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Instapaper

I have just included a new feed into the sidebar showing some articles I want to read in the near future. The engine that drives this feed online and independently from the computer I use is powered by Instapaper. Although Google Reader allows to bookmark feed links too, sometimes I really want to read an [...]

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Bollocks

Reading about the Bollocks Court Case (24/11/1977) I found this quotation from Reverend James Kingsley, professor of English studies at Nottingham University, giving evidence as a witness about the meaning of the word “bollocks” appearing in the album title of The Sex Pistols‘ only official album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols:
“The word [...]

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sigur rós take over youtube

Watch out for YouTube tomorrow!
this friday, march the 7th, sigur rós will be taking over the front page of youtube for the day. the band will take over all twelve slots on the sites home page and the centrepiece of this will be “heima” in full. this is the first time a full-length music documentary [...]

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dark thoughts

You relive the past, live. The music invites you to dwell, visual anachronisms blur the experience. You got to be crazy, who was dragged down by the stone? Animals have always played an important part in your life. Your mind has darkened, the only color you see is ebony. Tears have flowed, tears will flow. [...]

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Into the life

This morning when I opened my Feed Reader, I stumbled on this quote from the movie Into The Wild:
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material [...]

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Mockenrue, stealer of dreams

Comparing the DVD-edition of IQ’s Subterranea Concert to the VHS-tape I already own for several years, I am disappointed to discover that the included bonus material adds not much value to the content included on video tape.
Although I cannot complain about the price (actually the DVD was offered to me as a gift) it would [...]

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Helen and Olly

Just before last Christmas 2 British podcasters have travelled to Luxembourg only to top the local iTunes charts. Here’s their first Video about this remarkable event, check out if they succeded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO7005zovao

Quote of the vid:
My suspicion is: they think we’re Jesus readers.
[Olly commenting the initial lack of success in giving away homemade gingerbread men wrapped in [...]

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Autopia

As my swedish cruiser needed its next service at 80.000 km on the odometer, ten days ago I decided to arrange a time and date by using the mailform at the website of the best-known and biggest Volvo dealer in Luxembourg. The first time I’ve heard of this possibility to schedule a service at their [...]

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coldrain

at the sound of the bell you return home.
your clothes are soaked, cold raindrops run down your face.
they fall like needles just to merge into the rill on the ground heading towards the river.
your fingers clutching the cold torch feel like steel, your frosty feet are like a gate to coldness.
if only those tears could [...]

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The End of The Beginning

From Monday, 10th December 2007 on, Radiohead’s latest album “In Rainbows” will no longer be available for download at the dedicated website where buyers have the possibility to fix the price themselves. As stated on the band’s website the album will still be available “in the usual way on CD/Vinyl and download from traditional outlets [...]

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