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[mockney piers]

funky oil painting

....or is it?

[mockney piers]

more snippets from a life spent browsing pointless miscellenea

This time new livery from South African Go equivalent, Kulala Airlines. Known for their wacky livery, they've excelled themselves this time.

 

[mockney piers]

Been a while since I've done some Mash linkage.

DID VORDERMAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN? QUESTION TIME VIEWERS KEEP ASKING THEMSELVES

Did anyone see that question time btw?

I haven't cringed so much since the first time i saw that dance on the office.

[david_carnell]

Footage of Vorderman

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Loon.

[mockney piers]

Nice bit of rolling news p!sstake from the Onion News Channel

[mockney piers]

Bah humbug.

It's always a pleasure to read someone as pedantic, nay as grouch-forward as me (or as I, if you're pedantry-forward, tbh me is fine).

[iaineasy]

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[mockney piers]

The ever dependable daily mash

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2568&Itemid=81&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailymash+(The+Daily+Mash.+It%27s+news+to+us.)&utm_content=Google+Reader

"Doctor Foster

Went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain.

He would have stepped in a puddle

Right up to his middle

But luckily he was a GP so was driving one of his Range Rovers to the golf course while his receptionist referred all his patients to the local chemist."

"One, two buckle my shoe

Three, four, knock at the door

Five, seven is it? I'm sorry, I went to a state school that felt that arithmetic was not as important as teaching me about lesbians and socialism."

[mockney piers]

OK, new york times isn't exactly the blogosphere, but it is a rather beautiful and interesting way of representing total box office receipts, broken down by film and time, for the last 25 years

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html#

[mockney piers]

Interesting post on how the Chinese language itself is changing to give expression to dangerous political ideas.

It's newspeak in reverse, fascinating.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2206

[aligs]

Why Miss Jones

[mockney piers]

weirdly beautiful

http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/

[Brendan]

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[mockney piers]

More interesting data visualisations from Flowing Data.

Where refugees come from and go to since 1988.

Fascinating stuff, don't bother looking on your iPad for obvious reasons

http://www.niceone.org/lab/refugees/

[mockney piers]

Just.....wow

1000 years of European history animation.

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/11/1000_years_of_e.html

[paragon]

Funny

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/ireland-urged-to-join-the-19th-century-201012173364/

[mockney piers]

Browning in naive, bless, shock.

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/02/twat-not.html

[mockney piers]

Best analysis of the Jasmine spring and how it will affect western policy I've yet read

http://crookedtimber.org/2011/02/26/after-the-sauds/

"Uncounted billions (counting Iraq, trillions) of dollars have been spent on the premise that the US has a vital interest in determining political outcomes in the Middle East. Yet in the current upsurge the US Administration has been reduced to the role of a bystander at a sporting event of which they don?t know the rules"

and more on whether Saudi Arabia could be next

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/28/yes_it_could_happen_here

[mockney piers]

The Tiny Art director seems to have grown up too much.

So as a final post there's a erview of some of the greatest hits

http://tinyartdirector.blogspot.com/2011/03/tads-greatest-hits.html

rather wonderful!!

[Annette Curtain]

Letters of note.

I've just discovered this & love it.

( kissy kissy )

Oh and do read the Sid Vicious letter.

Nette:)

[PeckhamRose]

Have been reading the above. Very interesting!

This one is really good, emotionally mature and honest stuff.

[mockney piers]

I like a bit of good data visualisation.

This one shows various facets of US debt in actual dollar bills. Great stuff.

http://www.wtfnoway.com/

[Alan Medic]

73

[mockney piers]

Not a blog, just sa cool website.

Where people emigrate from and where people emigrate to http://peoplemov.in

UK 8th biggest source of migrants in the world!!

[StraferJack]

"UK 8th biggest source of migrants in the world!!"

chance of SOME people misreading that and going "aha! I knew we take too many in"?