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June 2008 Archives
Edwin Lutyens By His Daughter
Edwin Lutyens by Mary Lutyens......
Posted on June 29, 2008 11:10 AM |
Natacha Atlas at the Pigalle Club
Natacha Atlas enters the stage in the cosy surroundings of the Pigalle Club very discretely. Some seated diners are still finishing off their lemon tart with ice cream on top. Only after the first number does the crowd's almost delirious affection for her become apparent. Extended applause, whoops and a few continental 'La, la, Natacha!'s....
Posted on June 26, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: accordion,natachaatlas,pigalle
Why hasn't Nelson Mandela spoken out against Robert Mugabe?
Typically contentious article concerning Nelson Mandela's silence over Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. In it he says Mandela is "...making himself complicit in the pillage and murder of an entire nation."......
Posted on June 25, 2008 11:37 AM |
A Modern Indian Woman's Struggle with Arranged-Marriage
Lots about Anita Jain's epic struggle to get married... The marrying kind A modern Indian woman's struggle An open letter to Anita Jain......
Posted on June 24, 2008 1:37 PM |
Hamish Hamilton's new magazinbe
Hamish Hamilton's new literary magazine Five Dials, named after a lost part of London which was once "a den of iniquity, a haven for criminals, a slummy, ragged bit of the city cleaved away to make room for a broadening......
Posted on June 24, 2008 10:00 AM |
Jesus' Reign Is Coming
Flickr spam! I got spammed by this bible-bashing weirdo.......
Posted on June 24, 2008 9:52 AM |
The Fall the movie
This film looks a bit good. It's called The Fall, and has a certain Roy Walker in the cast list, raising hopes of a surreal otherworldly version of Catchphrase as produced by David Fincher and Spike Jonze (as if Catchphrase......
Posted on June 23, 2008 2:17 PM |
Friends Reunited - finally goes free
Friends Reunited, the Web 1.0 Facebook, finally catches up with the rest of the social networks and makes it free to contact people......
Posted on June 21, 2008 8:12 AM |
Buildings and monuments
I have started a map of Edwin Lutyens' work in England, and I'll be updating it as time goes on....
Posted on June 20, 2008 1:29 PM | Tagged with: architecture lutyens london surrey map
025.431: The Dewey blog
Enticingly subtitled "Everything you always wanted to know about The Dewey Decimal but were afraid to ask", it's the Dewey Decimal system blog!......
Posted on June 19, 2008 1:16 PM |
Firefox 3: Power User's Guide to Firefox 3
Power User's Guide to Firefox 3......
Posted on June 18, 2008 5:50 PM |
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
No one from the Western Sahara has downloaded Firefox 3...yet......
Posted on June 18, 2008 12:54 PM |
Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus on DVD
Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus on DVD......
Posted on June 17, 2008 10:55 AM |
Dangalnama
Dangalnama is a play about the string of riots and bombings that have plagued India since 1984, when large numbers Sikhs were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. It opens with a montage......
Posted on June 17, 2008 9:32 AM | Tagged with: gujarat babrimasjid godhra hindu muslim communal violence
Illustration special - some recent contributors to The Believer magazine: http://thebathwater.com/ http://bertbergen.com/ http://paulmccreery.com/ http://steph.vonreiswitz.com/ http://brendanmonroe.com/......
Posted on June 12, 2008 9:58 AM |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull......
Posted on June 11, 2008 12:15 AM |
Ryan McGinley takes photographs of Morrissey fans......
Posted on June 10, 2008 1:27 PM | Tagged with: photography morrissey gig
The Piano Sings
It must be cheating, in some way. What Michael Nyman does, I mean. His music is so direct, it takes a shortcut to the emotional core of your being. It's not fair on all the other composers. He bypasses all......
Posted on June 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Tagged with: soundtrack composer piano cadogan
The world's 50 most powerful blogs Another oldie, but well worth a read through. I'm not featured on the list, by the way.........
Posted on June 9, 2008 2:08 PM |
The Future of the Internet (part 1)
Just got back from an entertaining and informative talk with Jonathan Zittrain as part of the Guardian's series of internal lectures "The Future of Journalism". To encapsulate the two-hour presentation, Zittrain fears that as a result of the security and......
Posted on June 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: generativity,security
C'mon girls!
I braved the chattering hoards to see Sex & The City. As we walked in Kate wondered aloud if people might think she was my beard - the audience was 95% chicks, whiling away the time until the chick-flick started by gossiping loudly through the trailers and adverts. Whole rows were filled instantly when parties of 20 turned up. Their anticipation was palpable....
Posted on June 6, 2008 7:49 AM | Tagged with: sexandthcity tv
Catching up a bit after six months away from a computer screen...Here's an article clearly explaining the differences and similarities between XHTML2 and HTML5......
Posted on June 4, 2008 4:40 PM | Tagged with: internet xhtml html w3c
Isn't Anything?
I thought I was going to see some shoegazer bands at The Boileroom. Shoegazing's back, isn't it? "It's been and gone. You missed it." my friend Ivan says. I go along anyway....
Posted on June 4, 2008 12:03 AM | Tagged with: boileroom
I'm back!
So look forward to more activity on this website very soon......
Posted on June 3, 2008 1:19 PM |
