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I don't really need another blog as I already have a tumblelog and a reblog, plus I use Wordpress installs to keep notes I jot down on books and films, and also for the postcard art that I occasionally do.  Yet, here we go with another one, because I've been playing around with designing this content management system for icewhistle.com and a blog is of course a crucial part of a...

• Garkov -- Garfield + Markov chains -- Josh Millard
  Latest Garfield internet fun.
  (tags: garfield absurd humour comics)

• 3quarksdaily
  (tags: sexism politics election)
• Author Nicholson Baker thinks Britain should have made peace with Hitler.
  David Aaronovitch reports review | Non-fiction book reviews - Times Online
  (tags: human_smoke nicholson_baker reviews)
• The Coolest Helmet in History: The Pittsburgh Steelers - Shutdown Corner - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
  (tags: steelers sports)
• Dissent Magazine
  "AFTER A...

• Is Obama Al Smith or John F. Kennedy?
  "America has elected a president from a once-marginalized social group before. But the country has rejected such a candidate, too."
  (tags: obama election history)

• Colin Wilson: Now they will realise that I am a genius | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
  Interview with Colin Wilson about his autobiography.
  (tags: colin_wilson)
• ACKNOWLEDGED CLASSIC: More Beats of No Country
  "here's a modest collection of ill afro jams with a sprinkling of tracks by tuned-in white folks"
  (tags: afrobeat music ethnomusicology african)
• Milan mayor stops Peter Greenaway's...

• Let me tell you about Scientific Management
  crazy good essay on "The Fall, the Factory and the Disciplined Worker, 1978-83"
  (tags: fall post-punk music criticism labour)
• Human Smoke Review | The Quarterly Conversation
  (tags: nicholson_baker human_smoke review books)
• Rails send email tutorial | ruby on rails blog
  (tags: rubyonrails actionmailer rails tutorial howto)
• Are floating prisons...