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Artists 1 Mar 2010 | 07:13 am
Playing about with Last.fm I discovered this page which shows the top 18 artists it has captured me listening to via the ‘scrobbling’ gadget… the mighty Prefab Sprout have a pretty commanding lead the...
Love at the Five and Dime – Nanci Griffith 14 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
I posted about the Nanci Griffith concert Mrs Fleet and I attended a couple of weeks ago. The sound quality isn’t great, but this video gives a nice view of the Griffith concert experience, with a nic...
Energy Gizmo 14 Feb 2010 | 12:58 am
British Gas have provided us with this handy gadget which measures in real time your household consumption of electricity. It’s rather effective as it’s hard to walk past it would looking at the numbe...
Nanci Griffith 6 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
On Wednesday night Mrs Fleet and I were able to send Miss Fleet and Rothmans off to my mother’s and to go to watch Nanci Griffith in concert at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. I’ve been a fan of Nanci’...
Frog Epic Fail 6 Feb 2010 | 11:09 am
This Frog isn’t fast enough on the draw to catch the wily Dragonfly…
Spirit 30 Jan 2010 | 09:41 am
I always find something to smile about whenever webcomic XKCD updates, but I actually found this genuinely rather poignant!
Cameroned 24 Jan 2010 | 12:07 am
from Barefoot
Garden 18 Jan 2010 | 09:03 am
With the departure of the dreaded snow (which although exciting to begin with had certainly outstayed it’s welcome by last weekend and was a bloody nuisance by the time the rain washed it away a coupl...
Fall of Empires 10 Jan 2010 | 11:18 pm
According to it’s creator, Jose M Cruz, this is “mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs” on Vimeo. It shows the evolution of the four main maritime Empires through the ...
Icy Grip 8 Jan 2010 | 10:01 am
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response What an extraordinary picture, taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on 7th January, via the BBC.