Hi there! I prepared this for our About Blather page (where this poem can now be found), and there's no reason why you impassioned Zeitgeist readers can't read it too. Enjoy. Use it to browse the site, even. The A...

(Picture: Daytona Beach News-Journal, reproduced at pierretristam.com). "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time" - Barack Obama. 'U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people...

About once a year, I almost gaze down from my Arctic tower to the (alleged) world below, but then I realize I don't need to do this, because my loyal servants are able to fax me statistics upon which I...

We're loving this. You should too. From mashed in plastic: 'Angelo Badalamenti: "The Pink Room" (from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me) AC/DC: "The Jack" Dead Can Dance: "Dawn of the Iconoclast" 'The full despair behind the story of Laura...

This is how podcasting should work....

Oft-proclaimed 'bad-boy of the comic world' and all-round genius Grant Morrison (he of The Invisibles' fame) has outdone himself this time - by killing off none other than Bruce Wayne. From the Guardian: "This is the end of Bruce Wayne...

Yes, No Music Day came around on 21 November (this past weekend) and we put on an event to honour it. The brainchild of KLF/K-Foundation musician/artist Bill Drummond, ours was one of a number of No Music events worldwide,...

Quite simply one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen: Find out how to view it....

Here's a free album from what seems to be the ultimate cult band, Repi Multimedia, from Albania. I love the song 'Repi Multimedia vs. Oum Kalsoum', especially from 1 minute into the track. They have the strangest biography on Last...

'In a direct attack on freedom of expression, Canwest [the largest media corporation in Canada] has launched an unprecedented civil lawsuit against local activists. They are being sued for "conspiring" to produce and distribute a four-page parody of the Vancouver...

"...the British music industry has never, ever created anything, ever, in its history. It has never innovated anything. It's done plenty of good things - it's brought plenty of great innovators to light and helped to make great records and...

A fabulous performance from a then 30 year old Tom Waits, with a slower version of Step Right Up. Rockpalast, WDR Studio L, Köln, West Germany, April 18, 1977. Tom Waits If you prefer the more familiar, faster version, you...

Damned clever little video....

'Some ID cards will be handed out to the public by the end of next year, the Home Secretary said today. Jacqui Smith [RIP] said "small volumes" of cards will be available months ahead of schedule... The cards... will store...

I hesitate to use the word 'evil'... 'I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see...

If you think it's more than about Obama, I mean, I know a lot of you watched John McCain's concession speech, I know you did, so there's no excuse not to watch this interesting discussion with Ralph Nader and others....

"...there's never been a nation on earth that saw its economy decline and continued to maintain its primacy as a military power" - Barack Obama. Can they afford this empire?...

(photo by DigitalKatie) On the occasion of the election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States of America, this is a Message from Blather.net High Command to our European brethern: it's time to let...

  [photo: the Brad Blog] Those of you who have been following this series will know that Sibel Edmonds (pictured) had her FBI contract terminated when she discovered evidence of wrongdoing in her workplace. The Office of the Inspector General...

'Order For Republican 'High-Tech Forrest Gump' to Testify Under Oath... to Answer Questions on 2004 Election Scheduled Just 24 Hours Prior to Election 2008...' Story at The Brad Blog. Meanwhile, Oprah Winfrey has problems voting....

Well, colour me turquoise. British politician Andy Burnham, minister for culture and other things the UK government does not respect, who wants noise in libraries and gyms and restaurants in churches, has now actually said something I agree with! I've...

He will be performing with original album players Richard Davis and Jay Berliner. There's a good story about it in the Observer. "It's about the world of creation and of the imagination: That is what a song is, a little...

"An inquiry was under way today after a memory stick with user names and passwords for a key government computer system was discovered in a pub car park. The Mail on Sunday said ministers had ordered the emergency shutdown of...

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'! I was in Berlin for a whirlwind overdrive week in late October with the Norwegian band Masselys. This is the band Bjarne, Jomba and Kjell-Olav formed earlier this year when Salvatore split...

In honour of James Bond returning to our cinemas this weekend, here's a forgotten Bond theme from the movie Thunderball by old gravel-throat himself, Johnny Cash. The track was ditched at the last moment for the Tom Jones' number. Read...

[passport of Urs Tinner, picture released by the Malaysian police] Previously in this series, Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco, a family of engineers, were mentioned as part of the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Tinners...

You may remember that back in April and May 2007 I reported on the plight of small businesses in my part of Oslo (Grünerløkka). Since then, over 70 of these businesses - including Sound of Mu (pictured) - have...

Quick announcement: I'll be on Newstalk 106 this morning at 11am (Ireland), talking about my new book, Haunted Dublin, with Tom Dunne. Will see if I can get the mp3 to post up here......

A civil servant from the UK's Cabinet Office "inadvertently" took intelligence files about Al Qaeda and Iraq from the Ministry of "Defence" and left them on a train. Story from the Independent...

A response to my blog entry 'The Norwegian Way'. The Oz Way...