Inspiration Failure

North Carolina — The Fun Police

June

The Delicious Salty Taste of Scalia’s Tears

Spark and Kafka - Getting Cozier

The Adventure Continues

Further Adventures With MRIs

Insurance Adventures

Gary Oldman - Spirit Animal

May

Autoforwarding Security Credentials In Storm

Avengers 2 - Getting Too Old For This

The Not-So-Strange Death of Liberal England

April

And Then There Was One

Pun Leaderboards!

March

Crack’d Mirror

Snow Week 2 - Morse Edition. And Brutalism

February

Snow, Interrupted

And Then The Warp Core Failed. With Hilarious Results

January

Please Stand By

This Week In Chocolate — White

This Year In Chocolate

2015 - The Year of Griff

2014

December

Counting Down, Time Goes By So Slow

Public Service Announcement

Are We Festive?

November

Oh no, not the puppy!

You Cruel, Heartless Bastards

The Red Mark of Durham

Begin The Quarter Quell!

October

The Monkey, Refined

allo darlin’ - the chocolate box

The Week Looms Ahead

September

Chocolate Room 2.0

The State of the Union is...Together. For The Moment

Things I Learnt This Week

Dark Chocolate Digestives Drought Continues

And Still No Dark Chocolate Digestives

August

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Yeah! Yeah! 10th Anniversary Special Edition

July

Crazy Crazy Weekend (includes recipe!)

VACUUM EVERYTHING.

June

We'll Just Pop Out To The Liquor Store

We'll Go On Getting Bad Results

16 Things About A Trip To Charleston

Driver - One Year Later

May

I Shall Diminish And Listen To Radio 2

MAY DAY UPRISING

April

Been a while...

March

Spot Instances With Ansible

Hit Him Again, Luke

It's 3am, Is Your EventMachine Selecting?

The Phantom Bedbugs

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

February

The Apples Were Quite Cold

January

This Is My Island In The Sun

It's 3am, Do You Know Where Your Certs Are?

The Chocolate Gods

Six Years To 2020

2013

December

My Year In Lists

Just Like Christmas

I Hate Chocolate

The Weather Outside...Isn't Frightful?

November

Black Friday Again

The Eyebrows Will Rise

Indefinite Leave To Remain

October

Missing - One Year

September

Instant Zepto.js Now On Amazon!

Missing The Stairs

The Rodeo Is In Town

August

I Believe It's Pronounced I Told You So

A Brief Respite

July

Stolen Watermelons

Life In East Durham

June

Happy Canada Day

May

A Return To London Village

London Fragments

April

That Escalated Quickly

If They Were Me

What, No Council Housing?

You Useless, Cretinous Morons

March

February

Something Going Down

Where Is My Heart?

Cremè Brûlée

All Change (Again)

January

Attaching and Bashing

Things I Don't Want To Forget In The Morning

Redis Weekly and other things

2012

December

I'm Older Than My Years

Happy Christmas!

Now I Have A Tempering Machine

November

The Largest Lingerie Section In Ireland

October

Polls Polls Polls

All The Fun of The Fair

September

Things I Learnt In Chicago

Spangles Not Included

That Was The First Big Weekend of The Autumn

Eternal September

August

More Milestones

July

Food Trucks and Colonials

You're The A-Side

June

10 Years Since I Became One Of Those People

How To Lose Friends

May

It was the tail end of the summer...

April

The Inchworm Menace

March

It's Cat Deeley!

Local Man Ruins Everything

February

Health Via VISA

January

We Regret To Inform You That We're Revoking Your Hipster Food License

On My Own (Once Again)

But I Really Love My New Friends

2011 And All That

2011

December

Are You Hanging Up A Stocking On Your Wall?

He's Back, He's Back In Durham

November

Goodbye Courage

October

The Orange Juice Diary

This Ain't No Country Club

Surprisingly, Leaving On A Jetplane

September

Updates and Shorter Nights

DMV Adventures!

August

Surviving an Earthquake and Hurricane (also, chicken & honey)

Week 0 - England Made Me

July

June

Fashion And Thieves

The Uncle Who Wasn't There

May

All Quiet On The Western Front

April

The Birth Certificate & Illustrator

AA173 And Blushing

Papusas, Clouds, and Nesquik

Pavements, Durham, and Oh My!, The Food

March

Coming up from the Fallout Durham Labs

If You Like It So Much, Why Don't You Marry It?

Can We Start Again?

Now, all we need is a bit of content, and a lot of luck.

Why Things Are Going Well

January

That Was The Night That Was

Comics! Get Your Comics Here!

2010

December

25 Hours Up and Counting…

And now, the…well, slightly border-radius window!

November

Is This Thing Still On...?

September

First They Came For The Comments, Then For The Posts;

August

From The Comments, Part 2

A New ZX Spectrum:

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant - Marshmallows

Microsoft…er…guys?

I Can't Wait Until Popular Gets Here

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant - Pâte de Fruit

July

Jon Stewart, Do The Decent Thing!

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant - Blackcurrant Vodka

London Village - It's Not Blood, It's Cherryade

You! Me! Dancing!

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant - Blackcurrant Bars

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant - Blackcurrant Ice Cream

101 Ways To Use A Blackcurrant *

June

I Wear A Fez Now

Bow Ties Are Cool.

Heaven Has A North.

Heaven Has A Virgin Megastore Checkout.

WE. ARE. ALL. GETTING. ONE.

May

A Farewell To Britain: Part One of Many

Looking Forward to the First Europe Cabinet Meeting!

Experiments: Tempering

April

DDDC: 2010 - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

March

Leaving on a jet-plane, part 2475: Pac-Man Boogaloo

I'm Making An Exception

February

Dear Internet...(Dreamhost/DataMapper)

January

In Medias Res...

From The Comments...

Wedding Details!

Eternal Sunshine of The GOP Mind

2009

December

RIP Virgin Mobile. 2003-2009

Goodbye to all that...

November

I Think It's Time To Make A Stand

October

What Fresh Horror Is This?

Well, hello, Mr. November

September

God Bless Nicky Wire (and Avril Lavigne too...)

It's Not Gill Sans

Last Day of Summer

Hello September

August

What A Life It Would Be...If You Would Come To Mine For Tea

The Utopia Estate

A Summary of Republican/Democratic Negotiating Techniques

We Dress Cheap / We Dress Tacky

Flashback: "Well, they *would* say that..."

Danke Schön (RIP)

Changing Times...

This Will Not End Well...

July

And All of A Sudden

Jetlag: Extended

And So We Return To The Beginning And Begin Again

June

Steven Wells RIP

Fortress Britain

From The Desk Of The Metropolitan

Halfway Through...

May

Durham: A Guide

What The Internet Was Made For:

We May Need A Plan C.

Reasons Why The Internet Is Wonderful

April

Pelican It Girl!

Down At The Corn Exchange...With Stewart Lee

David Mitchell: Taking Offence

Look For Me, I'll Be Around

FREE EPISODE FIVE!

Talk With Dylan

Reverse Midas Touch - A Slight Return

March

Or Is It The Businessman, In His Suit or Tie?

It's Only Springtime

Really, This Is What Channel 4 Has Come To? (The Rappers, You've Seen Them)

If We Steal Enough Ideas From The Tories, Maybe We'll Look Better

Ignored. Of Course.

Jon Stewart Killed My Career And All I Got Was A Dance-Off!

Apple: ZERO BUTTONS AHOY!

Britain: 1983: NO FUTURE.

Britain: 1980: NO FUTURE.

Britain: 1977: NO FUTURE.

Britain: 1974: NO FUTURE.

Britain: 1964-2009: NO FUTURE.

February

Thank You, SLC!

Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)

Welcome To Victory!

World Nutella Day

January

What Ian Did Next

Everybody Else Is Saying It...

Searching For The Reverse Midas Touch

Eight Years...And Sanity.

Classy To The End, Part 345

Five-And-Dimed.

