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A run, at midnight (Sat night/Sunday morn). Starting from Bearwood, the location of Dexy's fave cafe, to Birmingham city centre — where hopefully we can get a Dexy's tribute band to play. We'll dress like Dexy's MK 1 — donkey jackets ans woolly hats. And we'll have a look for the young soul rebels on the way. - Jon Bounds

What next? Great Barr to get a cafe with wifi? Broad Street to get a bar you'd go into voluntarily? - Jon Bounds

Seren Worton did his dissertation on Central Library, it's long but worth a read - Jon Bounds

"A world famous city, with world-class ambition" want a replacement for Clive Dutton. - Jon Bounds

Little tiny bit of research tells you it's not the first, as does the press release. I commented to tell them, it's not approved. - Jon Bounds

It's disingenuous to add the cost of running the library for 60 years (£180 million) into the huge figure, but huge it certainly is. - Jon Bounds

Digbeth is Good put an offline consultation online: "Atkins are conducting a Digbeth Consultation Questionnaire for Birmingham City Council and Advantage West Midlands, which they would like as many people as possible to respond to. Unfortunately it is not available online, so I’ve created a Google Form so you can complete it online if you like. I’ll forward the summary spreadsheet to Atkins, who are aware of what I’m doing (I spoke to representatives at the Digbeth Corridor Study Stakeholder Consultation Meeting). " - Jon Bounds

Lot's of 'TV' Brummie accents, spot "we wanna be tugether" bloke in there - Jon Bounds

tell application "iTunes" set the_playlist to user playlist "typenameofplaylisthere" set view of front window to the_playlist play the_playlist end tell - Jon Bounds

I don't like jazz, but there's a few names in there that may excite chin-strokers amongst you. - Jon Bounds

No real idea what the aim of this site is - or who the authors are, but it seems to be collecting a deal of interesting historical stuff. - Jon Bounds

Blog spots a "scam carpark" on Sheepcote Street in the city centre — while I'm not quite clear how the scam works, it ends up with a pretty hefty cost. - Jon Bounds

PoliticalHack delves greatly into the lack of consultation of a change to the Council's governance. - Jon Bounds

New Alton Douglas book, but can it better <a href="http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2009...">'Dogs in Birmingham</a>? - Jon Bounds

An “imminent risk to health”… since 1970 ;) Get well soon Mr Egg. - Jon Bounds

"Nuts to New Year. This is the West Midlands, not Scotland" - Jon Bounds

idlewild had a song called 'Text Mesaging is Killing the Pub Quiz' - this is a merry dance on its corpse, and we must have one. - Jon Bounds

"BIRMINGHAM’S New Street Station will not be demolished when work on a £600 million makeover gets under way, it has emerged. In order to save money and keep disruption to passengers at a minimum, it has been decided to bolt on a stainless steel and glass façade to hide the existing 1960s grim concrete walls." Proof of what we've all suspected, it's cosmetic. - Jon Bounds

Old Joe, the clock on the tower at Birmingham University, is not well. But even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. - Jon Bounds

Contains piece on Central Library construction — showing how penny pinching spoilt construction. - Jon Bounds

A Twentieth Century Society added: ‘Minister Margaret Hodge has made no secret of her personal dislike for post-war buildings and has here failed to understand the basic premise of heritage protection in England. [We are] tremendously disappointed by the Minister’s decision not to follow the advice of her advisers and list Birmingham Central Library. EH advice on listing is not often overturned and this is a key case in that regard.’ - Jon Bounds

Capsule is 10 years old this December and as part of the celebration there are two special Brumcast shows — this is the first one. - Jon Bounds

In offering the Government our expert advice, we examined all aspects of its architectural interest including: whether it fulfilled its brief; whether it was a particularly good example of a public library; how well it survives; how it compares to other listed buildings of a similar type; and how influential the building has been. In our view, these tests were met. - Jon Bounds

download tweets by hashtag - Jon Bounds

open source twitterfall - with moderation - Jon Bounds

Sceptics in the Pub present The Atheists Guide to Christmas: "Comedy writer Ariane Sherine will tell the story of the Atheist Bus Campaign, and how she came to be editor of this year's #1 alternative seasonal gift." - Jon Bounds

"Hodge is expected to turn down Birmingham’s library for listed status within the next few days. Resembling an inverted ziggurat temple, the building was designed by John Madin in the 1970s and is one of the city’s key modernist structures." Looks like it's time to start planning the sit-in. - Jon Bounds

Three months and local councillor's haven't even acknowledged Dave Harte's plea for something to be done about the state of condemned(?) houses in Hazelbeach Road in Ward End. - Jon Bounds

Moustachioed king of gigging The Barron picks twelve gigs you might like in Brum or about. - Jon Bounds

An 11 bus based short story… - Jon Bounds