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I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living | The Guardian
A summary from Eric Klinenberg of his new book: "the number of people living alone globally is skyrocketing, rising from about 153 million in 1996 to 277 million in 2011". It's let down a little by the lazy choices of who to interview at the end, but it's a phenomenon worth watching (and one I'm happily part of).
guardian  culture  urbanism  environment  people  society  friendship 
8 weeks ago by blech
Roads privatisation: are we going round in circles? | guardian.co.uk
Joe Moran: "I think we've been here before, skirting the issue of road pricing and using the notion we are 'falling behind' to push privatisation." A longer view.
uk  roads  privatisation  politics  traffic  planning  guardian  comment  from instapaper
9 weeks ago by blech
Railway engineering: the nuts and bolts of hidden beauty | The Guardian
Sarah Bakewell: "Once I saw merely bridges, tunnels and stations, and mostly I didn't even notice these, so busy was I rushing to get over or through them. Now, I see a delicate ecosystem of rivets, cleats, plates, gussets, joggles, spans, arches, ribs of attenuated iron and steel. Scholars can already study railway archives in repositories all over the country, but Network Rail has just put part of its beautiful archive of Victorian and Edwardian infrastructure diagrams on the web."
uk  railway  design  engineering  victorian  illustration  plan  drawing  guardian  via:@joemoransblog 
12 weeks ago by blech
£35,000 on the speaking clock? Spend time reporting real data | guardian.co.uk
"The key issue, as hinted at in the (somewhat facetious) examples above, is that the Metropolitan Police is a huge organisation: it has more than 35,000 officers and PSCOs, plus more than 13,000 civilian staff. Even trivial amounts of spending per officer quickly adds up." On spending at scale.
guardian  journalism  money  scale  police 
january 2012 by blech
Republicans: we don't need no regulation | The Guardian
"What we saw is something unique in the history of American social movements: a mass conversion to free-market theory as a response to hard times. Before this recession, people who had been cheated by bankers almost never took that occasion to demand that bankers be freed from "red tape" and the scrutiny of the law." An extract from Pity The Billionaire by Thomas Frank.
guardian  book  excerpt  us  politics  republican  economics  regulation  business  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Skyscrapers aren't always about corporate pride before a fall | guardian.co.uk
"From the Empire State to the Burj Khalifa, skyscrapers predict recession. But not all towers are built by phallic capitalism." Owen Hatherley on skyscrapers.
guardian  architecture  skyscrapers  empirestatebuilding  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
bookmarks for guardiantech | Pinboard
I'm not quite sure I want to actually have this lot in my inbox (the extracts are a little verbose for my liking, although I'm well aware I can be too, and I follow other long-description types, but then I'm human and we're allowed to be inconsistent) but if you want tomorrow's links today, you might want to have a look.
guardian  bookmarks  links  pinboard  news 
december 2011 by blech
Why we'll pay for internet plumbing | guardian.co.uk
"what Delicious is doing doesn't quite mirror what we want out of it - which is a piece of plumbing where we can store our bookmarks and then extract a subset daily. Plumbing is dull. Plumbing is also essential. That's why you pay money when you get it done. Pinboard, it turns out, isn't into "social news", but it is in to taking our money."
guardiantech  guardian  delicious  pinboard  business  links 
december 2011 by blech
Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks | The Guardian
Aditya Chakrabortty: "Both the evidence and the voters are against investment bankers. So why do the politicians cling on to them? Part of the answer is financial. ... the City now provides half of all Tory party funds. That is up from just 25% only five years ago." "Running this government are two sons of bankers. Cameron's father was a stockbroker, Clegg's is still chairman of United Trust Bank."

(Side note: the picture is of Canary Wharf, part of the City-as-finance but not City-as-geography or City-as-government. It's arguably more photogenic, though.)
uk  business  cityoflondon  finance  politics  banks  europe  davidcameron  guardian 
december 2011 by blech
Osborne's autumn statement Britain worse than the 1970s | The Guardian
"What Britain is living through now is worse than the decade that gave us the three-day week and winter of discontent."
uk  politics  economics  austerity  1970s  guardian 
november 2011 by blech
Rebecca Coriam: lost at sea | The Guardian
Jon Ronson on cruise ship disappearances in general and the case of Rebecca Coriam's apparent death on a Disney ship in particular.
guardian  travel  cruiseship  death  jonronson  via:@shashashasha  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Why doesn't Britain make things any more? | The Guardian
"In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?"
