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5 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘media’
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...
After the Quake Sat 12 Mar 2011
These photos of the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami tell a remarkable story. But maybe a more remarkable one is that of Japan’s resilience in the face of disaster. Even amid all the shocking imagery – roads split...
Best of 2005 Sat 31 Dec 2005
I didn’t bother with any end-of-year ‘best of’s’ on the site last December. In fact, I barely posted here at all, and with good reason: Benitha was here, so why would I waste those precious moments making silly lists for...
Out Of This World Sun 20 Feb 2005 | 4 Comments
I was about to post this to the Linklog, but it really deserves highlighting here. According to this BBC News report, 50 planets outside of our own solar system could have life: Astronomers estimate about half the planetary systems so...
Weblogs in Jeopardy? Sat 04 Dec 2004 | 1 Comments
The story goes like this. Popular and influential weblogger Jason Kottke — who for the past few months has been following the saga of history-making Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings on his site — posts a short audio clip featuring Jennings’...
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