Stuff That Interests Me

My Top Things to do in San Francisco | All Things Go!

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:28:00 +0100

My Top Things to do in San Francisco | All Things Go!

Claire Balding at the O2 Arena - YouTube

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:32:47 +0100

Claire Balding at the O2 Arena - YouTube:

“[Cancer] has made me realise how fragile we are, and how much it matters that you do a job that you love, that you do things every day if you can but certainly every week that make a difference to the lives of other people, and that you go about life generally feeling bloody lucky to be here.”

Julia Davis: laughing in the dark | Television & radio | The Guardian

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:11:39 +0100

Julia Davis: laughing in the dark | Television & radio | The Guardian

William Eggleston Talks… - NOWNESS

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:33:28 +0100

William Eggleston Talks… - NOWNESS

Derren Brown Interview (1/6) - Richard Dawkins (by...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:22:35 +0100

Derren Brown Interview (1/6) - Richard Dawkins (by richarddawkinsdotnet)

Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education | guardian.co.uk

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:11:30 +0100

Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education | guardian.co.uk

London Friday Night Skate - Participation - Time Out London

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:52:48 +0100

London Friday Night Skate - Participation - Time Out London

Tune in: play pianos across London – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:33:20 +0100

Tune in: play pianos across London – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London

Dambisa Moyo: 'The world will be drawn into a war for resources' | Global development | The Guardian

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:11:43 +0100

Dambisa Moyo: 'The world will be drawn into a war for resources' | Global development | The Guardian

freelancery: Love parties? Love hot springs? Why not combine...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:15:47 +0100

freelancery:

Love parties?

Love hot springs?

Why not combine the two?

Ai Weiwei: to live your life in fear is worse than losing your freedom | Ai Weiwei | Comment is free | The Guardian

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:40:02 +0100

Ai Weiwei: to live your life in fear is worse than losing your freedom | Ai Weiwei | Comment is free | The Guardian:

I love freedom, like anybody; maybe more than most people. But it is such a tragedy if you live your life in fear.

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Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:31:05 +0100

"But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises..."

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:13:00 +0100

“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;
A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
In tracking out our true, original course;
A longing to inquire
Into the mystery of this heart which beats
So wild, so deep in us—to know
Whence our lives come and where they go.”

- “The Buried Life” (1852) by Matthew Arnold

How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain | Science | The Guardian

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:57 +0100

How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain | Science | The Guardian

An Evening with Ray Bradbury 2001 (by UCtelevision)

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:32:30 +0100

An Evening with Ray Bradbury 2001 (by UCtelevision)

Imogen Parson of ‘Miss Immy’s London’ chooses her five secret London spots – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:08:42 +0100

Imogen Parson of ‘Miss Immy’s London’ chooses her five secret London spots – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London

I graduated aged 90 – you're never too old to learn

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:28:57 +0100

I graduated aged 90 – you're never too old to learn:

When asked at the time of graduation what I had hoped to achieve, my answer was to delay the onset of senility, if it was not already too late. My more polite friends tell me that all the studying worked, and that my faith in exercising the mind was justified.

Been there, done that? How to find a new reason for travelling

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:06 +0100

Been there, done that? How to find a new reason for travelling:

In his last column for MSN, Simon Reeve explains the art of ‘stunt travel’..

If you have a go at stunt travel, I guarantee things will happen on your journey that you weren’t expecting, and random encounters with wild, wonderful people and creatures will brighten your day and fill your mind.

I have a long wishlist of stunt journeys, including following the 60s hippy trail east from London to Kathmandu, bagging 10 Munros in Scotland and taking a trip along the glorious River Danube, which flows through or forms the border of 10 countries including Germany, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine.

I even have a local version of stunt travel I want to try: take a mug, turn it upside down over a map of your area, centred on your home, draw a circle around the rim, and then explore that area by eating in every restaurant, climbing every hill, drinking in every pub - really getting to know where you live.

Goskino - “Wolves” (by brothermcleod)

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:29:55 +0100

Goskino - “Wolves” (by brothermcleod)

I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:13:32 +0100

I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot:

The Waste Land may be unfathomably complex but it is easy to love regardless of whether you understand it. The language is juicy and pungent, full of fire and rain, rivers and dust, birth and death – lots of death. I remember deriving a thrill of pleasurable dread from its sense of crisis and doom when I first read it as a teenager. Lines such as “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” or “This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper” (from The Hollow Men) would be at home on the back of a goth’s leather jacket. Eliot offers a vivid grown-up take on a teenager’s sense that all is not right with the world. At a difficult age you get the impression he’s on to something terribly important, even if you’re not sure what it is.