guardian  business  politics  industrialisation  manufacturing  uk  via:everyone  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
The 1% are the best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | The Guardian
George Monbiot on scathing form. "Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankrupt." "Reading their work, it seems to me that if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family, you're likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a rich family, you're likely to go to business school."
guardian  monbiot  economics  politics  business  comment  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
The signals to motorists are setting a dangerous course | The Guardian
Peter Wilby in the Guardian on cars, fatalities, and the coalition Government's messages to motorists.
guardian  cars  motoring  politics  uk  comment 
november 2011 by blech
Death row, Herzog and the man who maintained his innocence | guardian.co.uk
"Michael Perry, the man at the centre of Herzog's new film on the death penalty, was executed in Texas for a crime he says he didn't commit. Joanna Walters interviewed him before he died."
guardian  us  politics  deathpenalty  crime  texas  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
V for Vendetta mask is a symbol of festive citizenship | guardian.co.uk
"For many observers, the V for Vendetta mask has nothing to do with a Jacobean conspirator or a modern comic-book slash movie. It is just a very strange mask. It has taken on a life of its own, and its meaning is not fixed by its origins."
guardian  vforvendetta  guyfawkes  anonymous  politics  culture  signs  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
This unaccountable Corporation is ripe for protest | The Guardian
George Monbiot on the Corporation of the City of London.
guardian  politics  uk  london  cityoflondon  economics  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
The genius who lives downstairs - Alexander Masters | The Guardian
An extract from a book about Simon Phillips Norton, mathematics, group theory, buses, riding trains, Cambridge, and community.
mathematics  book  extract  guardian  cambridge  transport  via:@robinhouston  from instapaper
september 2011 by blech
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people | Books | The Observer
Mark Kermode on fine form in the Observer, arguing that since blockbusters make money anyway, you might as well try and do something at least a little clever, like Christopher Nolan, not just dumb, like Michael Bay. Well worth the read.
film  cinema  review  art  guardian  flilmmaking  from instapaper
august 2011 by blech
The Emotional Breakdown | Friends of The Web
A write-up of one of my favourite projects at Photo Hack Day in NYC, which takes the Guardian's Day in Pictures and passes it through face.com to get, well, the emotional breakdown. It's also interesting when used on a Big Picture style gallery (like the London riots).
photography  emotion  guardian  analysis  photohackday  hackday  visualisation  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Ken MacLeod: SF opens up the universe | guardian.co.uk
"Science fiction is almost the only way that recognition of this vast non-human reality impinges on literature and the arts. In mainstream fiction, unless the plot requires Australia, the Earth might as well be flat."
guardian  comment  kenmacleod  sciencefiction  religion  literature  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Saci Lloyd: 'It's not squids in outer space' | guardian.co.uk
Get past the slightly annoying headline and this looks to be well worth a read. "Her current novel, Momentum, is a fast-paced thriller set in a post-oil age of energy crises and police crackdowns on freedom. It follows two novels, The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017, which tackle carbon rationing and environmental meltdown through the eyes of a teenage girl and her family."
guardian  books  interview  peakoil  sciencefiction  novel  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
To scrap the JWST would be short-sighted | guardian.co.uk
"In the early stages of the project, Hubble was plagued by technical delays and budgetary problems. Its troubles continued after launch, and a manned rescue mission was sent to fix Hubble's optics at huge expense. Twenty years on, it is hard to overstate the impact that Hubble has had on science, and on the public imagination. Yet today the US government is on the brink of scrapping Nasa's successor to Hubble, the multi-billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope."
guardian  space  science  telescope  jwst  hubble  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Björk: 'Manchester is the prototype' | The Guardian
"The Icelandic singer's Biophilia project incorporates handmade instruments, iPad apps, David Attenborough's nature films and an album too – and she's showcasing it all at Manchester international festival"
guardian  bjork  music  biophilia  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Total recall: why retromania is all the rage | Music | The Guardian
From synth pop to Hollywood remakes to collecting manual typewriters, we're busy plundering the past. But why the fatal attraction?
guardian  history  culture  nostalgia  photography  music  simonreynolds  from instapaper
june 2011 by blech
The gaunt, skeletal beauty of pylons | The Guardian
From a couple of years ago, Stephen Spender's poem The Pylons quoted in a piece by Jonathan Glancey.
guardian  infrastructure  architecture  electricity  energy  poem  stephenspender  pylons  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
A life in writing: China Miéville | The Guardian
An interview with China Miéville in the Guardian, talking about genre fiction, London, politics, and all sorts of other things.
