BLACK MIDI John L
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CARL MOON Photographer and Artist
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LUCY THE HUMAN CHIMP
Just two or three genes difference between us and our nearest living ancestor, but a huge difference. One of those great docs that leaves you wanting to talk about it afterwards made by Alex Parkinson
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AMOS NACHOUM
Photographing sharks underwater wasn't dangerous enough for Amos Nachoum - so he took to recording swimming polar bears instead. And yes, he has been almost eaten a couple of times ... Probably a tedious git at a party - but the resulting pictures are quite interesting.
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LAURA BARTON'S AMERICAN ROAD TRIP
The perfect radio for one of those code-red heatwave evenings ... if you can handle the oh-so plummy radio 4 accent (she's from Lancashire, too - shame on her) Takes you back to those hypnotic American new-wave road movies of the 70s ...
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SHAME SNOW DAY
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(As heard on the sometimes wonderful 'Short Cuts' radio prog)
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wanted STREET PUNKS ! FULFILL YOUR IMPORT DUTY !
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LIVING ON AN ISLAND-FILL
It's pretty horrific ... you finally clean out that cupboard and find yerself throwing out all sorts of tech - old set-top boxes, routers, chargers etc. You were thinking of buying a cordless hoover - I mean vacuum cleaner, until you thought for a moment and remembered that anything with a built-in battery dies and refuses to take a charge about a week after the warranty runs out. And then you hear that the next gen of i-phone will come with software that stops you from swapping the battery over - even to the same exact model
The folks at i-fixit (below) are providing free manuals for thousands of machines - they only make money from supplying the specialist toolkits
It's worth doing - I fixed the laptop I'm using right now (an old Lenovo/IBM T61 - Ebay bargain) It was overheating, so I paid £6 for a new fan and a quick Youtube tutorial later - fixed.
They call it The Right to Repair Movement ... we used to just call it repairs - |
THE WAY WE LIVED
It wasn't always this way ... once we were wild, free, murderous ... Henry Miller 1934
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