January 2009
38 posts
Daba Girls →
Or Dating a Banker Anonymous. Right.
WatchMy presentation from Bookcamp 09 about orality, literacy, the internet and the book.
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and...”
– Michelangelo. I think about this quote alot.
Tumblr Themes on Mashable →
This theme just got featured on Mashable. Not sure how I feel about this; but generally, feel that it can’t be an entirely good thing. Sure I know it’s just a theme, but you don’t want everyone to have the same theme (e.g. “your” theme) innit?
Hospitalis →
via Boing Boing. A hospital fetish themed restaurant, complete with PVC clad “nurse” waitresses, tables made like hosiptal beds, operating theatre’s, and perhaps most worryingly, cutlery that resembles surgical implements. Suddenly feeling less macho about food. Damien Hirst thought he was quite cool and extreme with Pharmacy- wrong you’re lame Hirst, lame.
aMap Arguments →
Got given a promotional prototype of one of these today. They really could work quite nicely.
Offal
At the minute I am rather in to offal. On Friday night I had haggis; on Saturday I had tripe. Several weeks ago I had an incredible construction made from bits of pig head. Offal stinks of the farmyard, of freshness and shit, it tastes like the countryside red and brown in tooth, claw and asshole. It’s rough and not for the squeamish. Hearts, lungs, kidneys, stomachs, intestines, weird bits...
Jaydiohead →
Forget The Grey Album, this Jay-Z/Radiohead mash up is sick.
Flat Earth News →
Currently reading the book behind this blog. Essentially: the media is much, much more broken than we actually think, which surely is saying something. Makes you like at newspapers with shame and disgust. And it’s written by a veteran journalist.
London Shop Fronts →
Via Boing Boing. A document of the vanishing, dodgy, independent shops and “restaurants” of London. So British, so small and dilapidated, so evocative of grey clouds, buttoned up misery, rotting council estates and broken post-industrial, post-imperial culture.
“Indeed dialectical critical realism may be seen under the aspect of Foucauldian...”
– My long lost uncle, philosopher Roy Bhaskar. Legend.
WatchThanks Nick. Data visualisations that will blow your mind.
Broken Link Shame
Sorry about the broken link a few posts back. Bad form I know.
Books of 2008
A couple of years ago I set myself the task of reading at least one book a week and, as I was bad at remembering what I had read, recording them all. 2007 was a big year for reading, massively exceeding the brief. 2008 less so- looking back 2008 was more about consolidation and travel, more stuff was happening. As of now I am abandoning both the aim of reading at least 52 books a year and...
Risch; Monotonik →
Monotontik are an online record label for electronica, where all downloads are available for free. Just been listening to a release from late last year by Risch, a UK based producer. I could listen to this all day (“Observing Fractals in Clouds”) and probably will.
Bushisms
Via the BBC. Some classic Bushisms for posterity:
“They misunderestimated me.” Bentonville, Arkansas, 6 November, 2000
“For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.” Tokyo, 18 February, 2002
“I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. He married a Texas girl, I want...
The Atheist Bus →
The Atheist Bus! Ere long you shall see buses emblazoned with the legend “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”.
Personally I don’t really know what to think. I agree with the sentiment, but still can’t quite kick the dread Catholic guilt. Which in some way makes me want to donate money for more ads, which only…sigh. My favourite thing...
WatchThe Onion News Network: “I’ll buy anything shiny and made buy Apple”.
Scoble on Tumblr →
I quote: “Tumblr is doing the most innovative stuff out there in the world of blogging.”
Good to know Robert.
InfraNet Lab →
Via Bldgblg. Spurring my big infrastructure fetish. Read over the weekend about a proposed “Heathrow Hub” that would tie a third runway at the airport to a high speed rail link connecting Europe, London and the North of England via the UK’s biggest station to be positioned just north of the existing airport. This country so badly needs a high speed rail link it’s not even...
BBC NEWS | Student's £100bn overdraft shock →
LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art? Videogames and... →
Kayak →
Just when I decided that GBP has crashed to such low levels that to even think of going aborad is a heinous financial misdemeanour I come across the best flight comparison website so far. Itching. To. Book…
Adios Arsene? →
Don’t do it Arsene….in Wenger we trust.