guardian  interview  books  sciencefiction  london  politics  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
10 of the best art galleries in Manhattan | The Guardian
David Zwirner / Art in General / New Museum of Contemporary Art  / Christopher Henry Gallery / Sperone Westwater / Storefront for Art and Architecture / The Drawing Center / The New York Earth Room / Greene Naftali / L&M Arts
newyork  newyorkcity  art  architecture  todo  galleries  guardian  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Lionel Logue and the king | Ian Jack | Comment is free | The Guardian
A good piece by Ian Jack in the Guardian from January on the King's Speech (including a corrective side-note about Churchill).
guardian  film  kingsspeech  comment  history  from instapaper
march 2011 by blech
David Bailey's Nokia experiment | The Guardian
"Cameras do influence the way you take pictures: you get different results using a Box Brownie or a Leica; a Polaroid or a large-format plate camera on a tripod. But the N86's main attraction seems to be the obvious one: you can use it when you've left your real cameras at home." From a little while ago, but interesting. (Also: Hockney had not heard of Flickr.)
guardian  photography  mobilephone  technology  nokia  n86  2009  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Pass notes No 2,917: Sputnik | The Guardian
"A symbol of Chinese ambition, according to Barack Obama."
guardian  sputnik  space  history  us  china  sovietunion  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
How novels came to terms with the internet | The Guardian
"We spend hours on the web, but you wouldn't know that from reading contemporary fiction." A good look at how most novels aren't acknowledging the internet, with a few recommendations for ones that are.
guardian  writing  novels  internet  modernlife  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
These protests are a mass demo against control | The Guardian
"The Anonymous web protests over WikiLeaks are the internet equivalent of a mass demonstration." Reading the Atlantic piece reminded me of Stallman's opinion column in the Guardian, which is also well worth reading (assuming you haven't already).
wikileaks  politics  protest  government  democracy  guardian  comment  richardstallman  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
2010 - the year in review | guardian.co.uk
Oh, I do like that grid of pictures for the year's news. I could do without the Flash animations before you get to it (and indeed I did when they loaded in a background tab), but there's something to that idea...
guardian  review  news  archive  navigation  flash  via:benterrett  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The man who kicked the hornet's nest | The Guardian
"As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed." A Guardian article that's well worth reading.
wikileaks  guardian  comment  editorial  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The government shouldn't hang on Google | guardian.co.uk
Charles Arthur: "Recent statements from Cameron and Willetts on copyright and patents show the dangers of being in thrall to IT giants" Also: "[Startups] prefer real streets in real cities, where there's a bagel shop down the road, three other startups within five minutes' walk who they can meet for a chat, and a choice of pubs and coffee houses in which to have ad-hoc meetings."
london  technology  startups  eastlondon  google  government  copyright  guardian  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
In praise of … mapping the nation | The Guardian
""Many excellent books have been written about Lakeland but the best literature of all for the walker has been published by the Director General of the Ordnance Survey," Alfred Wainwright wrote over half a century ago in the introduction to his pictorial guides to the Lake District."
uk  guardian  editorial  maps  ordnancesurvey  lakedistrict  via:cityofsound  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain | guardian.co.uk
"You may not have heard of Britain's most successful design group, but signs of its work can still be seen on streets, pubs, railways and tube stations – quite literally" Make sure to check out the gallery, especially the crazy South Bank architecture plan.
guardian  britishrail  design  history  branding  uk  article  alsopostedon:ffffound  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
the Guardian on iPhone and iPad | Today’s News
An unofficial app that takes Phil Gyford's Today's Guardian experience and makes it more iPad-ish. Interesting partly for the transposition of ideas, and also partly as a possible proof that native apps still work better than web apps (although would that be less pronounced with equal time spent on both?)
guardian  ipad  iphone  application  newspaper  interface  via:philgyford  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
The exhibition where nothing is as it seems | guardian.co.uk
"Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries is the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the gallery's scientists. The laboratory was founded in 1934 and is now a world leader." Closes 12 September.
london  exhibiton  art  todo/done  fake  science  forensics  guardian  via:andym  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
The 12th century was one long holiday | The Guardian
'Asked what aspects of the 12th-century economy should be exported to modern Britain, Boyle said: "Debt-free living; a lot of holidays and parties and a lack of work ethic; the idea of a 'just price' for goods; some aspects of the medieval guilds and the importance of craftsmanship; and a more spiritual response to money."'
