October 2008
links for 2008-10-30 →
Interview with Michael Jasper →
The best minifig-scale creator out there in my humble opinion. Nice to put a face to the name.
“Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” Rabbi Julius Gordon
Mark Steel: I'm frozen with fear – could Obama... →
“The candidate looked like there couldn’t possibly be anyone in the country more idiotic, but he scoured the continent, found someone who was and made her his deputy.” However, I too share Mr Steel’s…
links for 2008-10-29 →
The iStockphoto Business Plan →
By Lonelysandwich.
George Monbiot on stupidty in America →
Monbiot’s right to point out as he does that in fact America’s full of some of the world’s finest minds, but then he’s also right to point out that in the South, a lot of people have been let down…
Adam Rutherford: Sarah Palin and the fruit fly →
“I’m going to be as restrained and measured as I possibly can about this. But this is the most mindless, ignorant, uninformed comment that we have seen from Governor Palin so far, and there’s been a…
links for 2008-10-28 →
“Success is the ability to move from one failure to the next with enthusiasm.” Winston Churchhill
Wired on Open Source Hardware →
The future, and proof that business models exist within this marketplace. In fact, I would hazard a guess that any business models that don’t operate within this marketplace will cease to be business…
Happiness and Multiple Selves →
A great article outlining not only what makes us happy, but who we are when that happiness is experienced. Well-worth the read.
On Happiness and Holidays →
Charlie Brooker on celebrity kicking →
Interesting hearing this from Charlie Brooker, mainly because he’s been known to throw a few verbal celebrity punches himself. That said, his tend to be well-aimed at people who require a denotching…
links for 2008-10-27 →
How FDR saved captialism in eight days →
“FDR’s response to the panic of 1933 represented his finest hourâone of them, at any rateâwhile Bush’s moves exhibit all the surefootedness of a dying animal.” A fascinating look into Roosevelt’s…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →
Neutral Milk Hotel
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
Elbow
Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
Sufjan Stevens
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
David Mitchell: Our MPs barely earn a crust →
I totally agree with David Mitchell here on both main points - namely that we take far too little interest in local politics to complain about its excesses and stupidity and that we don’t pay our MPs…
links for 2008-10-26 →
Apple opposes Calif. Prop 8, donates $100k to 'No'... →
Well done Apple. More than just makers of pretty computers, they’ve clearly got a brain and a heart or two between them too.
links for 2008-10-25 →
Twitter could push blogs into the history books →
There’s a lot of talk around the net on whether blogging is dead. Well, no. But it’s certainly not flavour of the month any more (thank god), and services like Twitter are much much more fun to use.
Not a real word? →
Although it has been known, in the past, for me to complain about words not being real, actually I rather like a newly-coined word when it still has that fresh word smell. It’s poor use that annoys…
London in Panoramic Street View →
Nope. Not the Google version people might have been waiting for, although it uses a Google Maps underpinning. And it’s not too shabby and rather fun to play with too!
links for 2008-10-24 →
Anna Pickard on wearing your trousers around your... →
“Iâm not sure if I can say this strongly enough: If youâre having to hold your trousers up with your hand even though youâre wearing a belt, you are officially Doing It Wrong.” Exactly.
links for 2008-10-23 →
Creationists declare war over the brain →
“Schwartz and Beauregard are part of a growing “non-material neuroscience” movement. They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian dualism - the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different…
So long, suckers. Millionaire hedge fund boss... →
“The low-hanging fruit, ie idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking,” he wrote. “These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the…
links for 2008-10-21 →
Geoffrey Wheatcroft on God and American elections →
The history part is particularly fascinating. I think a lot of Americans have come to accept that religion is a core part of any presidential election, but this is very far indeed from having been…
US waiter writes to the UK population to inform... →
Yes, yes, I’m aware of the frankly somewhat farcical way that the US treats tipping (as essentially a means of making sure that the restaurant owners don’t have to pay their staff properly) but I…
Jonathan Ross on Watchmen →
“Remarkably, the message never overshadows the sheer fun. Depressing dystopian truth-telling has never been quite so thrilling.”
Estate Agents feeling the crunch →
I’m a little torn. I hope that the bastard agent who arranged for me to gazumped (by someone who, hahahahahahahaha, pulled out of the deal) gets the sack, but actually the agent I finally bought my…
“With the birth of each child you lose two novels.” Candia McWilliam
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the...”
– Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →
Half Man Half Biscuit
Arcade Fire
TV on the Radio
The Flaming Lips
Douglas Adams
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
links for 2008-10-19 →
Joseph Stiglitz on why the UK taxpayers have got a... →
And yes, it’s still not perfect, far from it. It’s worth bearing in mind quite how much better our deal is though, and this outlines that very well.
Jonathan Freedland on the potential 'fresh start'... →
“As Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation, puts it: “This is to finance-driven capitalism what 1989 was to Soviet communism.” In both cases, too much unaccountable power had…
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” Benjamin Franklin
links for 2008-10-15 →
“Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.” Simon Munnery, Attention Scum
Gordon Does Good →
Reading the current Nobel Prize winner for Economics proclaim Gordon Brown’s talents is a little weird, but should really be unsurprising. It was difficult to pin down exactly what he’d done wrong…
Senior staff member at the Express has a... →
“The kind of bilge submitted last week will not be tolerated any more.” What a depressing job it must be working for the Express, but also knowing about grammar and spelling.
links for 2008-10-14 →