Senator Al Franken

Personally, I'm Expecting The Rapture First

A Pitiful Request For A Tracker Link...

What Does Betfair Know?

This May Make More Sense Later

Welcome To 2009

2008

December

Lazy Newsround Reporters

X-Factor May Good For Something, I Guess

The Lengths I Go To

Anonymous To Action!

Sky Christmas Ident

November

This Is The Legacy of Anonymous

Five-and-dimed...or a lack of sixpences

Starting 2009 By Looking Back

Yay Christmas Comics!

Was This Included In November 4th?

Thoughts on Supertrain

The Party That Doesn't Stop Giving

So Much Food...

Well, NC Already Was A Blue State

Sad News From Hawaii

A Gentle Summary, If You Will.

And Again! Yay For David Mitchell!

Grits, Grits, and more Grits!

The Cat Is Stroking My Laptop

October

Leaving On A Jetplane Part 10? 11?: We're Stunted You And I

You Are Beautiful. You Are Doomed.

This Could Happen To You

Out of Control? Out of Ideas, More Like! (trad.)

Send Me Stationery To Make Me Horny

The Long Blondes: RIP

FOX: From Little ACORNs do Socialists Grow

Obama Is Scrooge McDuck.

How Much Money Did You Raise Last Month?

FOX News: Fair. Balanced. And Currently Hysterical.

Eagleton, You Betcha

This would be a test.

We're All Socialists Now

And For The Record

Debate 3: I'm Getting Too Old For This

For Those Of You Playing The 'Maverick' Drinking Game

Vice-President Debate

Not That I Can Read The Whole Story

September

A Banana Republic With Nukes.

Recipe: A Summer Wasting

One Thing I'll Be Happy About

On Fox News Right Now

Craziest US Election in Living History

The President's Secret Plan To Fight Inflation

US Government: New Sponsors of Man Utd

I Can See Russia From My House!

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.

The Indelicates, The 229

At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Apple Moan of The Day

Reading For August

Rudy Can't Fail

Eagleton Countdown: Day 5

August

Exposure: North And South

Classy To The End

A Noun, A Verb, and POW

Dial A For Apple

The Campaign Starts Here.

Welcome To Wal-Mart UK

Should We Be Worried?

Futurephone Activate!

The North Will Rise Again

Inspired Casting #342

Note To Eastern Europe

This Is England

Those Halcyon Days

See You At The Debates, Bitches

Blackcurrant Vodka and 40 Second Cakes!

This Is Year Zero

July

Noel Gallagher: Old Man On Your Street

Change We Could Bloody Well Believe In

June

What Say You Come Back In July?

Just What The World Needs

Do You Remember The Times?

First Time With Vista

Normal Service To Resume?

SNAP050: Almost done.

He wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

SNAP050: It Continues.

A Record Label With A Indifference To Profit That Bordered On Performance Art

Ah, do we remember 2003?

We Call It...Blanguage

Is It June 3rd Already?

Hang In There, Peppermint Patty

May

D-D-D-Data Ghost!

Thought For The Day: The Least, And Yet Most Crucial.

Anybody Got A Spare £7.5bn?

Foodscience!: It's a Sickness

The Only Thing More Annoying Than Blockvoting

Hillary Clinton: Off The Edge.

Happy Birthday Richard!

Even The BBC Is Getting Sick of It Now

But...but wait! Our Creme Eggs are getting smaller!

With Places Like This

Our prediction: Here.

Back To The Newts

While I Bristle Everytime BBC News Says "Mayor Johnson"...

You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes...And You Get What You Deserve

April

Schrödinger's Law

And The Mystery Man Is Revealed

Peppermint Patties

Oddly, I Feel Quite Proud

In West Philadelphia, Born & Raised

PA LOVES YOU VERY MUCH.

The Greatest British Film Never Made

Imagine...The Name of The Game

23,24,25,26,27,28,29!

With Such Elegance With Such Grace

You're The B-Side

Do You Have Robot Insurance?

FoodScience! Do You Know Where That's Been?

The Elephant In Your Living Room...The Fascist In Your Bed

"THAT'S JUST YOUR HAND!"

March

2008: Indie Sloganeering For The Masses

We Never Had It So Good

Despite All The Fools And Liars

Reactionary? Us?

This Is Not A Test

It Was Carrboro...Once Again

Farewell Schoolkids

Sitting Out On Carr Mill Lawn

And On The First Day, He Shopped

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing

Please, Please, Please

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall?

IT'S MISSISSIPPI, BABY!

How's That Abstinence Plan Working Out, Then?

Frickell From The Past

Even The Twitters Are Getting Sarcastic!

Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia...

Tucker Carlson: Dolt For Hire

FOODSCIENCE: Agar Agar Agar Agar Agar!

Super Tuesday III: THE RECKONING.

While We're Here...

Oh My God, What Have I Done?

February

It..It Just Can't Be Helped.

Vampire Weekend

Manifest Destiny

Also: How You Doin'?

Right-Wing Hate Machine: Start Your Engines!

Not wishing to make too much light of it...

Ten Years! Ten Years!

Faith In Hasbro: Restored

There May Be A Massacre On The Potomac

I Give You...The Picture Of The GOP Primaries!

Your Conspiracy Theory of The Day

Nine Months Of This

And Now A Return To Our Programme

A Mercy Killing

Let-Down Wednesday

Athens, Georgia.

The Nightmare Scenario

FoodScience!: Spheres of Failure

This is February

January

Regarding Stars

Rudy Can't Fail

Our Ranting Will Be Interrupted

The Kennedys Are Coming

Your Thought For The Night

FoodScience II: The Reckoning!

This Is The Song In The Shape Of A City

The Dynasty Must Continue!

Meanwhile, In the "GROW A SPINE ALREADY!" Department

Jack McCoy Has Your Job Now!

At This Rate...

What We Have Learned

Duncan Hunter's Purpose In Life

Everybody Loves Huckabee!

The Apple Paradox

Macworld Bingo!

FOOD SCIENCE PART 2: SHAKE IT BABY!

Are We Nearly There Yet?

At Least They Didn't Deep Fry Human Kirk

I guess that's what they all say

Help! I Have Accidently Become A Chapel Hill Native!

Reasons To Love CD Alley

The Iowa Caucus Is Decadent And Depraved.

2007

December

The Story So Far

Last Departure From Gatwick: AA173 We Hardly Knew You

Blog: Interrupted

Advent 2007: Window 24

Advent 2007: Window 23

Advent 2007: Window 22

Advent 2007: Window 21

Advent 2007: Window 20

Advent 2007: Window 19

Advent 2007: Window 18

Concrete, Concrete Everywhere!

Chris Dodd: Last Man Standing

Advent 2007: Window 17

Advent 2007: Window 16

Advent 2007: Window 15

Advent 2007: Window 14

Advent 2007: Window 13

It's not just me, is it?

Advent 2007: Window 12

Advent 2007: Window 11

2007 Round-Up: DECLARE INDEPENDENCE!

Advent 2007: Window 10

Advent 2007: Window 9

Advent 2008: Window 8

Advent 2008: Window 7

Now Do The Same With Airwolf!

2007 Round Up: Kate Nash — Foundations

Advent 2008: Window 6

Advent 2008: Window 5

Why not just cut out the middleman?

Advent 2008: Window 4

2007 Round Up: Johnny Boy

Democracy At Work

Advent 2008: Window 3

Advent 2008: Window 2

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Advent 2008: Window 1

November

Teething Difficulties

One Step Forward

NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN FIVE SECONDS.

Alan Dale: HEART ATTACKS A SPECIALITY!

God Bless The Civil Service

Well, You Could Always Set It On Fire

I'VE JUST GOT SOMETHING IN MY EYE!

Moments In Waiting

This Is Sarah Nixey Talking

Listening To Stereolab With Your Striped Scarf And Navy Overcoat

Contains Some Strong Language

Taking One For The Team: Coke Plus Edition

Set Pop To: EMOTE!

