Let's hope, like he says, that this does promote peace after such a long time.

Please sign an urgent action calling on restraint by China who have imposed the most horrendous crackdowns against monks at Kirti monastery and the Tibetan people in Ngaba town with the installation of hundreds of Paramilitary Armed Police, the closure of roads and the cutting off all communications to the outside world.

all nuclear explosions mapped from 1945-1998 try and get your head around it.

IT CUTS BOTH WAYS .... THE ALTERNATIVES. This is a film exposing the alternatives to the government's austerity measures; it's about the positive; it's about revealing the many options we actually have at a time when we're being told there are no alternatives

Japanese Red Cross. Please donate if you can.

Those big drag nets that trawlers drop to the bottom of the ocean and decimate all life in their path? And use radar while local fishermen loose their livelihoods? Just to fill empty shelves in Supermarkets? This lot are using lottery money internationally to stop all that.

Beautiful, and a little disturbing.

"is this what we're doing now?" - quick! Watch all episodes on iPlayer (for the next few days) if you're in the UK. Best british comedy in ages, so well played and written. Right up there with Curb Your Enthusiasm!

Prague Show filmed by fans - released 23.08.10

Another great film by warmeye...

Chinese authorities arrest Tenzin Delek, a Buddhist monk, and sentence him to death .. please go to the online petition to try and secure his release, or at least a fair retrial...

good for yer kids too

Anyone who rides a bike should read this blog because it's ice box cool.

here is some nicely shot video footage from the cambridge show thanks maggie!!!

Music+physics=John Matthias.

Don't let the Stupid define the Age.

Tim Hunkin's inventions, under the pier at Southwold. I keep trying to go there but not quite making it. Maybe you'll have better luck. Go to Ipswich and turn right.

depression is not fussy about who it hits. and feeling isolated and powerless doesnt help especially when yer young and all. this site has lots of people sharing their experiences which is what us humans need in order to cope.

Great dance music site, lots of old articles and features, dj mixes

Found this extraordinary shop in Brighton last week. It's well worth a visit...

“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”

maybe it's about time the likes of Apple took responsibility for the manufacture of their products, as they're supposed to be so cutting edge.

As we're lifelong contributors to 'anthrophony' we're pretty culpable....but still, fascinating studies.

Look to the stars!

The Chestnut Tree Café. ...it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

In Rainbows video competition

Plastic. Is. Everywhere.

Bhopal was the worst industrial disaster in history. A leak of methyl isocynate killed 20,000, injured millions more and Union Carbide... um, er...

THE REVOLUTION WILL (NOT) BE TELEVISED

the artists have no recollection of most of this.

There Will Be Blood
film info for the UK

ken korda as Adam Buxton on Scotch Mist

Jonny Greenwood: 'There Will Be Blood' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Available from Tuesday 18th December.

Vote vote vote! Mmm... participatory democracy...

As they say, we don't live in the Information Age, or even the Oil Age. We all have to eat. We live in the Agriculture Age.

Download books on to your Blackberry instead of using it to send email, 'browse' the 'web' or any of the other tedious business-related 'apps'. It'll still look like you're really really busy.

This is great if you should be doing something boring for someone else.

Man, I couldn't even read this, it looked so scary. But maybe you can? Maybe it has a happy ending?

Fascinating, horrifying, beautiful photography.

Put that important work aside. Slack off. Play this, it's great.

Well-written, urgent and frequently very funny. Featuring the now-legendary 'Crap Arrest of the Week'.

Bored? Read a magazine. No celebrity cellulite in this one, I'm afraid.