tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184644362011-04-21T20:42:22.684+01:00A blog about London and it's miscellanyDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17710339761068033075noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18464436.post-20984646681440688812007-04-17T01:12:00.000+01:002007-04-17T01:15:50.175+01:00

Astounding.Could you ever see the powers-that-be in London thinking this was a good idea?Why is that so hard to comprehend I wonder?

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I just can't be bothered anymore.

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Is this blog focusing too much on paranoid 'security' conspiracy theories? Probably. Last post about this kind of thing for a while I promise. Going to move onto the mass media next...

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Can you see yourself going to work on this?

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As a follow up to my previous post on the inherent security problems posed by the biometric chip system in passports, this article appeared in the Guardian today.

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BBC: Blair working on Mid-East plan.Thank god for that. I was worried for a second there.(Thanking the lord is probably the wrong phrase in this context...)

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If anybody is still sitting on the fence about ID cards, please read this article from the Guardian (damned liberals!). It brings up the sort of questions that the Government are trying to brush under the carpet and hope nobody kicks up a fuss about. Paying over £90 for something that won't be mine? That sounds like taxation to me, no doubt Blair et al will shy away from that word.In a related

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I have capitulated and joined MySpace. I always use it to check out bands but decided to finally bite the bullet and register. However I hope that I don't end up at MyDeathSpace in the very near future.There is something deeply creepy about the idea of MySpace becoming a communal condolence book. In response to this, I pledge to leave all my internet passwords to my family so that they can trawl

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Check out the lyrics to Who's a Terrorist Now by Scully. Ingenious. "In Trafalgar Square I get lairier In the designated riot area"Nearly as good as rhyming 'Tesco' with 'Al Fresco' in LDN by Lily AllenAs we all know, Ken is a big supporter of this sort of behaviour.

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I watched Super Size Me again last night (because I am a cheapskate and it came free in the Guardian on Saturday) and the theme is followed up in an article in today's G2 previewing a new book from Eric Schlosser (he of Fast Food Nation fame).It just serves to underline the effort we put into not pissing off companies for the sake of our jobs and short-term pay-off (the spokesperson for the food

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Go and see Ice Blink at Cell: it's brilliant (you have until the 30th so hurry!). Simon Faithfull made a two month 'epic' visit to the Antarctic with the British Antarctic and documented the journey. The drawings made on a Palm Pilot are really nice and lo-fi and were emailed to subscribers with the geo-tagged coordinates of where they were drawn. The video's installled in the storage containers

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Chicken CottageOriginally uploaded by d m. This morning in Tooting Bec.The police can afford to buy three attack helicopters costing £3 million pounds each to aid in the fight against terror but still prefer the comfort of a twin berth?No word from the officers as to why they had cornered off three blocks and installed a caravan to watch one man eating some crispy wings in Chicken

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Watching Over YouOriginally uploaded by d m. I think the inclusion of a woman's eyes instead of a man's is designed to make us all feel safe and snug in a maternal-type way. I think it's one of the scariest posters I've seen for a while. Although advertising a non-event website doesn't seem like the best use of public money to prevent terrorism (or 'much, much more' - what does that mean?)

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38, 38, 38...Originally uploaded by d m. What is it with the no.38? You can't see this in the picture but there were four bendy-bus 38's in a row. That's a bus tail-back of over 72 metres! (don't get me started on bendy buses... that's for another post) What do they do, breed around Hackney Downs or something?Whenever you are waiting for a bus, no matter where in London, a no.38 will pass you.

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Isn't it cool when you go out with absolutely no expectations and end up turning it on it's head and having a really great night? And there was absolutely no alchohol involved at all (I'm having a brief hiatus).My friend gently cajoled me into leaving the (relative) comfort of my house, even though I was tired and in a pretty bad mood tonight, to see his friend's band, My Two Toms, play at the 12

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I went to see two new films this weekend as part of different film festivals (there is a festival for every occasion/nationality/good cause these days).36, Quai Des Orfevres was part of the French Film Festival, which premiered on Friday night at the NFT, was billed as a stylish French crime/gangster thriller in the mould of Heat or Lock, Stock... It was certainly very stylishly filmed (in that

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Thames WhaleOriginally uploaded by d m. Here is a picture of the whale as it passed underneath Vauxhall Bridge. A pretty amazing and singular sight, people were literally walking along the side of the thames to keep up with it as it was chaperoned by a police boat and a lifeboat. At one point someone got into the water at the side to herd it away from the bank as the Thames is currently at low

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I was at the Turner Prize prize-giving (do you say prize twice?) on Monday. The line up this year was very good but as always with the prize the difficulty of showing it becomes apparent in the spaces. Four very different artists = four very different rooms. Simon Starling rightly won I think, looking a bit sheepish and feeling 'doubly-lucky' as he collected his large cheque (in amount, not

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Trafalgar Square ModelOriginally uploaded by d m. They need to update this model of Trafalgar Square in the National Gallery with the Fourth Plinth projects. Other than that, it's clean tourist-free space is eerily accurate...I made a brief visit to Reubens at the National today, which was OK, and also Jonathan Monk's project at the ICA, which is really excellent and probably Brian Sewell's

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Hampstead Heath Bench Originally uploaded by d m. Speaks for itself really. Droll and most people who have had a walk on the Heath will have probably come across this bench, but I hadn't had a good ramble around there until this Sunday. Which was nice.Especially if it is rounded off by a Lamb Roast here. No Yorkshire pudding though which was a grave(y) mistake. Lovely pub but too many

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Twenty Two Originally uploaded by d m. Not quite sure what the purpose of this is other than counting just how rubbish the state of London's pavements are on a scale of 1 to 22.Maybe contractors have to be told precisely how many cracks need to be fixed before they will start any repair job for a council these days.

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Good article here (via the Londonist) on the image used to maximise the Sun's incredibly subtle powers of persuasion, which didn't quite have the desired effect.Of course the Police want more power because... er... well, they're the Police. Will any additional powers be used wisely with due care and diligence? Let me think.

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As it proudly proclaims, the Newman Arms has an 'Upstairs Pie Room' which I noticed whilst walking through the alley beside it, Newman Passage, on my way to meeting friends at Nordic Bar (don't bother with that one by the way). I visited after work the other day and had a hearty pie and a nice ale which hit the spot marked 'pie and ale' very nicely indeed.It was one of George Orwell's favourite

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