All Points North

I’ve become unhealthily obsessed with song lyrics. I used to be happy in my ignorance but now I find myself searching out the Interweb. It’s not so I can sing along it’s just to see what they’re actually singing. The interesting thing to me is that without the music the lyrics can look a bit like nonsense. Perhaps it’s because I’m not a musician that I can’t see the connection of one to the other but they really only make sense to me together.

So freak out if you wanna
And I’ll still be here
Don’t call me for years and when you do
Yeah, I’ll still be here

And I’m not saying that the effort is a waste of time, but I
Just love you for the things you couldn’t change, though you’ve tried
These hours of confusion they will soon expire like
Everything does

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This is today’s Daily Express front cover. It made me laugh out loud when I saw it in WHSmiths this morning. It wasn’t the free fragrant garden collection or the chance to win a luxury patio dining set. Nor was it the headline about tax spies. It was the complaint that TV ghouls are cashing in on the memory of Diana whilst ghoulishly cashing in on the memory of Diana in print. You cannot buy class. Plain and simple.

What else should we expect from the self-proclaimed worlds greatest newspaper.

Unless this was an admission of their own cashing in and they’re simply highlighting the fact that they’ve been cashing in for ages and now the TV stations have finally caught up. Not having picked the vile rag up I can’t say for sure but I doubt it.

I think they should change their tag line to: The Daily Express more front than Harrods.

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Because it’s a fucking* book.

George Orwell was an author not a fucking* time traveller. Please for the love of god and my sanity stop comparing the increase in CCTV cameras to a work of fiction.

There’s a much longer post here about how there are a number of people who are almost wishing the premise of 1984 to come true. They see it in everyday things like talking CCTV in Middlesbrough (actually very successful) and speed cameras. I’ve no doubt that there’s a dialogue to be had and a balance to be struck but there’s a seemingly endless stream of people who cite the work as an inevitability should ‘things continue the way they are’. Bollocks. Just because some geezer wrote a decent book doesn’t make it true.

* An apology. My language has really taken a turn for the worse. I used to have such medium-height standards but they’ve sunk very low lately. Kids, it’s not big and it’s not clever.

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Media Watch claim that they:

provide an independent voice for those concerned about issues of taste and
decency in the media.

It’s ethos is to provide a voice for those people who have an interest in issues of taste and decency in the media. You might think they’d have to be open and tolerant to achieve this aim but no, they’re a bunch of homophobic pigs. Here’s their take on Dawn Airey joining ITV;

ITV pins its hopes on a new Dawn …

The executive described as the most powerful woman in British television is to join ITV. Dawn Airey’s appointment comes as the channel tries to improve programme quality and lift falling revenues. She will oversee in-house programme making, which puts her in charge of shows such as I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, Parkinson and Coronation Street. Ariey,46, whose lesbian partner recently gave birth to a girl, will take up the job in October … She has previously worked for Sky and was chief executive of Channel Five … ITV executive chairman Michael Grade yesterday described her as a ‘dynamic’ and ‘creative’ leader. The company revealed last week that ratings for ITV1 were continuing to fall, along with advertising revenues.

Daily Mail 24/5/2006

< stream of consciousness >

Ha, nice headline that’s funny… new Dawn Ha… Ha…
Powerful woman… good we like powerful women. Trying to improve ITV content Mmmm yes good idea it’s been a bit light recently seemingly all they can do is bring back old stuff that used to work like Cracker and Prime Suspect. In charge of I’m a celebrity, Parkinson, Coro… Mmm she must be important and experienced and clever. Her girlfriends just had a baby awww how nice…. hang on… wait a minute….. what, in the name of all that’s holy has that got to do with it?

< /stream of consciousness >

Nothing you bunch of fucktards. Can she do her job and will she listen to your demands for better standards is all that you should care about you bunch of small minded twatbags. If it was Dan Aiery I’m sure you wouldn’t have written

‘Ariey, 46, whose hetrosexual partner recently gave birth to a baby girl will take up the job in October’

How’s about some taste and decency in your reporting Media Watch?

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Ben Whitehead, a 22-year-old computer technician of Huddersfield, West Yorks, said: “I am absolutely devastated.

“I have been crying and I will probably cry again in a minute. I am just trying to hold it in.

The quote above is lifted from a story on the BBC news website. What could it relate to you wonder? Is it the loss of a loved one? Perhaps the relative of a soldier killed in action overseas? A victim of some heinous crime? No he’s stuck at Liverpool airport because his flight was cancelled. He was due to fly to Athens to see the European Cup final but alas that’s not now possible. Poor thing’s not going to be able to see the football now. Oh actually Ben it’s on ITV, I know it’s not the same as being there and I’d be pissed off if I’d paid for tickets I couldn’t use but get a grip man. Nobody died.

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I hated maths at school. I hate it now. I will hate it forever. The ability to add, subtract, divide and multiply evades my tiny little mind to this day. If I’d half the wit and intelligence I thought I had when I was taking exams this is exactly what I would have put. I STILL don’t know how to find x.

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But I cant help failing
To remember to forget you
And I know its gonna be a long time
And Im crying like a church on Monday
Praying for these feelings to go away

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Pricing & Availability
The new MacBook is available immediately through the Apple Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

The 2.0 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,099 (US), includes:

* 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
* 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
* 667 MHz front-side bus;
* 1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
* 80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
* Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme® 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
* two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire® 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Scrolling TrackPad;
* the infrared Apple Remote; and
* 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

The 2.16 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,299 (US), includes:

* 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
* 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
* 667 MHz front-side bus;
* 1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
* 120GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
* Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
* two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Scrolling TrackPad;
* the infrared Apple Remote; and
* 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

The 2.16 GHz, 13-inch black MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,499 (US), includes:

* 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
* 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
* 667 MHz front-side bus;
* 1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
* 160GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
* Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
* Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
* two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Scrolling TrackPad;
* the infrared Apple Remote; and
* 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

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The image below is taken from a n article in oemagazine. It’s about how to spot fake images. By this they mean images that have had the Photoshop treatment. The comment under this picture is

This image shows inconsistent illumination conditions. The shark is illuminated from the above left, whereas the rest of the image is illuminated from above and slightly behind.

Well that’s cleared that up then it’s the shadow that gives it away.

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