liberal provocateur’s Friends Vox 2008-07-14T19:26:06Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398984eaa0001/explore/friends/library/posts/ A liberal techie throwing peanuts from the gallery 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-07-14:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa968770110002 2008-07-14T19:25:22Z 2008-07-14T19:26:06Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Album Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits

So, in order to scratch the itch I dug through the giant pile o' stuff and dug out the Nightmares on Wax album. And lo, it's as chilled as my feverish brain remembered. Bizarrely I also dug out a copy of Paula Abdul's "Forever my Girl", a second c...

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]]> The things you own end up owning you tag:vox.com,2008-07-13:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9687c0740003 2008-07-13T19:12:00Z 2008-07-17T11:00:46Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Everything I own in the whole wide world

Almost a year ago I packed my wordly belongings up into a motley collection of cardboard boxes and stashed them in a storage locker in North London waiting to get shipped to the US. Now, after various trials, tribulations, diversions and disaster...

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]]> The Sayings of Chairman Owen tag:vox.com,2008-07-08:asset-6a00c2251cae3c549d00fae8ca0b87000b 2008-07-08T08:35:29Z 2008-07-08T08:35:29Z newt http://newt.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom "Spiderman killed all the dinosaurs because they were too stompy" "Spiderman has a manager, he tells him what to wear"

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-30:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9683382c0002 2008-06-30T22:24:16Z 2008-07-01T02:27:35Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Liverpool Road office Massive Attack - Teardrop

I started working 10 years ago today. Or, at least, this Monday of the month 10 years ago. It all started with a football match and probably some beer and ended up with me and a friend named Gareth walking up Liverpool Road to an interview at som...

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]]> And today's thought is... tag:vox.com,2008-06-30:asset-6a00c2251cae3c549d00fae8c79505000b 2008-06-30T07:26:39Z 2008-06-30T07:26:39Z newt http://newt.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. -Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799) That's one of the reasons that I read A.Word.A.Day (wordsmith)

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]]> The Nozzle tag:vox.com,2008-06-28:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9682953c0002 2008-06-28T18:29:14Z 2008-06-28T18:29:14Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Nozzle

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]]> Crimes against humanity tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9681b9b10003 2008-06-23T19:50:48Z 2008-06-27T07:15:20Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Celine Dion-You Shook Me All Night Long Shania Twain - You Shook Me All Night Long

This not improving my mood We must burn all copies of this before it infects others. OH GOD, it's spreading. We're too late! Oh the humanity! I honestly cannot decide which of these is worse - all involved must be killed. It is a moral imper...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9681b74e0003 2008-06-23T19:06:59Z 2008-06-24T09:58:25Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Tricky - Black Steel

It's the kind of cold, overcast day here that Mark Twain wrote about and which, for someone already in an oddly bad mood, seems to be pregnant with brooding menace - which isn't really helping. What's also not helping is the continuing stupidity ...

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]]> No Photography tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c2251d985ff21900fad69405d40004 2008-06-23T11:09:19Z 2008-07-07T05:17:20Z Paul Mison http://blech.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Reasons I've been told not to take photographs since work moved to the edge of the City of London three weeks ago: They were of the back of a police station There were children (five to ten metres away, in a nursery just south of Christ Church,...

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]]> Alphabetic Synthesis Machine tag:vox.com,2008-06-20:asset-6a00c2251cae3c549d00fa9680b8640003 2008-06-20T13:09:28Z 2008-06-20T13:09:28Z newt http://newt.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I was blundering around google, looking for software that might let me synthesize pseudo-bold and italic versions of a Roman font when I found this - http://www.alphabetsynthesis.com/. Nice art project that evolves 'imaginary' alphabets.

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