Blather.net sat down with mercurial artist Fred Einaudi to get the skinny on his provocative and apocalyptic art, the finer points of using oil on canvas and a plan to annihilate loud motorbike drivers....

I'll tell you what it means. It is the new slang term for "not giving a fuck when children die". Two roma girls drowned on a beach near Naples. Their bodies were left on the beach by authorities while Italian...

Tradition dictates that the Friday Choon is usually some obscure, painfully knowing piece of musical toss, but this week we have a slightly more modern offering. High-Church of WebTech Nerdness meets Glorious Planet Saving Music in a brilliant video and...

Man with tortoise, Kamakura Originally uploaded by blather Man with tortoise, Kamakura, near Tokyo Japan. This fellow appear to be out walking his tortoise - which, contrary to well known fables, was moving pretty quickly, trotting alongside him and...

(image 'adolescent paranoia' by Dr. Joanne) WAR! Old-school blather readers will know that Blather.net spent many of its formative years talking about, looking for and worrying about that most insidious of modern phenomena - the UFO. Indeed, as Daev...

Via Thriving too. How the number 350 will save the world. Visit 350.org...

Recently Aftenposten reported that new statistics show that one in four people living in Oslo is a foreign immigrant, i.e. non-Norwegian, i.e. like me. The breakdown goes like this: Year: 1998. Population of Oslo: 499,693. No. of immigrants: 85,550. Percentage:...

I've been looking through my uploaded photos of recent art exhibitions and music shows we've put on. There's a lot missing (sorry Jens Hamran, sorry Somadrone) but here's some pics that weren't lost. First off, the Hilmar Fredriksen exhibition....

Reports of 'Ghost' attacks are worrying authorities in Mombasa, Kenya. From the EastStandard.net: 'Last year, 'ghosts' attacked Mbaraki Primary School. Then Mombasa Mayor Sharrif Shekue rushed to the school with two goats - a black and a white, which were...

A stark warning to women who think they can get dressed in the dark! "A teenager spoke of her shock today after finding a bat curled up in the bra she had been wearing for five hours." This story from...

You just can't slow down German director Werner Herzog. If he's not fighting with Klaus Kinski in the jungles of South America, he's getting shot at - and wounded - during TV interviews in Los Angeles. Or he's rescuing Joaquin...

In a week of grim rulings which saw an increasing corporate invasion of webspace and privacy, this is great news. A Belfast blogger has won a crucial ruling in Belfast's Magistrates' Court. 'Alan Murray's blog highlighting violence, vandalism and...

A hilarious article has appeared in Dagbladet detailing the destruction that occurred on Spasibar's last night. Here's a photo from Dagbladet showing how they trashed the furniture - but even though the business is in a building owned by...

In keeping with our ridiculously inconsistent semi-regular posting of obscure electronica and technohead videos, this week we bring you some rare Depeche Mode footage. The meta on the Youtube page says that this was filmed on the 26th of September...

She's back in the news! The 'psychic' Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise (pictured above). The controversy this time is that her angel school has begun courses for children....

A large bar on the posh side of Oslo, in a building connected to the art academy. Toys, mannequins, porcelain dogs, photographs and junk are everywhere. The staff are wearing robes and wigs. Crazy music is playing. At the...

Now Tarawatch have issued a press release (through their site and their Facebook/Myspace pages) which picks up on a cited article from Ireland's Mail on Sunday. The article states that archaeologist Jo Ronayne is claiming that the data in...

'The only new things are those which have been forgotten'. Movie by Seb Janiak. The Orion Conspiracy (via Strange Attractor)...

Click for larger cover image Norwegian readers be aware! The book I wrote with Blather.net's Dave Walsh and Damien DeBarra is now available to buy in Oslo. A Load of Blather: Unreal Reports from Ireland and Beyond is the...

"Yeah, that was going to be a masterpiece, a magnum opus. I still think those first two issues are among some of the best comic work of that period" - Alan Moore, in the blather interview. Only two issues...

"Yeah, that was going to be a masterpiece, a magnum opus. I still think those first two issues are among some of the best comic work of that period" - Alan Moore told Blather.net. Only two issues came out and...

Dave McKean designed the 1995 Allen Spiegel Fine Arts Catalogue. Yes, he did, and there were not very many copies of that! We know there are Dave McKean collectors who read Blather.net so we decided it's best to sell it...

This 1995 catalogue for Allen Spiegel Fine Arts was designed by Dave McKean. A collector's item for the McKean-inclined. 10 euro plus postage. Pay with paypal....

Yes, indeed. At the blather store....

This is a rare book about Shinto religion by Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929), published in New York in October 2002 by Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-7103-0750-0. This is not one of the cloth-bound volumes (currently valued at 135 euro)...

'A baby pronounced dead after falling into a river today is being treated in hospital after medics detected a faint heartbeat, police said.' This story from the Independent....

This wee video piece has the Ufologists all atwitter. Thing is though, having watched this a few times now, I'm pretty sure this is actually a video of Chinese Kongming lanterns loose in the sky. Link here Blather More on...

'Two archaeologists have put forward a theory that one of the most common ancient monuments seen around Ireland may have been used for brewing ale.' Read the story on the BBC site...

I dunno, it seems like more and more these days, we seem to be posting notices of the death of our heroes. George Carlin, the controversial, fearless and damned funny comedian has died aged 71. Anyway, I suspect that Carlin...

My first reaction when I heard about the discovery of a 'lost' Amazonian tribe was: HOAX! Journalists have been fooled before. And lo and behold, I was right. The tribe has been known about since 1910. "Tribal guardian admits the...