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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVoMtPFtEg0 - Cruise boat.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-K9V9qz6P4 - Thai advert for an insurance company, quite deprressing. More
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y - Contains swearing and an Australian accent.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno - cute.

From Metafilter.com

And also, today is the last day we’ll get our milk delievered. We’ve always had it delievered along with a copy of the Independent every morning for as long as I can remember. I would imagine we’ll forget to buy it this week and will have to keep going to Tesco; or maybe we should make an effort to go to Over Farm Market. It’s kind of sad though I think.

And yet although Leading Seaman Turney seemed stressed, naturally enough, she also looked healthy. There were no overt signs of any physical violence, and her hands were not cuffed. She was wearing civilian clothes, and was allowed to smoke. So on hearing Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, saying that it is “totally unacceptable to parade our people in this way”, the image that flashes to mind is that of other people being paraded for a global television audience, their legs and hands chained together, their bodies immersed in lurid orange boiler suits.

The British Government wasn’t directly responsible for Guantanamo Bay, but it colluded in the illegal seizure of suspects taken there and mistreated to an unimaginably worse degree than appears the case with LS Turney. It assisted the Americans in their pioneering extension of the concept of outsourcing to take in torture, allowing CIA jets to refuel at British airports while transporting suspects to countries with a similarly unCyrus-like approach to human rights as modern Iran.

And it never raised a squeak about such criminal acts as the kidnap of Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, an EU citizen who was walking down a Milanese street in February 2003 when CIA operatives snatched him, bundled him into the back of a white van, and flew him to Cairo for interrogation.

None of this is to suggest, of course, that one nation’s collusion in the illegal seizure of foreign nationals in any way justifies the use of the same indefensible tactics by another, or diminishes the seriousness of the offence. But British complicity in these American crimes raises questions about the source of the moral authority fuelling the current outrage about LS Turney’s television appearance. If it did contravene the Geneva Convention, inmates of Camp X-Ray were expressly excluded from its protection, although they were supposedly captured in war (the abstract one against terrurrh), and no Cabinet minister publicly objected to that. It also highlights yet again the extent to which the catastrophic blunder in Iraq is undermining attempts to deal effectively with Iran.

http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/matthew_norman/article2405090.ece

Initially I was angry. Now; I just don’t know. We should hold ourselves to the same high expectations we expect of everyone else. Otherwise what right do we have to judge?

Amazing band name.
Thanks Jenn, - can download two full tracks here

Rich, it seems we had it wrong all along. Mine was the track that was awesome, not Ripcurl - fancy that eh? I bloody love this track. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

AWESOME.

• this website that plays music >http://www.nuskoolbreaks.co.uk/ via
• this - because it made me laugh.
• this game - give up your time unto it
• this photo - because it scares me and excites me. I look at it and think - “what did you do today” and i think the opportunities are there if you just look.
• usenet - wow

There’s moments when ‘everything else’ is sidelined and all your problems disappear, or don’t concern you. Moments, when the moment is enough and you’re - i don’t want to say happy - content. When right now, this is enough for me. It’s not wonderful, but right now it’s enough…

the song is Sowing Season by Brand New. I will forever prefer Sic Transit Gloria however.

For the student executive for someone at least, because the girl who came over to us was pretty.

It’s a reason.