flakes of nuisance » can’t make it up! http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 30 storeys 15 dayshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/15/30-storeys-15-days/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/15/30-storeys-15-days/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:20:50 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6675

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The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.

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VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.

Thanks Gareth

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From Jason Freeny comes this "Rubik's Cube embedded inside brain sculpture. Fully functional puzzle."

[via Ufunk]

(CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe Rubik's Brain: .)

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/21/rubiks-brain/feed/ 0 big society – the merchandisehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/15/big-society-the-merchandise/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/15/big-society-the-merchandise/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:37:02 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6523

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/15/big-society-the-merchandise/feed/ 0 To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the centuryhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/08/to-us-its-an-obscure-shift-of-tax-law-to-the-city-its-the-heist-of-the-century/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/08/to-us-its-an-obscure-shift-of-tax-law-to-the-city-its-the-heist-of-the-century/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:01:24 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6497 Our political system protects and enriches a fantastically wealthy elite, much of whose money is, as a result of their interesting tax and transfer arrangements, in effect stolen from poorer countries, and poorer citizens of their own countries. Ours is a semi-criminal money-laundering economy, legitimised by the pomp of the lord mayor’s show and multiple layers of defence in government. Politically irrelevant, economically invisible, the rest of us inhabit the margins of the system. Governments ensure that we are thrown enough scraps to keep us quiet, while the ultra-rich get on with the serious business of looting the global [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/08/to-us-its-an-obscure-shift-of-tax-law-to-the-city-its-the-heist-of-the-century/feed/ 0 Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near Youhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/03/egypts-revolution-coming-to-an-economy-near-you/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/03/egypts-revolution-coming-to-an-economy-near-you/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:02:11 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6491 All of which brings me back to Egypt as the canary in a very large coal mine. It’s hard to overstate just how unexpected a transformation is occurring in Egypt. Death, taxes, and Hosni Mubarak — they were the three great certainties in modern Egyptian life.

But just underneath the surface, the tectonic pressure of dumb growth was steadily mounting. Bogus prosperity’s like magma, filling the volcanic chamber of a society: you can bottle it up for only so long before it erupts, and spectacularly. Today, the world’s gaze is fixed on the pyroclastic flow: never-ending demonstrations, protests, people [

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РАЭ-54 с борта НЭС “Академик Фёдоров” from North Pole on Vimeo.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/14/anniversary/feed/ 0 #WikiLeaks #cablegate – Mirrors of the website & #Visa, #Mastercard transferring funds to racistshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-cablegate-mirrors-of-the-website-visa-mastercard-transferring-funds-to-racists/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-cablegate-mirrors-of-the-website-visa-mastercard-transferring-funds-to-racists/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:03:20 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6352 As writers say, the difference between fiction and fact is that fiction has to be believable. So all those Bourne films are so believable and everything on ‘The News’ is so ridiculous. Osama Bin Laden: still at-large, Ratko Mladic: still at large, Sylvio Berlusconi: in charge of a bankrupt country – and its media, Tony Blair & George Bush doing lecture tours, the €uro bankrupt while the workers of Germany subsidise a continent, and so on.

The world changed years ago. Just ask the Book, Music and Film Industries, newspaper publishers, television companies, High-Street shopkeepers and expense-fiddling MPs, who can [

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