Anyone up at Oulton Park tonight? Just curious if the nearest pub (The Egerton Arms), has re-opened. 
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Crying out for an E-Assist conversion. Rear Bafang motor, Lyen controller, bottle battery.
http://www.cycleexif.com/vanguard-ryo 

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That's another tributary of the Lee or Lea checked off. Today's little jaunt was Ware -> Potters Bar -> Source of the Turkey Brook -> Enfield Lock -> Ware. So that's both the Turkey Brook and Cuffley Brook from source to where they join the Lee or Lea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Brook says it's named after Turkey Street or TokeStreet which is a street owned by a family called Toke(y) and nothing to do with Turkeys at all, at all.

Pond Wood just SE of Potters Bar is worth a visit. https://www.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.688997,-0.152129&spn=0.018224,0.045447&t=m&dg=opt&z=15
There's a large pond and marshy area fitted out with white topped poles and duckboards to walk around it. Today it was full of wild life like Dragonflies.

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Q: How are you doing?
A: Not so bad. Still trapped at the bottom of a gravity well, though.

I am one of the crew of this spaceship, but I'm a bit worried the captain is going to make me wear a red shirt.

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When racism was finally exposed as being detrimental to society, it was blamed on foreigners

http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/08/go-home-racism-living-toys-mid-1970s.html



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If you're fascinated by this year's mythical narratives like the NSA, Manning, Snowden, Assange, Wikileaks, and you like verbal pyrotechnics then you really must read this piece from Bruce Sterling. https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5

"Then there’s Julian Assange. Yeah, him, the silver-haired devil, the Mycroft Holmes of the Ecuadorian Embassy."

I LOLed.

Seriously. Go read it now.

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Just opt into Oversight Clearway and earn Tesco Clubcard rewards.

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Get Dad a drink with a cherry in it. Dad's like cherries.
http://cannabinomad.tumblr.com/post/57137275398

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Tom Faber's round up of June/July 2013
http://whitenoisereview.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/june-july-roundup-2013.html

BTW. You're never to old to be into Deep House
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2013/07/hi-doctor-nick-tips-tougher-drum
Shrug off those weird looks you get from the kids as you have as much right to be there as they do.

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Sample Eno, Mall Muzak and 70s-90s disco. Mix it up, and glitch it out using 2nd decade, 21st century music tools. Give it a faintly ridiculous genre tag of Vaporwave and before it's even barely a thing, spin out Broporwave, Post-Vaporwave, Proto-Vaporwave and of course triangle symbols and made up Japanese words. Rip unmercifully into any journalist who attempts to document all this, especially if they try to take a post-modern stance and viewpoint on it.

Then play it back loud on (fake) "Beats by Dr Dre" headphones while walking through Westfield in Stratford and looking over the wasteland that is the Olympic Park, Crossrail tunnel development and (artfully graffitti-ed) Hackney Wick light-industrial business parks; on your way to a canal side, craft brewery/pizzeria; while wearing silly trousers.

No change... Is sexy!

http://www.dummymag.com/features/essay-invest-in-vaporwave-futures
dʳᶤᵖ⁻₁₃₃ - and then so clear
INTERNET CLUB - REDEFINING THE WORKPLACE
http://www.last.fm/tag/vaporwave

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Take that Jeremy Hunt! (rhymes with). For #WeLoveTheNHS  .

It's not often a crowdsourced petition and fund raising campaign take the government to court and win. The court found that Jeremy acted illegally when trying to unilaterally close Lewisham's A&E and Maternity without going through the proper motions and against the wishes of the NHS Trust's GP commissioners. So much for the coalition promises not to apply top down management control to the NHS.

http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2013/07/18/update-jeremy-hunt-and-the-lewisham-court-case/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23518732

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This isn't the UK I voted for. TFL ticket inspectors passing coloured people to UK Border Agency staff, all watched over by UK Police at Stratford and Kensal Rise.

http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/newsflash-uk-border-agency-id-checking-people-of-colour-at-train-stations/
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/immigration_officers_accused_of_intimidating_train_passengers_at_kensal_green_station_1_2307162
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/who-ordered-that.html

But then I'm white, middle aged, and live in a market town in SE England and I tend to carry ID with me at all times, so it obviously doesn't apply to me.

Who said "Pre-emptive counter-revolution", yes, you at the back, you want to spend the night falling down stairs?

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Profile About Page Links in the API
I just went looking in the people section of the G+ API for access to and a JSON representation of the entries in the Links section of a person's profile and couldn't find anything. Am I looking in the wrong place or is it missing and this is a feature request?

I'd expect something like this.

"Links": [
  "Other Profiles": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }
  ]
  "Contributor to": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]
  "Links": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]  
]

This was prompted by yet another proposal for encoding a list of people's profile pages on other social networks, this time from Dave Winer. His use case is information about the author in RSS feeds.
http://reboot.reallysimplesyndication.com/2013/07/28/implementingSomeNewRssIdeasInFargo

ISTM the Google way of doing this would be to include a line
<atom:link href="Google_Profile_URL" rel="[author,publisher]" /> in the feed but I couldn't then easily walk the list of associated profiles from code.

BTW. I can't count the number of times we've been round this loop in the last 10 years. FOAF, Microformats, Facebook graphs, etc, etc, etc. Shame we have to keep re-inventing the wheel because none of them can get traction, adoption and interop..

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I found a place today on a hill above Standon and Latchford where you can see the Shard, Gherkin, Nat West Tower and Canary Wharf on the horizon almost exactly 25 miles away. It's also almost exactly on the meridian at longitude zero.
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Feral Trade courier network. I think this might be really cool.

Found via this interview with a founder http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/07/whats-new-with-kate-rich-and-feral-trade/

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So farewell then, J.J. Cale. That's another one gone. I hope he's with Clyde.

Clyde plays electric bass
Plays it with finesse and grace
Sit on the porch without no shoes
A-picking the bass and singing the blues
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Nothings happened since 1981. Except that:- 

"If you’d gone to a publisher in 1981 with a proposal for a science-fiction novel that consisted of a really clear and simple description of the world today, they'd have read your proposal and said, Well, it's impossible. This is ridiculous. This doesn't even make any sense. Granted, you have half a dozen powerful and really excellent plot drivers for that many science-fiction novels, but you can’t have them all in one novel.
... and ...
You haven't even gotten to the Internet. By the time you were telling about the Internet, they'd be showing you the door. It's just too much science fiction."

Best interview I've seen with William Gibson. He always amazes me.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

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Recommended for fans of downbeat, sultry, techno.
http://electronicexplorations.org/?show=synth-sense

Lots of ASC, Sam KDC, Indigo in the track list. 

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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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