Ars Technica on ad blocking. Personally, I’ve always thought it a little strange that many of the people believing in ‘free’ content also block ads. At the very least it’s cheeky, at the worst, naive…
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
William Saroyan
thomyk Podcast 66: Trophy
In which Thom and Michael try to get Chatroulette to work, while recording the podcast, without any success. They might well try it again - but it failed this time. Nonetheless, they manage to talk about why you should vote, even if you’re a disenfranchised teenager, television programmes that they have enjoyed, the Oscars, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They also touch briefly on the line-up for this year’s Latitude Festival, which they both are keen to go to!
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Exactly. All venues should have these signs.
Don't blame us for political apathy
This article annoys me so much. The lesson she needs to learn is that politicians don’t care if she doesn’t vote at all, they just care if she gets off her arse and votes for someone else.
thomyk Podcast 65: Precipitate
In which Michael and Thom emerge from some Heavy Rain, to find themselves in the National Theatre battling with failing batteries and frequent PA announcements.
Desperately Seeking Sam
A long piece by Roger Boylan in the Boston Review remembering Samuel Beckett twenty years after his death
Samuel Beckett (via)
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
Samuel Beckett, The Calmative
Daily Mail in dumbing down backlash
Oh, and if you’re compiling a multi-volume book on Daily Mail hypocrisy, here’s another example.
Why other newspapers ignored the News of the World phone hacking story
I suppose it’s rather unsurprising that NI titles ignored the phone hacking scandal, but the fact that most other sources didn’t cover it either is a lot more nefarious.
The Power Elite
David Brooks argues that as our elites have become more diverse and been populated by those who have got there on merit, we’ve lost trust in them. Interesting point.
