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Is America doomed through lack of choice?

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The Emperor’s New Air

Have Apple finally started to get it wrong?

They announced the MacBook air yesterday and now all the hoopla has died down, it doesn't actually seem that good. If you really look at it very hard, ignoring the initial thought of 'ooh, it's thin and shiny and I want to lick it as I'm pretty sure it's made of chocolate', the best thing one can say about it is it's small and can fit into your design…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 16th, 2008 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment (Add)

The Best Productivity Hacks Ever

Over the past year or so I have been reading about lifehacks and productivity tips. There are some fantastic sites out there that really come up with the goods when it comes to changing our life through small little changes. Specifically, I have been looking at sites such as zenhabits, lifehacker and web worker daily and I've used their…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 15th, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments (Add)

What the Government Says

The British Government has a news feed, that I subscribe to, called 'The Government Says'. It's very Orwellian in a way but it doesn't give the wide-ranging and terrifying pronouncements the leader did, it all comes across as quite sweet and parochial.

Therefore, obviously, most of the stuff that comes out of it is awful dross about extending the M99 57 inches to make the 4th longest road in Rutland or that the Gove…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 14th, 2008 at 4:55pm — No Comments (Add)

Plane Anarchy

I went to Australia last year, it's a wondrous place. Very hot, very beautiful, very welcoming and not at all what I was expecting. I wasn't really anticipating people being unfriendly, but I wasn't preparing for the outstanding and sometimes unerring friendliness pretty much where everywhere I went. It was incredible really, I remember thinking that it wasn't that people were surveying me with, "I know, I'll be friendly, this sunburned man will like me then", they weren't thinking anything at a…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 13th, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments (Add)

I Want To Be Someone Else For A Living

I've never reviewed a TV show before. Today, however I am sitting here having the dubious pleasure of watching 'The One and Only' on UK's BBC1 and I feel compelled to write something about it. This compulsion comes from hoping you never have the misfortune of straying on to the program at some point in your life and therefore burning upon your very soul the revulsion you may feel towards all sorts of music forever thereafter.

OK, it's not that bad but it is awful TV. First throw int…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 12th, 2008 at 3:44pm — No Comments (Add)

Who is Calling?

It seems that Art sometimes imitates life. The FBI has recently been cut off due to non-payment ofphone bills. The owed $66,000 and had failed a numbero ftimes and was halted due to untimely payment.

Hilarious.

Perhaps it was desperate FBI agents, failed by their administration, typing 'Who is Calling' as…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 11th, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments (Add)

The Online Search for the The Meaning of Life

The rather helpful and downright fine citizen Lostcheerio (or Lydia as she's known on Earth) gave me a link to the Google 'Top of Mind' searches for 2007. It's fascinating and I've been thinking abou…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 10th, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments (Add)

2008 - The National Year of Reading

When I first read this headline I questioned as to why Reading, a rather prosperous town in Berkshire, England, deserved to have a whole year dedicated to it's attention. After, ironically, reading 'Reading' correctly as 'reading' I am quite excited.

I've always been a fan of reading, it's one of life's most enduring pleasures that I hope to have as a lifetime passion. Reading has transformed me from a nervous, timid, little unimaginative scrote with barely a scant regard for learni…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 9th, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Misery: The Gateway to Happiness

Research in the US has shown that the key or at least one of the foundations of happiness is the acceptance of that misery is natural and functional part of life. The theory goes on to point out that attempting to live happily forever is an unachievable myth perpetuated by fairy tales and modern love stories.

The disturbing thing about the research is that it points out that some mental health professionals reinforce the myt…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 8th, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments (Add)

My Google Zeitgeist Game

Zeitgeist, as a simplistic concept, is seen as the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. Google have a fantastic site that allows you to see the most popular (top gaining) queries for any given month in any of their domains, they call this their Zeitgeist. Here is the top 15 search terms for the…

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Posted by Simon J. James on January 7th, 2008 at 4:45pm — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 8:14am on January 12th, 2008, Lydia said…: Two things:
1. White coated Boffins = HAHAHA!
2. I know that I have personally at some point tried to determine what gout is, or what the 21st century equivalent of gout is -- apparently it's still gout.

Heh -- thanks for the link. ;)

At 2:18pm on January 7th, 2008, Mango said…: Awesome post, Simon. I am so impressed with your blog. I love it!

Yes, impeach Bush and Cheney. Better, try them as the war criminals they are. It won't happen. They, along with Congress and the media, are all luxuriating together in that big comfy bed known as Capitol Hill. One giant cluster f@#k.

At 2:00am on January 6th, 2008, NicoleB said…: Re Randomizer: a little badge to click on and it brings you to a random blog every time :)

At 11:16am on January 4th, 2008, Mango said…: Okay, Simon. I will start the Election group. But I think it's fantastic that you will bring a European perspective. Our mainstream media are mostly corporate shills so you'll probably be able to teach us all a thing or two!

Thank god for the blogosphere!

At 2:42pm on January 2nd, 2008, Lydia said…: Welcome to the Litblogs group! May we live to see the end of 2008. And may we not eat more chicken pot pies than we deserve. And may... oh dear... it's all so depressing. ;D