Norway: Probably One of the Best Royal Families in the World

Just came across two articles on the BBC News website about the Norwegian royal family.

Four years ago, the brother of the “controversial” princess was convicted of assault, and now today:

Norway’s Princess Martha Louise says she has psychic powers and can teach people to communicate with angels.

I ought to note that this is a different princess to the sister of the assault guy, but still. I can see the headlines of the papers in a similar scenario over here now:

“Queen declares psychic link with corgis. Prince Charles subsequently declares similar link with vegetables.”

Admit it. You’d love it too if the royal family said something like that.

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Muse and Rage Against the Machine?

From the “old news which Rob has only just caught up with” desk, according to this article there is a chance of Muse doing a gig with Rage Against the Machine. Wouldn’t mind if they decided to do so near me, it has to be said…

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MIT finds cure for fear

MIT finds cure for fear | Press Esc

No doubt a brilliant idea, but ironically slightly scary…

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Last.fm and iPods

Very quick post here. Glad to see that the last.fm software now supports iPods! When you connect an iPod, it will actually sync your iPod plays with your last.fm profile without any hacking around and java programs! Werhay!

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The Euro

It’s just occurred to me that the plural of Euro is also Euro, much like the plural of sheep is also sheep.

To quote George from Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”: There’s probably some irony in there [along the lines of sheep following each other], but I’m not drunk enough to work it out.

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Oxegen 2007

I’ve just returned from Ireland having been lucky enough to attend the Oxegen Festival 2007, and thought I’d better write a few lines about it.  (No, I managed to avoid the various tent-burnings etc that went on)

Highlights were Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Interpol, Muse (easily the best of the bunch), the Killers and the Pigeon Detectives. The Bravery were pretty good too, which surprised me considering I didn’t think much of what I heard of their new album.

The mud was, unsurprisingly, horrendous. The tents managed to cope quite well since we pitched well away from the main paths people were using, but there were several other tents which appeared to be sinking rapidly. The weather was all over the place, and would switch between blue skies and torrential rain within a matter of minutes.

Overall though, awesome. The crowds were great (more than can be said at the Shins concert sadly), to the extent that the Interpol vocals were barely audible above the crowd’s singing. Paul Banks got as far in the opening line of the Heinrich Manoeuvre as “How are things” before everyone else finished the line for him by yelling “on the west coast?” at the top of their lungs.

Not something I’d perhaps do again tomorrow as it was pretty tiring, but very much worth it and generally great.

Anyone else been enjoying the festival season this year?

P.S. Updated last.fm playlist for Oxegen to follow.

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Hitman

Apologies for the slightly geeky post, but I have to comment on the hilarity that is the game Hitman: Blood Money.

The game itself is great, and I’ve finally managed to complete it after a week or so. However, there is a small “tension meter” in the bottom corner that reflects how suspicious you are, which can be erratic at best. Here is a list of what was going on at the time and how suspicious the game thought I was being. (more…)

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