Spinnerette. Some people might remember the Distillers; lead singer Brody Dalle has set up a new group, Spinnerette, and they’re rather good. Admittedly, somewhat different to the Distillers, but nevertheless you should listen to this:

and this:

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Ada Lovelace Day will be celebrated on 24th March, 2009.
Who, I hear you ask, is Ada Lovelace? ‘The world’s first computer programmer’ is the answer, writing for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
So, I hear you ask, what is Ada Lovelace Day? It’s an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. You [...]

Via Luke Akehurst, I’ve found a rather good idea called LabourSpace. You can propose a campaign and then people can vote up or down and the one with most support at the end is looked at more seriously. In its own words:
Labourspace lets you quickly and easily set up a campaign and share your ideas [...]

Gong hei fat choi – congratulations and be prosperous!
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Yesterday saw the Progressive London Conference at Congress House in London. All in all, I thought it was pretty good. There seemed to be very few nutty lefties there and I was pleased that there were a few people there I knew and recognised from my CLP, from blogging, from uni and around and about [...]

I cannot honestly say I was blown away by Obama’s speech. There were some interesting glimpses of his vision of America and his politics along with some rhetorical flourishes, but this was not a killer speech. Perhaps it is unfair to expect it in a modern inaugural speech; it would dominate the news agenda and [...]

Eight years ago, almost to the day, I was in Washington, DC, and attended the inauguration of George Walker Bush as the forty-third President of the United States of America.
It is premature to make judgments on how good Bush’s presidency has been; we are too close in time. It’s probably fair to say that history [...]

Pity the Hansard scribes who had to record and commit John McDonnell’s mace-laden protest against the lack of a substantive vote on the Heathrow expansion. Unable to bring themselves to actually describe what happened, they’ve plumped for
Mr Hoon: [...] Necessarily, when judgments have to be made about the interests of the country, those decisions have [...]

LOL.
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My good friend and professional flâneur, Mike Withey, writes…

I was destined to be one of the great athlete of my generation – however, in granting me a physically weak and small body, with little-to-nothing in the way of gainliness, Fate provided its typically intractable foe to Destiny. This point was brought home to me as [...]