Crush your enemy, drive them before you, hear the lamentation of their women

Wow, Conan makes me feel like an underachiever

The death of the music press and gormless youth of today

New in from spiked
In an interview a few years back, indie legend Edwyn Collins and his wife/manager Grace were despairing at their then 20-year-old son, Will, and his mates. ‘They need a lot of propping up!’, said Grace. ‘D’you know what Edwyn had done by the age of 25? Started a label. Made a load of seminal singles. Recorded four albums. I tell Will, “You ain’t got plenty of time! Look at you all sitting there with your PlayStations. I can see it now: we’ll be 71, 72, you’ll be 40 sitting there with your great big pot bellies playing Fifa 30!”’

Got me thinking about what I'd done by the age of 25.  My list includes:
Getting a degree
Driving a taxi (great life experience at 19)
Being in 2 bands, writing songs playing 3 - 4 nights a week
Commencing work at the ABC on my way to dream career of working at Triple-J.
Travelling the hippie trail from Sydney to Europe
Pretty minor but not bad for a feckless youth

"Farmers' Almanac" predicts a "bitterly cold" winter - Government Scientists get it completely wong

Farmers’Almanac more accurate than government climate scientists read more

Last fall the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that temperatures would be above normal from November through January across much of the Lower 48 states. This graphic shows just how wrong the official forecast of the U.S. government was...read more here

"Farmers' Almanac" predicts a "bitterly cold" winter - CBS News:
August 26, 2013