- I don’t like talking about music,” Martha Wainwright sets out her stall. “I don’t like being like, ‘This song should feel like there’s an angel coming up from the earth’. Just sing the fucking song. And if it is like an angel coming up from the earth then we don’t have to fucking talk about it.”
- Supposing … Bono’s too annoying to save the world
- GO Sheffo! in the guardian
- a midlife year out story
- An atheist website – with some interesting notes about how belief affects reasoning
- what makes urban legends stick (and how to use this for marketing)
- On International Towel Day fans of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy carry their towels with them all day
- Rob Newman’s History of Oil (google video)
- Edge #182 has Daniel Gilbert talking about happiness and science
- Photo essay about Festonia squat community
- Wired article about RFID hacking – possible troubling implications for govt. id card scheme?
- ‘many of the central ideals of the Enlightenment were lost to the rise of the modern nation state’
an interesting thought in a CT post about Madeline Bunting - An ecological study of glee in small groups of preschool children.
- But you have one thing that may save you, and that is your youth. This is your great strength. It is also why I hate and fear you. What if Stephen Colbert did your graduation address?
- The The 17 Basic Techniques of Tomiki Aikido University of Winchester aikido society (IE only?)
- Matt Webb’s Reboot8 talk ‘Making Senses’
- Matt Webb’s talk about science fiction and artifacts
- ‘The man shouted, ‘God will save me, if he exists,’ lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions,” the official said.’
- Five Ways to Kill a Man
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