- Use Oyster cards to track your movements? Of course we could…
- ecotalk.org.uk ‘This is a place where you can download or stream mp3 recordings of ecology related speeches and seminars.’
- Inteview with Vonnegut in the Washington Post
- ‘Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.’ and other quotes by Lenny Bruce
- The ideas interview: Faisal Devji – John Sutherland meets a historian who argues that violence is less important to al-Qaida than ethics (The Guardian)
- Suma is the largest equal pay organisation in the country
- Oona king on New Orleans, and racism in america
- ‘A leading architect of the intelligent-design movement defended his ideas in a federal courtroom on Tuesday and acknowledged that under his definition of a scientific theory, astrology would fit as neatly as intelligent design.’ (NY Times)
- Googling for the origins of the phrase “carve nature at the joints” turns up this lucid, engaging, insightful discussion of Emergence by Shalizi
- West Sees Glittering Prizes Ahead in Giant Oilfields (Times headline, July 11, 2002)
- ‘The Postmodern Bible will be multimedia and multi-temporal. It will allow multiple paths and multiple uses. Each reader will make what they want of it and take what they need from it.’
- The only debate on intelligent design worth having
- Bright Eyes – ‘When the president talks to god’
- How much is your blog worth? (a hypothetical $21,452.52 in this case)
- ‘It is not too late to save the intellectual heart of the nation, but harsh and decisive action is needed now.’
- To make strange, to defamiliarise, or Ostranenie, in Russian
- To speak ‘truth to power’ is a Quaker phrase (excerpts here). Not everyone is a fan
- Zoe Williams is funny clever and political (Like normal, in the guardian)
- Matt Webb on attenuation/attention (astounding)
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