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Pet Shop Boys Vs Battleship Potemkin
The Pet Shop Boys played live in Trafalgar Square yesterday. They had written a new score for Eisenstein's propaganda classic, Battleship Potemkin. It was cold and damp, so we opted to sit out most of the movie at the Rockwell Bar, nipping out only for the famous Spanish Steps Massacre sequence. The movie was so-so, mostly incomprehensible, and the score was OK too, if you like the 1980s synth sound. However the cocktails at the Rockwell were ecstatically good. Most memorable was the Passionate Buffalo Trace: lychee and passionfruit juice, half a passionfruit, Buffalo Trace bourbon, apple schnapps, and a ginger beer top. Beverage heaven.

Excellent stop motion animation, demonstrating the evolution of Nike basketball shoes. (via)

I don't know why NEC have a giant green animated interactive tree of messages, but I like it. (via)

I'm offering a bounty of $1 (and rising) for the first person to ask Kim Jong-Il: "Since when did hydroelectric power cause two-mile radius mushroom clouds, Mr President?".

The girl who "invented" movieoke, now points out on her site that ""Movieoke" and the Movieoke entertainment format" are apparently under her copyright for 2003 and 2004. Well that sucks. Maybe downhill battle will get on her case.