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Monday January 29, 2007
Rehabilitating Robert Moses
It's amazing what you can do if you just focus on what someone built, rather than on what he didn't allow to be built or the types of people (black and/or the poor) who he marginalised. ¶
Friday January 26, 2007
Air-freighted food may lose "organic" label
The UK's main organic certification body is concerned about the "food miles" involved in importing goods by air ¶
Warm Days and Hard Times in Snowmobile Land
No snow, but no mention of global warming either. Funny that. ¶
Wednesday January 24, 2007
'There is no war on terror' says the Director of Public Prosecutions
"Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, 'soldiers'. They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were fantasists. We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London, there is no such thing as a 'war on terror', just as there can be no such thing as a 'war on drugs'" ¶
Tuesday January 23, 2007
Monday January 22, 2007
Hari Kunzru on Celebrity Big Brother: It was a very ugly piece of TV
"This is what Big Brother is for. It holds a mirror up to national attitudes." ¶
Friday January 19, 2007
Thursday January 18, 2007
Death on the high seas
A number of people have disappeared from cruise ships in mysterious circumstances... ¶
Tuesday January 16, 2007
The soft landing that is life as a postgraduate
It's a nice middle ground: some maturity required, but not too much... ¶
Monday January 15, 2007
Large retail chains move out of Manhattan and onto the surrounding streets
And compete with local merchants and make some commentators antsy about the sameness that's potentially in store for the other New York boroughs ¶
Giants of the Heartland
Jun Kaneko makes some of the largest ceramic sculptures ever seen, in a Kansas sewer-pipe plant. ¶
On the mend
Three Guardian writers try to find someone - anyone - to put their broken gadgets back together again... ¶
Saturday January 13, 2007
Friday January 12, 2007
UK bosses 'want annual staff cuts'
One in six executives thought their company could target up to 20% of its workforce each year for dismissal without damaging productivity and morale. ¶
Living life at $7.25 an hour
There are very few things in life that are as complicated as being poor in America. ¶
Pizza promotion met with death threats
Only in America, the land of the free and the utterly immature. ¶
Thursday January 11, 2007
"Shock" as UK rates rise to 5.25%
Only a muppet would be surprised by an interest rate rises when house price inflation is still rampant... ¶
Mr. Noodle
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Give him ramen noodles, and you don’t have to teach him anything. ¶
America's breakfast war
How Starbucks is trying to provide breakfast 'food' to compliment it's atrocious 'coffee' ¶
Wednesday January 10, 2007
Tuesday January 9, 2007
Turbo-consumerism is the driving force behind crime
Failed consumers will lie, cheat and steal to gain the trappings of success so that they can be regarded as normal ¶
Modernism in the arts is 100 years old, because Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is now 100 years old
¶Homophobia, not injustice, is what really fires the faiths
In a democracy, public services paid for out of general taxes can't be held to ransom by the weird sexual fantasies of unelected service providers. ¶
Saturday January 6, 2007
The Italian Connection
British Airways has been attempting to sort out lost luggage by chucking it all on a plane and sending it to Italy where the "Italian baggage handling establishment" will sort it all out... ¶
Friday January 5, 2007
Singles chart set to go retro
Chart will now include all single sales, not just those of "recent" releases. ¶
Thursday January 4, 2007
Untangling the mystery of the Inca khipu
An anthropologist and some mathematicians try and figure out the information encoded in the knotted khipu strings ¶
Wednesday January 3, 2007
What happens if you have too much information to understand what you're looking at?
Malcom Gladwell on Enron, intelligence, the differences between puzzles and mysteries, and the perils of having too much information ¶
We played "like a bunch of drunks"
A West Ham player's very technical analysis of the reason behind their latest defeat. ¶
Tuesday January 2, 2007
