Early Modern Notes

1. TV Tropes. Smart, funny, and it’s a wiki so you can add your own examples (or disagreements). Should come with a warning: go in and you may never get out again. It seems to get bigger and bigger as you get further inside. (Hat tip.)

2. Throw a shoe at George Bush. (In Norwegian but fairly easy to work out the instructions, I think.) Hee hee. Although of course I don’t condone assaults on failed politicians blah blah blah. Really, you should only ever throw squishy things at them, for maximum humiliation without physical danger. Cream pies, rotten tomatoes, eggs, etc. Presumably hard to smuggle into press conferences though. (H-T.)

Update: and if you get bored with shoe throwing there, here’s another one (in English this time). How many different versions will there be eventually, I wonder?

A particularly arbitrary selection from what I’ve been reading online lately…

Telekinesiskitteh plyz wif teh fud
  hmm, not enough lolcats round here lately (swallow coffee before clicking on link)

Beetroot Curry recipe
  I really, really like this one…

The Madness of Spies
  John le Carre reminisces about spies unhinged (somewhere along the line, it's the Yanks' fault)

Hemp and Hops, Together at Last
  Mmm, drugs… from Got Medieval

I heard this bewitching mix of Obama’s election speech on 6Music , by a band called Lunar Dunes (described as ‘psychedelic spacerock’). So I went looking for it on t’internet; they’d posted an mp3 of it on a forum a few days after the election, but that link had expired. So, I emailed and begged and they very kindly put it up again:

Loophole (Yes We Can remix) (download available for 14 days). Get it now.

And you can get their album From Above (including the original Obama-free mix of the track) from iTunes, Amazon and their rather beautiful website.