Want to know how the Beatles made their music? Here are three extraordinary segments of Beatles music with accompanying commentary split down into individual instruments.
It's simply amazing stuff.
November 20, 2009Today's Web Grab
Ideas and their enemiesThis guy has designed a series of wonderful doodles as part of an advertising campaign in Portugal. Each one illustrates a brilliant kind of idea and the modern day evil that's out to scupper it. The captions, unfortunately, are in Portuguese but the pictures are witty enough to get the message across ('focus group' seems to be unfortunately universal and Yoko Ono's shades are Yoko Ono's shades in any language).
(Hat tip: Kottke)
Ashton, Miliband and the Labour party's future
If this seems like an odd question, I'll explain. Friends of David Miliband have been arguing over the last couple of weeks that Miliband's decision to stay in Britain rather than take the job made him a much stronger leadership candidate. This was for two reasons. First, it showed he was a fighter and wanted to dedicate himself to the party. And second, the very offer (and it is clear there would have been one, I think) showed that he is a big figure. He was offered a big job after all. In fact, a Blairite former Cabinet Minister told me that he believed that Miliband had even put himself in position to succeed before the election. But now along comes Baroness Ashton. Whatever talent she may have, in British political eyes this reduces the prestige of the appointment. It suggests that Miliband did not need to be regarded as a major figure by other European governments in order to be appointed. I'd say that whatever edge the whole EU High Representative thing gave him, and it was quite an edge actually, he has now lost. Ed Balls had a good day yesterday. Magazine Rack - Issue 540
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10 most bizarre sexist advertsThere’s a good something doing the rounds on the blogs at the moment, one that has a Friday kind of feeling to it. A number of blogs have been picking their Top 10/Top 20/Top 105 Vintage Sexist Adverts. I’m not sure ‘Top’ is the best way of describing them, but there’s such an astonishingly rich pool of material to pick from that I couldn’t resist making a quick Comment Central selection.
Ballack moonlightsMichael Ballack claims to be injured, but he has clearly been otherwise employed. The real concern about Ashton
The appointment of Cathy Ashton prompted UKIP's Nigel Farage to say this:
I don't agree with either of these criticisms. It is not true that she has not had a proper job. She was head of Business in the Community, a highly successful and innovative charity for several years. And she was very good at it, incidentally. And it is more revealing about Nigel Farage than about her that he doesn't regard that as a proper job. It is true that she has never been elected to anything. But I don't regard that as a disqualification. One of my concerns about the job, and reason for opposing the Lisbon treaty, is that politicians used to elected office would take a role to which they had not been elected, and which should be diplomatic rather than political, and turn into a political platform. My concern is different. What makes Cathy Ashton's appointment "surprising" as she noted herself, is that she has little background in foreign policy. She has, I suppose, been trade commissioner for a year. But aside from that, her one demonstration of interest in international affairs was as an employee and later Treasurer of CND. I don't regard that as reassuring. Friday's comment from the papers in...
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