guardian  history  economics  employment  money  work  hayfestival  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Antony Gormley blinds viewers with brilliance | The Guardian
'"To scare people I think, yes," he said. "That's important." The artist was in London for a major new exhibition at the White Cube gallery of what has been three years in the making.'
london  art  exhibition  guardian  review  todo/done  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Quarter of tweens on social networks | guardian.co.uk
"A quarter of UK internet users aged eight to 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, research has found, although the lowest minimum age set on any of the sites is 13." "44% of children between 12 and 15 thought downloading shared copies of films and music for free should not be illegal." Quite a few interesting nuggets here.
guardian  internet  children  music  copyright  literacy  wikipedia 
march 2010 by blech
Let's visualise the Digital Economy bill | guardian.co.uk
"I've been trying to work out how much the digital economy bill has changed in its progress through the House of Lords. The answer: a lot (that's 263 differences in the bottom-left hand corner). But does it make much sense? Not really - the bill consists of lots of amendments to other acts, such as the Communications Act 2003, so it really is like trying to understand an operating system while only seeing a few of the programs."
politics  uk  digitaleconomybill  guardian  comment  legislation 
march 2010 by blech
Wired UK posts circulation of 50,000 | guardian.co.uk
I've trimmed the headline a bit (the ABC figure is actually 48,275), but so much for the Wired deathwatch that was predicted. On the other hand, the comments point out a lot of the figure is from freebies and subscriptions. Hm.
wired  wireduk  magazine  circulation  guardian 
february 2010 by blech
Guardian editor hits back at paywalls | The Guardian
"Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a digital revolution". There's some well-argued stuff in here.
guardian  news  newspapers  culture  journalism 
january 2010 by blech
Cities within cities are eating up Britain's streets | The Guardian
Anna Minton in the Guardian: "Urban regeneration has seen entire districts pass into the hands of private companies – and their security guards". Most of the recent photography horror stories seem to start with a jobsworth security guard getting annoyed with someone taking a picture of a building, which should be legal, but in these half-private spaces, isn't.
guardian  comment  cities  publicspace  photography  law  urbanism 
december 2009 by blech
Would you want your son to be a plumber? | The Guardian
"[Crawford's book eloquently] makes the case for what [he] calls 'manual competence' in an age when the young are being steered instead towards 'the most ghostly kinds of work' and an insecure future in offices."
guardian  comment  ianjack  getexcitedandmakethings  work  employment  society 
december 2009 by blech
Order Book Part 2 | Parliament
"Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura." Looks a good bet. That's question 60, ref 293006.
guardian  news  journalism  reporting  hansard  parliament  uk 
october 2009 by blech
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament | The Guardian
"Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret. The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck." Time to read Hansard...
guardian  media  parliament  newspapers  journalism  via:andym  via:antimega 
october 2009 by blech
Peter Landin obituary | The Guardian
"Peter Landin ... was a complex character: a political radical, a gay-rights campaigner and an outstanding academic computer scientist." "Towards the end of his life, Peter became convinced that computing had been a bad idea, giving support to profit-taking corporate interests and a surveillance state, and that he had wasted his energies in promoting it."
guardian  obituary  computing  science  politics  sexuality  culture  history 
september 2009 by blech
Joe Moran: In defence of the everybird | The Guardian
"I suspect the war on pigeons is mainly to do with the trend for turning city centres into continental-style open spaces with pavement cafes and staged events. The messiness of nature must not intrude on this well-managed, tourist-friendly urbanism."
guardian  joemoran  urbanism  nature  london  pigeons 
september 2009 by blech
Will the indie chart rise again? | The Guardian
Bob Stanley on the birth, slow death, and relaunch of the indie chart. 'McNay pinpoints the death of the indie chart to the moment in the early 90s when "the multinationals started boutique labels with independent distribution, meaning they hogged the indie chart. It was all hunky-dory for 10 years, the only chart that mattered for many people, and then the majors hijacked it'
music  guardian  indie  uk  nostalgia  bobstanley  via:tristanf 
july 2009 by blech
Fixed-gear or granny-bike: who'll win? | guardian.co.uk
A not entirely serious race between various bike "tribes" (fixed-gear, road, mountain, Dutch) comes out with a possibly unsurprising result: "Once you factor in the time taken to get showered and changed it seems that the tortoise really is faster than the hare. For front door to desk speed, the dawdler took the gong."
