Rantarama

Standing on the street, shouting at the cars, with its pants round its ankles. But, y'know, digitally.

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Eternal pessimist, husband, father, musician, music nerd, grammar fascist, rogue librarian, mottephobe, grumpy bastard, sometime remixer, tea addict, procrastinator, beard wearer, Ayrshire's premier Neil Diamond impersonator. I HATE Andie McDowell. I enjoy a rant, and need little encouragement to start one. I read a lot. I overthink things. I watch too much telly. All of this may become apparent from my posts. Don't say you weren't warned.

My musical noodlings can be heard here:
http://soundcloud.com/nescobar-mojesus

This is my blip.fm page http://blip.fm/Mo_Jesus
You can listen to other people's songs on it.

Some of my favourite places to go online:

My missus is responsible for these two. To get a better idea of who I am, you need to see her stuff too.
http://www.blipfoto.com/Gailoh
http://gailoh.posterous.com/

My brother from another mother, the Fag Casanova:
http://thefagcasanova.wordpress.com/

One Inch Man, renaissance man, unleashes the beats here:
http://soundcloud.com/oneinchman

All round good egg Amro Gebreel takes photos and puts them here:
http://www.blipfoto.com/amro

Anton Vowl, raging against the media machine:
http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/

Other fine posterous peeps:

http://hurstm.posterous.com/

http://natmandu.posterous.com/

http://roryduncan.posterous.com/

http://greendane.posterous.com/

http://peterclumpy.posterous.com/

http://diaryofaledger.posterous.com/

 

Bloody scientists. Think they know everything. #spoofjenks

Y'know, someone had to come out and say it. Everyone else was too scared. But not Simon Jenkins. Oh no. He's standing up to those bloody uppity scientists, driving around in their posh cars, wearing silk lab coats, and looking at atoms or whatever through their solid gold microscopes. No more! he cries. No more of your telling people how things work, using only facts and evidence to back up your ridiculous claims.

But it's really not the scientists' fault. They're coddled and protected from the realities of life by their massive wages, as they piss about in their luxury laboratories (with spa facilities and company massueses, and fridges stocked with caviar and Cristal), stapling a dog to a horse's back, or whatever it is passes for science these days. Simon blames the BBC. And, do you know what? He's right. I watched the news last night, and, after the fourth or fifth piece on how scientists have discovered a way to make chips into electricity, or how they've built a machine that will actually blow the world up before Christmas, I thought "where's the real news? There was football on today, and due to the BBC's insistence in droning on and on about science, I still don't know what the score was. Is this what I pay my license fee for? I think not". There were 11 mighty lions out in South Africa giving everything they have, while barely able to put food on their tables due to the pittance they receive each week for doing the thing they love, a wondrous thing that enriches the human experience and furthers us as a species, and I have to sit through ANOTHER piece of inconsequential science nonsense because of the BBC's blind devotion to these bloody charlatans. It's an outrage, and Simon Jenkins is right to call our attention to their slavishness.

Don't get me wrong, I'll occasionally watch a bit of science on the TV, I'm not a complete Luddite. I mean, did you see the wonderful Culture Show special where they looked at the links between the arts and science? The piece where they did a survey on the future of art? That's science at its best surely! More of that please BBC, and less flooding the schedules with the other boring stuff.

(This piece was written as part of #spoofjenks day. More information here: http://blogs.nature.com/ue19877e8/2010/06/26/in-which-evil-boffins-seek-revenge )

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