South Carolina Democratic Party:

TRANSLUCENT MENUBAR MUST DIE.

October

Jeff Zucker. Translated.

For Those Of You Who Need To Know (Edit News!)

Someone Connect This To St. Elsewhere!

Kent Shakespeare!

Tomorrow: The Day The Mac Died

Keeping It Twee

An Unexpected Fashion Question!

It's Tearing The Music World Apart!

Last.fm: Put Down The Razorblades

(Don't) Believe The Right

(Don't) Believe The Hype

Further Proof That We Lost

The State of Indie Rock

Midnight Opening

There Is A City In The Distance. And Kylie Is Driving Towards It

Join Usssssss…

Shamelessly Stolen From Kieron

One of the downsides…

Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend Is Too Stupid To Know About

Standing Down For The Man

Once Again…Back With The Renegade Master

They're not wise!

Ten Years. Ten Years! TEN YEARS!

Radiohead. 10 Days.

September

A Public Service Announcement

Give Me Something I Can Hold

October 16th 2007

Memories Can Be Unreliable

Back In Reality

Two Word Response.

Never Mess With A Man Coming Down From A Cinnabon High

Take These Flowers Away.

California! And Capitalist Whore Okay!

More Things To Remember About Vegas

For Irregular, Bite-Sized Updates

We Were Actually Quite Far From Barstow...

No monkeys, but Vegas!

I'VE GOT MONKEYS IN MY PANTS.

TOM PAULIN! TOM PAULIN! TOM PAULIN!

The Motorola F3

A Possible Meeting At Pepsi Headquarters

It's A Hard Job, Honest!

Storm Troopers Demand The Truth About 9/11!

August

Tucker Carlson: Not Just An Idiot In A Bow-Tie!

The Celtic Soul Brothers

Call for a new 'Hero'

Why They Don't Want To Rebuild New Orleans

How's Your Week?

Worst Terrorist Faction Name Ever?

Movable Type 4: With a Whimper

Radio 1: ARE YOU LAUGHING NOW, IRONY FANS?

Stewart vs. Hayes

The American Right: Still Scum

But You Should Probably Read More

FAC 0: Tony Wilson, RIP

Munch of Many Worlds

Still, She Does Like Switch!

Well, It Does Make Sense

Meanwhile, back in the former Generation…

The End Times Are Upon Us

In A Different World.

The Japanese: Is There Nothing They Can't Make Disturbing?

Delta And The Bannermen

July

All Our Yesterdays

Curiosity And The Cat

Dude, Die Hard!

Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

Another part of an occasional series.

The Many Levels of Geek-dom

The Computer Is Taking Its Board Home

Feeling Sorry For…

C'mon, Wal-Mart, have a heart!

HYPER FIGHTING!

The ultimate Hipster T-Shirt

Well, ONE person will get it…

Back Once Again

June

If You're Good, I'll Bring Back Maple Syrup

I Can Prove It With Graphs

A Slow Week, Sadly

From The Shadows

It Has Come To This

Bizarreness Number #9

Days Like Television

Result #5 Is Completely True…

The Most Undemocratic City In The Western World

WWDC: I Know Democracy, But I Know What's Fascist

Going Camping. But Without The Mud

It's Mac Update Day! (sorry, Christa)

The Storm At The Centre of Time

May

Donkey Bush Country...

Book Design: Lost In Translation

Happy Birthday (Bicester) Richard!

Public / Private B-L-U-R-E-M-I

Bring On Captain Jack!

Adidas Sleek Mystique Reverse

Did You Threaten To Overrule Jon?

(Can I Take You Home?)

Watch As I Succumb To Another Web Fad!

And I Just Can't Help Believing…

Happy Birthday, Helvetica!

The Dastardly Squirrel

Quite A Reasonable Price, I Think!

What I Love Most About This Is…

April

Still Crazy After All These Years

Because If I'm Going To Be Scarred You Will Too

The Life Of A SysAdmin

Celebrating The Greatest Computer Ever Made

Last Day of April

It Can't Be Porn, It's Islamic!

About Last Night (and the night before)

Things I Learnt Today (Brief Version)

Thought For The Day

Modern Life is…well, quite good actually!

The Really Free Market

Day 3: In which The Author Learns…

Living In The Future

You Shouldn't Go Away Angry

In Case You Needed It!

Something Positive About A Record Company? Heavens!

Easter Mushrooms!

March

Alias Smith And Jones

A little extra detail on a Child In A Million

Weighing On My Mind

1997: Dismissed the Spice Girls as 'Tory scum.'

My Shiny New Toy

In Two Years…

Brian, Brian, He's Our Man

My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings!

How Frontline #11 Should Have Gone

I Am Not Obsessed.

I'm thinking…

Oh Captain, My Captain

Reasons To Slap Bono, 1,2,3

This Is A Speculation Thread

The Acceptable Face And Voice Of American Conservatism!

To My Friends Who Know About These Things

February

This Is Sarah Nixey Talking

London Town Yesterday

Lucky Soul @ The Luminaire 24/2/2007

Books Underneath Waterloo

MTV, What Have You Done To Me?

Also: Civil War #7

Obviously, Steve Jobs Didn't Sign The Petition

Tori Amos: Only Missing A Pig

Is It Wrong Of Me?

How To Miss The Point By A Million Miles

This Has Sucked Up My Day

Your Valentine's Day Programming

Tomorrow, I Will Be Mostly Listening To…

Tell Me When My Light Turns Green

Trainwreck Pulling Away From The Station

The Gentlemen's Rule

Léon The Snowman

Steve Jobs And The Nuclear Button

A Nation Remembered

A Seven Year Old Writes…

Oh, Boston…Boston Boston Boston…

January

Hurrah For Redmond!

Oooh, look! Alien planets!

This post brought to you by TDP

Hurrah for the Japanese!

The Tubes Were Against Him, Naturally

A blast from the past

Yes. I Need This. Neeed It.

BRITS: Live And Scandalous!

We Can Only Hope

Best Job Security In The UK

Looking forward to May

Reader, I Married Him

The Bald Guy Who Was In The Fifth Element and The Sixth Sense

2006

December

Day 3: In Which The Author Wonders

I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!

The View From 40,000ft

On the subject of Father Christmas...

Father Christmas Is Stuck!

Snappish 2006: I suck.

Songs of Advent 7

Songs of Advent 6

It's Christmas!

Crews For Consumismo

Songs of Advent 5

Songs of Advent 4

The Ballad of Jake And The Heffalump

Bonnie And Father Christmas!

Donald Rumsfeld: Still A Jackass

Songs of Advent 3

Songs of Advent 2

Baltimore Tourist Board Loves HBO

Johnny Boy at Stay Beautiful: See You Running Back And Forth

We Love Johnny Boy

Songs of Advent 1

November

Let Them Eat "Love Me Do"

A Quick Torchwood Recap

Ladies And Gentlemen, He's A Charmer...

Is This Frequency Your Universe?

Closed Since I Was Born

But Come On! Dick Cheney Shot A Man In The Face!

And They Have Guns. Remember?

The GOP: The Gift That Keeps Giving

It's A Nintendo Christmas!

The Greatest Picture On The Internet So Far

Happy Birthday Laura!

The Little Light That Could

Oh, Torchwoodpaws.

The Nation: Swept. For One Day Only!

The Daily Show Is Unnecessary

Morning In America

All Exits Final

I Said Never Again

But Does Anybody Else Have 17 Reasons Why?

Still Using Magnets, Though!

Welcome To Catch-22

And Now, An Interlude.

October

Yeah, Well, If You Were Like This Two Years Ago, Perhaps…

Amazingly, Staggeringly, And Yet Somewhat Unsurprisingly…

Land of The Free

Books From Long Ago

Contraceptives In The Rain

2006 Midterms: Right-wing Class.

Bring Me The Head of Murray Gold!