bicycle  culture  guardian 
july 2009 by blech
Did JMS Ruin Television SF? | io9
I'm linking to the io9 pointer to Jonathan Wright's piece in the Guardian rather than the original because it has a comment by JMS on it. Anyway, from what I've seen of Torchwood (the first half of season one and the whole of Children of Earth), the arc series worked far better than the standalone ones.
television  sciencefiction  jms  babylon5  guardian  io9  torchwood 
july 2009 by blech
'The high priest of gothic miserablism' | Guardian
"His latest book is set 6.4m years in the future, he admits to stealing other writers' ideas - and he's just secured a £1m book deal. Stuart Jeffries enters the fantastic world of Alastair Reynolds" (I've mangled the headline a bit.)
guardian  books  interview  sciencefiction  reynolds 
july 2009 by blech
index | the annotated weekender
Treating the Guardian's Weekend magazine with the reverence it deserves. (I like Gentleman Cat.)
guardian  magazine  blog  drawing  silly  illustration  via:megp 
july 2009 by blech
Station Usage Notes | Office of Rail Regulation
PDF containing a list of caveats for the data the Guardian has published. "The usage information is based on ticket sales in the financial year 2002/03 and covers all National Rail stations. It does not include those stations that are owned by TfL. ... The ticketing system does not record certain journeys made using TfL bought travelcards, TfL Freedom Passes, staff travel passes. ... Care should be taken when using the usage figures for stations within Travelcard zones. Where possible, journeys in such areas are allocated to a particular such based on modelled assumptions."
guardian  railways  transport  data  figures  caveats  pdf  via:antimega 
july 2009 by blech
How busy is your train station? | guardian.co.uk
"This dataset, from the Office of Rail Regulation show exactly how many people use every railway station in the UK. And how it's changed since the previous year. The figures are based on ticket sales and they show entries (when someone gets on a train) and exits (when they get off)." Well, not *exactly* (see the two following links, in particular the PDF of caveats).
guardian  railways  transport  data  figures 
july 2009 by blech
John Harris interviews Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter | The Guardian
'What he says next is probably not intended as his verdict on Twitter - a Kraftwerkian development, if ever there was one - but it may as well be. "Everybody is becoming like ... " - he pauses - "a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."'
guardian  interview  music  kraftwerk  quote  twitter 
june 2009 by blech
Why trying to stop filesharers is like herding cats | Guardian
Charles Arthur: "an organisation that relies on pieces of paper written and considered by lawyers (most MPs are) is not going to be able to catch up with the internet, where new ways of breaking existing laws (copyright, usually) are discovered all the time"
guardian  technology  comment  digitalbritain  report  via:preoccupations 
june 2009 by blech
Nokia develops phone that recharges itself | guardian.co.uk
A prototype phone that uses ambient energy in radio waves to power standby mode (nearly). "Instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, Nokia claims it is able to scavenge relatively large amounts of power — around a thousand times as much — from signals coming from miles away"
guardian  environment  technology  energy  research  prototype  electricity 
june 2009 by blech
Tom Service on Susan Greenfield's missed notes | Guardian
"There was an implicit value judgement in Greenfield's talk between the "purely sensory experiences" of raves or today's computer games, and the cognitive activities of reading a book or listening to a symphony, which, because they make us "see one thing in terms of another thing", involve a more mature mental engagement" Indeed. Interesting to note Greenfield didn't have a column in Wired UK this month.
guardian  music  susangreenfield  everythingnewisrubbishapparently  via:preoccupations 
june 2009 by blech
Why are they trying to gag a science writer? | The Observer
A good Nick Cohen opinion piece on the Simon Singh case, concluding with the rallying cry that "the greatest threat to freedom of speech in Britain is not the state or the security services or the press barons, but a fusty and illiberal legal system, which has become a public menace".
uk  guardian  news  science  media  law  censorship  chiropractic 
may 2009 by blech
Little Boots doesn't speak for synth pop | guardian.co.uk
I've trimmed the title - it also takes a pop (ha) at La Roux - but this is a good piece that might open up some more interesting stuff to find to listen to. I've just started properly listening to Ladytron's Velocifero, and it's really good, and is mentioned in the comments; more like that would be just dandy.
guardian  music  electropop  pop  comment 
may 2009 by blech
Barton's Britain: Sizewell | guardian.co.uk
A video about Sizewell, Suffolk's nuclear power station. Nice pictures and a nicely poetic narrative from Laura Barton.
