March 2009
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“Snyder has taken one of the greatest comic books ever published, and made the...”
– Adam Narkiewicz, The Quietus film review: Watchmen
February 2009
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Six Free Exhibitions
I decided to pop into the West End today to see a couple of exhibitions. As is sometimes the way, I only made it to one of the two I was intending to see, but instead I made it to four others. All are free, so it seemed worth reviewing them.
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009
The current exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery, this was by far the most crowded of all the exhibitions I...
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Some Guardian Clippings
Marina Hyde: Give to the rich to help the poor? An idea worthy of Bono
Subheaded “Satire? No - a genius really has concocted a tax proposal to put our aid budget in the hands of the super-rich”, this is a great read which can’t be quoted from in chunks. Just go and read it.
Saturday interview: Franny Armstrong’s new film aims to create 250 million climate change activists...
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Microplaza: a micro-review
While idly surfing Twitter search trends, I noticed a Techchrunch article on MicroPlaza was a trending topic. I was intrigued, as I’d been considering ways of getting links out of Twitter for months, and I managed to get an invite code and have a quick look around.
MicroPlaza shows all the links that have been posted by people I follow, with any URL shortening expanded out. The main page of...
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Children: Social Networking Sites: | House of... →
Via Dan Hon, the source of the quotes that the Daily Mail picked up on today (see my previous entry): a House of Lords debate on the 12th of February. Her remarks conclude:
Of course we cannot turn back the clock, nor would that be any solution to maximising the individual’s potential in this new century. However, surely the Government could consider investing in some kind of initiative, the...
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Facebook vs The Book
Another day, another screaming Daily Mail front page:
Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield will make disturbing...
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Is Gail Trimble the cleverest contestant ever? |... →
Gail Trimble is the team captain for Corpus Christi, Oxford:
“In the quarter-finals, Trimble racked up a record 15 starters-for-10 as Corpus Christi raced to 350 points.”
Watching the semi-final, it struck me that allowing postgrads onto the teams is probably about as unfair as allowing each Oxbridge college its own slot on the show. A university focussed on teaching, as opposed to...
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