Linkage

Two free e-books (PDF) from the Book Depository. One's CityLit: London, an anthology of writing about London; the other is More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea, blog-turned-book of a London Ambulance Service worker, which hooked me instantly and fascinated me and made me a bit weepy. Very well-written though still basically a blog turned to book.

Open University types, do you know open_university?

Fellow sad old hippies music lovers, is anyone interested in accompanying me to a Jefferson Starship / Quicksilver Messenger Service gig in Camden in August? It may not be very good. But it is a part of my youf.

More! as in, more tabs still open!

British Legion tells Nick Griffin, BNP, to stop it

Atlas Obscura, a Google Map and associated site of fabulous places, such as the Sound Mirrors at Denge in Kent, and the Iceland Phallological Museum.

Ikeahacker, or how to turn that pretty-but-useless IKEA thingy into something more ... functional.

Lumosity - brain training games. I go through fits and starts of laptop/PDA game playing. Am deep in one at the moment. At least with these (including the marvellous Monster Garden) I feel I am doing myself some good. Full service with subscription, but the free games are doing me nicely. Though I'd like a Palm version (for which I would *pay money*).

'Top carnivore' fossil from North Sea

Two recent concerts

Settings of poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal -- Kettle's Yard, 11 June 2009
Lune, eau sonore, nuit bénie ... sang qui se fige
Baritone Jonathan Sells, Piano Marc Verter: settings of Baudelaire's poems by Debussy, Chausson, Duparc, Fauré.( Read more... )

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Threepenny Opera (Weill) -- Barbican, 12 June 2009
The world's no good and man's a mess
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