Author: GriddleOctopus
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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Newswipe with Charlie Brooker News Clip
http://youtube.com/v/l8rMYyegT5Y The UK news is not only voyeuristic, it’s also nationalistic and enormously biased towards the increased value of a white, English middle-class life. I’m rather tired of it.
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Beatiful Tilt-Shift Movie
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. These are real people, the video’s just been sped-up and tilt-shifted.
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Found in a notebook
In moments of solitude, my mind, once far-ranging, now only homes in on one phrase; “mi amo”. I don’t speak Italian or any of the Romance languages, save Latin, so I don’t know what it means, but I’ve a feeling that my hindbrain /thinks/ it knows what it means; “my love”. I mumble it to…
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McGoohan, McGoohan, McGone.
Just remembered that Patrick McGoohan died yesterday. Farewell childhood hero, our rebel without reason (but not without a cause), now you’re Number Zero. I’m currently listening to “I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape” by The Times. S’alright.
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I Won A Book!
http://londonist.com/2008/12/prizewinning_medical_trivia.php Congratulations to Dan Griliopoulos, winner of our Medical London competition. We asked for a piece of trivia connected with medicine in London, and Dan provided this: “The premier London medical story has to be that of Samuel Pepys’ stone. Not the actual operation – which was long and painful (without anaesthetic) or highly dangerous…
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