Britain's Really Disgusting Foods: No Shit Spurlock

This programme which is going to be shown on BBC Three tomorrow is apparently going to blow the lid on the meat industry. You might have already seen the trailer, showing how chicken Kievs are made. Apparently they're made from the pulped skins of chickens and presumably any other bits that won't go into fillets and other meat products where the body part is quite clearly identifiable.

#Friday follows Thursday

Last week was something of a double coup (coup coup) for Twitter. The Twittering classes managed to capsize a government gagging order on the Graun. The story the paper was prevented from running concerned the activities of Trafigura, a raw materials trader who supposedly illegally dumped of toxic waste off of the Ivory Coast. It's been covered in greater detail by others (Guido Fawkes, Charlie Brooker) so I won't bother going into it in detail. The PDF of the gagging order can be found here (courtesy of the Guardian).

The Last Thing I Want To Do/Rick Wakeman had Talent in a Previous Life

I don't really know why I'm doing this. After a solid week of churning out War & Peace-sized tracts of copy at my arbeit the LAST THING I WANT TO DO when I get home is to fire up my laptop and blog about my boring life on the internet.

Ste McCabe: Calling time on Wossy's house band

Twitter's great innit? I found this guy via a tweet from George O'Dowd, aka Boy George (@theboygeorge). I'd added him ages ago, mistakenly thinking him to be Chris O'Dowd, aka actor who plays Roy from The IT Crowd. Turns out Chris O'Dowd is on Twit under a different name (@BigBoyler).

Wonk Unit

Wonk Unit is one of the most exciting and compelling live acts currently operating on the UK DIY punk scene. Their music is straight-up no-frills rock and roll, and the band's delivery is unpretentious to the point that their frontman can recite poems - poems - in between songs and for it not to be pretentious (watch out for the 'The Plasterer'). Inter song poetry recitals aside, closest reference points to the Wonk Unit live sound would be AC/DC and early Green Day. It's tempting to toss around phrases such as 'workmanlike' and 'navvyish', not least because lead singer Alex is a builder in his day job - quite literally a DIY punk rocker.

Taking the piece de la: Muse - 'The Resistance'

Listening to The Resistance after Muse's previous albums (Origin of Symmetry in particular) is kind of like watching Star Wars: Attack of the Clones after watching the previous Star Wars films (The Empire Strikes Back in particular).

No Offenc: The Time-Travelling Ghost of Mary Whitehouse takes over Facebook

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