The UK TV schedules are full of programs about the blitz. The stories are all about pilots and heros fighting over the channel.

However, I’ve never understood what this must have felt like on the ground until now…

12.9.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE.

Is this what the end of the post-war European period will look like?

“No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible; the collapse of civic life only encourages more lying, cheating, and stealing.”

Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds | Business | Vanity Fair.

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 : Everything Is a Remix

Is it a remix or is it just simply “sharing best practices”?

“What has this country come to when a journalist presumes to make moral pronouncements…”

Hated By The Daily Mail « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry

I’ve never met a Daily Mail journalist. Didn’t think that they lived in the same universe.

Free climbing a tower higher than the Empire State Building – Boing Boing.

In 1983 I was 12.

Return of the Jedi was all that I wanted, a massive film completely set in another world. The anticipation was massive; when I saw it I couldn’t believe the details of the worlds they’d produced.

However, I only saw it once. There was something unsatisfying about the whole thing.

Maybe this is why…

Did ‘Star Wars’ become a toy story? Producer Gary Kurtz looks back [Updated] | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times.

Video shows asteroid discoveries since 1980 – Boing Boing.

This is fun…

Globe Genie – Joe McMichael

It’s 99% places you wouldn’t want to live with 1% of places too expensive to live.

Good reflection of the world I think.

I need one of these…

Cheap, portable personal 3D printer: the UP! – Boing Boing.

I don’t know how they could make it any more complex! The English system of exams is so odd and out dated that in Harry Potter the names were changed but not the structure; it didn’t stand out in a work of witches and wizards!

However, the minister shows up to prove that I lack imagination…

“The “English bac” would not replace GCSEs, but would be a certificate to reward pupils who pass at least five of the exams, at grade C or above, including English, maths, one science, one foreign language and one humanity.”

Michael Gove wants baccalaureate qualification for England | Politics | The Guardian

So it adds nothing but adds another title to the existing structure!