stuff in the percival david collection at the british museum

classical chess piece at the british museum

take that, you brute ! and that !

check out the solar weather ... nasa's solar dynamics observatory shows the sun in lots of wavelengths

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

scrabble about in the small print and you will find links to up-to-the-minute HD images, filtered and then re-integrated in "false" colours, allowing you to see what's going on ...


















http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/f_094_335_193pfss.jpg, for instance

most of whatever else you might want to ask is in the booklet / pdf

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/docs/SDO_Guide.pdf

nasa's fillum of the transit of venus in several different spectral filters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9rM8ChTjY

some words in your shell-like, guvnor ?

if you didn't have chance to read the book ... rory stewart's two part series on afghanistan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jb9fn/Afghanistan_The_Great_Game_A_Personal_View_by_Rory_Stewart_Episode_1/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jk7qd/Afghanistan_The_Great_Game_A_Personal_View_by_Rory_Stewart_Episode_2/

and you can always read the blog from his day job...

http://rorystewart.co.uk/blog/471-the-acquisition-of-knowledge

vivat regina !!! ( i )

listen up, bros !
http://www.frequency.com/video/ronald-binge-elizabethan-serenade/17537232
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYCfkWLWZI

vivat regina !!! ( ii )

écoutez ...


http://www.feelmybicep.com/2009/10/15/grace-jones-pull-up-the-bumper-larry-levan-garage-mix/

helen gahagan in she c.1935

helen gahagan was quite a lady ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gahagan

A.N.OTHER in a famous disney production c.1937

the loved one has been trying to coax me in to summer colours

just in case there may be one amongst you who doesn't revere steve bell ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stevebell?INTCMP=SRCH

trouble at the bank ... spanish STYLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iop2b3oq1O0&feature=share