Larfs.

A dollar short, a day late, disingenuous about his own newsroom's role in e.g. cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq...but nice to see anyway. Via Mia.

This needed to be said, I couldn't possibly agree more, and Craig is just the guy to make positive change happen.

So, so good.

Mr. Slavin and I spent almost a whole class on this likelihood two years ago.

A really, really good list of books here - seminal, important stuff. (Not sure what that one by that Greenfield chap is doing there, but they can't *all* be classics.)

A point Kevin and I used to make constantly in class: new technologies undercut the logic of social performativity so crucial to the public consumption of media. In other words, c. 1988, carrying around a Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents book used to be able to get you laid (true!), but reading the same text(e) on an iPhone is rather less likely to lead to the same outcome.

YEAH, BABY, YEAH!

"[A]s vile a mess of reading as has ever been put on sale."

Yowza. Via Timo and Cheathco.

Foreign Office's impeccable media and interface imaginings for "Children of Men." Only Britain soldiers on...