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10 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘history’
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...
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...
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...
Notes from New York Fri 14 Jan 2011 | 0 Comments
My intention was to keep a mini-journal of our six-day trip in New York last summer. I even bought one of those Moleskine city guides as the perfect notebook for my observations. Sadly the day-to-day busyness and exhaustion put...
Learning a Lesson from Live8: Podcast Wed 06 Jul 2005 | 5 Comments
For my first foray into podcasting, I’ve uploaded an mp3 version of Learning a Lesson from Live8, read by yours truly: Learning a Lesson from Live8 (3.1MB mp3; 13:24) Feel free to download at your leisure....
Learning a Lesson from Live8 Tue 05 Jul 2005
Since you’re reading this, I’m pretty certain you’d found it impossible to avoid the week-long wall-to-wall coverage of Live8 — Bob Geldof’s pet project to raise awareness for the Make Poverty History campaign (not to mention elicit mass support to...
Cruel... but Usual Tue 01 Mar 2005
Gary Younge’s thoughtful commentary in today’s Guardian takes Britain’s foreign policy to task, comparing the abuses at Camp Breadbasket — Britain’s Abu Ghraib — with the British Empire’s long history of colonial oppression, highlighting the refusal of the establishment to...
Israel's Invisible People Sat 26 Feb 2005
Last Monday’s Guardian carried a shocking feature on the plight of migrant workers in Israel, where tens of thousands of foreigners — from China, South-East Asia and Eastern Europe — are exploited wholesale as slave labour by employers, forced to...
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