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(Mara Taber)

Night Music: Weather Report 2

From the new album YOUR FUTURE OUR CLUTTER, the legendary and ineffable The Fall. Best last line of the year so far.

Vee

So, on top of everything else today, the backup system to my external drive stopped working. I'm a a bit paranoid about backups these days, so, after fiddling around with it, I lodged a trouble ticket at the company. Who told me that I needed to upgrade to the new version. Mysteeeeriously, any purchase information on my backup software seems to have vanished since it stopped working, and saving all the settings and data before, at their instruction, uninstalling the old one and installing ...

pulchritud3

Turns out I mentioned pulchritud3 a day early: it's officially launching right now, with a string of explanatory images.

World Bank Opens Up Its Data

"Today we are opening up one of the world's most reliable and comprehensive databases on developing economies. It includes more than 2,000 indicators from countries around the world, including hundreds that go back 50 years."

This is data porn on a massive scale. It's also going to be hugely useful. The indicators alone…

Links for 2010-04-26

On Fracking and Human Folly – Blinding Science – GOOD
"Hydraulic fracturing has a totally excellent nickname: fracking… Fracking (and I'm going to continue to call it that, because the word is awesomely onomatopoetic) works like this: find a crack in the rock and shoot water, some sand, and other chemicals into the crack to make it bigger until you hit something useful, like natural gas…."
(tags:geo eco )New ITV Boss to Shake Up ITV Studios ? Deadline.com
"His predecessor Michael Grade...

T-Shirt Of The Week: Everything Must Continue To Go

A huge response to last week's big "everything is available" blowout, plus continuing difficulties and timesinks here at Mission Control, mean that we're continuing said blowout for another week, and rebooting next week.

So, yes, everything's still available at the IEU store for one more week, ending Sunday night.

whitechapel 26apr10

At my internet hovel today:

* CONFUSED CD COVER REMODEL: The Missing Man – new variation on the remake/remodel art challenge threads — all are welcome (this one may once more be more designer-friendly)

* The DO ANYTHING Book Thread

* The Weekly Listening Thread (26apr10)

* Notes From Warren 26apr10 – on literary fiction in comics, among other things

* Comics on Sale This Week (apr 28)

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Apr 10)

Adam Greenfield's Trip To Hell

Where, apparently, there are shops. And, less surprisingly, Blair.

Boobquake

Got home to find this doing the rounds,

"Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,"HojatoleslamKazemSedighiwas quoted as saying by Iranian media.SedighiisTehran'sacting Friday prayer leader.

I have a modest proposal.

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