View from the Potting Shed

Another new Metallica song — their first single — from their forthcoming album Death Magnetic: The Day That Never Comes.
To me it sounds like a combination of songs from Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, … And Justice For All, and Load/ReLoad.
I’m really looking forward to the album’s release …

In the UK there’s been a long-time medical TV series called Casualty; the YouTube video above shows you the opening titles from Series 15 (2000-2001).
The show is filmed in Bristol, but is set in the fictitious town of Holby — around which have sprung up two other series Holby City (set in the same hospital […]

Spotted on the Metal Hammer website:
Metallica played a track that will appear on ‘Death Magnetic’ at their Ozzfest debut on Saturday night in Dallas, Texas in its entirity, the first all-new material from the band in half a decade.
The track that Metallica have played is called ‘Cyanide’…
Sounds good — I’m looking forward to hearing the […]

So … it would appear that the new Apple iPhone 3G was launched today. (That’s obviously not a photo of the new Apple iPhone 3G above, or even the old one. That’s my O2 Xda Orbit running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.)
I didn’t know that until today. Until I started reading folks’ posts (called […]

Aha! Let’s go for a stroll!

I love The Mighty Boosh.
This interview with The Mighty Boosh on BBC Breakfast is absolutely wonderful. It’s like trying to shovel balloons into your welly.

Interesting video about climate change.
Yes, it’s nearly ten minutes long, but it’s worth watching … hey! what’s the worse that could happen?
Basically, he looks at the options if current theories about global climate change are correct or incorrect, and maps them against the options of whether we either do something about it or do nothing.
The […]