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Today’s Links (12/12/04)

Dogon
Sirius B predicting ancient culture-a-go-go!
SIRC: Social Research and Trends Analysis
Lots of good stuff by my friend Elanor here. (Also some ‘a survey says…’ bunkum, to be fair.)
Living room art to live on after Switchspace
A profile of Switchspace in the Scotsman
The idea home show
In which I pretty much say ‘Cathy Wilkes? She rules the roost! But I have no idea why! Or how! Yeah!’ (Cracking headline, too, as usual from the Sunday Herald groaning pun squadron.)
The Journal of Community Informatics
The princess and the plea
I meant to link to Len on Britney (oo-er!) ages ago: “Rather than tackle the very real questions involved when dealing with the transformative effects of teenagers’ own sexual identities, the culture we have finds it easier to sell them a plastic, denatured image of it…”

Posted at 2am on 15/12/04 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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3 Comments

Is that ‘losing streak’ line from I Can’t Get No Satisfaction generally acknowledged to be about menstruation?? Never occurred to me.
Anyway if Mick was any kind of a man, he’d have fucked her anyway.

Posted by hannah at 1pm on 15.12.04
Yeah - I’d never though that particularly, but then I never listen to lyrics anyway…

Posted by Jack Mottram at 1pm on 15.12.04
I always though it was; I can’t imagine what else it would refer to in the context of that verse … and I seem to remember from some Stones biography I read years back that it got them in a fair amount trouble in the US. (Actually, thinking about it, that was about the “trying to make some girl” line.)

Posted by Leon at 2pm on 15.12.04