December 2011
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Font swap in iBooks →
Font geek Glenn Fleishman on the new fonts available in iBooks.
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The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas →
Hitchens on the festive period.
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Christopher Hitchens on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit... →
“To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity,...
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MG Siegler on Apple fanboyism →
“I’m a fan of Apple’s work because it’s great. I suspect my peers he would criticize would say the same thing. I’ve been a fan of Apple’s products for about 6 years now. Before that, I didn’t own one. You could even say that I hated Apple products back in the 1990s when I was going to midnight launches of Microsoft products. Why did that change? It’s not some spell or some bullshit...
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Massive great white shark filmed on iPhone →
Brr.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Sufjan Stevens (15)
Mayer Hawthorne (13)
Ella Fitzgerald (13)
Death Cab For Cutie (11)
Manic Street Preachers (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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A regiment of women monsterers →
Nick Cohen makes some valid points here about the utter vitriol that female journalists, across the political spectrum, receive compared to their male counterparts. I’m glad there’s been a run of late on people pointing out the many forms of sexism still massively prevalent both online, and in the media more generally.
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The 25 Funniest Autocorrects Of DYAC’s First Year →
On Damn You Autocorrect, their best 25 corrections from the first year. I don’t recommend reading this at work, partially because it’s a bit rude in a places, but mostly because it may well have you stifling laughs in a slightly embarrassing way.
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A mimophant is a hybrid species: a cross between a mimosa and an elephant. A...
– David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, p.24
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Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask →
Lovely interview with the veteran god of being utterly brilliant in every way, Alan Moore.
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Back to the glory days of Northern Rock →
I think it’s fair to say that Tim Harford is not a huge fan of the government’s plans for mortgages.