February 2009
18 posts
Join the Internet Blackout →
The point at which grass roots social justice movement merges into classic web meme. It’s a good cause no doubt. The New Zealand government wants to shut down websites based on simply the suspicion that copyright infringement is taking place e.g. forget presumption of innocence and any other procedural norms for the dispensation of justice. What slightly gets me about the protest is that it...
Quietube →
Via, and built by, STML: a lovely idea executed with customary clarity and understated style. Send Youtube videos without all the crap around the video. The camomile tea of online video in other words, and being a camomile tea obsessive I mean that in an entirely non-pejorative sense.
The Noosphere Project →
The Noosphere is the posited domain in which exists all human thought. This might be a crap looking project in terms of web design but I love the idea of mapping global consciousness in some way, like Twitter vision but infinite.
“When someone criticises me I think what an ass and when someone praises me I...”
– Evelyn Waugh
The New Dubai →
Welcome to depression Dubai: “faced with crippling debts as a result of their high living and Dubai’s fading fortunes, many expatriates are abandoning their cars at the airport and fleeing home rather than risk jail for defaulting on loans”. Apparently the airport car park is now fully gridlocked.
“This din of brasses, tin pans and kettles, this Chinese or Caribbean clatter...”
– A brilliant if psychotic denunciation of Wagnerian opera from J.L Klein in 1871.
Fury
Opening the paper- any paper - and one word stands out. It’s everywhere, prefacing articles and seeping out into consciousness of Britain from the dense, molten cores from which it sprouts.
Fury
Fury at life; fury at words. Fury at Wossy, Thatcher, Clarkson, Brown etc etc, fury at you, me, at councils, at snow ploughs, at this that and the other, fury exploding from mouths and pens, fury...
Kindle 2: "still amazing, only better". Yah. →
It’s here. The verdict: it looks better, much better, but still not perfect. It still has annoying paddles where the thumbs doth rest. Verdict withheld (for now).
Fair-Trade Music →