The Washington Monthly - Spyware tips

The Washington Monthly

50 least wanted names in Hollywood

Film Threat - Features

Tube suicides

Prospect Magazine - Britain's Intelligent Conversation

"At one east London station, a man was seen placing an envelope under a stone on the platform before leaping in front of a train. When they opened the envelope, they found a £20 note and a slip of paper saying, "Say sorry to the driver, this is to buy him a drink."

Telegraph | Arts | They did it their way

Telegraph | Arts | They did it their way

Hard to argue with the top choice - It demonstrates that the best covers reach down into the original and find something that no-one found before. On that basis, not all of the rest of these 50 qualify as great covers, rather than just very fun ones. My fave cover apart from those listed here (and excluding others that are very similar)? For nostalgia and a good laugh, the Goodies doing Wild Thing; for singalong fun, REM doing Love Is All Around unplugged. Oddly, in both cases the original was by the Troggs.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

At the Odeon Swiss Cottage with Angela on a two for one offer. Very few people in the cinema.

Secretary (2002)

Secretary (2002)

Saw this on DVD with Angela - it is well done, but the basic premise remains a rather masculine fanstasy, even though it is told from the woman's point of view. Great cast does a grand job.

BostonHerald.com - Business: Economic `Armageddon' predicted

BostonHerald.com - Business: Economic `Armageddon' predicted

Uh-oh. I spend 10 years reading reports from this sort of banking guy, and they are always looking to the sunny side. If one of them says its bad, its is bad.

Crooked Timber: Top 5 artists I'll never buy again

Crooked Timber: Top 5 artists I'll never buy again

FT - New York London Paris Munich

FT - New York London Paris Munich

All the other Band Aids - you remember, right?

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Cheats, Codes and Cheat Codes

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Cheats, Codes and Cheat Codes

Las Vegas Mercury: Tales of Vegas Past: Going underground

Las Vegas Mercury: Tales of Vegas Past: Going underground

Las Vegas underground!

FAQs: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Walkthrough

FAQs: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Walkthrough

Daily Kos :: Terrorist Strategy 101: a quiz

Daily Kos :: Terrorist Strategy 101: a quiz

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

But I like Hey Ya!

Broadband Optimizer - Optimize Your MacOS X Broadband Internet Connection

Broadband Optimizer - Optimize Your MacOS X Broadband Internet Connection

Panic - Extras - The True Story of Audion

Panic - Extras - The True Story of Audion

gladwell dot com / Personality Plus

gladwell dot com / Personality Plus: "Employers love personality tests.
But what do they really reveal?"

The Decembrist: The right question about religion...maybe

The Decembrist: The right question about religion...maybe

"why it is that the current flourishing of religious faith has, for the first time ever, virtually no element of social justice? Why is its public phase so exclusively focused on issues of private and personal behavior?"

The New York Review of Books: Uncle Sam Is Watching You

The New York Review of Books: Uncle Sam Is Watching You: "reports of the death of TIA were greatly exaggerated. Federal programs to collect and search vast computer databases for security purposes continue virtually unabated, inside and outside the Pentagon."

Aliens in This World

Aliens in This World

More on Ronald Hutton - all this thanks to Ray Girvan.

"For example, many Southern England towns, like Ottery St. Mary (inspiration for Ron Weasley's hometown Ottery St. Catchpole) roll flaming tar barrels through town. As this site notes, the standard explanation now is that it's an ancient rite done to cleanse the streets of evil spirits. In actual fact, it was initially an anti-Catholic demonstration invented for Guy Fawkes Day, but was continued because it was fun and looked cool. Naturally, nobody wants to say "Oh, yeah, we're basically remembering our forefathers' KKK-like actions", so they fall back on the pagan explanation."

Journal of Social History: The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. - book reviews

Journal of Social History: The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. - book reviews

"Hutton is able to show that British calendar rites were anything but survivals. He relentlessly undermines the notion of pagan origins and pre-christian fertility worship, demonstrating that virtually no part of the annual cycle, except perhaps for mid-summer fires, can be traced with certainty back beyond the middle ages. He demonstrates that most of what pre-1970s folklorists mistook for pagan was actually Christian, and that the great proliferation of calendar rites in the period 1350-1530 took place in conjunction with the church, which had a vested interest in creating a popular culture that it could influence, if not wholly control."

Guardian Unlimited Football | News | Down among the debt men

Guardian Unlimited Football | News | Down among the debt men

"Of the 26 clubs relegated since the Premiership began in 1992, all but five - Blackburn, Middlesbrough, West Brom, Wolves and Charlton - have hit the financial skids."

Are we next?

Major sites with free downloads

Major sites with free downloads

The Revealer: Gay Marriage, GOP Secret Weapon

The Revealer: Gay Marriage, GOP Secret Weapon: "The greatest common denominator of American belief is anti-homosexuality. "

Discuss.