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World Naked Bike Ride 2008: Manchester (video)

GS — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:08 +0000

Cyclists dared to bare all in chilly conditions on Friday 13 June at Manchester’s third annual Naked Bike Ride. We asked riders and members of the public what they thought.

Biggest ever North Sea security operation after woman dreamed about bomb on oil rig

GS — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:02:09 +0000

A woman employee on a North Sea oil rig had a disturbing dream that there was a bomb on the rig.

World Naked Bike Ride 2007: Manchester (video)

GS — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:08:06 +0000

Last night at 7pm, naked cyclists rode around Manchester city centre. They were protesting about oil dependency and car culture and celebrating ‘the human body and the bike’.

Film of ‘The Avengers’ on location in 1966

GS — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:27:53 +0000

The British Pathe website has some film of Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee filming The Avengers, on location at Beaulieu, Hampshire, in 1966.

The loss of more trees and historic buildings in Manchester city centre

GS — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:51:06 +0000

There has been a big drama lately about the area of land on the corner of Princess Street and Whitworth Street, which is just across the canal from the New Union pub in the gay village.

Cowboy opticians and cheap spectacles (hooray)

GS — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:47:06 +0000

I could write a book about my bad experiences with opticians over the past twenty-five years.

Chinese New Year celebrations, Manchester (video)

GS — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:03:29 +0000

Visit the page to view the Flash video or download: Quicktime (mov)

I bought a new digital camera on Friday (more about that coming soon) and I went out to test it on Sunday. The Chinese New Year parade was just beginning as I walked up Princess Street, so I shot this video.

Free painting software

GS — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:58:42 +0000

I’ve been looking at some free painting programs. In particular I wanted something that had realistic natural-painting tools (oil, watercolour, crayon, pencil, airbrush, pastels) to use with my graphics tablet.

Greg Palast on ‘The Fear Factory’

GS — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:57:25 +0000

I’m going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror…

Greg Palast on why fear sells better than sex and how The War on Terror is the Weapon of Mass Distraction. Read it here.

Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear on the BBC, in The Guardian and in Harpers. However, research costs money and he ‘ain’t too proud to beg‘.

Work in progress includes:

1. The untold story of the New Orleans flood.
2. Shoplifting your vote: November 2006 fix.
3. The next oil war.
4. [Confidential.]