Links tagged with “articles”
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Bay Area / Out of the retail rat race / Consumer group doesn’t buy notion that new is better
The Compact - 50 people who have committed to buy nothing new (“except food, health and safety items and underwear”) in 2006. (via Boing Boing)
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C90 Go: Number 1
Reminiscing about music taped from 1988/89’s Festive Fifities. Very familiar: I taped the same. I’m an individual like everyone else. (Found when searching for ‘Convenience’ by Bob.)
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The Observer | Magazine | Just Say ‘No’
Scarily close to the bone. I have “no” down to a far-too-instant reflex response. (via Annie Feighery)
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TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine — The Road Ahead
A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets
Makes me sad, as if a tiny piece of my own posessions have gone up in smoke. Commiserations, Aards folk.
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Fads are so yesterday - Los Angeles Times
On how “coolhunters” are doing. I find the whole trend-spotting-in-order-to-sell-more-stuff thing pretty sickening. (via Boing Boing)
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ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines. (via Tim)
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The Believer - Interview with Jonathan Haidt
On whether moral judgements are based on reason. Not sure how much of it I agree with, but it’s interesting.
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Wired News: The Future Needs Futurists
On the need for professionalising futurism. (via Annie)
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Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s - New York Times
I was thinking/hoping that solar energy companies must have bright futures. (via Annie)
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Fullinsert_high.pdf
Preview of the new Guardian Berliner format. I’m probably more excited than I should be.
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LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 15
The first letter describes how US corruption in Iraq is a direct descendant of the US corruption in Vietnam.
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LRB | Ed Harriman : Where has all the money gone?
Excellent but despair-inducing article outlining some of the mind-boggling corruption in post-invasion Iraq.
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oe magazine - photofakery
Guide to spotting fake photos (via Yoz via Kottke)
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Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times
Tom Standage on why you’re an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Review: The Impact of Inequality by Richard G Wilkinson
Sounds interesting - equality matters more in a society than the absolute level of wealth.
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BBC News | Technology | Uproar grows over GTA sex scenes
Sex scenes require a *higher* rating than blasting innocent people with a variety of weapons!? Weird Americans. (via Anne Galloway)
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B3TA : Features : How to Poach an Egg
I tried the cling-film method last night - worked, although it’s a little tricky to extract the egg intact.
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Wage Slaves from 1UP.COM
I’m always amazed by this kind of stuff: people paid peanuts in Asia to earn money in computer games (via Yoz).
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BBC Sport | London beats Paris to 2012 Games
Bugger. If only there was some way one could opt out of paying for this nonsense, or put my money toward something actually useful.
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Keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish - Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website
Ahh, Wired lore. Lots to read. Big slow page.
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The knowledge: Euan Semple - Inside Knowledge
Interesting article about the philosophy of the BBC’s head of knowledge management.
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LRB | Patrick Wright : Cubist Slugs
Particularly for the first two-thirds, outlining the fascinating art-influenced history of early camouflage. Worth a read.
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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Love letter to Broadway
Richard Eyre on ‘Guys and Dolls’. I *love* ‘Guys and Dolls’.
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Armando Iannucci - That’s enough entertainment, thanks - Telegraph - 2004-04-12
How we’ll never read/see/hear everything we want to, and how we should cope with that. Too. Much. Stuff.
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The Independent Online Edition > Enjoyment - Oasis: Mad for it? Not me
Paul Morley on Oasis
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LRB | James Meek : Crocodile’s Breath
Fascinating book review of ‘The Subterranean Railway’, about the London Underground.
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The Observer | UK News | Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel
Me too. I get twitchy when I see people taking lots of flights because everyone else will have to pay in the end.
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | I’ll show you mine…
I wrote an article about Flickr for the BBC News ‘Magazine’. More later, no time now.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The invisible man
David Nicholls on realising, after eight years as an actor, that he just wasn’t very good.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Help!
Recipe for the Doris Grant bread loaf - spelt flour, no kneading.
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Femme fatale
I read ‘Hedda Gabler’ recently, and we’re going to see this production in a week or so.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Work is a four letter word for those in their 30s … but a joy for the relaxed over 60s
“When I went away [travelling] so many people [still working] said ‘you’re lucky’ but it’s not a matter of luck, it’s just having the nerve.”
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Gladwell dot com / Big and Bad
Malcolm Gladwell on SUVs: “feeling safe has become more important than actually being safe”.
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Gladwell dot com— The Pitchman
Malcolm Gladwell makes the story of Ron Popeil and his Showtime Rotisserie more interesting than anyone else could.
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PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column - Dethroning King Gillette
Robert X. Cringely (and correspondents) on the Mac Mini and where it could lead.
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Houstonpress.com | Love It, Fear It | 2005-01-27
A play in London with a segment about a Brit finding Houston weird. I’m so going.
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | G2: Leo Benedictus profiles the immigrant communities of London
At bottom of page: related articles and particularly fabulous maps of the city by ethnicity and religion…
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LRB | Michael Byers : On Thinning Ice
Good, but thoroughly depressing. We’re going to die. Or our children are.
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USATODAY.com - Play is under siege
USA Today advocates adaptively designed toys for kids (if not in so many words).
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This Magazine: The Rebel Sell
“If we all hate consumerism, how come we can’t stop shopping?” via haddock
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B3TA : INTERVIEWS : WINNER OR SINNER
The loudhailer man on Oxford Street.
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MacNETv2 - The Music Man ‽ King Of The Pirates Has A Goal ‽ Own It All!
Interview with a man who’s downloaded 900,000 tunes to save them for posterity, and kind of echoes my view of
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | ‘I thought Peel would live forever’
Paul Morley on John Peel.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Fallen fruit
Why many varieties of British apples are gone forever. I bet right-wingers who want to
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adaptive path
Peter Merholz ponders how to make user-added keywords (or
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Acting out
Looking at how we react quicker physically than emotionally, and applying that to acting.
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gladwell dot com / The Ketchup Conundrum
Ooh, I read this in Borders a few weeks ago - interesting stuff about why some things (like Coke/Pepsi) taste