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few linky’s

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Raw fish video blogging
lots of classic sheet music, much of the old jazz standard repertory
time for that comparative study of Owenism and Fourierism. They have Will and Mary Quarterly and AHJ and loads of others. This is the scholarly equivalent of a p2p site for bedroom mixers. Kinda.
Techio links:
Super improved netfront browser for mobiles
interesting […]

Savonlinna

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I liked the light in this webcam view of Savonlinna, southern Finland, this morning.

tsunami recovery moblog

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

uses lifeblog to document a recovery teams efforts in asia just now - second link in english on the start

There’s an XML link on the site too.

to whit

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Whit Stillman found alive and well in Paris, collapsing Austen unfinished works into a single screenplay.
Strange that such a industry-savvy film maker has had such travails getting a story into production. What a cut throat world. Arrr…

clear water

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

clear water

Originally uploaded by pamelaadam.

checking out the Scotland tag section of Flickr, found a few pictures of Sanna in Ardnamurchan by someone called pamelaadam. Their camera did not seem to alight on the interesting slogans on the corrugated building however.

Other nice tag sets:
Suomiand Finland also […]

island views

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

The BBC Scotland site has a moblog of pictures from the Scottish Islands, some lovely stuff on there.

attention: UHB*

Friday, October 29th, 2004

never read this interview with Whit Stillman before, and for more on the droll film-maker here is a mp3 of someone banging on about WS.
Hey, he has a nice set of influences too - Howards End and That Sinking Feeling!
WHIT STILLMAN | FAVOURITE FILMS
The Gay Divorcee Mark Sandrich
Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock
It’s a […]

Que Know

Monday, October 25th, 2004

« quelle satisfaction peut-on bien éprouver à ne pas comprendre quelque chose? »

Spent a pleasant evening last night reading Odile, par R Queneau (interview). It was his second novel and is one of the most refreshing things I have read for a while. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young flaneur cum mathematician, […]

The Goop

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

A goopy classic on Fell Pie I today…(get flash file) of teknologia experiment.

Olympian Sports (other than chess)

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Glasgow hosts some gymnastics at the end of the month:
British Gym Org. has details of who’s appearing.
Sat 30th October:
Doors Open 12:45, Start: 1:30
Women’s: Vault, Asymmetric Bars
Men’s: Floor, Horse, Rings
Sun 31st October:
Doors Open 12:00, Start 12:45
Women’s: Beam, Floor
Men’s: Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar
It’s £6 for each session, and each one is about 3 hours.
Oh, […]