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trends for 2007

http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/2007top5.htm

MIT Open Source

You're joking, right? University lessons on anything I like... for free?

bylaugh hall

Bylaugh (pronounced beela, sometimes mis-spelt as Belaugh) is a tiny hamlet with a Saxon round towered church nestling by the river Wensum which flows on to Norwich. There is an Old Hall built in the 15th Century surrounded by lovely farm buildings and cottages belonging to the King family. Most of the other houses in this hamlet were built by the Evans-Lombe family for the Estate.
This new Bylaugh Hall is a small Stately Home built by Charles Barry (Architect of the Houses of Parliament) in 1850. In 1950 it was partially demolished and abandoned to the elements. Now it is coming gradually back to life.

1930s music to investigate

Louis Armstrong – All of me
Duke Ellington
Rudy Vallee

http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2006/06/in_the_good_old_summertime.html

http://www.archive.org/details/78rpm

http://redhotjazz.com/louie.html

http://lp2cd.com/time/30s.htm

http://music.download.com/2001-8192_32-0.html?tag=MDL_nav_dir&

UK Terror Plot

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html

None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time.In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms.

[BAD SIGNAL]There's That Goddamn Sun Again

>bad signal
>WARREN ELLIS
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>Another day down the mines of our lives. We drink 'til we stink and
>smoke 'til we choke because that's how we get things done, you and me.
>Spending our lives making things and making things out of our lives,
>because anything else would be dull as hell and we're damned if we're
>going to sit at the other end of whatever years we get saying, well,
>what the fuck was that for?
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>Years of scars, lipstick and tears, and every day the dawn comes on we
>turn our eyes up in surprise, saying, "There's that goddamn sun again."
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>© Warren Ellis 2006