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Discovery Channel trailer-man voiceover: "...and Hitler invades Poland."
Steve: "Not again?"

Podcasts and Twitter

These lists accompany the haymee-pods numbers 8 (podcasts) and 9 (Twitter).

Podcasts I subscribe to:

Friday Night Comedy

From Our Own Correspondent

Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo Film Reviews

Front Row Highlights

Law in Action

Material World

Digital Planet

The Pod Delusion

The Apple Byte (video)

Buzz Report (video)

Carpool (video)

NASAcast

As It Occurs To Me

The Ross Patzelt Radio Show

Twitter - the people I follow:

Bill Bailey - RealBillBailey

Simon Pegg - simonpegg

Peter Serafinowicz - serafinowicz

John Cleese - JohnCleese

Jimmy Carr - jimmycarr

Will Harris - WillHarris

Robert Llewellyn - bobbyllew

Phillip Schofield - Schofe

Stephen Fry - stephenfry

Victoria Coren - VictoriaCoren

Mika - mikasounds

Gareth Mitchell - GarethM

Bill Thompson - billt

Prof Brian Cox - ProfBrianCox

Jeff Williams - Astro_Jeff

Nicole Stott - Astro_Nicole

Mark Kelly - ShuttleCDRKelly

Scott Kelly - StationCDRKelly

Andrew Collins - CollingsA

Chris Addison - mrchrisaddison

Armando Iannucci - AIannucci

Tim Minchin - timminchin

Charlie Brooker - charltonbrooker

Rob Brydon - RobBrydon

Phill Jupitus - jupitusphillip

David Mitchell - RealDMitchell

David Quantick - quantick

Dave Gorman - DaveGorman

Alan Rusbridger - arusbridger

Nick Clegg - nick_clegg

Jack Of Kent - jackofkent

Paul Bailey - paulbailey

Robin Ince - robinince

Johann Hari - johannhari101

Daniel Edward Pitt - myinfamy

Crispian Jago - Crispian_Jago

Simon Singh - SLSingh

Richard Wilson - dontgetfooled

Maggie Philbin - maggiephilbin

Richard Herring - Herring1967

Tweetdeck - the iPhone app I use, has improved since I recorded the podcast. Oh, and I'm haymee of course, on Twitter!

Nick Griffin speaks the truth?

You've seen this already, right? In case you haven't - it's probably not quite what you're expecting...

Windy Queen

Into town this afternoon - on my own* - for a mixed bag of retail experiences.

Boots was civilised and polite, and had everything I needed pretty much where I expected to find it. Sainsbury's was as Sainsbury's is; that is to say, frustrating, over-crowded and generally unfulfilling. Micro Anvika was helpful and had exactly what I wanted, but at a price.

But then I had to go to Primark. I say "had to". Steve needed some socks and I needed a new practical top for work. So it's the only sensible place to visit. God, it is awful. Full of scummy people (well, this is Croydon) and disgusting 'store standards'. The queue was monstrous, and the socks - from a newly-replenished display - turned out on examination at the till to be faulty, so I was invited to follow the (admittedly helpful) BO-emitting sales assistant back to choose a replacement. £7.83 unsatisfactorily spent.

And boy was it blowy out.

*Steve was in London, and is now The Ghost Club's new Press Officer. He came back with some new vinyl, including Queen + Paul Rodger's The Cosmos Rocks, which is playing as I type, and rather fine.

Remembrance Sunday

As usual we watched the ceremony from the Cenotaph on TV this morning. Brought a lump to the throat. I think this is the first year there are no longer any Great War ("the war to end all wars") veterans. But more and more injured and killed from our own times.

Where's my new car?

'cos mine's done 100K - earlier today in fact. On the A1 southbound, just south of the M62, near Pontefract.