Monthly Archives: September 2011
Heresy: Three Trapped Tigers edition
From Dorothy Wordsworth’s diary entry of October 3, 1798: His trade was to gather leeches, but now leeches were very scarce and he had not strength for it. He lived by begging and was making his way to Carlisle where … Continue reading
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Fire alarm
Provocative short analysis of Amazon’s Fire/Silk duplex on Chris Espinosa’s posterous, via Kevin Anderson on Twitter… “But what this means is that Amazon will capture and control every Web transaction performed by Fire users. Every page they see, every link … Continue reading
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Classicism’s guts: Why Twombly and Poussin worked for me
As I tweeted the day after going, it seemed like visitors to Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Nicolas Poussin – Cy Twombly two-hander were seeing the two artists in opposition, and largely coming down on the side of Poussin. Given that I … Continue reading
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Interlude: Lazy Bones – Wooden Shjips
Big Wooden Shjips fan. Dos is a great running album for people susceptible to the tempo/pace trap – it hits a hypnotically steady groove more or less throughout. And I was once asked to turn it off at a party stocked with braying Young … Continue reading
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Cory Doctorow on big data and the privacy bargain
Via @bengoldacre on Twitter. Discussion of making cookie management easier is interesting and accessible – starts around the 12 minute mark.
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Some infrastructure proposed marriage. Accept? Y/N
So the f8 announcement whose pre-publicity I annotated is out. A sexy-but-scary timeline, lots more entertainment and sharing, more tendrils reaching out over the web. I liked Adam Tinworth’s question about creepiness and death, and I’ve also got some sympathy … Continue reading
Pre-Facebook conference gushing: Notes and errata
“The changes Facebook will roll out on Thursday are designed to enhance the emotional [connection]1 its users have [to each other]2 through [Facebook]3. These changes will make [Facebook]4 a place where nearly everything in your life is [enhanced by your … Continue reading
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Kill List: What’s going on there then? This, possibly
I’m certain of a few things about Kill List (minor spoilers to follow). It’s searingly anti-violence and anti-machismo. It’s saying something about unemployment and depression, about work vs home and the public vs private self, and about the moral and literal … Continue reading
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Taste and the ‘well-adjusted’
From an excellent theoretical portrait of ‘the well-adjusted’ on Bat, Bean, Beam – designed, if you don’t read to the end, as a negative of the distressed worker depicted here. Taste being an end in itself, and requiring little by … Continue reading
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