What I've been up to by Text today

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.

• 11:35 is pondering breakfast, and laughing at Harriet Harman (again) is.gd/4dQ #
• 12:39 hopes posting a silly meme will help break the writers block & tagged Justin because he hates that. matgb.livejournal.com/299924.html #

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Linkspam for 28-4-2008

• nihilistic_kid: But women are so strange and mysterious
  Follow up from the link the other day: One of the barriers people seem to run into is \"but small talk is so inane!\" - it progresses into finding commonalities and creating a bond
  (tags: nick+mamatas social+mores)
• SFWA Election Results 2008
  This years SFWA elections were fun to watch in the early stages (see Scalzi post, see Burt squirm), but the final results are slightly more amusing. Look at the write-ins...
  (tags: sfwa john+scalzi funny)
• The year rock found the power to unite | Rock | guardian.co.uk Music
  A brief historty of Rock against Racism. Most of which I knew not, ang it's rather cool. Doesn't mention alleged the SWP links, were they that strong? Without RAR, punk would only have been about nihilism
  (tags: politics Racism music)
• Andrew Rawnsley: How the great clunking fist punched himself on the nose | Comment is free | The Observer
  Gordo genuinely thought the 10p tax thing hurt no one? 'To them and others, the Prime Minister would bang the table and insist that there were no losers...He could not conceive of himself as someone who would hurt the less well-off. '
  (tags: Labour politics gordon+brown economics taxation)
• Schrodinger improves accuracy - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  A LOLcat that made me laugh? I am such a geek. From Tim Worstall of all places.
  (tags: science funny image+macros)
• Fantastic Film Weekend - National Media Museum
  More info on the weekend and what might be happening, weekend of June 14th 2008
  (tags: films events bradford)
• Tim Harford â” Fair trade or foul
  Why coffee shops charge more for extras: The coffee shop â“ like many businesses â“ faces a dilemma. Raise prices and it loses some customers; cut prices and it loses margins.
  (tags: coffee economics tim+harford)
• The Seven Deadly Sins of a Relationship | Zen Habits
  A few quibbles and disagreements, but overall, not a bad little list, worth a glance and a think anyway. (from drjon)
  (tags: life relationships)
• Channel 4 - News - London FactCheck
  Channel 4 has done a summary page for all the FactCheck articles they've done on the London mayoralty candidates, nic elittle resource for those that care.
  (tags: london mayoralty election channel+4)

Fantastic Films at the National Media Museum

I've mentioned the Fantastic Films Weekend a few times recently, but today the National Media Museum put the new website live so we have some details:

This year the line-up includes the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse double-bill, the ultimate Cushing/Lee pairing in Dracula, Daughters of Darkness, Eyes without a Face, Blood on Satan’s Claw and John Carpenter’s The Thing in 70mm with an exclusive video introduction from Carpenter himself. Our guests will be cult filmmakers Harry Kümel, Peter Duffell, Piers Haggard and Robert Fuest.

Now, I'm not a massive horror film fan (because most horror films don't involve space ships), but I can appreciate a good flick, and the normal selection they've had has been brilliant, last year included Soylent Green, 300 on the IMAX, a showing of Ghostwatch and Forbidden Planet. So that's some proper SF, some decent horror, some weird FX driven stuff and SPARTA!

It's a really cool venue in Bradford, just a few minutes walk from Bradford Interchange bus and rail station, incredibly easy to get to. Especially from our house, the 363 takes 20 minutes from the end of our street. So that's:

7th Fantastic Films Weekend runs from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June

Admit it, you're interested. And you want to come. You can even throw in a visit to sunny Brighouse and see where I live and everything.

And, honestly? Bradford's actually quite a nice place as well. Honest. Or you could do what some of the British Horror Forum regulars are doing (including pmoodie?), and stay in the hotel down the road from us because it's dead cheap and really nice. And they probably won't bite. Unless you're into that sort of thing. And I know you lot, some of you are...