Video screen capture of the performance via Jaseroque on Bluesky
chavenet links John Bull's (Mefi's own garius's) Bluesky post on the 1994 Pet Shop Boys Brit Awards appearance and their rendition of the Village People's "Go West," performed with 3 separate choirs of Welsh miners — and garius's comment in the thread may make you cry.
The one thing I have definitively learned is the old Doctor House mantra applies: Everybody lies: Mefi's own garius (Gareth Edwards) comments in the post on his article about the Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival — and adds "a sneaky Mefi bonus" preview of next month's "The Crazy Ones" column!
Danger by Whistling in the Dark (cc by-sa)
This is how Michael Jackson (not that one) and James Blunt (that one) helped prevent a war.
Metafilter's own garius comments with interesting details in the thread about his article Pristina: An Airport Too Far, revealing a 1999 incident in Kosovo that almost brought NATO into open conflict with Russia.
Banana - Isolated by robin_24 (cc by)
How a simple email about a lunchroom opportunity brought a global corporation's email system to its knees.
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