The Loch Ness Monster's song

By Edwin Morgan (1990).

"'The Loch Ness Monster's Song' is an example of a performance piece. It absolutely demands to be read aloud, and the way the lines are set out, the spelling, the punctuation are all devised – even if it might not seem so at first glance – to help the performance. It needs a bit of practice, but it can be done, and although I have recorded the poem myself on tape, I would not want to say that there is only one way of reading it. Anyone can have a go – and enjoy it. Whether the Loch Ness Monster really exists or not – there is no clinching evidence – I imagine the creature coming to the surface of the water, looking round at the world, expressing his or her views, and sinking back into the loch at the end. I wanted to have a mixture of the bubbling, gurgling, plopping sounds of water and the deep gruff throaty sounds that a large acquatic monster might be expected to make. How much meaning comes through the sounds? I leave that to you!"

Click here to listen

A Brief History of John Baldessari, Narrated by Tom Waits

All documentaries should be like this:

Cycle horn

Venice in a day - Timelapse

Timelpase video of a day in Venice, from sunrise to sunset.

by Joerg Niggli.

The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17894176

"BREAKING NEWS: UK Courts Have Absolutely NO Idea How Internet Works" - someone.

"I'm glad lawmakers don't know anything about the Internet or they'd present a real problem." -someone else.

And they have just done a load of free advertising for the site they are wasting taxpayers money trying to block in a completely ineffectual way.

Update: Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost

Cycling airbag helmet

This video shows Swedish designed collars for cyclists containing a folded airbag which activates when it detects an accident. Inflation takes about 0.1 seconds.

Apparently in testing they have been shown to be safer than traditional cycle helmets except for the case where the impact is really low speed.

Lion - Time Machine issues with an old NAS




Anyone who's using Lion with Time Machine and has an old NAS as a backup destination will have come across the issue with AFP using a new authentication protocol which probably isn't supported by the NAS.

(I have a not so old Buffalo Linkstation (LS-CH1.OLT) that still didn't work after updating to the latest firmware)

Anyway, I spent ages trying to get it to work until I came across this script which I'm re-posting as it was hard to find:

http://msftguy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lion-time-machine-and-afp-feature-...

Basically, it hacks Lion to trick the new protocol into communicating with your old NAS.

More importantly, unlike the other workarounds I tried...it works!

Childhood of a Circle - animation

Archibald, a creature to whom nothing ever happens sees his routine changed by the arrival of a mysterious circle.
by Kadavre Exquis

Drunken song: Bohemian Rhapsody

Mameshiba

Mother***kin' Bike - NSFW

Cedric Gracia - Valparaiso Urban DH course,

Cedric Gracia riding the Valparaiso Urban DH course. Fast forward the video a bit to get to the actual riding......and watch out for the stray dogs!!

Stoop Sale by MC Frontalot

God Bless America Trailer

Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement. From stand-up comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait comes a scathing and hilarious attack on all that is sacred in the United States of America.

Bohemian Rhapsody cover - Richie Castellano

Traffic Jams

Satirical Fotoshop ad.

Danny Hart's winning Mountain bike downhill run

With some very excited commentating...

I believe I can fly.

Nope...not R Kelly, or a green duck....but some base jumping from a high wire.

Singing Hedghogs

Here are some singing Christmas hedgehogs in a choose your own adventure style:

Edinburgh Christmas

I've been experimenting with more timelapse stuff on my old Canon 350d.

Accompained by the theramin.

Address Is Approximate

A stop motion film made using Google Maps and street View to follow the adventures of a toy as he heads off to explore.

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