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49 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘culture’
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 8 Sun 28 Aug 2011
The penultimate link dump. This selection comes from the first half of 2007, a year when I didn’t really blog at all. I regret that. Anyway, enjoy: Crappy Sound Forever! / David Byrne on how recording technology changed the way...
Thinking Out Loud: David Starkey, the England Riots, Etc Fri 19 Aug 2011 | 0 Comments
So this David Starkey thing, eh? “The whites have become black”? Enoch Powell? “Jamaican patois”? That old chestnut about black people who ‘sound white’? Really? Anyway, one thing that stands out for me from the Starkey furore — apart from...
Blog All Bookmarked Web Pages: Shanghai Diary Sat 30 Jul 2011
News of the high speed rail crash in China last week (which has raised questions about what some perceive as a cargo-cultish rush into modernity) prompted me to dig up some choice quotes I’d saved back in 2004 from...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 6 Sun 24 Jul 2011
Forgot to post these after the last batch. That was four months ago. Oops. Anyway, some more linkage from 2006: Wayfaring / Web service for creating personalised maps (of walking routes, etc). Completely forgot about this! Tom Coates’ notes on...
Weeknotes #481-482 Sun 30 Jan 2011
Looking back over the last two weeks, I find two prevailing themes: reviewing the past, and predicting the future. The past I’ve already alluded to in my first Blogfodder link dump. Some of those links are nearly eight years old,...
Lazyweb Request: A Social Network for TV Tue 13 Apr 2010 | 0 Comments
I’ve been thinking a lot about television recently — more so since we got our first PVR last weekend. I hadn’t felt I was missing out in not having one before (apart from the programme clash conundrum); I’d always been...
Perturbed by Prodigies Sat 27 Aug 2005
The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities. Reading an excerpt from an old Wired interview with Brian Eno at Peter Lindberg’s weblog, I was...
More Thoughts on the Tube Shooting Fri 19 Aug 2005 | 2 Comments
The Observer’s Rafael Behr puts it bluntly: A man slips on his denim jacket (unimpeded by explosives of any sort) and steps outside. He gets a bus to his local metropolitan railway station. He enters the station using the conventional,...
The Atom and the Damage Done, Part II Sun 14 Aug 2005
Last week saw Japan, and the world, commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which an estimated 220,000 people lost their lives. The bombings marked the horrific conclusion to not only the war in...
A Farewell to Arms? Thu 28 Jul 2005
Today was another day to mark on the messy, scrawled-over timeline that is the history of Ireland. In a statement released to the media this morning, the Irish Republican Army has “formally ordered an end to the armed campaign” in...
Thoughts on the Tube Shooting Tue 26 Jul 2005 | 2 Comments
On Saturday afternoon, just a day after the Tube shooting incident in south London which has stunned the city even more than the detonator blasts merely 24 hours before, it emerged that the victim of the shooting — the alleged...
The Tragic Vision Fri 22 Jul 2005
In my previous post I mention that Londoners have “had to put up with a lot these past couple of weeks.” That they have, but few would challenge that fact that what London has been through recently pales in comparison...
Not Again Fri 22 Jul 2005
Two weeks after the terrorist bombings that claimed 56 lives and affected countless others, London suffered another attack yesterday afternoon when a series of minor explosions disrupted the city’s transport network. In an echo of the July 7 attack, three...
Know Thine Enemy Sun 10 Jul 2005
The news that Steven Spielberg has begun production on a movie based on the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics (which was the subject of a documentary, One Day in September, which I haven’t seen but by most accounts...
London Speaks Sun 10 Jul 2005
I’ve got nothing more to say, not that I had much worth contributing in the first place, being a safe 300 miles away. And anyway, as others have put it, this is not a time to dwell, or “indulge in...
Learning a Lesson from Live8: Podcast Wed 06 Jul 2005 | 5 Comments
For my first foray into podcasting, I’ve uploaded an mp3 version of Learning a Lesson from Live8, read by yours truly: Learning a Lesson from Live8 (3.1MB mp3; 13:24) Feel free to download at your leisure....
Learning a Lesson from Live8 Tue 05 Jul 2005
Since you’re reading this, I’m pretty certain you’d found it impossible to avoid the week-long wall-to-wall coverage of Live8 — Bob Geldof’s pet project to raise awareness for the Make Poverty History campaign (not to mention elicit mass support to...
Some Notes on Rock and Roll Graphic Design Wed 30 Mar 2005
There’s an interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt over at Design Observer on ‘the rise and fall of rock and roll graphic design’, highlighting what he perceives as the death of iconography in contemporary music. He asks three questions: Has heavy...
Mommy, What's a Folksonomy? Thu 24 Mar 2005
After mulling over the idea for the past few weeks, I recently got around to adding folksonomic tags to my individual weblog entries. Don’t know what a folksonomy is? The quick and easy definition is ‘folk taxonomy’, but Wikipedia has...
Cruel... but Usual Tue 01 Mar 2005
Gary Younge’s thoughtful commentary in today’s Guardian takes Britain’s foreign policy to task, comparing the abuses at Camp Breadbasket — Britain’s Abu Ghraib — with the British Empire’s long history of colonial oppression, highlighting the refusal of the establishment to...
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