May 2011
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May 3rd
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April 2011
1 post
Fruity Cube, you complete me. →
Kinkless Desktop Leopard icons.
Apr 1st
February 2011
1 post
Space stasis: What the strange persistence of... →
How playing with gunpowder in China, plus a couple of far fetched coincidences, allow us to send SMSes. Fascinating read. (via Instapaper)
Feb 10th
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January 2011
1 post
“Ah! I wish I had never seen you!” cried d’Artagnan, with that...”
Jan 10th
November 2010
3 posts
Gregory of Tours' declaration of faith
I stumbled upon Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks while reading The Inheritance of Rome, and find his opening declaration of faith fascinating. Some background is necessary, but I won’t go into that too much right now. Suffice it to say that at the time he was writing two of the main thoughts of Christianity were Catholicism (in the west) and Arianism (in the east), and their main point of...
Nov 19th
Nov 15th
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“Since Dutch traders had been coming to Japan for centuries, a number of educated...”
– Return of the Samurai. From the great Disunion series from the New York Times.
Nov 15th
October 2010
3 posts
Oct 23rd
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Oct 16th
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Oct 1st
September 2010
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Sep 30th
August 2010
7 posts
Aug 27th
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Aug 24th
“Exactly what is a “safe distance” to put a Mosque away from a place...”
– Overcompensating
Aug 16th
Aug 4th
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Aug 3rd
Learn to sound like an Icelander →
Focusing on those weird unexpected sounds that come out where “l” is supposed to be in words like “Eyjafjallajökull”. However, I like this caveat: “something else is going on here” […] seems to be a sentiment frequently encountered in examining Icelandic phonetics.
Aug 3rd
A localisation horror story →
Aug 3rd
February 2010
4 posts
Feb 23rd
58 notes
Some years ago I was in Ibiza for two weeks. That’s about 13 days too many. Anyway, one night I woke up to the Brits downstairs coming come and at least one of them fell asleep on the terrace. But not before turning on the radio and playing My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion first. I somehow managed to fall asleep before the song finished, but woke up to the final notes, about two hours...
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 2nd
January 2010
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Jan 26th
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Jan 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Jan 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Duke Ellington (11) Muse (6) Interpol (4) Sigur Rós (4) Blur (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 4th
December 2009
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Sufjan Stevens (15) Kósý (13) The Beatles (13) Radiohead (11) Pink Floyd (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Jagúar (34) Muse (19) Baggalútur (18) Sufjan Stevens (15) Miles Davis (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Radiohead (7) Stephen Fry (7) Coldplay (6) Muse (5) The Beatles (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Duke Ellington (17) Pink Floyd (13) Jagúar (11) The Beatles (8) Sigur Rós (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Jagúar (30) Miles Davis (18) The Beatles (16) Interpol (13) Charles Mingus (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 1st
November 2009
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Trabant (25) The Beatles (5) Megas (4) Madness (3) Muse (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Jóel Pálsson (9)  Klára Würtz (9)  Radiohead (8)  The White Stripes (6)  Wilhelm Kempff (5)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Wilhelm Kempff (35)  Megas (21)  TYFT (4)  De Mens (1)  Kings of Convenience (1)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Muse (18)  Led Zeppelin (15)  The Beatles (11)  The White Stripes (10)  Django Reinhardt (9)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 2nd
October 2009
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Django Reinhardt (40)  The Beatles (10)  Muse (7)  The White Stripes (7)  Pink Floyd (6)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Tom Waits (19)  Interpol (7)  Led Zeppelin (5)  Mugison (4)  Cake (3)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 19th
Oct 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
Tom Waits (19)  Hjálmar (10)  The White Stripes (6)  Radiohead (6)  Interpol (5)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 5th
September 2009
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Tom Waits (68)  Lou Reed (14)  Muse (11)  Herbie Hancock (9)  The Beatles (5)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 29th
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Sep 25th
Damn, they got me.
Got this from a yahoo.com.hk address As you are aware of the activities of terrorist attacked at our airport,during our daily routine on 100% inspection of incoming and our going flights, we arrested a man with a consignment that claiming to be yourpartner, after we scan thetrunk box, we discovered the trunk box contain liquid cash in [US] Note and other documents attached to the consignmentdid...
Sep 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Muse (16)  Jónsi & Alex (8)  Placebo (5)  Kaizers Orchestra (5)  Interpol (5)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6) →
Sigur Rós (4)  Miles Davis (2)  Emilíana Torrini (2)  Bryan Ferry (1)  Kent (1)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 7th
August 2009
39 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Radiohead (5)  Interpol (4)  The Beatles (4)  Pink Floyd (4)  Badly Drawn Boy (3)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Radiohead (30)  Kiss My Jazz (20)  Pink Floyd (10)  The Beatles (10)  Miles Davis (6)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 24th
“Injured Hooker defies pain to claim gold”
– (The article isn’t nearly as interesting as the headline, of course.)
Aug 23rd
Aug 21st
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Aug 21st