It's not often you get an engine explosion as good as this one.
http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/193824/1/pics_tom_sykesapos_race_comes_to_fiery_halt.html

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A Nationalist Manifesto for Little England
We reject foreign influences in England. That is our weltanschauung. Multiculturalism is our bête noire and we strongly believe that English culture is destined to become kaput if the current zeitgeist continues to be de rigeur. But it doesn't have to be a fait accompli and that's why we will continue to be the enfant terrible of modern politics. It's time to act: Carpe diem!
http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/06/mr-nationalist.html
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Yorkshire Muffins
Here's a question for you. What were Yorkshire Muffins circa 1800? Are we talking pre-made Yorkshire Puddings for sale, or is this some variation of the English Muffin? (http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SL338.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin)? This question was prompted by a woodcut in a wonderful book "The Cries of London For The Instruction And Amusement Of Young Children" described here http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/25/kendrews-cries-of-london/ It shows http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SL338.jpg a man selling what look like quite large breads in a tray balanced on his head with the cry "Nice Yorkshire Muffins!" (Get your nice yorkshire muffins here. Only 2 a penny!)

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Forward Racing sign up[1] for a pair of Yamaha M1s but run as non-MSMA entries so that's 12 engines, 24l of fuel, spec ECUs but full M1s not just the engine. Although Yamaha will supply 5 engines (with maybe 12 rebuilds). Rumours of Team-USA of Edwards + Hayden. People saying A Espargaro, Rabat, Redding also in the frame.

This is a game changer, no? Hayden on a 24L Yamaha M1 ought to be top 6, I think.

[1]As seen on Twitter.
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Deeply ambivalent about this. I do understand, but was also somewhat sickened by Assen, Sachsenring and Lorenzo's subsequent surgery. Eventually, these racees need protecting from themselves even though Dr Costa has a pretty strange take on what "protecting" means.

ISTR Lorenzo having a huge high side at Laguna, and also racing with legs so bad he had to be helped from crutches onto the bike.

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What decides if a shared post can have a location added to it or that you can "check in"?
- Desktop Web (in Chrome) probably not
- Mobile Web, some times. Sometimes works in a browser on a mobile device, usually doesn't work in the mobile web interface in a desktop/laptop browser.
- Chromebook. No idea.
- iOS. Probably except that the current app is iOS 6 only.
- Android. No idea.

What is it that updates your profile so it says "Currently in" rather than "Lives in" at the bottom of the cover photo?

Where do the entries in the "Places" section of your profile come from?

I ask because the detail in the announcements about the new Maps and closing Latitude/iGoogle say that the Latitude functionality is replaced by Checkins in G+. And yet, location seems curiously incomplete and hard to use both in G+ and in the new Maps interfaces. And even though geo-location services work pretty well in Chrome, Firefox and Safari, location is hidden, disabled or simply missing completely in the web interfaces.

So Google, Please bake location into the Web versions of G+. I want to be able update my location, geo-tag posts and view nearby posts.
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Akkord RA.372
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=372

For example, the golden ratio is found everywhere in nature, and one of the most used drum breaks in electronic music, the amen break (taken from The Winstons song "Amen Brother"), holds the exact mathematical proportions of the golden ratio.

Not many people know that! But then . http://nothings.org/music/amen_golden/

Haven't listened to this yet, but they were excellent live so I'd expect this to be good too.

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If you liked that, then you will love this. Nothing need ever change.
MASSIVE ATTACK v ADAM CURTIS

No Change Is Sexy. We fear change. Change is just a misnomer promoted by Californians with strange haircuts and symmetrical teeth. no change is sexy - Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

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"They are like 18th century squires who ride out on the estate and go on the hovels where their fans live and tell them everything must stay the same. The modern version of "you should know your place". They've gone back to an old cultural music - some of which was very radical and a way of challenging power in the world - stripped it of any meaning, and reworked it into this nostalgic thing and put it together with stadium amplification. I can't bear it, it makes me cry."

"It's extreme music which is kind of entertaining but it doesn't tell you a story. It's a mood, and to be rude it's a zombie mood. Things like this are the remnants of the old music carrying on in a kind of zombie-like exaggerated way. It's stuck, it's not going anywhere."

http://www.factmag.com/2013/07/11/filmmaker-and-massive-attack-collaborator-adam-curtis-on-why-music-may-be-dying-and-why-need-a-new-radicalism/4/

http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-couple-more-quotes-from-adam-curtis.html

Went to see Dauwd at Corsica Studios (London) last night. I was expecting some shoegazey UK Bass with his own tunes and remixes plus some other similar from other people, but what I got was 3.5 hours of deep house with just a couple of snatches of his own stuff. Which was nice and fun, and it turns out he's a pretty good DJ. But I don't really get how this works any more. Name producers often seem to turn into DJs when playing live, especially if they're bit downbeat. When what I was expecting was their stuff played the way it's meant to be heard on a proper sound system.

