Music in ‘Alone in Berlin’
I remember listening to a lecture on teaching by the philosopher David Carr, in which he noted (I’m paraphrasing what I remember, so I hope I’m not misquoting) that literature…
Mark Simpson: “the world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity”
I have been saying this ever since I bought It’s a queer world in 1996, and I say it every time I read another book, another weblog, every time I…
A fat lot of good ‘choice’ is….
You know it when you see it, but how hard it is to come up with it yourself: a bank of data just sitting there on a plate (literally, in…
Trololo, it’s meme heaven
Thanks to Maria via Facebook for this one: And if you’re thinking what on EARTH is that, that’s just what I thought, while recognizing instantly that this had all the…
Information is beautiful is beautiful
If, like me, you are an Edward Tufte fan, and like nothing more than to see graceful and meaningful illustrations of data, you’ll love Information is Beautiful. Hard to know…