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The Amen Break - 02/05/2008 - 14:09 GMT - [Link]



Via Ian, this is the story of one of the most recognisable drum loops ever.

Songs I have that immediately spring to mind (and I must have a million more) which use it in a relatively intact form:

• No Remorse (I Want To Die) - Atari Teenage Riot
• Satan - Orbital
• Thought @ Work - The Roots
• Ali in da countryside, Ali in da countryside!

Over to you, Dom...

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Howard Dean on The Daily Show - 02/05/2008 - 16:37 GMT - [Link]



You know, suddenly I'm not so optimistic about the Democrats even winning the 2008 election...

• Dom said:

  For F sake Dave the first pic I see of your son is through an invite to a Geneology website?!

  [2008-05-02 17:25:28 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• deadmoan said:

  No news of late then?

  [2008-05-14 06:19:32 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  I guess not.

  [2008-05-14 13:22:51 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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What do these songs have in common? - 15/05/2008 - 17:45 GMT - [Link]

Killing in the Name (Rage Against The Machine)
Song 2 (Blur)
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Whatever People Say I Am...)
Juicebox (First Impressions Of Earth)
Monkey Wrench (The Colour And The Shape)
Mr Brightside (Hot Fuss)
Girls (Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned)
Breathe (The Fat Of The Land)
No One Knows (Songs For The Deaf)
Sick, Sick, Sick (Era Vulgaris)
Paranoid Android (OK Computer)
The Rockafeller Skank (You've Come A Long Way Baby)
Homo Sapiens (Make This Your Own)
Keep The Car Running (Neon Bible)
Wow (Final Straw)
Time Is Running Out (Absolution)
(Dr Who On) Holiday (American Idiot/American Edit)

Come on, this is easy.

• Ste said:

  Are they all track 2 on their respective albums ?

  [2008-05-16 11:38:35 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Give that man a banana.

  [2008-05-18 12:28:12 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• deadmoan said:

  and a monkey.. wrench.

  [2008-05-22 12:56:51 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Hey there, Aussie boy! Apache is functioning normally!

  [2008-05-22 13:00:08 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• deadmoan said:

  Indeed.
  Quite strange.

  [2008-05-24 09:00:18 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Newport? - 22/05/2008 - 12:58 GMT - [Link]

I got a bike for my birthday. Second hand, a couple of years old, alloy frame, very light, nice shocks, nice accessories (handlebar, grips, saddle). Wheels aren't great but they'll do. So I'm pleased.

The only question I have is exactly what the hell make it is. On the frame are various decals saying "Newport" and "Built in the UK" and then on the top tube is a scrawly logo that for all the world looks like someone's signature done on one of those crappy scanning pads that couriers carry these days. Very mysterious. I'm quite sure the bike isn't stolen (the shop gave me a written warranty and even took the frame's serial number) but I'm wondering if in fact it wasn't originally a bespoke frame built for someone in the UK. How exotic!

• deadmoan said:

  You know, I'm so glad you didn't turn into a daddy blogger. You know. Todays tuesday, so I was cleaning green poo off of Kids bum. Tommorow is wednesday and my nipples are already chaffed from breast feeding the nipper... and all that.
  Although, the odd cutsie pic wouldn't go a miss. Katherine loves that stuff.

  [2008-05-24 15:04:21 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• QQ said:

  I admit I was kinda expecting the odd comment about Conor's development, like 'I was looking at his hands today wondering if his fingers would be long enough to use a little computer mouse yet'.
  
  Or
  
  'Yesterday while in the games section of *shop selling computer games* I was stunned to find myself looking at games for the under 2s, and wondering one of them might be the best way to teach Conor the colours of the rainbow'
  
  Just a thought ;)
  
  *hugs*

  [2008-05-25 12:25:08 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  
  
  My boy has a fraught relationship with the press but yes, he is fucking gorgeous. This was just taken, and he's eleven weeks next Wednesday.

  [2008-05-25 21:34:13 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  Och, isn't he a dote?!?

  [2008-05-25 22:33:05 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• deadmoan said:

  I like the middle digit.. was that posed or off the cuff?
  Christ Dave, how can something so cute be related to you, scruffies personified! ;-)

  [2008-05-26 05:04:29 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  He has a lot of his Mum's genes too.
  
  The finger was accidental; his latest thing is prying the soother out of his mouth and eating his hand instead. Then he cries for his soother again - it's so cute. He also has this endearing little thing where he-...
  
  What? Wait! Come back, I still haven't told you about how be belches after feeds like a bricklayer skulling a can of warm 7-Up!

  [2008-05-26 12:25:04 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• QQ said:

  *coos*
  
  ooooooh...cuuuuute......
  
  Thanks for making my day Dave :)
  
  *hugs*

  [2008-05-26 16:21:35 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Pork and Beans by Weezer - 26/05/2008 - 11:43 GMT - [Link]



Allow me to be the 7,325,923rd person to link to this video today. OMG weezr luvs teh internets!

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Slippy - 27/05/2008 - 18:24 GMT - [Link]

I don't often mention work but this was a big day. It took six months and I don't know how many people here and here but today, the new betslip was finally released.

If you're going to extract money from provide the best service for punters, you need to make placing a bet as easy as possible and that certainly couldn't be said about the old betslip, a maze of popup windows and links and cryptic messages. The new one is inline (on the page) and it's all shiny and ajaxy. It might even encourage people to place more mad multiple bets, and they're all about the multi-bets upstairs in Airton House.

So yeah, don't hesitate: open an account, deposit some funds, bet on something stupid and help pay for nappies for my boy!

• deadmoan said:

  Hmm, certainly looks good. But it would appear the customers don't like change. Maybe you should send them some rocks, at let them go off to make fire.

  [2008-05-28 04:29:09 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  I reckon it's the Liveline syndrome - the only people who bother to pick up the phone are those who are pissed off.
  

  [2008-05-29 11:44:37 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• deadmoan said:

  Hey dave, free Daily show, apparently.
  http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/05/29/1644253.shtml

  [2008-05-30 03:58:54 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Interesting. I've never had a problem watching episodes through thedailyshow.com, though. I'm happier to do that than take up HD space with hi-res movie clips.

  [2008-05-30 13:58:42 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Dammit, Jim! - 30/05/2008 - 12:35 GMT - [Link]

You can't take something like the Lisbon Treaty and tie it into September 11th. You just can't. Wild-eyed ranting about global conspiracies on national radio is only going to harm the campaign you claim to be supporting.

I'm against the Lisbon Treaty because I liked the EEC and the EC more than I like the EU. I don't believe it's a big conspiracy, I just think this "Constitution" will lead to a massive, unaccountable, over-bureaucratic government run by people I didn't elect - kind of the way it is now, only worse.

However fishy the official line on 9/11 is (and the Pentagon story alone is very fucking fishy), it's still not evidence of a global conspiracy, or a New World Order or any such bullshit. People just seem to like trying to string piles of disparate facts together into a single grand theory. Sure what do you think religion is?

• Dom said:

  You'd like us to beleive there's nothing going on wouldn't you Dave. They've got to you haven't they.

  [2008-06-04 11:14:49 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  I, Dave, would like to reassure you all that everything is perfectly okay.

  [2008-06-04 16:48:25 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Jas said:

  Video response

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