Six of one, half a dozen of the other

Today's Instruction.

The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round

Moreover, I advise that Carthage should be destroyed

Thy Name Is Context!

Includes Dearest, Blackest, Black Type

November is Approaching

It's Pancake Day, It's Pancake Day, It's P-P-P-Pancake Day!

SILENT. STEALTHY. DEADLY

One Upon A Time, There Was Optimus Prime

Hurrah For Chapel Hill Comics!

September

"My Toot-Toot"?

Tell Me What You Gonna Do

It's About Fours Years Too Late

Oh September, How We've Waited For You.

Chasing Phonogram

Oh My Goodness.

Where's That Disco Dancefloor?

And Now, No New Kenickie Videos. But iPods!

Lauren's Hair Is A Little Dodgy

I See No Chance Of Your Bright New Tomorrow

Turn The Clock Back? I Think Not

August

So That's Where Norman Tebbit Has Been Hiding!

Ooooh...oooooh...The ~~White~~ Whiteish Knight

An Image Heavy Week

Japan: Still Has Issues.

Windows And Profiles

John Ritter & Audrey Hepburn! Together At Last!

Do You Remember?

Joe Dredd, Meet Rico

My Fun Weekend.

Dumbing Down For The Kids!

It's Exam Season

Take That, Laser Turret!

The Death of Mac

This Fall's Must Have

Are You A Lesbian, Miss?

PowerPC, We Knew You Well

Introducing Vista 2.0

Days Like Television

DEATH TO IRONY.

Mel Gibson's Breakdowno!

July

Out With A 4m Whimper

Too Ugly For BBC2!

Live From Opera DS!

London Calling…Speak The Slang Now

Oodles and oodles of cash

RichardXLukeHainesRichardXLukeHaines

It's On and Offable, But Mostly Off

The Rapture Smiley!

Limited Service

Now, That's A Little Excessive

I Don't Want A Cake And I Don't Want To Eat It

Don't Forget To Salt The Bones

How I Learnt To Stop Worrying And Love The Who

Funnily Enough, I Was Just Thinking About This Today

I Can't Wait To Hear The Radio Edit!

Johnny Boy @ The Luminaire

Snappish Approved: Pull Shapes

The Tower of Power!

A Moment of Silence, If You Will

OMG DALEK VS CYBERMEN FITE!

June

A Sleater-Kinney XVI

I Don't Want To Buy Now And Pay In September

Johnny, we're your friends…what's got into you?

My Lauren-Radar is Malfunctioning. Obviously.

Busy Busy Sunday?

2006: Pop Is Dead?

"Mind You, I Had A Late Tea"

And Now For A Musical Interlude

When You Wish Upon A Star

Life On Revision A

Oooooooh. Shiny.

I Need All The Links I Can Get

I Need Tony Robinson

Pyramids of Mars?

May

Links And Links And Links And Links…

Internet About To Implode…

Reasons To Love Britain

Lipstick Lesbian Batwoman! How Progressive!

A Fanboy Writes

MySpace Is The New "Alan McGee Discovered Them In Scotland"

Feeling Too Ill To Properly Rant...

Move To A City Where Hippies Run Wild

SIT DOWN HONEY. LET'S SPEND SOME TIME.

Shake Your Tail For Peace And Love

We'll Find A Link And You Can Convince Me That I'm Pretty

Bonnie Has Her Wallchart

Odd Things You Realise

98 Red Balloons

Down With This Sort of Thing! Careful Now!

I'm Ten Years Old Again

BRING ME THE HEAD OF…WELL…SOMEBODY.

Songs of The Week

Grant McLennan RIP

Ch…ch…ch…changes

Mmm, British And Gooooood.

PlayUSA: No Musicals For You, Briton!

300Gb: Is It Enough?

Superman, You Didn't Go There!

April

We Are In A Car.

11000 Metres And Falling

Last Times At OCSC

Not Enough Time

And for those of you who…

A Piñata. After.

Death! To! The! Piñata!

A Piñata. Before.

A Chilled Apple And A Piñata By Starlight

Summing Up Yesterday

Confessions 1,2, and 3

Sexy Gypsy Dancing

The Transformation To The Dark Side Is Complete

I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!

I don't know where the sunbeams end

The Silly Hat Brigade

This Was The Easter That Was

Not The Coke Blãk!

The Mysterious Kavi!

Happy Birthday To Me

Sometimes Your Hair Just Makes You Crazy

There's Nobody Here But Us Chickens!

And On The Seventh Day

However I Look It's Clear To See

Oh No! His Forehead Says: Sketchy!

If You Go Down To The Woods Today…

Remember You're A Womble!

Great Greetings In History

Happy Birthday Christa!

I Have Done A Bad Thing

An Update Of Sorts!

Let's Buy A Train!

Organised Anarchy!

Ricky Gervais Must Die

Uses of A British Accent

Quick Corrections!

So I Decided To Walk…THE SEQUEL!

Running Interference

They Are Among Us

Chopped Up Into Little Boxes Of Tupperware

March

Christa's Breakfast Recipe!

GOOOOZILLLlIIIAAAAAAA!

My Brand New Pill-box Hat

Tough Times In Carrboro

So I Decided To Walk

Flight AA173 To Transcentral

Leaving On A Jet Plane Part…You Know By Now

Why I Have The Best Sister Ever!

I'm Going To Take One For The Team

A Wibbly, Wobbly World of Their Own

The Man In Room Five

Death By Whimper

"Fate? I Love You."

Bad Things To Do

Your Money At Work

Our Friends In The West

England Prevails.

Message Board Wars Pt. 643443

Things You Do Not Want When You've Had A Bad Day

Internet: You Failed Me!

Ring The Winter In And End The Competition

Rampage In The Pit

A Question To The Audience

February

Oh Apple, You Almost Had Me

The IT Crowd, Lesson 2

Not Feeling So Good

Somewhere Across Oxford

Failed In Wales

Lost Connections

Other Sites Are Available

No "fright wigs"? I'm v. v. disappointed.

Glorify A Terrorist Today!

Oh, They'll Find You

Fancy A Mathematical Gig?

Oh. The Hilarity.

Grant Morrison on Batman

This Week's New Arrivals

Miquita, Myleene & 50¢ Sitting In A Tree

Dear Conservatives And Labour

Note To Marketeers

Get Well Soon Chan!

I ASK THE QUESTIONS!

Daddy Bought It All For You

This Week's New Arrivals!

Filmed In Front Of A Live Studio Audience

Bless Popjustice

January

Coin-Operated Concert

Also, while I'm here…

This Week's New Arrivals

"Oh NO!" "Oh NO!" "Oh NO!"

Just Can't Help Believing

A Mercy Killing

Holy Exposition, Batman!

ITN: Paedophila with Added Xenophobia!

What you gonna do-ooo?

SysAdmin 1, Cisco 837 0

DEATH TO CISCO.

Animal Crossing: January 15th

This Week's Most Played

300 Million Down The Drain

It's Like Crack

The Brits: Rocking In A Mastercard-Sponsored Manner

The Sorting Hat!

Labour: WE ARE THE LAW

Hello, Control!

Analogue Devices

Dearly Departed

2006: What To Expect

2005

December

I Love 2005: Because Once Indie, Always Indie

Political Advice

I Love 2005: The Ones That Didn't Make It

Help Is On The Way!

This is a Level 1 Alert...

I Love 2005: Take Me Out For The Pop Set

2006: YouSendIt Won't Save You

Best. Nativity. Ever.

Straight To Hell

I Love ~~Doctor Who~~ 2005: Day Something or other

Although, there is a chance that if you turn to ITV tonight, the galaxy will implode

*A Cynical Stab At The Christmas Cheer*

Time Goes By So Quickly

He's Our Biggest Comedy Export, Don't You Know.

I Olev 2005: Day 18

I Olve 2005: Day 17: YEAAAAAH!

