New NME logo on 10 "special" covers

The Mall of Cthulhu

OK I am writing this review partly to test the blogger/Amazon asociates integration (summary: does not work in Firefox). I recently read this book: The Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper. This book has the best title in history. It is another modern day Cthulhu book, a bit like Charles Stross's Laundry series. It is wryly written, the jokes are not flagged and you have to keep paying attention. I enjoyed it as light reading.

Dalek with British Flag (from Victory of the Daleks)

Lady Gaga and Beyonce by Yamino

Michael Foot

Royal Mail stamps to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society

You Got The Love mixes

You Got The Love was originally recorded by Candi Staton for a (sadly lost) diet video:

Someone got hold of an a capella version and the remixers took over. There are loads of versions, but the most successful was this one, the Now Voyager mix:

Bringing us up to date, here is the Florence version:

And then there is The XX remix of the Florence version:

As the Guardian said, this is the best remix of a cover version of a refix of a mash-up of an a cappella of a song originally written for a diet video.

Lady Gaga on the front of the Times and the Guardian

David Tennant banknote

This is one of the fake banknotes designed for the scene in The Runaway Bride where money comes flying out of a cashpoint. The text on the note says:

I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten satsumas

and

No second chances — I'm that sort of a man.

The money is signed by the creator Peter McKinstry, whose concept artwork for Doctor Who can be seen at his website.