December 2011
2 posts
The Daily Torygraph →
Largehearted Boy: 2011 Year-End Online Music Lists →
October 2011
2 posts
Tabloid Watch: MailOnline makes up events, quotes... →
Look out for No. 1 - Benford's Law - Tim Harford →
September 2011
1 post
Inequality - Image - NYTimes.com →
Graphs and charts showing how inequality and household debt in the USA have risen since 1980, especially compared to the more equitable period from 1945-80.
via Phil
August 2011
2 posts
The Second Bottle - Alan Richman: GQ →
Another warning: Do not ask your guests what they would like to drink. They have no idea, even if they think they do. If you listen to them, you will be assaulted with a sorry combination of indecisiveness, insecurities, uncertainties, and misinformation.
Me and the man with the iPad | Photographers →
“I also know it’s wrong that every few years we’re faced with an “emergency” that could have been prevented, that aid groups must frantically try to raise money to respond, that journalists need to find emaciated babies at death’s door and film and photograph and write about them before the world gives a damn.
[…]
He comes with an iPad, I come with a notebook.
Both of us steal...
July 2011
2 posts
Oslo attacks: Why did so many experts blame... →
Stewart Lee: What I really think about Michael... →
June 2011
2 posts
Camptown News Greasemonkey Script... →
The Mad Genius of “Modernist Cuisine” : The New... →
Oh my lord I want this
May 2011
8 posts
OECD Better Life Initiative →
Street art scales down: why Cordal and Slinkachu... →
Story of the Tokelau Teenagers Lost in the Ocean... →
Furore over 'perp walk' →
Nick Clegg Looking Sad →
Stickers on the Central Line →
London's AV results - diamond geezer →
“Only ten UK districts returned a ‘Yes’ vote. Six of these were in London - Hackney, Islington, Haringey, Lambeth, Southwark and Camden. They’re the six green boroughs on this map… London’s progressive centre.”
“America Pleased With Killing of Thing”
– Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog.
April 2011
7 posts
"Like totally. A slag."
LRB · Andrew O’Hagan ·... →
In the Sorting Office - LRB · James Meek →
Scrabble Explained →
Dinosaur Comics - April 20th, 2011
"Not the royal wedding" Street Party →
“Not the royal wedding” Street Party - any takers?
Brixton’s Best Food Shops | Brixton Blog →
One Click Orgs →
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: GOODIES AND BADDIES (from... →
March 2011
1 post
Tour De Gall | Culture | Vanity Fair →
“The rule with snails is: Don’t eat one you couldn’t get up your nose.”
February 2011
1 post
Mervyn King Stands Up to His Critics - Simon Nixon... →
January 2011
1 post
Rare Tea Co →
December 2010
8 posts
Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has... →
Largehearted Boy: 2010 Year-End Online Music Lists →
Best Albums of 2010
- BBC Music Blog →
Best Albums of 2010
The best music of 2010| Music | Best of | The A.V.... →
Robin Hilton's Top 10 Albums Of 2010 : All Songs... →
Crunks 2010: The Year in Media Errors and... →
kim jong-il looking at things →
November 2010
5 posts
Books of the year - FT.com →
"Our need to be in the midst of danger" - Keynote... →
I don’t know if this is humane or cowardly. I do know that it’s profoundly sad.
The End of the NHS « LRB blog →
Thoughtcrimes « LRB blog →
Newspaper Club | Helping people to make their own... →
October 2010
4 posts
Child Benefit Cut ‘Unenforceable,’ Treasury in a... →
Awesome incompetence
Money talks and bullshit drinks
- D-squared... →
Cameron and Osborne playing Clegg like a fiddle... →
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years -... →
September 2010
4 posts
rare tea company →
Journalists call for 'internet tax' to rescue... →
So astoundingly wrong it’s awesome
Tony Blair's memoirs: The strange brilliance of Mr... →
"The Spirit Level mechanism" - Stumbling and... →