fisharepeopletoo

Since the Beginning of Time Man has Yearned to Destroy the Sun.

“I will do the next best thing...block it out!”

In the fantastic* Simpsons episode Who Shot Mr Burns Part One, C. Montgomery Burns’s most dastardly crime against the town of Springfield is to block out the sun with a giant umbrella - “owls will deafen us with incessant hooting...”

I read in the paper this morning that one plan to save us from global warming is to block out the sun with giant umbrellas in space.

If that happens, please please please please please can they be called Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

*For anyone who I’ve droned on to about TV, I never said it was rubbish, just that watching it makes us stupid.

Lateral Thinking

Leddchester.

Leeds-Huddersfield-Manchester.

I’m going for a night out in the Eastern Borough this evening, on the dilapidated Crossrail link.

G****n S****r

I’ve been mobile straight edge for nearly two years now.

Though I’ve not missed TV at all, I have spent a few evenings wandering round the flat with my laptop trying to find a wifi signal from the neighbours.

A couple of weeks ago I finally got one, by standing in the shower cubicle.

Needless to say, from then on I couldn’t stop myself downloading vital work emails that couldn’t possibly wait till the following morning, checking the day’s ranking of my book on the Amazon hot 1 million (shameless self promotion) and generally pratting about for no good reason.

So I’ve decided that if I can’t resist when it’s this inconvenient I might as well get a proper broadband connection so I can prat from the comfort of my own settee.

And I’m quite looking forward to having the internet at home again, with a couple of reservations.

The first that it is possible to fritter away a lot of time on the web when you’re as weak willed as me, along with benefiting from its many wonderfulnesses.

The second is that I feel like I’ve made a tiny contribution to the world by visiting the wifi cafes of central Manchester (like right now as I type.)

Not only through buying free trade coffee and supporting independent local businesses.

But just by being out and about in it.

****It would have resulted in far too many disappointed visitors from google who certainly weren’t looking for ramblings about mobile phones.

The BBC Move to Salford / Manchester

If the BBC moves to Salford, it will be the most important cultural event in England for the last 60 years.

As a country we'll have a point of view from which to talk to and about ourselves that isn't dictated by 300 people living Hampstead.

And the cultural liveliness, innovation and heart set free by that will make England a much healthier, more enjoyable and exciting place to live.

Two Left Feet

This is lovely.

A video of Zidane playing five a side in a school sports hall with some pub players.

I could try and talk about "play", "flow" and "optimal experience", but I’d only spoil it.

It’s just lovely.

(Watch it all the way through for his smile at the end.)

[I got it from the city of sound weblog]