There doesn’t seem to be a code to embed it, but if you’re a fan of The Wire and by god you bloody well should be, there’s a great hour long interview with it’s creator David Simon to be found here.

Feeling the need to post a video, here’s one of my favourite scenes from the first season.

The US lets go of the internet – will anyone notice?
POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason. So eyebrows were raised last week when the US Department of Commerce decided to relax its grip on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the naming system that ensures that when you type a web address, your browser knows where to go.

In future, governments and other international organisations will be able to nominate staff to sit on one of ICANN’s three newly created steering committees, something the DoC had resisted for years. “What it really means,” says ICANN’s chief executive Rod Beckstrom, “is that we’re going global.” [new scientist]

Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret. [guardian.co.uk]

Other points of interest include a great article/site I recommend checking out if your not a prude oppressive supressor is They Shoot Porn Stars Don’t They.

And finally, one of the coolest fun things ever… Dead Fly Art. So twistedly bizzare, I love it.

New official video from Jack White’s new super group and still probably one of my favourite albums of the year…

Today is a special day in our history. Well… mine anyway. Part of the reason for the sporadic lack of updates is due to the fact that I’ve been slogging through the internet at home on a measley 30kb/s internet connection. That’s right. I now admit it. It’s been awful.

But after weeks, months almost of delays in doing so, the flatmate has finally arranged for the cap to be increased and I’m now floating in a nirvana of high speed internet again and no longer have to wait half an hour for a video to load up.

So expect this bastard child of a blog to be updated more often as it’s no longer a trauma inducing effort to wade through articles/songs/videos/photos just to find something interesting to post in the absence of having anything else substantial to write about in the meantime.