Meanwhile, Thur night Corsica is just the main room, (relatively) cheap booze, free entry for a Facebook Attend, and consequently students/freelancers/unemployed. A happy time was had by all! And while there were obvious shufflers, it was no big deal with just enough crowd and no crowding. The Funktion One was awesome. Obviously.

So what is it about Sarf' of the River that there are so many short people with tiny feet? Or were they all actually barely 16?
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http://www.motorcycle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/071013-lorenzo-collarbone-motogp-yamaha.jpg

Hero.

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There are only two ways of dealing with what has become a planetary emergency: "The first is technologising our way out of it. The second is radical behaviour change." So I guess that about wraps it up then for the industrial revolution. Since the problems are too big for the first and humans are incapable of the second. The only remaining question is the time scale for this to play out and hence whether it is us that has to cope with the fall out or our great-great-grandchildren.

Enjoy it while you can.

ps. I'll be sorry to see this blog's brand of realism disappear but I completely understand the need to just stop writing for a while.

seeAlso http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/05/ten-billion-stephen-emmott-review Can you unpack it and see the fnords?

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"Limits to Growth"; If the running out of resources doesn't get you, the pollution will. How do you like the look of them unlimited exponential models (and human nature), now, eh?

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-water-pollution-2013-3?op=1

At what point does enlightened self-interest lead to society introducing pollution limiting controls that deal with the worst excesses of unfettered capitalism. And will China get there before nature does it for them?

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Multiple exponential and interconnected systems with lags lead to models with plenty of chaos.

If you live in a mature western democracy, I'm sure we'll all muddle through. We'll gradually give up high speed personal transport and somehow cope with the random food and energy shortages and strange weather. Life will become uncertain rather than impossible which is not necessarily a recipe for revolution.

In search (and memories) of the UK free festivals

I've been trying to find free or cheap festivals for this summer and early autumn in and around the UK. E-Festivals used to work well for this but the search isn't being very helpful. Can you recommend anything for less than say £75 for 3 days camping?

Here's what I've found so far. (I know a couple break my £75 limit)
- Willow Festival, Peterborough, 12-14 July, Free, http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/willow/2013
- Kelvedon, 13 July, Free, http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/kelvedon/2013
- Folk by the Oak, Hatfield, July 21, £30 http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/folkbyoak/2013
- T-Fest, Gray Essex,  27-28 July, Free,  http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/tfest/2013
- Brightlingsea, 2-4 Aug, Free http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/brightlingsea/2013
- Standon Calling, 2-4 Aug, ~£75 if you buy the ticket over the counter locally, I've done this a few times now and don't really need to do it again. http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/standoncalling/2013
- Beacons Festival 2013, 16-17 Aug, no longer cheap but a good selection of UK Bass in beautiful country, http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?447280
- Priddy Sheep Fair, 21 Aug, a fiver for parking, http://priddyparish.org/Sheep-Fair-Committee.php
- Wilkestock nr Stevenage, 30 Aug - 1 Sept, £35 http://www.wilkestock.com/tickets.html
- WoodyFest, Hatfield Forest, Takeley, 6-8 Sept, Free, http://www.lemonrock.com/woodfest2013
- Alchemy - Lincolnshire, 20-22 Sept, £70, http://www.alchemyfestival.co.uk/
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What a cool kid (and Dad!). Finds a discarded small boat on the Roding. Fixes it up. And then takes it from Hertford to the Thames as; "possibly the first boat to navigate the whole of the navigable Lea by an electric motor powered by solar energy alone." to get sponsorship for the Cody Dock project.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kingfisher/292925227506893
http://spacehive.com/codydock

I've done that trip by bicycle but I'd love to do it by small boat.

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Does the Windows Google Music Manager update automatically?

I'm currently on 1.0.71.8015 and wondering if this is the latest release and if its not if I have to do anything to get it.
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My Glastonbury tickets are finally in my hot sweaty hand, which means it's real! I guess I'd better get organised then and put together the pack of stuff, that is just enough, has nothing missing, but no more.
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Makes you think, eh? Peak oil makes a bit more sense when the graph scales mean there's a recognisable peak.

And obviously, the 6000BC -> 10000 AD timescale gives some perspective on the "Long Now". That's a mere 650 generations!

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On Twitter, Instagram, Facebook closing RSS feeds and the imminent death of Google Reader.

The official line from Twitter is that RSS is “infrequently used today.” That’s the same justification that Google has given for shutting down Google Reader. It reminds of the joke about the shopkeeper responding to a request for something with “Oh, we don’t stock that—there’s no call for it. It’s funny though, you’re the fifth person to ask today.”

RSS is plumbing. It’s used all over the place but you don’t notice it.

It might be that RSS is the canary in the coal mine for my data on the web. I think that the presence or absence of an RSS feed (whether I actually use it or not) is a good litmus test for how a service treats my data. If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?

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Long term weather forecast from the Norwegians.
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Glastonbury~2648559/long.html

Looking good?!?

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