Who’s with me? by JR, Tumi and Jack Parow
Excellent new blog by the delightful Jo Good. You should follow it.
So the 192 is a legendary Mancunian bus route, running from Piccadilly Gardens through Ardwick, Longsight & Levenshulme on its way out past ‘Stockers’ to Hazel Grove. If the 192 was a documentary they would call it ‘gritty’. If it was a drama series, Paul Abbott would be in charge. If it was a movie, that Steve McQueen guy might do a good job (although I’ve yet to see Michael Fassbender on it). If it was booze it would be a Special Brew, no doubt. And if it had a theme tune, Ian Brown would have written it, ages ago, for a solo album that got binned by the label.
I think every city has a ‘192’ doesn’t it? That bus that’s always there when you need it, when you are fragile, shitfaced, and standing in the rain with a slack kebab oozing onto your coat sleeve. Every ride on it is a mugging in the making, yet somehow (apart from those two times when you fell asleep and ended up in the depot) it always gets you home.
No SOPA, no!
I made an extension for Opera browser, based on the existing Google Chrome No SOPA extension, that will alert you when you visit a website owned or associated with the Stop Online Piracy Act legislation.
Pro-tip: Save the file to your computer first, then open it.
How it works
If you’re on a ‘bad’ website, you will see a red bar along the bottom of your screen. The list of bad websites is currently stored locally on your machine. This means the list will not update until you update the extension. This transition will be made smoother should the widget be submitted to the Opera Extensions catalogue.
Updates
Follow @coxy on Twitter for future updates.
If you wish to give thanks for this extension, use Flattr.
Downloading The Singing Detective - a BBC television mini-series that was broadcast in the UK on BBC1 during 1986 and that ranks 20th on the British Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.
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SInce we had a full-on, proper English Christmas Dinner the other day, Sally cooked an amazing turkey, bacon and stuffing lasagne for today’s dinner. It tasted amazing.
Downloading Ma-ma (aka. Rock’n’Roll Wolf), a musical film from 1976, loosely based on the famous plot “The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids” by Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
I can only find a torrent of a really average quality version. If you have better, let me know.
Trusty Burt’s Bees is saving my skin right now - literally - after getting the onset of frostbitten hands.
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