Jan
10

Call for Submissions: What’s Your Favorite Tumblr?

timemagazine:

At TIME.com, we’re working on a guide to the best Tumblrs out there. But we want to know what you think first.

What Tumblr can’t you live without? (Aside from ours, of course.) Whether it’s news, photography, design or just cat videos, we want to know what you follow — and why. 

Reply to this post (and include the URL) with your picks. We’ll mark popular suggestions as “Readers’ Choice” in our final list, which should come out by the end of January.

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Nov
30

Michael Gove writes foreword to school issue James I Bible

As I’ve already touched on today, I have my reservations when it comes to religion. It’s a topic I’m shamefully underinformed about. I mean, I know the main things, I know the five pillars of Islam, I know why the Christians don’t like men to get sexy on each other, but my biblical knowledge is to say the least, limited.

My only experience of the bible, save for finding the creepy passion-killing Gideon’s version in hotel room bedside tables, was reading the New Testament (do you cap that?) in RE in Year 11.

We read the James I bible, and there were parts of it, I rather enjoyed. Not in a moral way — is it possible to enjoy anything in a moral way? But in a, “oh that’s nice” way. Which is the way I enjoy most things I enjoy. If that makes sense, which patently it doesn’t.

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Is this what God had in mind?

When God spoke to Jesus and was like, “Oi Jesus, stop coverting that ox for two freakin’ seconds would you. Marriage, yeah Jesus, tell them it’s a good idea. They should do it,” he could never have imagined this abomination.

It’s so weird how religions can get so caught by relatively tiny parts of their dogma, seemingly to the detriment of much of the rest of it. Okay, the bible says you shouldn’t have sex before marriage, but it’s a tiny part of the bigger Christian picture no? Shouldn’t you be more focused on the bigger bits like being nice and shit.

Nov
29

I find old people fighting inspirational

It’s just amazing that after so long you can still give a shit. Obviously there’s a fine line between giving-a-shit, and bearing-a-destructive-grudge, but the older I get the more often I worry that the shades of grey I’m beginning to see in almost every debate, will lead to a single pervasive greyness, that means I can stand on neither side in any debate.

And what kind of a person is that? A rubbish one is the answer. When you’re younger you’re not as conscious of your own ignorance, or at least you don’t let your ignorance stop you from having an opinion.

As you get older you start to get more worried that you don’t know the whole story, or more pertinently, that someone will point out you’re wrong. This leads to you needing an improbable amount of information before you’ll nail your colours to the mast.

It’s just good to see that these two old cunts have still got their colours nailed to the mast, and can basically still get angry.

Nov
28

This isn’t cool, it’s the end of everything

Oh cool look it’s a video game that you can control with your piss that’s neat. Oh wait no, they’re using it to advertise shit. I find those pernicious little urinal adverts offensive enough, but this really does take the fucking piss biscuit.

Is there literally nowhere free from the grasp of advertising? Please. There just has to be some restraint. You’re just making us better at ignoring it.


Nov
17

Nov
11

What the F*#k is Operation Margarine? You certain don't give any explanation about the title of your site. Is it a secret? Do I have to learn a funny handshake and wear a hat with a tassel in order to know, or is Operation Margarine the latest gangsta fad? Inquiring minds want to know.

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It’s the name of a chapter in Roland Barthes’s Mythologies. No tassels needed, just a minor grasp of literary criticism.

Nov
03

Oct
19

Michael Winslow — Whole Lotta Love

i.e The sound effects guy from Police Academy has still got it. So much of it. Perhaps too much of it. He should certainly consider giving some of it away to more needy people. Seriously, this is fucking incredible.

Oct
03

Sep
13

Some lighter reading for the shadow chancellor

I was on the tube today, on my way to interview Russell Kane, and look who I saw! Only the tiny-eyed shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

At first he was reading the FT, scowling through the pages, but he soon gave up and whipped out, best-selling, which-one-of-them-dies, rom-com-pitch-disguised-a-novel, One Day.

Although he also read this with same angry furrowed brow. Though I must say, he did have reassuringly shit shoes on.

Holiday to the Algarve

Just some choice snaps from me and gf’s holiday to Portugal. This was my first time shooting with EOS 600D, and I really enjoyed it.

With my old Nikon I tended to stay in the same mode almost all the time, purely because changing the mode didn’t seem to really affect the end result. However, with the Canon, the difference is much more marked. Also the creative-auto mode is a fun addition, though probably not one for the purists, but certainly a nice feature for a mid-level entry DSLR.

Aug
30

10 worst (best) metal covers ever

Putting this feature together it made me glad that we live in a world where there are so many genres. Not just for variety’s sake, but because without them, we wouldn’t have the opportunity for these taste-shreddingly awesome cross-over covers would we?

And I think anyone who watches even three of these covers would agree with me.

Aug
26

Schools pimping out pictures of their A-level girls

Schools pimping out pictures of their A-level girls

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A clip from the Today Programme about public schools pimping out snaps of their sexier A-level students.

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