Folks, the Sofa.com competition ends this coming Tuesday. This is your last chance to use your blogging/writing/creative skills to score yourself a brand new sofa. Get to it. Cheers.
Last chance to score a free sofa
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Sweet FA – I Am An England Fan (the doubly unofficial World Cup single)
A few short months ago, I heard for the first time Sweet FA’s I Am An England Fan – the one and only single that truly deserves to be this year’s unofficial World Cup Anthem.
I immediately volunteered to get involved. That visual genius mushybees agreed to do the music video and we were well on our way to chart domination… or so we thought.
As it turns out, the many music publishing peeps we talked to thought Crazy Frog, Mike Read and Neil & Christine Bloody Hamilton had the game all wrapped up, so – after months of bashing our head against a brick-headed wall (in which time the single enjoyed many successful outings on radio and TV – including The Box and The Hits) we’ve decided to go it alone.
When you hear this song for the first time, you may – like us – begin to suspect that the music publishers of this country have deliberately conspired against us in order to stop this song from infecting the nation’s pubs and school-yards (which would be a bit rich, considering the many heinous crimes they have perpetrated against the music-buying populace this past decade).
WARNING – Before you click any of these links, please be aware of the following: once this song gets into your head, you will have great difficulty getting it out again.
Click here for the main Sweet FA website.
Click here to hear the song and see the video.
Click here to buy the video/single online.
UPDATE – Tune into More4 this evening (Wed 31st May at the tail end of the 8.00pm news) to see the music video in its full broadcast-quality glory… and stand by to vote for us!
Prepare to dial
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Why are these men being victimised?
I’m sorry, but I fail to see the difference between the incident in Haditha and the retaliatory measures against Iraq following September 11 (1,2,3,4).
These soldiers appear to have followed the implied mandate to the letter; if they’re to be disciplined for anything, it should be for failing to claim the moral high ground… and perhaps a little oil.
UPDATE – BSSC – A Few Bad Apples
Posted in It's War! It's Legal! It's Lovely!
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This man does not speak for me
Galloway: Bombing Blair ‘justified’ (via)
(Please keep this clear stance in mind whenever I declare my wish to see Tony Blair’s head on a spike. I will, of course, be speaking figuratively.)
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The devil is in the detail
A juicy nugget from the Labour Party campaign return. Given that it’s one tiny entry on one page among well over 2,000 documents, I’m not surprised the (pooled) journalists missed it.
We’re going to do a bit of a fundraising thing next week (we hope) in order to pay for the time it’s taking to enter this data into a searchable format, but if simply can’t wait for that, you can throw money in this direction right now.
Cheers all.
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New Statesman New Media Awards 2006
I’m really not sure how I’m going to approach the 2006 New Statesman New Media Awards.
I remain convinced that their decision non-decision last year (1, 2) was a deliberate snub (especially because they made a point of pressing Boris to attend when they knew they were not going to present an award in his category).
The matter remains largely unresolved as the editor John Kampfner and I abandoned our rather intense discussion on the matter when this happened.
But part of me knows that an ‘Advocacy’ award for Backing Blair will grease the wheels.
And, after the distinct anti-Tory vibe I got from at least one of their judges last year, another part of me wonders how they would react to the Anne Milton weblog being nominated under the ‘Advocacy’ category.
Still, I guess I’ll never know unless you take the time to nominate either, or both… or perhaps even Boris Johnson, who has been nominated again this year.
Cheers all.
(Head down. Arse up. Back to election return data.)
UPDATE – Personal/political issues aside, I also think that Guido warrants a nod for ‘Information’ (the individual or organisation that best uses new media technology to provide an alternative, informative voice enhancing democratic debate)… so I’ve backed that up with this nomination.
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Something worth finding out
Who decides when London’s traffic cameras should be turned away from embarrassing scenes and/or switched off altogether when a demonstration is in progress… and on what authority?
Posted in The War on Stupid
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Police: trouble with numbers
The Met certainly have difficulty when it comes to math. Like when a million people turn up to a peace march and they claim only 100,000 were there. Or when 50 or so police turn up to shut down a single protestor, and we’re told that it was ‘more like 25’.
Oops…
Daily Mail – Met criticised for sending 78 officers to protester raid: It emerged today that 78 officers had been involved and the operation had cost 7,200 pounds – 3,000 pounds on overtime and another 4,200 pounds on transport, catering and the erection of road signs. A row over the raid erupted today at a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the body which oversees Scotland Yard, with one member suggesting it had brought the force into “disrepute”. Another said it gave the impression, around the world, that Britain was “suppressing dissent by people opposed to the Iraq war”.
No!! Really?! Now where would they get a stupid idea like that?
UPDATE – It now turns out that they’ve been fibbing about the full cost of the exercise…. over 27 grand.
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Enron verdict… at last!
CNN – Ex-CEO and founder convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in Enron case: Enron former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and founder Kenneth Lay were found guilty Thursday of conspiracy and fraud in the granddaddy of all corporate fraud cases.
More here.
Going by this timetable, we should see Karl Rove behind bars by late 2012… just in time for the end of the world as we know it.
UPDATE – Who’s your friend? (And who’s hoping that sentencing set for the week of September 11 is a Handy Thing Indeed? More linky goodness here.)
UPDATE – I’ve taken a snapshot of immediate reactions below, just for my own personal records. (They’re all pretty leftish zones… the wingnuts have gone all quiet for some reas… Hey!! Look over there! It’s Jesse Macbeth!!!)
Fark | Atrios | DailyKos | Democratic Underground | Wonkette
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