Where I went 3–4/04/16
Two day mini-bumper (mini-bumper?) edition because I couldn’t be bothered to do this during MOTD2 last night.
It hasn't been easy looking at those front-page photographs of Paul Gascoigne with his face bashed up, scabbed and…www.theguardian.com
Hope he makes it. One day at a time.
How can a landlord expect to receive rent if the sanction for refusing to pay it isn't eviction? A small good thing…www.theguardian.com
#nationalise
Cristiano Ronaldo stunned the Nou Camp with a late winner in el clásico. After a feisty but ultimately disappointing…www.mirror.co.uk
nigglefest
Track your rides and runs via your iPhone, Android or GPS device, analyze your performance, and compare with friends.www.strava.com
just got to do this three and a quarter times next week…
A captain's goal from Wes Morgan is enough to take Leicester seven points clear at the top of the Premier League - they…www.theguardian.com
Leicester!!!
Anthony Martial finished off a flowing Manchester United move to settle an otherwise uneventful encounter at Old…www.theguardian.com
I followed these on the MBM because I was watching the World T20 Final and I am pleased I did this, because the football wasn’t great and the cricket was… I won’t pretend I enjoyed it, because it was far too stressful for that. But I certainly no longer believe that test cricket is the only form of the game that has value. It’s still the best, but yesterday’s final had so much stuff — failures, skills, stubbornness, bravery and the fact that you never knew which way it was going to go until the very very end. Sport at the highest level.
This was written shortly after we moved to Florida, when I broke out in a terrible rash. I won't get into the details…basicinstructions.net
itchier than I expected
Nineteen. N-n-n-n-nineteen, for those old enough to remember Paul Hardcastle. Nineteen runs to defend in the final over…www.theguardian.com
He’ll be back
David Cameron has promised to end "tax secrecy" in the UK and has described some offshore schemes that allow people to…www.theguardian.com
A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. An…www.theguardian.com
As I walk into a chintzy upstairs bar at the Garrick Theatre in London, Rob Brydon spots me and breaks off from the…www.theguardian.com
Nice to add a bit of levity
http://interactive.fusion.net/dirty-little-secrets/
Deep piece
Sergio Ramos went through the back of Luis Suárez, across the pitch, up the stairs, past the chapel, to the left…www.theguardian.com
Another day, another 1-0 victory for Leicester City. Seven points clear with six matches remaining for Claudio Ranieri…www.theguardian.com
Leicester!!!
When Darren Sammy called heads and the fates conspired to agree with him there was a collective groan from England fans…www.theguardian.com
Can’t get enough
The Guardian running blog's very own Strava group. Motto: "Run faster" (copyright: Asta) Fuelled by cake. Dreaming of…www.strava.com
I cracked
I'm not sure why, but I've always wanted to do the Kingston Breakfast Run. I think it might be the presence of a meal…www.theguardian.com
Funded!
The Simpsons' Waylon Smithers Jr has come out as gay after 27 years in the closet, thanks to the son of one of the show…www.theguardian.com
Smither is…? I’m pleased this was done well, by the sound of it. Even though I’m unlikely to ever watch the episode.
what?
The truth: it doesn’t depend on people believing it
Gunnerkrigg Court is a science-fantasy webcomic created by Tom Siddell. It is updated online three days a week.www.gunnerkrigg.com
uh-oh
please feel free to learn all history from this comic; i promise you will at least be interesting at partieswww.qwantz.com
convincing
How a diverse, self-organized group of volunteers took on Facebook (and won).www.metafilter.com
I think this is a “hoorah” type thing, but I don’t honestly know what they did.
Guess again. In a move that is sure to provoke a little discussion about licensing/ownership, privacy, and Internet of…www.metafilter.com
Hmm. This seems like a bad thing, overall. I am still keeping my physical things. The cloud is just someone else’s hard drive indeed.
The Panama Papers - Overview The largest leak journalists have ever had to deal with. Panama company Mossack Fonseca…www.metafilter.com
The level of resignation in here is telling. But, surely, there should be some expectation that the leaders of democracies (you know, partial/lightly broken democracies like we have in the UK) shouldn’t be such rampant fucking hypocrites. The PM’s family tax affairs are “a private matter”? No, that’s not how it works. If you tell us we’re all in this together while you rob the country blind, breaking up and selling off the institutions that made it a decent place to live in the name of balancing the books, you absolutely do not get to hide a fuck-ton of assets tax-free in an offshore shell company and claim it’s not our fucking business. Honestly, the least Cameron deserves is to be drummed out of office immediately, tarred, feathered and chucked in the Thames, then fished out and made to live out the rest of his life mucking out pigs (I said mucking). But there doesn’t seem to be a mechanism for that. And as I read somewhere on Twitter last night — it’s hardly a shock that it’s legal to do something that senior legislators and their donors really want to do.
Where are the pitchfork shops, anyway?