I Evol 2005: Bootsy Collins!

I Lvoe 2005: Day 14: Simon Got There First

We interrupt this countdown…

I Ovle 2005: Day 12: HEY HEY HEY MY MY MY

I Am The Night!

Not Only But Also…

I Love 2005: Day 11: The Death of Optimus Prime

I Love 2005: Day 10: Rusted Nails And Wasted Kisses

I Love 2005: Day 9: Because You Can't See The Hearts

21st Century Torture

I ♥ 2005: Day 8: Summer-summer-time

I ♥ 2005: Day 7: I Used To Be Carried By The Arms of Cheerleaders

Throwing Myself At Your Mercies

I ♥ 2005: Day 6: Well, Shall We Begin, Children?

November

NME IN VOTE-RIGGING SHOCK!

Faith Engines To Eleven! We're Heading For The LinkPlex of Minon-9!

Girls Aloud 3: But Turns Red At The Touch of A Button.

This Week's cd:uk

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!

Break Out The Sweaters!

Reason To Hate Britain, Part 123

The Comeback Starts Here!

Hmm, Those Poor Children In Need

There Are Times…

Oh, Sony, So Much To Answer For

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Meet The Family!

If They Were Me And I Was You

Juxtaposed With Whom?

OH MY GOODNESS! THE HORROR!

Thursday I Don't Care About You

INDIE DISCO!!!!

Two Ghosts On A Bus

Gobble Gobble Gobble

The Beards of Asheville

OwOwOwOwOwOwOwOwOw

The Way We Were

And this time STAY out

Also, I now have THIS

Franklin Street 2005

The Bush Cheerleading Squad!

Hallowe'en Redux

October

Hallowe'en In Short: Or To The Many Girls of Chapel Hill

4.19 kilogrammes of chocolate please!

America Calling

Good, Kid! But Don't Get Cocky

By The Way (Record Labels Are Scum Edition)

THE DOC-TOR WILL BE CEL-E-BRATE-D!

Through The Round Window

We Are On A Break

What, no Robyn?

And Let's Not Forget The Ds

The All-Important Rachel Stevens Update

BAN THIS SICK FILTH

Torchwood & Friends

FanboyRampage RIP

DAMN YOU NESTLE!

I Like To Think I'm Xander, But I Know I'm Earth-2's Andrew

Hardcore Nation 2: Now Lichtenstein Falls Under Our Might!

Muriel Gray Roxor!

Video Killed The iPod Star

Wanted: For Suspected Arson

Annie, Robyn, M.I.A. and…

Dear Joss Whedon…

Credit In The Straight World

Have You Ever Had It So Blue?

GREEN EYES. BLUE EYES. GREY EYES.

Aaron Wants Royalties

Repeating Memes

NE 1 Want 2 talk?

September

I Said Never Link Again (But Here We Are)

Look Around You

"Let me ask you one question / Is your money that good?"

Tonight: Direction: Manchester

On The One Hand…

A Million Nerds Crying Out As One

We ♥ Paul Morley

What's Your Favourite Cut?

And, why was Scotland Yard never interested in her boyfriend's drug habits?

No, really, aren't there terrorists to fight rather than models?

Kate Moss Takes Cocaine! Shock, and indeed, horror.

I Am Not A Stalker

Falling And Linking

Boys From The Blackstuff

A Moment For Coldplay

I Do Not Have A Font Problem

Say You'll Stay / In My Arms

Barbara Bush: Woman of The People!

SNAP023: Trent Lott

Live, From NBC!

The President Has A Handle On Things, Honest

The Usual Brechtian Nonsense

August

Calling Dr. Mabuse

Does This Mean I Have To Get Up On Saturdays?

Okay, America, You Can Have Ricky Gervais. Please.

GIGGLE…GIGGLE…GIGGLE

Doooo Dooo Doo Doo

Speaking Entirely Hypothetically

It's Sunnnnnday…Monnnnday!

I Loved The Links You Wrote, But That Was Bloody Yesterday

State of Summer

Just To Show I'm Not Making It Up

Back To Politics Again, I'm Afraid

Round of Applause For The Internet

Laura is Completely Sober

More Scenes From Thursday!

Stacie And Srav!

Not The Usual Playset

"Forget it, Jake. It's Carrboro."

Do We Have To Give The Bouncer Two Pennies?

Hell is actually on Rosemary Street

Things We Can Learn

Oh you'v e got grey eyes

They're Tricksy

Why I Miss Chapel Hill, Part 456

More Adventures In Soft Drinks!

An Adventure In Jukeboxes!

July

Let's Start A War…A Nuclear War

A Moment of Silence

HIGH VOLTAGE! (I apologise, truly)

Why We Keep Starting Fires

Not Only, But Also

I'm edible too. But that's called cannibalism, children

Violet, meet Abe, Abe, Abe, Abe, and Abe

Collin, "Fetch" Isn't Going To Happen

Does Chewbacca Like Wookies?

It's been a long time coming

Ian, I'm In Virginia. No, really.

Just One More Thing, Sir

Leaving On A Jet Plane…Part Er, Pass

Pandas are Cute!

Penman/Morley Is Where I Want To Be

The Greatest Briton

Fox News: Fair, Balanced, Accurate!

Last Night I Dreamt That Neil Tennant Married Dusty Springfield…

I Meet You In Links

You Don't Really Need To Read The Previous Entry. It's OK.

Live Blogging Live 8: Have Nothing Better To Do

June

Not Exactly A Party Man, Then

Live 8: No-one's Taking Me Home

I'll Take Disingenuous Quotes For $100

Quality Service

Day Two: Ow Ow Ow Ow

Another Triumph!

Germans And One Thing

More Glastonbury: Dance To The Radio

Glastonbury 2005: Swim When You're Singing

Karlruhe Centre

Karlruhe Bahnhof

Germany Day 1: Baden-Baden-Baden-Baden-Baden-Baden-Baden

Humans Are Made of Water, Holy Smoke Batman!

"I haven't been a kid since I was eight years old"

This Is The Post

Live Aid 20 Years Old

More Misc-y Things

Happy Birthday Pac-Man!

Live 8: Circus Edition

Richard, Up For A Surgical Strike?

Well, technically, *not* a complete reunion…

The Parting Of The Ways

Rip It Up And Start Again

Best News Story Ever.

Pardon Me While I Warm Up My Futurephone

It's Too Late For Mama

All-New Disturbing Tales of Superman!

Evey Evey Evey Evey Evey

"I Know It's Out Of Fashion, And A Trifle Uncool"

Fold Your Links Child, And Walk Like A Peasant

May

Not Getting Off To A Good Start

And Bill Nighy's Not That Great Either…

Let's Do This Dance Again…Again!

A Broadcast To The Nation

"Hold me like you did on Naboo"

The Return of The Trackers

Why you should be scared today!

As Much As I Despise The Man

The Loneliest Dalek

Let Us Take A Moment

Further Apologies

In Lieu of An Actual Point

We're The Young Ones

Public Announcement

Last Train To Transcentral

Election Special Super Edition!

It's Like Buses

April

TOM CRUISE? Oh, Katie, Katie, Katie…

Link Thing by Amerie

That's Fine By Me!

Manchester: A Slight Return

The Photolog Is Back!

The Ketchup Is Strong With This One

State of The Blog

We'll Meet Again…Quite Soon In Fact

Eeek! My Childhood!

I'll Show You Maps

My World Has Fallen Apart

Reasons To Love The Internet, Part #346

Franklin Street on Monday Night

Oooh! Exciting (Perhaps)

A City of Links

Conversations With A Chat Bot

March

I Don't Believe In Magic / Life Is Automatic

We Apologise For The Slight Interruption In Broadcast

"It's a disguise!"

That Kids Is Back On The Escalator!

"Do You Want To Come With Me?"

It Can't Just Be Florida, I Imagine

Reasons Why I Should Not Have Money

Adventures In Link Referrals!

