June 2011
17 posts
Jun 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
Bon Iver (31) Battles (26) Bellowhead (14) Sufjan Stevens (13) Tune-Yards (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 29th
Jun 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
PJ Harvey (24) TV on the Radio (11) Tune-Yards (10) London Symphony Orchestra (10) BBC Radio 4 (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 24th
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Jun 22nd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
PJ Harvey (37) Tune-Yards (19) Sufjan Stevens (16) Bellowhead (15) BBC Radio 4 (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 22nd
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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by...
Interesting, well-written book that often explains complex economic details in very simple language (indeed, it includes one of the best explanations for the credit crunch that I’ve read anywhere). The premise, that setting up systems so that there is room for failure, is persuasive and Harford is the first to point out areas in which the simplest version of his theory is likely to fail, and...
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Jun 10th
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The Chess Master and the Computer →
Great article by Kasparov on chess and the impact that computers have had on the game.
Jun 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (41) Sufjan Stevens (31) TV on the Radio (23) Kanye West (21) Bellowhead (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 5th
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Bond Resources
Off the back of The Talk Show’s 5byBond series, I’ve been both reading my way through the James Bond books (you’ll have seen some reviews here, I’m just past From Russia With Love) and at the same time, I’ve been watching the films (with those, I’m well into the Moore era, having just watched The Man With The Golden Gun - terrible song, and mostly terrible movie...
Jun 5th
Jun 4th
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From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Being a Fleming book, there are a few opportunities he takes to insult broad groups of people (in this one he concentrates on patronising women and treating everyone in Eastern Europe like some sort of terrible sub-species) but that aside, this is an excellent book. The story is engrossing (featuring relatively little of Bond), exciting, expertly told and with an intriguing ending. It’s no...
Jun 3rd
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