I've found these interesting dub/reggae covers of The Dark Side of the Moon and Radiohead
done Easy Star All-Stars
There are a few samples on each site and the whole thing is just well, good fun.

I've decided to open a new blog. In the past couple of months or so I've started to collect links to online documentaries and now I've realised that I have loads of them, and that could interest others.
Secondly I find them quicker than I can watch them so I need a place where I can keep all these links in an organised manner.
The blog is called a very original "Online Documentaries" but I could not find a better name, but I've always had problems with titles, for instance after six months this blog still has no title

Apparently so. An article from the Guardian that dismisses claims from the tabloids (which scared my friend John Reid) that we are about to be invaded by Bulgarians and Romanians. Apparently they already tend to migrate elsewhere. Thinking about it I've met very few Romanians and Hungarians in London while since I've been here and that was well before Poland joined the EU, I've always met hundreds of Poles of first and second generation. Not to mention the Polish shops, businesses and restaurants that have been open for decades. It's obvious that when moving abroad people will tend to go where they know someone. If there is already a community people will follow, if there is not you will get the most adventurous types but maybe not the mass immigration that some would like us to believe.

Looking at my stats I see that this blog gets a couple of visitors a day from Google that search for "download illegal MP3". Unfortunately I must have very disappointed visitors as I don't host any legal or illegal MP3s.
Actually a couple of days ago I was reading a blog of someone who believed that all music should be free. That was written as a serious political statement, I mean free music for the masses kind of thing. I'm always surprised at how naive some people can be. I agree that it should be affordable, I agree that record companies have been making lots of money but free? How? And what about books then? And movies?
As I live in a city where to afford a mortgage you need at least two jobs and even free healthcare is sometimes under question, I don't think that free music is much of a priority anyway. And I've listened to music in large quantities, I need a lot of music in my life but I realise that I need a roof over my head first. And most people in the world don't even have a water supply I doubt they give a damn about free music.

Is this some kind of April's fool?
Another sign of the impending doom of the Armageddon?

Biologists at the University of Manchester want help in cracking their "miracle" discovery of three fish inside a sealed egg.

The group found the duck egg in a small pond on a field trip to the French Alps and noticed something moving inside it.

When they cracked open the shell, three live minnows were inside.

BBC Article

For Joel Segal, it was the day he was kicked out of George Washington Hospital, still on an IV after knee surgery, without insurance, and with $100,000 in medical debt. For Kiki Peppard, it was having to postpone needed surgery until she could find a job with insurance -- it took her two years. People all over the United States are waking up to the fact that our system of providing health care is a disaster.

An estimated 50 million Americans lack medical insurance, and a similar and rapidly growing number are underinsured. The uninsured are excluded from services, charged more for services, and die when medical care could save them -- an estimated 18,000 die each year because they lack medical coverage.

But it's not only the uninsured who suffer. Of the more than 1.5 million bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, about half are a result of medical bills; of those, three-quarters of filers had health insurance.

Full article

It always amazes me how the richest and most arrogant country in the world cannot and does not want to provide basic healthcare to all regardless of income.
I cannot understand how an American life is only important in some circumstances and not others.

I have spent the last ten minutes reading this blog.

It highlights all the interesting bits that you can see on Google Earth such as Dutch hostels and shopping centres. Fascinating stuff.

for a Saturday morning

Thanks to radio 1 a music cube that is supposed to represent one's musical tastes.

A new website will be opening soon which promises free MP3s. The catch is that to download music you will have to stare at ads.

I don't know much about it yet but I believe that the range of music will be rather limited as no all advertisers will be prepared to sponsor obscure musicians. I would think.

It reminds me of that project in the US a few years back when people were given free computers full of ads. It did not work very well though.

Some interesting figures that come from the US Counterterrorism Center relating to 2005

This tells us who the terrorists are supposed to be.

And this tells us where terrorism happened.

On the same subject there is a long documentary in three parts that the BBC did a few years ago which can be found on Google Video. It's all about the story of the politics of terror.
Part 1
Part 2

Part 3