David Hockney

Have you seen David Hockney’s art? It’s no wonder everyone thinks they can be famous these days when you look at that stuff. Here’s a lesson: Lack of talent + persistence DOES NOT create talent.

100 mile diet

http://100milediet.org/

Great music

I like Solid Steel podcasts: http://www.ninjatune.net/solidsteel/

What would someone clever do?

You know those bracelets that people wear saying “what would Jesus do?” – I think they’re actually quite a good idea. Though being me I’d have to replace it with something like “What would someone brilliant do?” or “What would Ender Wiggin do?”

Hear the summer

The sound of the summer – a beautiful advert from Mercedes Benz.

If beauty's skin deep, she's beautiful all the way through

Londonistan

This lecture was delivered yesterday in Sydney by Melanie Phillips who is a British journo. Quadrant dinner, Sydney, Australia, 1 March 2007 Londonistan was a term of abuse coined by the French for a Britain that had allowed itself to become the European hub of al Qaeda. To me it’s also a state of mind, ...

If it's not an American flag, it's probably a bomb.

Original, updated

This is quite an old one, but it’s still great. Not that old though, come to think of it. I’d love to be able to move like that, but I really don’t think it’s ever going to happen. Mind you moving like that does only have a limited number of uses. You’d be able to ...