I sense a blogmate of mine disagrees with me about my baby boomer analysis — he just can’t stop talking about Steely Dan, in particular this examination of the band’s classic Doctor Wu.

Chris also recommends you all register here to get Underworld’s ‘lovely broken thing’, released on 9 November, and the first in a series of bundled releases from the band, containing audio, a gallery and cover artwork. For £5 you get a zipped MP3 file containing the audio section of ‘lovely broken thing’, made up of seven new tracks worked together into a single piece; almost 30 minutes of music, including jal to tokyo, billy goat, peggy sussed, dub shepherd, lenny penne, monkey wink and witness. The gallery is made up of a selection of Karl Hyde’s photographs, and artwork by tomato’s John Warwicker.

He also recommends this “first word” on King Kong, and this item from the Guardian archives at the time of the release of the Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’.

London-based blogger Richard Cooper of Thoughtcat asks whether this is the perfect example of double-speak, “or is Blair just the most deluded man on the planet?”

Mark is also into Blair with this, and points out that the people have spoken on intelligent design.

From me it’s good to hear BBC news chief Helen Boaden say the corporation could afford to take a bit more of a risk in breaking stories. Especially after being pinged by Andrew Gilligan for not reporting on the export of military trucks to Sudan when they had the story in the bag.

Mostly, I feel, the damage done by not reporting is greater than from reporting and getting it wrong. You just don’t ever hear about it.

Ciao-orama.