Macrolog
11 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘theguardian’
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 9 Sun 04 Sep 2011
The ninth and final entry in this series, for now. It’s been good to dig into my bookmarks and get this stuff up here, random as it is, so it’s searchable and readable and hopefully edifying for any visitor who...
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...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 7 Fri 29 Jul 2011
Last items from the 2006 file: Every Jeopardy! question ever Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names / Some of these must be real band names by now. Shiberu Ban’s paper house / A house made out of paper. For...
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...
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...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 3 Wed 09 Feb 2011
Weirdly, 2005’s ratio of dead links was much higher than the previous two years. But with a bigger overall volume of links, I salvaged enough to make up two posts. Here’s the first: Baseball stadium tour via Google Maps /...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 2 Tue 01 Feb 2011
More links from the archives, this time 2004: Tufte Vs. Bloom / Paul Ford’s thoughts on Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees, which I never got around to finishing at the time; it’s about evaluating literature in context, the kind of...
The Cartographers of Cinema Sat 29 Jan 2011 | 0 Comments
From an otherwise unremarkable interview with the Coen brothers in The Guardian last week on release of their latest, True Grit, there’s this: It is their 14th to date, and the latest instalment in what appears to be a concerted...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 1 Wed 26 Jan 2011
The ‘Blogfodder’ folder in my bookmarks is a bit of a catch-all location for any interesting links I find and might want to explore later in more detail. That was the intention, anyway — over the years it’s completely outgrown...
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...
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