Dan Bern - ‘Tiger Woods‘ (in honour of the bloody Ryder Cup) | David Bowie - ‘Heroes’ | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ‘Upon this tidal wave of young blood’ | Richard Thompson - ‘Oops! I did it again’ |  Paul Anka - ‘Smells like teen spirit’ | Beth Orton - ‘Heartlandtruckstop’ | This Mortal Coil - ‘Another day’ | Ani DiFranco - ‘ Shameless’ | Munck / Johnson - ‘Slavesong’ | Juana Molina - ‘Malherina’ | Gillian Welch - ‘Revelator’ | Broken Social Scene - ‘Shoreline’ | Death Cab For Cutie - ‘Why you’d want to live here’ | Jefferson Airplane - ‘Somebody to love’ | Cake - ‘I will survive’ | Camera Obscura - ‘Let’s get out of this country’ | Los Straightjackets - ‘My heart will go on’ | Peter, Bjorn & John - ‘Young folks’ (I was fierce upset to discover this is the soundtrack to a bland beer ad. Oh well.)

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Two very different accounts of the same event. Really does make me wonder which one is the more accurate.

‘Tony Blair is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and greets one.

The patient replies:

"Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm,
As langs my airm."

Blair is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient and the patient responds:

"Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit."

Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the PM moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:

"Wee sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle."

Now seriously troubled, Blair turns to the accompanying doctor and asks "Is this a psychiatric ward?"

"No," replies the doctor, "this is the serious Burns unit." ‘

Web design cliches of 2006. This site proudly features numbers 4 and 5, a solid 25% strike rate.

This is pretty nifty. Shows birth rates, death rates and levels of CO2 emmissions per country

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism. No it won’t.

I wasn’t hugely impressed with Black Books when it first came out. However, I’ve changed my mind.  It’s surreally brilliant. Three episodes up on YouTube

Episode one - Part one … Part two … Part three

Episode two - Part one … Part two … Part three

Episode three - Part one … Part two … Part three (something wrong with the start of this one)

Dancing competition

Cat Power - ‘Knocking on heaven’s door’ | Cat Power & the Memphis Rhythm Band - ‘The greatest’ (live) |  Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois - ‘Always returning’ | Rahsaan Roland Kirk - ‘Ain’t no sunshine’ | Led Zeppelin - ‘Houses of the holy’ | Pixies - ‘Is she weird’ | Arthur Lee - ‘Everybody’s gotta live’ | Double Exposure - ‘Ten per cent’ (Walter Gibbons mix) | The Salsoul Orchestra - ‘Nice & nasty’ (Walter Gibbons Mix) | Ani DiFranco - ‘Nicotine’ | Neil Young - ‘Heart of gold’ | Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - ‘Hallelujah’ | A Silver Mt. Zion - ‘Angels standing guard round the side of your bed’ | Borat - ‘In my country there is problem’ | Mogwai - ‘Friend of the night’ | Max Romeo - ‘Chase the devil’ | Banco de Gaia - ‘Glove puppet’ (Dreadzone remix)

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Hitler visits a lunatic asylum. The patients give the Hitler salute. As he passes down the line he comes across a man who isn’t saluting. "Why aren’t you saluting like the others?" Hitler barks. "Mein Führer, I’m the nurse," comes the answer. "I’m not crazy!"