June 2011
20 posts
Stewart Lee on Internet Hate
‘Why is there so much vitriol aimed at Stewart Lee and his work? When he was writing his book, he looked at what people were saying about him online, “and I found all this stuff, people hating me.” But what can that do to a person, wading through so much bile? “I do need to draw a line under it,” he says. “It is sort of funny, but … ” Now it’s...
Kind Of Screwed →
What happens when Fair Use breaks down.
“Maybe on very large scales, Einstein’s general relativity is slightly wrong.”
– Wired
Watchnewyorker:
To celebrate the release of “The Talk of the Town Visits Fifty Interesting People,” a special issue, the editors invite you to see just how a Talk of the Town piece is made. With special guest stars.
“The desire of people to move beyond the “psychodrama” of the Blair/Brown feud is understandable. It was divisive, debilitating and hugely damaging to the Labour party and the government. It was also, though no one will ever admit this publically, a lot of fun.
Talk to some veterans of that time and, if you can catch them off guard, a wistful, far away look will play across their eyes....
ZombieSaurus #5 →
Giant Dinosaurs For Sale →
How Tube Travel Affects Perceptions of Distance →
Interesting NYU Paper.
“By chance my family were on holiday in the Isle of Wight during the famous 1969 festival, staying at the Needles in Alum Bay, and I was door-knocking, trying to drum up trade with our home-made clothes pegs (yes, I know this sounds bonkers but in those days we made fine pegs from the hawthorn bushes on the side of the road — if pushed I can still knock them out).
I was about 12 going on...
On the terrible beauty of a batting collapse →
Drilling for gas could be causing earthquakes,... →
May 2011
36 posts
