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An advert in the London Evening Standard catches my eye. Lift attendant You will need: Experience of operating a passenger lift in a working environment. Experience of working in a large building operating a passenger lift. To have a good understanding of customer care. To be smart and articulate. Job description: To operate lifts throughout [...]
Last night I watched Julien Temple’s excellent Requiem for Detroit? on BBC2. It is, after a fashion, a beautiful film: a harsh beauty, but a beauty nonetheless. The skill is in the storytelling, so I recommend watching it, but the story itself is simple. Overdependence on the motor industry set the stage for economic disaster [...]
The Observer had a feature today on the greatest film scenes ever shot; here’s my take, in no particular order. I’m fairly new to YouTube, but you can see some more of my videos, if you’re interested, at youtube.com/DLandonCole. I’d appreciate any comment or criticism. xD.
At 2144 on Friday, March 11th, 2005 – exactly five years ago – I published my first blog post. xD.
BBC News report here. The fire seems to be out, and while there are still lots of people making the area safe, there’s only a few people using hosepipes on the building at the moment. It’s quite interesting to see everything being co-ordinated – fire, police, ambulance, water board, gas board, Hackney council and the [...]
As you may or may not be aware, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort published an edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with a fifty-page creationist introduction, including such gems as “Adolf Hitler took Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions.” “…Darwin was a racist.” “Darwin believed that women were not as competent as [...]
I do not doubt the Armenian Genocide for a moment; however, as I argued a couple of years ago, both it and the Shoah are sui generis; there is nothing to be gained in giving its nomenclature an official imprimatur and much to be lost. Firstly, I think the precedent of governments sanctioning official histories [...]
Jonathan Ross for a year – £5.6m Anne Robinson for a year – £3m Graham Norton for a year – £2.5m Jeremy Clarkson for a year – £1.8m BBC’s talent bill for a year – £229m BBC Asian Network for a year – £12.1m BBC 6 Music for a year – £9m Finding new talent, [...]
