This article is a bit old now (it’s from April of last year) but still worth a read, at least for those of us who remain subjects of the Crown. Freedland hits the nail on the head here for the appeal of the Royal Family in a democraticised age: One could go further and claim [...]
You’re probably familiar with the NASA photo ‘The Blue Marble’ even if you don’t recognise the name. It’s that picture of Earth that you see basically every time you see a picture of the Earth taken from space. Well, it’s 2012; we need something in hi-def. Enter the 2012 edition.
I don’t blame you if you don’t make it all the way through the 94 minutes but this is a fascinating way to experience another place. I’ve got to get me some way of doing this so I can do one for Osaka. And in related news, I have started running again.
Jon Lackman in Wired: Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. To say anything more would, I think, spoil a great piece of writing.
Olympus has announced that they’re going to sue some of their currently serving executives for their alleged role in the accounting scandal that exploded after Olympus dismissed its foreign CEO, Michael Woodford, last year. The Olympus board will not require the executives to stand down, however. The group being sued includes the current president of [...]
A while back, I amended the footer of this site to make clear that I was putting all original work I produce on this blog into the public domain. I disclaimed all intellectual property rights I may have, either copyright or otherwise. I’ve been meaning to write about this decision for so long that I [...]
First of all, I’m stunned to turn the television on and you see what I think of as people doing chores. You know what I mean? Cooking is something that I hate. I mean I hate doing any like domestic work which includes, in my opinion, cooking. To me it’s like watching someone sweep. Yes [...]
I absolutely adore Jonathan Blow and delight in watching every presentation of his that I find.1 This one is similarly excellent. If you enjoy thinking about how meaning can exist in a system (and the pretentiousness of that sentence didn’t stop you right in your tracks), watch this. Sometimes I delight so much in watching [...]
Since the Democratic Party’s primary process began in 2007, Andrew Sullivan has been arguing that no politician is better at playing the long game than Barack Obama. Here is the argument in distilled form.