A Sad Comment On Today's World

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A Game of Links

Asking The Important Questions

*sigh* Here we go again…

TONY BLAIR, WHERE ARE YOU?

It's You're Wrong Night!

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock

Presenting…The Most Disturbing Picture On The Internet!

It Wasn't Always Like Links

Education In Texas!

We apologise for the interruption of this show

WARNING: Contains Techy Gubbins

February

How Does It Feel To Link Me Like You Do?

Oscars 2005: FCC PTC GO!

London Part Two: Bring Your Raincoats 45s

London In Two Parts, Part One

Wednesday Looks Good To Me

The Vincent Black Shadow

Adventures In Manga

Human Rights Violations? Iran-Contra? Sounds Good To Me!

From the marketing geniuses at Warners!

This Is Not A Valentine

Welcome To America

A Slight Return

Take What You Can, Eat Off The Man

A Short Message For Our Internet Overlords

Another Odd Question

January

Links and The Bannermen

A Question on Music

I Don't Normally Do This Kind of Thing

Meet The New Boss

Everything's Gone Link

The Ravings of A Fanboy

FOUR! MORE! YEARS!

The First of A Possibly Semi-Regular Feature!

All I Have Is Links

This Week In The Factory Catalogue

The Almost Traditional Post-MacWorld Post

Odd Moments In TV

The Future Was Then

Automata and Puppy Dogs' Tails

Small Victories

How Can I Help You Link?

It's Been A Long Time Coming

2004

December

Public Announcement #2

A Public Announcement

Day 24: "Sleek Mystique Reverse"

Day 23: C'mon Baby, You're My Greatest Hit

Day 22: I Heard It From The Valleys

Day 21: Just Know, Thieves Get Caught

Day 20: Boxpops at 11:10am, anyone?

Day 19: Courtesy of Chapel Hill

Day 18: What Will The Neighbours Say?

Day 17: Streets Like The Rest Of Them

Day 16 — Mr. President? Mr. Senator?

Day 15: One More Day With You

Listen, can you hear?

Day 14: Something You Do

Day 13: Don't Waste Your Time On Me

Day 12: Open Your Eyes And Feel

Day 11: I Keep Taking Everything For A Sign

Day 10 — Well, You Can Tell Cincinnati

Day 9: We'll Go Where There's No Snow

Day 8: God That Was Strange To See You Again

Day 7: I'm Just A Crosshair

And not that you needed it…

Day 6: I Don A Pair Of Zip-Up Boots

Day 5: Three Chords In Your Pocket Tonight

Interlude: The Star Wars Holiday Special

Day 4: T-Mobile Calling

Day 3: The Morning Call Has Been And Gone

Day 2: You're Daydreaming Through Another Winter

Day 1: I'm Addicted To You, Don't You Know That You're Toxic?

November

Bring Your Record Player And Your Raincoats 45s

A Quick Question

Gwen & BeMusic Productions

The Staging Area!

You Can Compliment Me With Links

Learn To Become Invisible With HP

More Songs In The Key of Chapel Hill

Darrrrrrllllling…

The Long Lost Music Bit

Back Once Again With The Politics

Return of The Links!

Secret In-Joke Photo!

Well, you can all relax…

The Great Coathanger Famine And Other Stories

Guess Who Got Balloons?

It's The Terrible Twenty-Twos!

Still in mourning

Life As A Troll

"Yes, I Am Laura"

Bear Goes To School

You Shall Go To The Ball!

Title Left Blank

We're with you, John

The Protest of Broken Hearts

We find these truths to be self-evident…

This Is Free Radio Calling

The Get-A-Long Gang

Damn the Man, Part II

Halloween on Franklin!

Oh you've got grey eyes

October

Horses On Franklin!

Poor Old Johnny Ray

Ian And The Bull

The Bull And Leigh

The Bull And Laura

I Rode The Bull

Dinner At Elmo's!

Things From Chapel Hill

Too much sugar!

Things I Learnt In Florida

I Get The Internet Working...And...

with apologies to robin carmody

Round 4: Crisis On Infinite Ballots

A Song For People

Pre-Holiday Links!

Round 3: Once I Was A Wooden Boy

But no Bittorrent?

Round 2: The Legion of Substitute Heroes!

Turn The Links Up Over Every Boy And Girl

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Sales Up? Let's Sue!

September

It's Debating Time, and Joby's Here As Well!

Polls, Polls, Polls (Can you take my polls?)

69 Links (okay, six)

Watching the softballs

Catching Up — No Typewriters In Sight!

A General Plea To Nicky Wire

Modern Miracles

Brought To You By The Numbers 25 and 45 And The Letter Q

Continung Suckage

For The Benefit of Mr. Kite

Monday's Links of Fun!

"I'm Selling These Fine Leather Jackets"

This Is Radio Free Europe

You like those windows?

Greatest Crossovers In History!

In The Meantime, Please Enjoy These Messages

This is not a rebel song

What Are We Going To Do Tonight, Brain?

Dream Destroyed By Links

give me something i can rely on

The Power Is On

Welcome to Pier 57

IT'S CHENEY TIME!

August

Self-inflicted Pain

Elephant Goes To Town

Why Linux is Cool

The Pumpkin Invasion

put that purple skirt on you know it makes me hot

The Continuing MP3 Saga!

You have been eaten by a link

And Now A First

Laugh or Cry? Part II

Mosh Pits For Justice!

Feeding The Commons

The Truth At Last!

A Love Hangover

Laugh or Cry? LAUGH OR CRY?

More Depressing Things

Thanks To Brem X Jones

And Yet More Politics

My So-Called Lunchbox

Ailish and Bonnie

Aaron With Transformers

It's Been A Long Time Coming

Incidentally…

Oooh, that's harsh!

Links Everywhere

The Music Replacement. I'm So Sorry.

A Promise To You, Our Faithful Readers

They're Addicted To Links, They Know They're Toxic

Lawyers! Start Your Engines!

July

Why Did The Music Die, Daddy?

On The Third Day

Well, I Hope You Feel Safer…

Conventional Hell

Behind The Sofa!

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

Sweet Sunflower

So It Started…There

Spider-Man 2 Capsule Review

Don't Drop The Baby

No Mountains Left To Climb, Or So I'm Told

Okay, so perhaps it was only thirty seconds...

To The Occupant of Room 56

The Art of Noise

Fahrenheit 9/11

No, he hasn't forgotten about South Carolina

All You Dreams Are Made of Links

Your Daily Hate

Today's Dumb Lawsuit

Long live the real and sexy Pop music

It was an accident, an accident!

Speeding Motorcycle

BORIS! BORIS! BORIS!

Quickly she came, dressed up for fame

Another year…

We Were Only Links

I only wanted something else to do but hang around

The Future's So Bright

I Told Many, Many People

Spolier Warning For Some

When You Wish Upon A Star…

June

We've only sold six tickets so far...

Somewhere Across Forever

Tyger, Tyger, Burning Links

We live double lives. We deal in sex and beautiful women

Michel Gondry Is Cool

"A Frank Exchange of Views"

The Fight of The 21st Century!

The Doctor Is VP

The Unlikeliest Lads

If you say something enough times...

CLOUDS OF DOOOM!

Only Love Can Break Your Heart In Two Places

Oooh! Can I Live Here?

1996. Knebworth, Britain. "This is History! This is History!"

Back To Normal…Almost

Intermittent Servers

Stellastarr*, anyone?

A Cynical Stab At The Online Market

Old School Rampacks Are Much Better

Poor Old Johnny Ray

A Song For Indie Hipsters

"Obviously, you don't know much about the US Government"

When Geeks Strike!

My Island In The Sun

Time-wasting Links

A Plea To The Audience

Brief Music Friday

Behind The Curtain

May

Switch Off The Internet

Eeeep. EEEEEP. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

The Long Suffering Dog

The One Where It Ends…

White Links And Shooting Stars

"Where do we go now? Who do we trust?"

