Feed for April 2005

Speaking of mp3s... I’ve been getting into the Kaiser Chiefs, whose “I Predict a Riot” is at a few promo sites (like that one), and Bloc Party, whose US label has a stream of their debut album.

New New Pornographers: mp3 from upcoming album Twin Cinema at their label site.

And lo, it was fixed. The server issue that’s plagued me this past week, that is, which was keeping the Feed entries off the main page. Huge thanks to Paul for service above and beyond the call of duty in tracking down a fix. I kiss you!

The Graun on Ukip’s manifesto: “Newcomers to the country, Mr Knapman announced, would face ‘Britishness tests’, but he seemed unable to define Britishness. If people failed the test, he said, they would have to take it over and over, presumably until they became bitter but decided they probably shouldn’t grumble, at which point they would have achieved an exemplary British mindset.”

Server woes have knocked out my Movable Type plugins for a while, so I've had to take the Feed entries off the main page for a bit.

The Long Emergency (via Ed and MeFi): “We will not believe that this is happening to us, that 200 years of modernity can be brought to its knees by a world-wide power shortage.”

Superdickery.com. “You wanted to be with me to the end, Lois—this is it! So long!

Blogging and academia at Crooked Timber.

Feed for March 2005