suffolk  sizewell  electricity  guardian  video 
may 2009 by blech
BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling | Jack of Kent
I'd been blissfully unaware of this until this weekend, when the New Scientist and Economist both covered it, but this is perhaps the best summary I've seen of a ridiculous legal ruling on a piece Simon Singh wrote in the Guardian about chiropratic treatments of illnesses in babies.
uk  law  science  health  criticism  guardian 
may 2009 by blech
Government given five-year piracy warning | guardian.co.uk
Utter rubbish from the Industry Trust (who?): "The proportion of illegal film and TV content distributed globally online is heading towards 90% of the total." Surely that can't be 90% of consumption; not that many people use laptops. Evidently they mean 10% of their output is so rubbish it's not even worth bootlegging. Having seen the reviews of most British film comedy, that sounds low...
uk  guardian  politics  media  copyright  via:danhon 
april 2009 by blech
Iain Sinclair on the Whitechapel Boys exhibition | The Guardian
Rooms of Recovery; Iain Sinclair on the Whitechapel Gallery, on the occasion of the "launch exhibition for the renovated gallery, which has expanded into the old library".
london  art  whitechapel  guardian  history 
april 2009 by blech
Airstrip One | MetaFilter
MetaFilter discuss the Guardian's story of Klaus Matza's run-in with the police in Walthamstow Bus Station, and I comment that, while it's hard to find anything explicitly saying so, personal-use non-flash photography is not forbidden on the Tube. (I could also add that Matza should have paperwork from the officer involved; if it was me I'd be identifying them, as they're overstepping their powers significantly.)
uk  london  photography  guardian  tube  blogcomment 
april 2009 by blech
DNA pioneer: drop innocent from database | The Guardian
Alec Jeffreys calls for the DNA database to be cut down to size. I wonder if the headline was deliberately playing on SQL's syntax, though.
guardian  politics  dna  database  police  via:andym 
april 2009 by blech
The UK gets reWired as magazine relaunches | The Guardian
Bobbie Johnson on Wired UK 2.0 (I'm probably not the first to make that joke, am I?) I took out a subscription, sight unseen, because I'm curious as to how it'll shake out (and it was priced, like US subs, cheaply enough to write it off if it doesn't work out). This makes me somewhat hopeful.
guardian  media  culture  magazine  wired  publishing  via:emilicon 
march 2009 by blech
Nolan Bushnell | The Guardian
Subtitled "meet the Bafta-winning father of the videogames industry", this is an interesting look back at a career that only has its bookends in the subject at hand. No less worth reading for that, mind you.
interview  games  history  computing  atari  apple  guardian 
march 2009 by blech
Review: The Accord by Keith Brooke | The Guardian
"The Accord is not only Brooke's best novel to date, but one of the finest to broach the subject of virtual reality."
guardian  sciencefiction  review  tobuy  book 
march 2009 by blech
Britain's railways: most expensive in Europe | The Guardian
Christian Wolmar: "a lucky few can get from London to Birmingham for a fiver, but most people would much happier if they knew they could always do the journey for, say, £20. It is the uncertainty of not knowing what fare you are going to pay that deters people from travelling by rail."
uk  transport  railway  comment  politics  guardian  christianwolmar 
march 2009 by blech
Autism test would deprive world of geniuses | The Guardian
"Dirac was prone to very long silences and was famous for his apparently emotionless responses to events. He also often took a very literal interpretation of statements by other people. All are characteristics of autism."
science  physics  quantumphysics  article  pauldirac  autism  genetics  guardian 
january 2009 by blech
Handy data resources about the United States | Guardian
Fantastic- the stuff that was available at the Guardian hack day is now more generally out there.
guardian  google  spreadsheet  data  politics  statistics  via:hublicious 
january 2009 by blech
Tristan Ferne, and his 'startup' team | Guardian
"[The BBC] still sometimes treats the web as a supporting medium for broadcast programmes when it can be so much more than that." An interesting read from one of the members of the team at the Future Media and Technology group.
bbc  fmt  guardian  interview  radio 
december 2008 by blech
Thinking of the numbers | Techbelly
"I wrote a script that lets you see what this money could buy if we weren’t throwing it at second-rate comedians or third-rate bankers. What if we spent it on schools, or teachers, or wispas instead?"
guardian  news  greasemonkey  hack  ghack1  maths  value 
november 2008 by blech
Philippe Priasso's duet with a digger | guardian.co.uk
Why do I always find out about these things after they've finished? And why don't the Guardian offer embeddable video? (Ads, I suppose.)
london  event  dance  video  guardian  via:megp 
october 2008 by blech
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