"And now: a station break"

"You played me?"

The Moral of Troy

Lincoln's Inn Field

turnabout: fair play

Boring Techy Stuff

Let us go then, you and I

Emily, Get Out of The Way!

All Along The Chain of Command

Et In Arcadia Ego

My First McDonald's

There's No Chance of Error!

I'm The Man Who Links You

45 Minutes For Lemonade?!

The Conservative Party:

Rockist! Popist! Duck Season! Rabbit Season!

Creepy Websites!

The Mouse Strikes Again

25 Years And We're Still Paying

The Greatest Thing Ever

Offered Without Comment…

April

Meeting In Cafés

Let's Do This Dance Again

Oi! Billy Corgan!

Look Out For That Tumbleweed

Er yeah, well, maybe we'll get around to doing something, eventually…

He Was So Checking You Out There

One Careful Owner

23 Hour Party People

March

And don't mention the Catholics, either

Empirical data on file-sharing's effect on album sales

I Don't Care If Monday's Blue

A 66¢ Toothbrush, and THE GIANT KEY!

Normal Service Will Resume Shortly

And I Don't Even Like Coffee…

And lo, there was yet more walking

Pictures of A Town

Sunday afternoon can’t last forever

Trapped In A World He Never Made!

Leaving On A Jet Plane III

The State We're In

"It was breezy…Oh, gosh, what if it wasn't breezy?"

Danny The Hypertime Street

Back In The Hat (Although I Don't Have A Hat)

It's Been A While

And Then There Was One

Are You Scared Yet?

The Shifting Places

February

Live! From…er…well, Bicester

Is That Mos Def?

The Righteous Fury of KOFI ANNAN!

Miracles and Marvels!

Monday's No Fun

Activist Judges Are Killing The Music Industry

"Stop…Carry on?"

"Do The Mashed Potato!"

Grammar Nazis Rule OK

Oh Lauren, So Much To Answer For

Tired and Emotional

The Scott McClellan Drinking Game!

That Man Is Carson Dial!

"This Flight Will Have A Discussion On The 14th Amendment"

The X-54 Turkey Baster Is The Galaxy's Ultimate Weapon

Credit In The Straight World

"A loud wallflower. One of those dancing ones, in a Coke can."

Primary Secondary Tertiary

The Chair of Power

We Control The Wibbly Dial On The Left

January

Two Hearts In 3/4 Time

Oh dear. Oh dear.

The Madness Has Me

The More Things Change

It's Cold Out But Why Should We Care

That's The Price of Links

The State Is Healthy (Obviously)

Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Primary Season!

An Invasion of Martians

The Modern World, Part II

Munch Says Happy Birthday Bonnie!

The Modern World

Warning: Mac Owner Will Ramble About Keynote Address

This Is Not An Obsession

I Collect Links

Take a Break, Flight 223

Happy Public Domain Day!

2003

December

Welcome Back, Y'all!

"It was Christmas Eve, babe"

Early Christmas!

Jefferson Says We Should Be Talking

The Ultimate in High Concept

Yawn (and music related ramblings)

Links And More Links

Return of The King: A Primer

Bow Down To The Jolly Links Of Doom

Journalism At The Edge of Reality

Dirty Dancing III Casting Starts Here…

Adventures In Time!

The Revolution Is Only A T-Shirt Away

The Nerdiest Page On The Internet

We Apologise For The Break In Service

Married With Children Is Safe For Four More Years

The Priest Betting Pool Begins Anew...

The Doctor Is In

It's Friday I'm In Love

Do you think the end of the world is coming?

Insert Phrase With "Link" Added With The Aid of A Crowbar

An Open Letter To Tomy

Hello IE Users!

The First Window

November

Is It Too Early?

A Special Message

she linked me, and it felt like a kiss

A Moment of Nerd.

A Serious Moment

Santa's Got Himself A Posse

The Music Biz Shake Down

Waiting on Tenterhooks

Fortress London!

It's Christmas on Mars!

Flying Machines On The Ground

Links and More Links

To Those Nice Nice Nights

"I accidentally grew a beard"

What could possibly go wrong?

Those Damned Liberal Hollywood Types!

The End Is The Beginning Is The End

Where Were You?

Thoughts From A Dry Season

9 Discs? Is That All?

Link Me At The End of The Day

Save Me For Later

October

A Ghoulish Music Friday

Fish Are Friends, Not Food!

Only One Man Can Save Them Now.

Bow down to Emperor DOOM!

The Greatest DVD...Ever!

Please Don't Take A Picture

Diebold: We Know Who You MEANT To Vote For

PC Load Letter?

Your Licence Fee At Work

Pictures of You

The First Album is Quite Rare

Elliott Smith: 1969-2003

Ball of Confusion

Save It For Later

Religion Special!

The Great Gatsby

Back On The Chain Gang

You're Right On Time

Driver 8 Take A Break

These Things, They Go Away

We Could Send Letters

Definition of a Geek

Wiggle That Big Toe

Caught Being Too English

Your Eyes Are Burning Holes Through Me

*clears throat*

Conversations Not Likely To Be Heard In Tescos

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?

24 Hours To Save Me

Please Don't Take Your Pictures

I'm Scared To Say Hello

Knocking On The Door

Sweeping The Nation

The Best Day We Had In Ages

Come In, I'll Give You Shelter From The Storm

Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall

What Kind of Week Has It Been

September

Silent Number That I Can't Dial

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Spirit of The Staircase

To Lose Beauty In Terror

A Frantic Marble Munching Game That Kids Love

Blister In The Sun

The Squirrels Are Back

I Finally Find What I'm Looking For

Live From The Atlantic Ocean!

"I'm a travelling man"

It was summer, now it's autumn

Arr! New Music, Me Hearties!

The Little Storm That Could

Two fingers at the Supreme Court

Watching Isabel, Part II

Watching Isabel

The Head of John The Baptist

Can't Get You Out Of My Room

Let me tell you how it will be

The Wonders of PR

The 2005 Sunset

Going Slowly Insane

Uncle Sam Wants You

For Your Consideration

The War Against Oceania Continues

The Fourth Estate Awakens

Next Up - P2P Supports Terrorism!

Slightly-used Music Friday!

Ticketmaster: Your Official Scalper

One of These Is Not Like The Others

Sorry About Dresden

August

I Love The Internet

Welcome To The Cheap Links

Chained To The Mirror And The Razorblade

The New Eternal September (well...August)

A Balancing Act

Für Einen Tag!

We Could Send Letters

"You paranoid Berkeley shiksa Feminista!"

The League of Extraordinary Links!

Home Taping Is Killing The Music Industry (Part 234)

Their Numbers Are Legion

Pretty Pictures

Fair! And! Balanced!

Turn Us All To Mutiny

I Rely On Oxygen (Sleater-Kinney II)

Patch Your Machines!

Coming Soon To An Airline Intercom

A Few Words About The Weather

I Do Not Have A Problem

A Push And A Pull And This Land Is Ours

Today In Britain

A Public Service Announcement To SCO

Synchronicities and Manchester

"I Don't Believe You"

July

8:15 From Manchester

The F-Word's Here, The F-Word's Back

More American Politics (snore, snore)

When Did You Realise That Slashdot Had Died?

A Week of Light Posting

Quick! The Sky is Pink With Purple Polkadots!

Sucking Helium Through A Straw

Death To Kazaa Users!

Eschaton Gaming

For The Benefit of People In The Aisle Behind

Well you don't get a town like this for nothing

UNC Bats For Two

Feels Like Summer

Stanley Loomis Would Be Proud

"Oddly enough, we're about even"

Semi-Cryptic Entry No. 543

Now With Added Capitalism

The English Are Coming!

Boring Computer Stuff

Mallrats R.I.P.

In Order To Form A More Perfect Union

Tin Foil Saves Us All

Public Service Broadcasting At Its Best

It's Not My Fault!

