Sights, thoughts and sounds. Longer notes at the archive.Tumblr (3.0; @hmobius)http://tumblr.hmobius.com/<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ehnRt3LaLUc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ehnRt3LaLUc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Because death metal needs the piss taken out of it once in a whilehttp://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/53432932http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/53432932Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:28:16 +0100<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7654267.stm">Monkeys work in Japanese restaurant</a>: A restaurant in Japan has some unusual waiting staff on its books - two macaque monkeys. Yatchan and Fukuchan serve customers hot towels and drinks, and are given soya beans as tips.http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/53432875http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/53432875Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:27:21 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5W_wd9Qf0IE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5W_wd9Qf0IE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Codemonkey by Jonathan Coultonhttp://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/52026768http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/52026768Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:13:37 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AQfyOr3e-34"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AQfyOr3e-34" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><a href="http://http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38509">Paul Newman has died of cancer, aged 83</a>.http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/52025691http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/52025691Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:04:16 +0100<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1719921&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1719921&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1719921&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/>But when he’s bad, he’s Gandhihttp://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/51924155http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/51924155Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:20:35 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JWm2kjRIBk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JWm2kjRIBk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Rick Wright of Pink Floyd <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7617583.stm">died on Monday aged 65</a>. Thanks for the music Rick. May you get to the great gig in the sky.http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/51292254http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/51292254Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:11:00 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tm1uOgzc8e3w0uh5sy8iLCipo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/08/filmnews.france">Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement.</a>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/50988323http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/50988323Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:35:39 +0100<embed flashvars="videoId=105095" src="http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="332" height="316" name="comedy_central_player" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="external" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br/><br/>The Daily Show - 9/11http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49840818http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49840818Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:30:21 +0100“Writers write. We don’t do it because we want to. We do it because we have to. You ever hear about someone who quit writing? That wasn’t a writer.”http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49136941http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49136941Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:00:57 +0100“<p>The why is the only thing that actually matters. The who, the what, the when, the where, even the how amount to nothing beyond the filler …</p> <p>The why is it. The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. </p> <p>And in the American city, at the millennium, the why has ceased to exist.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>David Simon, creator of The Wire</em>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49134022http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/49134022Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:35:00 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S07-UgIw6Ds"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S07-UgIw6Ds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i666fc0408ab465aaaa3c27625a84282e?imw=Y">Bill Melendez, who oversaw all and animated most of the Peanuts cartoons and many well know Looney Tunes cartoons too, has died. He was 91. </a>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48696519http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48696519Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:47:18 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nGjx9sHLLf8"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nGjx9sHLLf8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Doctor Who (well, kinda)http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48537611http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48537611Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:44:36 +0100“The ultimate thrill in German is waiting for the verb”<br/><br/> - <em>Mark Twain</em>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48384585http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48384585Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:39:39 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7QPMvj_xejg"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7QPMvj_xejg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Don LaFontaine, the voiceover for almost every big film trailer you’ve ever remembered <a href="http://http://www.metafilter.com/74565/In-a-world">died today from complications as a result of a collapsed lung</a>. He was 68.http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48381929http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/48381929Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:07:29 +0100“Parents are in the grip of anxiety and when you’re anxious, you’re totally warped. We become so bent out of shape over something as simple as <a href="http://http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-the-subway-alone/">letting your children out of sight</a> on the playground that it starts seeming on par with letting them play on the railroad tracks at night. In the rain. In dark non-reflective coats.”<br/><br/> - <em>Hara Estroff Marano, author “A Nation of Wimps”</em>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47896716http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47896716Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:15:54 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ecsEAXNlfv0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ecsEAXNlfv0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Kenny Everett’s new carhttp://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47772004http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47772004Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:55:46 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tm1uOgzc8d5m7diaRgILlym0_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Lightning in your back garden.<br/> 15 more rather amazing lightning strikes <a href="http://www.bspcn.com/2008/08/26/15-spectacular-lightning-images/">here</a>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47622213http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47622213Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:56:39 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j50ZssEojtM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j50ZssEojtM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>The Large Hadron Rap - Quantum Physics meets A Tribe Called Quest. <br/> Backup Dancers ‘Prefer Anonymity’ - wisely.http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47477278http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/47477278Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:33:00 +0100<a href="http://skop.com/brucelee/index.htm">The Bruce Lee Remixer</a>http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/46895103http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/46895103Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:32:00 +0100<a href="http://www.humanfilm.org/index.html">War, Love , God and Madness</a>: Documentary detailing the three year struggle to make a film in Iraq. Crossfires, kidnapping, militia and bullets not excludedhttp://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/46737134http://tumblr.hmobius.com/post/46737134Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:18:45 +0100