August 2010
38 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Arcade Fire (42)
The National (28)
Tom Jones (25)
The Black Keys (15)
John Grant (15)
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Interview with Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka SwissMiss) →
On 5by5’s The Pipeline.
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Seth Godin on what he calls 'The Fear Tax' →
“Think about how much you could get done if you didn’t have to pay a tax to amplify or mollify your fear”
'Scott Pilgrim' Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To... →
Excellent article. Make me (over 30) want to see the film even more)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Arcade Fire (42)
The National (41)
Stars (39)
Sufjan Stevens (31)
John Grant (26)
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From my other blog, this track was posted by my...
Interview with Gary Kurtz about Star Wars →
…and his falling out with George Lucas over Return of the Jedi. Certainly sounds like it would have been a different film had he still been involved.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Sleigh Bells (23)
John Grant (23)
The National (22)
Yeasayer (21)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (20)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Arcade Fire (208)
Stars (40)
John Grant (32)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (29)
The National (26)
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David Mitchell on the potential for truthfulness... →
Conservative party: “Because, deep down, you know that posh people are supposed to be in charge.”
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“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
– Michel de Montaigne, Book 1
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Chrome's Private Browsing Mode
The BBC have published a scare-story about various browsers’ private modes. Firstly, anyone who genuinely relies on these to be entirely secure is fooling themselves.
However, I do think they’re a bit unfair on Chrome. One of the main points they cover is:
Add-ons or plug-ins for browsers, particularly those that help with searching, also readily log information that the private...
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Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered →
Digg’s susceptibility to being gamed like this has always been a problem, and is one of the reasons I haven’t used the site in years.
The Meaning and Secret of Inception →
In this spoiler-strewn essay on Inception, the author sums up my feelings about the film. I think this is a perfectly valid interpretation.
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In praise of ‘Inception’ →
Excellent post on the layers of metaphor running through Inception. Excellent stuff.
A Critical Analysis of my Shoes →
“If you have large feet, then you know this disappoint ment: the floor model is a size nine and looks perfect in every way. Asked for a go with it, the salesmen brings back a 12 and it is a canoe. Its shape is distended as though through care less Photo shopping.”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
John Grant (32)
Sleigh Bells (21)
Yeasayer (20)
Dirty Projectors (20)
The Antlers (20)
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Even Neil Gaiman's Court Rulings Are Better Than...
“Much as defendant tries to distinguish the two knight Hellspawn, he never explains why, of all the universe of possible Hellspawn incarnations, he introduced two knights from the same century. Not only does this break the Hellspawn “rule” that Malebolgia never returns a Hellspawns to Earth more than once every 400 years (or possibly every 100 years, as suggested in Spawn, No. 9, exh. #1, at...
Ballmer Gives All Microsoft Interns Free Windows... →
Well, I guess at least that means *someone* is using them.