All Music, All The Time

June

Devious Technology

New Music Friday

Exhuming McCarthy

Roll On New Hampshire

Brought To You By The Letters, D, H, and S

First In An Occasional Series

A Recipe In Two Parts, Part Two

A Recipe In Two Parts, Part One

Pop Will Eat Itself

Blowing Bubbles

Scenes From A Barbeque

Gregory Peck: 1916-2003

Coding Towards Infinity

Was I Being Persnickety?

Up And Out In Oxford

I Believe In Donovan Over Dylan...Love Over Cynicism

Billy, Don't Be A Hero

Tonight's Music

Corrections and Revisions

The Onward March of Globalisation

"I could set the building on fire"

(The History of The Smiley)

Look! Now With Added Recipes!

May

The Worst Books Ever!

Why I Hate Disney Today

This Really Is A One-Line Entry

This Could Be A Busy Week

Safari Ate My Comments

Furthering Cultural Exchange

Living In The Future

Spoliers Ahead!

Lowering Expectations

My Money is Worthless

A Random Assortment of Links

Vital Sunday Update

You've Been Gone Too Long

The Gentleman's Interviewer

Ever So Slightly Delirious

Leaving On A Jet Plane II

If These Words Sound Corny, Switch It Off

Safe And Reasonably Well

The American Experience

Axis of Opportunity

Living In Silence

Formulating Insane Plans

A Helpful Washing Guide for Britons

Dr. Pepper: Anti-Personnel Device

Consider This A Warning, Phlebas

April

Live From The Pit

For Future Reference

Reach For The Sun (People Are Great)

Spanish Chilled Apples

Do You Want To Know Something Else That's True?

Less Hyperbole, More Feeling

For I Have Signed My Own Death Warrant

The Resistance Grows

Wrapped In The Flag

Hating Computers

Where's The Bald German?

Gaze Upon My Playlist And Despair

Entering Alligator River

The Easter Bunny Did This?

So, when is the US invading?

Balloon In A Box

Fair And Balanced

Wanted: Something

The Rules of Four Squares

Rage Against The Coming Light

It's Jackanory Time!

Fastest Lecture In History

Dana's Insane Dating Plan

Should Have Stayed In Bed

And How Can The Bank Help You Today, Sir?

A Helpful Indicator of Insanity

The Not-Quite-So-Elite Republican Guard

Crossing An Interstate

April is the cruellest month

March

Everybody Loves Rumsfeld

Fair Weather Representation

Welcome To The Haçienda

Why The Internet Scares Me

If I'm Eliza, Is Sona Pickering?

Get Off My Land!

Well, That's Strange

I'll Be Your Taxloss Lover From Liverpool

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Cat Power, Cat's Cradle 21/03/2003

While I'm Here...

One Shall Stand! One Shall Fall!

War! What Is It Good For?

Is The Ref Blind?

And Your Raincoats 45s

The Manchester Preposition

My Fellow Americans

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

Back From The North

Live From Washington D.C.

Have You Costed This Sleeve?

It's Montgomery Clift!

Tomorrow is...Brock Thursday!

Making a Cultural Point

Hello, Mr. Blue Sky

"So Do I" - Pulls Out Jacket

I'll Just Go Out For An Hour Or Two

I Can Be Relied On To Make A Bad Situation Worse

February

I Hope It Was A Nice Package, D. Bianco

Warning: Self-Pitying Post Ahead

Broadcasting Live From The Palace of Delights

An Announcement

What Exactly Was In The Kool-Aid, Anyway?

Standing On David Gale

Civilisation At Last!

Salvaging The Past

Dangers of The Internet

The Universe is Sick And Twisted

Mixing It Old-style

I Won't Give You Anthrax or Anything

Lettering Issues

"I don't want to debate world politics with you"

Revolutionary Optimism

The Sane Response

Condition Orange!

This is a Rescue Mission

Your Inner Child Wants This

Strapping C-4 To My Bridges

Calling Manchester

January

Confessions of a Failed Shopper

This City For Rent

Chocolate Teapots and Air Miles

That's a Nice Shade of Red

Things To Do When You Should Be Doing Something Else

Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

Disassemble Your Discrimination

Ernest Saunders Swears He's Elvis

No Retreat, No Surrender

I Would Fix You

Goodbye History

Smash The System

I Fought The Law (and The Law Changed)

Stay The Course

Never Trust A Squirrel

Bowling For Columbine

Drawing a blank

Tight Diamond Shoes

A Mystery Solved

Things and More Things

Must...Stay...Awake...

2002 And All That

2002

December

Nobody Gets Left Behind!

World's Biggest Idiot

Catch Up If You Can

North Carolina BBQ

Jolly Boots of DOOOM!

Ari Fleischer Syndrome

Revenge of the Natives

Schools are closed, Charlie Brown

Not wishing to widen the cultural gap...

4:35 In the Morning

The Sound of Breaking Dreams

November

Upcoming hiatus

Things I didn't know

I'm so dead at Christmas...

Answers To Readers' Questions

"We have received your loan application"

A Weekend Of Fun

Are we having fun?

With great power comes great responsibility.

It's Christmas!

Back In Britain

Weapon of Choice

Dancing Into The Supercontext

One day, Ian went to the airport...

"I need a hacksaw."

Hallowe'en in Chapel Hill

October

Taking Democracy a little too far...

Where Angels Play

Good Idea...Bad Idea

"You know what's wrong with you?"

Marvel, we would like a full size poster, please.

Skinning The CompetitionÃ¢â¬Â¦Alive!

A Flash of Clean White Hope

A Goldfish Named George

Try Not To Breathe

Lost In The Supermarket

The Telephone Bill That Refuses To Be Paid

(That's) How You Sing Amazing Grace

Fun With Google

Sick, Sober, and Sorry.

The Rain In Chapel Hill Falls Mainly On The Plain

My poor credit card

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Hooray For Everything

Now, that's just not fair

Marking makes the world go round

Miracles and Marvels

Now that's a nasty transition...

September

The Arrival of the Shiny...

Another day, another fire alarm.

Rip It Up and Start Again

Now Presenting...

Another short entry

Of course, opinions may vary...

Butch Cassidy In Space!

Run Away. Fast.

More things to worry about

The Lone Gunman

Learning From Mistakes

Compromise is the Devil Talking

50 Minutes of Screaming

Armageddon Time

Another fun Saturday

The Path From Manchester to Chapel Hill

A Hidden Agenda

My first telemarketer!

Elizabeth Dole Will Defend Our 2nd Amendment Rights!

An unforeseen problem

August

Fitter, happier

The Tao of Jack McCoy

The Decline of the Music Industry

Would Like To Meet

Fun and Games with the MPAA

Operating at 3,000 miles

This is how it is, then?

Scott of the Antarctic

Partial Successes

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Out of interest...

The best of intentions

Carmichael 531, Where Are You?

Emergency Blogging System Test

More pitiful excuses

Service will be resumed shortly

Housing available

We're inclined to disagree...

One week to go...

Apple and Open Source

Bonnie didn't give a title

I'm a good girl, I am

The British Museum Is Falling Down

Interesting Times

July

Less than two weeks to go...

Surprisingly sturdy

Broadcasting live from Oxford University Parks

Brother, can you spare a dime?

I just can't help it...

Does anybody know how to use Bonobo?

Personal Computing Joy

Nice and smooth.

My very own name plate?

Cassandra speaks

"You've got to let the old world go"

XML-RPC is very cool.

This thing hates me

blogChalking . . . . . .

What can I say?

Went to London today.

More Money to the RIAA

Sale of The Century

More RIAA gubbins

Excitement at Chapel Hill

The things you learn. Look

Because I likeÂ alternatives.Â

Oh yes, I forgot. We

Pity Peter Stone isn't on it...

Lazybones Quentin

And this is a test

I'll get you and your

I know that you are

Oh this is very much

La la la Ian is

Schroedinger's Girl

This is a test of

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